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When universities migrate their core student systems to the cloud, it is more than just a technical upgrade. It reshapes how data moves, updates, and stays consistent across every department. That is exactly what happened when a major university in the United Kingdom with tens of thousands of students transitioned from its on-prem Banner environment […]

Universities moving their student systems to the cloud often need to rethink how their existing integrations work in the new environment. That was the case for a major university in the United Kingdom with tens of thousands of students as it transitioned from Banner On-Prem to Banner SaaS. Before the migration, the institution used a semi-manual […]

Migrating from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to the SaaS version is never just a technical upgrade. It reshapes how information flows, connects, and stays consistent across the institution. A leading university in the United Kingdom with a student population in the tens of thousands faced this transformation firsthand. Their on-prem environment had a well-established process for updating student […]

When a college migrates from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to Banner SaaS, one of the first questions that comes up is how to keep third-party integrations running. Many institutions rely on companion systems for critical functions such as accessibility management, finance, or student services, and these integrations often need to be rebuilt to work within the SaaS […]

In the past few months, ABCloudz has been involved and delivered more than 60 modernization, reporting, and integration projects for over 20 institutions across the North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Each project helped institutions simplify complex systems, automate manual work, and move closer to SaaS readiness. Our team of more than 50 certified […]

At ABCloudz, we partner with Ellucian to deliver streamlined, reliable integrations for universities across Europe and beyond. In a recent project, Ellucian engaged us to help an established European university with a long tradition in law education automate their complex, manual refund process. In this post, we’ll show how we replaced labor-intensive, error-prone workflows with […]

At ABCloudz, we partner with Ellucian to provide robust technical solutions to colleges and universities across the United States. Our recent collaboration involved a U.S. college utilizing Ellucian Colleague for student information management and T2 Systems for parking management. This client struggled with manual, cumbersome processes for exchanging critical student and employee data between these […]

This blog post shares how ABCloudz partnered with Ellucian to deliver an automated student data integration between Ellucian Colleague and Maxient, a leading student conduct and case management platform. We designed a robust, reusable integration pipeline using Ellucian Data Connect, helping a major U.S. college eliminate manual data processes, reduce administrative overhead, and significantly improve […]

Many colleges leveraging Ellucian Banner SaaS manage financial aid verification through a combination of institutional processes and integrations with external platforms. Our client is a large public community college in the United States. Their staff relied on manual uploads, custom scripts, and fragmented workflows to connect Banner SaaS with ProVerify, a financial aid verification solution […]

Many colleges using Ellucian Banner SaaS still rely on manual processes to communicate critical notifications to students. For a large public community college in the United States, manual uploads and semi-automated processes posed risks, including delays and human errors in crucial student notifications.  In this blog post, we’ll share how the ABCloudz technical team implemented […]

This post shares how ABCloudz and Ellucian helped one of the largest U.S. community college systems move from legacy SQL Server infrastructure to a cloud-native analytics platform on AWS, using Ellucian Data Connect to modernize data pipelines and integrations. We dealt with business-critical legacy procedures, manual PowerShell scripts, SQL Agent jobs, and a complete lack […]

When it comes to complex database migrations, especially for mission-critical systems in the financial sector, cutting corners in the early stages can turn into an expensive gamble. Yet, we often encounter organizations that view the discovery and solution design phase as an optional step — one they can skip or downsize to save time or […]

Imagine running a payment platform built over a decade ago — reliable but rigid, expensive to maintain, and unable to scale. Every update is a struggle, risking unexpected failures. The monolithic architecture makes adding new features slow and costly. Meanwhile, the outdated interface frustrates users, falling short of modern expectations. Many companies face this challenge: […]

At ABCloudz, we know that a successful migration or modernization project relies on a solid foundation and a well-defined approach. Our approach is encapsulated in the 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology, which we’ve developed and refined over 20 years of practice. It has proven so effective that it was adopted by AWS to guide their […]

Welcome to the fourth and final blog post in the overview series dedicated to our 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology that was adopted by AWS. We started by defining workloads and examining their interdependencies, which set the stage for capturing the current architecture and designing the future state architecture as part of the first step […]