Ellucian Banner vs. Ellucian Colleague

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ellucian Banner
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Ellucian offers Banner educational ERP, including its student management system emphasizing control and reporting of process-oriented facets of education such as grading and attendance.N/A
Ellucian Colleague
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Ellucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Ellucian Banner

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Ellucian Colleague
Chose Ellucian Colleague
Banner & PeopleSoft are using the very expensive Oracle DB - while they all have very similar features. Currently, another solution provider is available - WorkDay: but they are still very new that they do not have all the necessary Federal and State Reports. Their …
Chose Ellucian Colleague
Ellucian Colleague has been in use at my institution for over 20 years. We have recently reevaluated the solution and, from a financial perspective, it was our decision to stick with it for the future as well. We have realigned our budget working with Ellucian and partnering …
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Features
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Student and Faculty Administration
Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Product A and Product B
Ellucian Banner
8.2
8 Ratings
4% below category average
Ellucian Colleague
9.4
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.78 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Online Registration Management8.77 Ratings10.01 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.74 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Roster Management8.26 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Platform Customization7.66 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service8.46 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Student Data Security8.47 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Community Support8.36 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Class Scheduling8.47 Ratings9.02 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting8.97 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Compliance Support8.56 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application6.75 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Ellucian BannerEllucian Colleague
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(21 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(2 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
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Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
8.0
(5 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Ellucian
As a SIS, Banner Pages is the full meal deal. There are multiple modules that integrate out of the box. Because Banner is all I've ever used as a SIS, I can't contrast it with another program. I can say, it gets the job done for us. I will also say that a tremendous amount of time goes into strategizing how to get new functions to work for us and there always seems to be some catch that requires even more work. In general, the university has been hesitant to build too many modifications into Banner because they take a lot of time to maintain. Inevitably, a new update (of which there are MANY for Banner) will break stuff that isn't "vanilla." This is unfortunate because we've had some great ideas for how to make Banner better for us, but also understandable. If you're looking for a highly modular system, this isn't it. Banner has lots of components, but the components work the way they work and that's that. Also, don't expect very quick responses to bugs or glitches. If the bug is major, yes, it will be addressed. But, little function issues seem to be regularly overlooked.
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Ellucian
Colleague Student is a great solution for smaller schools. I'm not sure it would work well at a large university (10,000 plus students) -- I'm not sure it has capacity to handle that. It is also well suited for universities where departments communicate well with each other. There is so much cross functionality, that if departments don't communicate well, issues could arise if one department makes changes without notifying or talking with other departments about the change
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Pros
Ellucian
  • I think it's great to use if you are tracking grades for certain classes, especially if you'd like to see how students do, comparing midterm to final grades. If you have the permissions, you can see both.
  • It's also good to track students individually. You can look up a certain semester, and see how they did in that particular time frame, but you can also see their cumulative gpa, or even look up their entire course history.
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Ellucian
  • Colleague offers a single reference point for all student data, which creates consistency and unity across campus and ensures students hear the same information from every source.
  • Colleague recently updated its interface to be more accessible to all people. Previously, it was not accessible through any browser aside from Internet Explorer.
  • Colleague provide helpful user restrictions that prevent departments from altering or erasing data they do not typically use. For example, I cannot change student billing and accidentally wreak havoc for the cashier's office.
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Cons
Ellucian
  • One thing I miss from the previous version of Ellucian Banner, is the control + page down. I struggle with alt + page down.
  • I love the Ellucian Banner favorites; however, it is a little difficult to navigate.
  • I can honestly only think of 2 things that could be improved. I use Ellucian Banner daily.
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Ellucian
  • Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
  • Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
  • Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
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Likelihood to Renew
Ellucian
We have no reason not to renew with Ellucian - we are in deep with the ecosystem, and have Ellucian providing us with information technology support. If anything, should the opportunity arise, we'd probably consider adding a different ellucian tools into the suite of applications we already have on board.
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Ellucian
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Usability
Ellucian
You definitely have to learn it before it becomes easy to use. It's better than it was, but it's still not entirely intuitive. You can't just look at it and play around to figure out how it works
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Ellucian
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Reliability and Availability
Ellucian
It's pretty much up all the time.
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Ellucian
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Performance
Ellucian
Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
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Ellucian
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Support Rating
Ellucian
Our department generally does not contact the support center for Banner but the IT department does. That being said, in the seven years that I have been here, I have not once needed to contact the support center; we have had no glitches on Banner's side that needed to be addressed.
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Ellucian
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Implementation Rating
Ellucian
very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
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Ellucian
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Alternatives Considered
Ellucian
PeopleSoft was more user-friendly. It also provided the ability to save and bookmark queries. PeopleSoft will allow users to use common names to search for queries. Overall, it seemed much more current than Banner. PeopleSoft provided enrollment data for specific sections which allowed one to spot trends of enrollment in a given class.
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Ellucian
Ellucian Colleague remains the most cost competitive solution for our organization. Alternative solutions, have had ridiculously high migration costs and ongoing maintenance fees which have not been friendly toward a migration of our existing data. Some the features of the other solutions are very nice to "haves" but the reward has to out-weigh the cost of adoption.
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Scalability
Ellucian
being able to scale with hardware was easy and not cumbersome. We were allowed to user virtual machines which made things very scalable.
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Ellucian
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Return on Investment
Ellucian
  • There is positive ROI on the product overall. It had reduced or allowed us to focus our staff members on something which is very use and it does the job in the background.
  • The application has supported in a lot of ways in saving resources and utilizing them in very productive & efficient manner
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  • By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.
  • Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.
  • Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.
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