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If you have ever looked behind the scenes of a radiology department, you know the truth that nobody advertises. Every clinic runs on a fragile mix of schedulers, imaging systems, dictation tools and half forgotten integrations that only work because someone once begged them to. Our customer set out to fix that reality. They are […]

If you ask clinicians what slows down post-acute care, they usually blame paperwork or a portal that refuses to load at the worst possible moment. If you ask the engineers, they point at a maze of VPNs, legacy APIs, and integrations held together by hope and good intentions. One of our customers set out to […]

If you have ever tried to house thousands of students at once, you know the real problem is not the number of beds, it is the data that decides who is allowed to sleep in them. Room eligibility lives in Ellucian Banner, room assignments live in a separate accommodation system, and every autumn those two […]

HR data keeps every campus system moving, yet it is often supported by integrations that no one notices until they need to be rebuilt. As Ellucian expands its SaaS platform across Europe, the company is proactively modernizing the integrations that institutions have relied on for years in their on-prem Banner environments. Many of these long-standing […]

I came, I saw, I borrowed the book. Do your students enjoy visiting the library just as Julius Caesar enjoyed victories? To receive such feedback from all students, including freshmen, your library must serve them without a long wait in line. In real life, a routine check, such as for permissions to borrow specific medical […]

Many universities give freshmen symbolic keys at the new student convocation ceremony. This tradition stems from medieval practices and symbolizes a student’s freedom to access campus resources and participate in university life. In real life, new students want to receive their security ID cards to identify themselves when on campus and access the allowed areas. […]

You know a cloud migration is serious when it is not only about moving data but also about rethinking every hidden workflow that supports student life. Ellucian understood this long before institutions in Europe began shifting from Banner on-prem to SaaS. Graduation certificates were one of those quiet processes that seemed small from the outside […]

Anyone who has worked with Ellucian Banner at scale knows a familiar moment in every SaaS migration project. As soon as an institution prepares to move its student system into the cloud, any custom on-prem logic that relied on direct database access must be redesigned for a world that runs entirely through APIs and Ellucian’s […]

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. One of our […]

Across higher education, colleges moving from on-prem Ellucian Colleague to SaaS are discovering that modernization comes with a few unexpected twists. The platform itself works beautifully, but some long trusted integrations need a fresh start. Many of them once depended on direct database access that simply is not part of the cloud world anymore. One […]

Student records age like fish, not cheese. When information about students becomes outdated, library services are among the first to feel the impact. Institutions that use separate systems for academic operations and library management must keep these records in sync to ensure smooth access, borrowing rights, and identity verification. Many institutions that have recently migrated […]

Moving to the cloud sounds simple until the old systems stop talking to each other. Across Europe, many institutions are shifting from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to its SaaS version. And soon after the migration, the same question always arises, how to keep those quiet background integrations running? One of the most common cases involves placement […]

When universities move from Ellucian Banner On-Prem to SaaS, they lose direct access to the Oracle database that once gave them full control. In the on-prem world, teams could write PL/SQL scripts, adjust logic, and even build custom applications right on top of Banner data. In SaaS, that control changes. The database is no longer […]

For many institutions, moving to Ellucian Banner SaaS feels like a fresh start. Systems become faster, data becomes safer, and upgrades stop being a headache. The only puzzle left is how to reconnect those essential integrations that once lived in the on-prem world. That’s exactly what happened at a large higher education institution in the […]