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Automating student refunds with Ellucian integration

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 […]

Ellucian Colleague and T2 Systems integration

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 […]

Ellucian Colleague and Maxient integration

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 […]

Ellucian Banner and ProVerify integration

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 […]

Ellucian Banner and Remind integration

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 […]

Modernizing analytics pipelines with Data Connect

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 […]

Solution design for banking system migration

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 […]

Modernizing the legacy payment platform

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: […]

Introduction to the 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology

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 […]

Migration Solution Document Capturing the Project Roadmap — Part 4

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 […]

Analyzing Migration Project Efforts and Crafting the Project Plan — Part 3

Welcome to the third blog post in the overview series dedicated to our 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology that was adopted by AWS. In our first and second blog posts, we explored the critical role of defining workloads in migration projects and laid out the process of capturing the current architecture and designing the future […]

Current and Future State Architectures — Part 2

Welcome to the second blog post in the overview series dedicated to our 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology that was adopted by AWS. In the first blog post, we began exploring the first step of the methodology — Future State Architecture Design.We focused on the definition of a workload and outlined how categorizing system components […]

Workload Definition Shapes the Migration & Modernization Roadmap — Part 1

Welcome to the first blog post in the overview series dedicated to our 12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology that was adopted by AWS. In any migration or modernization project, it’s crucial to start with a clear understanding of the system’s components and their relationships. This is where workload definition comes into play. Defining workloads correctly […]

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