Banner: Challenges and Solutions

The Ellucian Banner Student Information System is the world’s leading higher education enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, with over 1,400 customers and hundreds of applications to daily-use tasks. It is designed to simplify everyday processes specific to higher education institutions. It is also a phenomenally complex system that can appear byzantine and opaque to non-specialists.

For that reason, many colleges and universities choose to work with Banner experts when they need to set up new functionality, modify how certain tasks are performed, integrate with other software, or integrate with custom homegrown systems. RJLP Consulting frequently assists with updates to the way Banner is used in Registrar's Offices, Student Records, Student Services, Faculty Services, and Financial Aid. We can also help you adopt Banner for the first time.

Banner offers core functionality in:

• Registration
• Grading
• Transcripts
• Tests and assessment scores
• Student schedules
• Tracking attendance

As well as other applications. Reach out with questions.

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Why Choose Us?

There are three reasons to choose RJLP Consulting for your Banner project: cost, customization, and flexibility. We are typically able to deliver significant savings to clients by educating staff members on the rich functionality of Banner 9. Many of its newer features can replace laborious work-arounds or institution-specific customizations, resulting in reduced spending on tech maintenance and a meaningful reduction in technical debt.

At the same time, long-standing Banner users often rely heavily on customizations that are too complex to easily remove, or that have become so basic to how jobs are done that they are difficult to live without. Often, these customizations were developed in response to missing features in early versions of Banner, and are simply unnecessary with the latest version.

We will help you find simpler, more efficient ways to use the system. We can return your system to baseline, decouple large-scale customizations, and then implement smaller changes where they can save further time or effort.

Where needed, we also provide custom software development services for specific service capabilities, such as custom-built student self-service modules.