Ellucian Experience cards and workflows
Learn more about designing and developing Ellucian Experience cards and workflows
Modernization approach
ABCloudz designs and develops role-based workspace experiences in Ellucian Experience by combining Experience cards, role-based dashboards, workflow-driven tasks, and embedded insights. Our structured approach ensures optimized UI/UX and secure, scalable deployment aligned with Ellucian’s SaaS extensibility model and shared responsibility boundaries. As a result, users can see what matters, take action, and make informed decisions directly within the Experience workspace.
Phase 1. Design and architecture
In this phase, we collaborate with institutional stakeholders to define business requirements, role-specific workspace goals, data sources, and UI/UX expectations for Experience cards, dashboards, and workflow-driven tasks within Ellucian Experience.
User experience design
Designing visually intuitive, responsive, and role-based Experience cards and dashboards, optimized to surface prioritized information, tasks, and insights for each role across desktop and mobile users.
API and data interaction planning
Mapping supported platform interfaces and data access patterns for workspace components, with institution-managed endpoints or platform-supported serverless APIs used where standard capabilities are insufficient.
Insights and decision support planning
Defining role-specific operational metrics, KPIs, and insights to be embedded within the workspace experience, ensuring users have timely, relevant information to support day-to-day decisions without switching contexts.
Workflow and automation planning
Identifying opportunities to enable or modernize business processes using Ellucian process automation capabilities, including no-code workflows, approvals, and notifications surfaced as actionable tasks in the Experience workspace.
Security & compliance review
Designing security controls that support FERPA-aligned access patterns, including least-privilege data exposure, role-based access controls, and audit-friendly design, while recognizing institutional ownership of compliance decisions and data disclosure governance.
Prototype development
Creating wireframes and interactive prototypes for workspace layouts, Experience cards, dashboards, workflow tasks, and insight views to enable review and iteration before full-scale implementation. This step validates data availability and refresh expectations prior to development.
Phase 2. Development and deployment
This phase focuses on building, validating, and enabling workspace components that operate safely within Ellucian’s SaaS model.
Experience cards implementation
Developing dynamic Experience cards and workspace components using supported extension mechanisms, ensuring scalable, maintainable designs that remain compatible with ongoing Ellucian SaaS updates.
Workflow and process automation
Designing and configuring no-code workflows, approvals, and notifications using Ellucian’s process automation capabilities, enabling users to initiate and complete common actions directly from the workspace experience.
Role-based dashboard composition
Composing dashboards from curated Experience cards, indicators, and visual elements aligned to specific roles, ensuring users see what matters most in their daily work.
Insights delivery and visualization
Embedding analytics and insights within the Experience workspace using supported reporting and analytics services, ensuring permission-aware access.
Secure data interaction validation
Ensuring workspace components use supported platform interfaces, with timely, refresh-based updates aligned to platform constraints and institutional governance.
Security and access configuration
Configuring role-based access controls and authentication alignment to ensure workspace components surface information appropriately and securely for each user role.
Testing and user acceptance
Conducting functional, security, and performance testing across Experience cards, dashboards, workflows, and insight views, to confirm correctness, usability, and reliability prior to release.
Deployment and training
Assisting IT teams with publishing workspace components using supported Experience configuration mechanisms and providing targeted training for end users to drive adoption, usability, and long-term value.
We are world champions in migrations!
The ABCloudz team has been doing all kinds of migrations for 20+ years, including various sources/targets, preserving architecture, and performing application modernization, custom and packaged applications, and transactional and analytical workloads, getting involved with 200+ workloads annually.
We are big believers in the principle of “automate the automatable,” which is one of the best proofs of competence and quality. A unique fact about us is our technology for converting between SQL dialects, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 (SSMA) and by AWS with the acquisition of DB Best in 2021 (AWS SCT).
Other Ellucian offerings
We deliver the fastest, most automated, and highly cost-effective modernization and development solutions.
Ellucian Banner to SaaS modernization
A modernization service for migrating Banner environments from on-premises to SaaS, covering discovery, data migration, customization re-architecture, Ethos/API integration, and post-migration support.
Cognos and Argos reports modernization to IRT
Converting complex Cognos and Argos reporting logic into Ellucian’s Insights Reporting Tool (IRT), including SQL refactoring, PostgreSQL migration, security optimization, and SaaS enablement.
Integration modernization with Ethos and Data Connect
Accelerate your transition to SaaS by transforming legacy point-to-point integrations into scalable, secure, event-driven solutions built on Ethos APIs and Data Connect.
ODS/EDW migration to Ellucian Insights
Full migration of institutional reporting and analytics from legacy ODS/EDW systems to Insights, including ETL transformations, compliance alignment, and advanced analytics optimization.
Why ABCloudz
ABCloudz is a full-service technology partner for higher education institutions. As an Ellucian Service Partner, we help institutions design and deliver role-based workspace experiences in Ellucian Experience by combining Experience cards, dashboards, workflow-driven tasks, and embedded insights. Our team brings together platform-aware design, practical delivery experience, and secure implementation patterns, helping institutions turn workspace goals into usable experiences for students, faculty, advisors, and staff.
20 years managing and engineering data and applications
Partnership with AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Ellucian
Industry expertise in higher education, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and beyond
20+ technology practices
Automate the “automatable”
Focus on data, modernization, and AI
12-step Migration and Modernization Methodology
Cost, timeline, and delivery certainty
The answer depends on the number of user roles, dashboard patterns, workflow scenarios, insight requirements, data availability, and security boundaries involved.
That is why we do not rely on guesswork. ABCloudz starts with a structured discovery and prototype-led planning phase to define the right scope before development begins.
In this first step, our team analyzes your workspace goals, current Experience setup, user roles, process opportunities, insight needs, data availability, and access requirements. This allows us to shape a practical delivery path that balances quick wins with long-term maintainability.
The outcome is a practical workspace delivery roadmap that translates institutional goals into scoped, supported components. This includes:
covering cards, dashboards, workflows, and insights
with phases, dependencies, and release steps
based on actual scope, roles, and delivery complexity