Modernize integrations with Data Connect and Ellucian Ethos
Discover how to modernize integrations with Data Connect and Ellucian Ethos
Modernization approach
ABCloudz helps institutions modernize integrations by transitioning from legacy point-to-point connections to Ellucian’s Ethos and Data Connect. Our two-phased approach includes integration assessment, solution design, seamless migration, and post-deployment support, ensuring secure, scalable, and API-driven interoperability in SaaS.
Phase 1: Solution design
Review and analyze the existing integration landscape, identify custom API dependencies, and create a Migration Solution Document for a smooth transition to Ellucian SaaS connectivity.
Integration inventory & mapping
Catalog custom ETL jobs, database queries (JDBC, ODBC), FTP workflows, middleware-based integrations, and third-party system connectors.
API & data transformation strategy
Define how current point-to-point and database-driven integrations will be modernized using Ellucian Ethos APIs and Data Connect.
Scalability & automation planning
Identify event-driven opportunities, real-time data syncs, and automated API-triggered processes.
Security & compliance alignment
Ensure authentication, role-based access, and data security match Ellucian SaaS compliance standards.
SaaS capability alignment
Assess how existing integrations and workflows align with Ellucian’s standardized SaaS capabilities as defined in the Customer Architecture Reference Model (CARM), ensuring compatibility with future-state architectures.
Migration roadmap development
Create a detailed migration document showing how current systems will adapt to Ellucian Ethos and Data Connect, including interface mappings, integration patterns, and API transformation strategies.
Phase 2: Implementation
This phase focuses on executing the migration, ensuring integration integrity, and fully enabling Ellucian Ethos and Data Connect-powered automation.
Custom API & Data Connect pipeline development
Configuring Ethos APIs and Data Connect workflows to handle SIS, ERP, LMS, and third-party connectivity.
Legacy ETL pipeline replacement & optimization
Replacing batch-based ETL jobs with real-time and near-real-time event-driven workflows.
Testing & validation
Conducting full integration lifecycle testing, including data validation, API handling, and performance benchmarking.
Deployment & cutover execution
Ensuring a seamless transition, with rollback strategies, final validation, and API endpoint stabilization before go-live.
Observability & configuration setup
Establish centralized monitoring, logging, and error-handling mechanisms across Ethos and Data Connect integrations to support ongoing performance visibility and system reliability.
Post-migration support
Providing documentation, knowledge transfer, and technical support for long-term success. Includes ongoing monitoring, incident response, and proactive maintenance.
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 automate the automatable — the best proof of competency and quality. A unique fact about us is the convert between SQL dialects technology, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 (SSMA) and by AWS with the acquisition of DB Best in 2021 (AWS SCT).
Why ABCloudz?
ABCloudz is a full-service global technology firm helping higher education institutions manage data and applications anywhere. We’ve been working closely with Ellucian product and services teams for years, gaining deep technical and functional knowledge of how the Ellucian ecosystem works from the inside. This expertise enables us to deliver the fastest, most automated, and highly cost-effective modernization of legacy integrations to modern, cloud-native connectivity in SaaS.
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 steps migration and modernization methodology
How much will it cost and how long will it take?
These are the first questions institutions ask when considering migration to Ellucian SaaS-based integrations. The cost and timeline of your migration depend on the number of existing integrations, middleware solutions, data pipelines, and custom workflows that need to be modernized.
That’s why we don’t believe in guesswork. At ABCloudz, we follow a proven 12-step migration methodology that starts with a comprehensive discovery phase.
In this first step, our team thoroughly analyzes your existing integration landscape, identifying all custom ETL jobs, direct database connections, FTP-based exchanges, and third-party API dependencies.
The outcome? A detailed modernization roadmap — a solution design document that outlines every step of your modernization journey. This includes:
with a detailed breakdown of required tasks.
in person-hours for each phase of the modernization.
based on the scope of work.
What's next?
Let’s start an engagement with a discovery and solution design phase to map out your modernization strategy. Contact us to kick off the conversation.