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If your Banner automation depended on direct database access, a move to SaaS has a habit of exposing that dependency overnight. For UK institutions running Ellucian Banner, statutory reporting is not a background task. It is a legal requirement. Each year, institutions must submit structured student data to HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. This […]

The move to SaaS does not erase your business logic, but it does erase how you used to run it.  That was the situation faced by a U.S.-based college after moving from Banner On-premises to Ellucian Banner SaaS (Ellucian Student). One of its long-running integrations, responsible for keeping specific student status data accurate and up to date, could no […]

Third party sponsorship is not one step. It is a chain of decisions that has to land cleanly in the tuition record. For many UK and European institutions, a student being funded by an external organization is not an edge case. It is a normal part of how tuition gets paid. But operationally, it sits […]

“Annual review” sounds simple. Until you try to run it for postgraduate research students. For PGR students, progress is not measured in modules, grades, or tidy end-of-term results. It lives in milestone meetings, supervisor judgement, and decisions that make perfect sense to people but are surprisingly hard to express cleanly in a system. In many […]

Mistakes such as typos are part of human nature. As Theodore Roosevelt wrote, the only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. However, when you see a mistake in your personal student’s record, the first thing you want to do is to correct it immediately. The student’s self-service system […]

Career services should not be the first team to discover your integration stopped updating. Handshake has zero patience for “we just migrated.” For institutions running Colleague on the Ellucian SaaS platform, the core expectation stays the same: student demographic and academic data needs to arrive in Handshake reliably, on schedule, and in a format Handshake […]

Not every student passes every exam on the first try. When a student needs a second attempt in the UK, the retake is commonly referred to as a resit. These resit and course-repeat cases trigger exceptions, special checks, and additional communication that typically sit outside day-to-day student processing.   These workflows are not supported out of the box in Banner SaaS, […]

Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, and Jessica Alba left college before completing their degrees. Universities handle thousands of less famous exits, including transfers to another institution. The workflow matters because withdrawal stops financial liabilities immediately and may trigger credits or partial refunds based on timing and policy.  To address this demanding task, ABCloudz created an automated withdrawal workflow for a […]

If you have ever watched students fill out onboarding forms, you know exactly when their expression changes. Emergency contact? Easy. Trusted contact? Suddenly they pause. That pause is meaningful. It reflects the difference between who should be called in a crisis and who a student trusts to help them navigate sensitive wellbeing concerns. Institutions across […]

Every assessment framework assumes things go according to plan. Mitigating circumstances exist for the moments when they do not. Late submissions, non-submissions, and requests for mitigation force institutions to balance empathy, consistency, and policy, all while assessments are still in motion. In that assessment window, the balance needs a real process behind it. Students need […]

Imagine a world where you don’t need to fill in any forms. No questions asked, no issues found, no retries — all these statements are impossible in the era of paper forms. However, in the digital era, you can pull all the required information from the database and enter it into the correct fields of […]

Do you remember the painful process of buying books for your next term? We’ve all been there — noting the title, edition, ISBN, and even cover color. Endlessly searching in the campus bookstores, comparing online prices and delivery dates, and desperately trying to agree on the deal with upperclassmen. Sometimes these tremendous efforts led us […]

Remember the times when you received exam results through physical mail? Checking the results on the bulletin board was never a pleasant experience. Long gone are those times. With online student portals, you can find the results in your browser once they are available. For one of our customers, the ABCloudz team created an exam […]

ABCloudz has taken the next big step in our Ellucian analytics journey with the Ellucian Insights Proficiency badge. This milestone builds on our earlier Foundation achievement and confirms that our team now operates at an advanced level of Insight expertise, backed by real hands-on experience. Earning the Proficiency badge means our specialists have successfully demonstrated […]

Alumni are the greatest asset of any educational institution. Every institution wants to stay in touch with its alumni, turning campus residents into a community of professionals. To achieve this goal, institutions use fundraising and alumni management systems. In turn, these systems work effectively and efficiently when institutions use relevant alumni information. This blog post […]