Ellucian Banner vs. Jamf School

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ellucian Banner
Score 5.9 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
Jamf School
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Jamf School is a purpose-built mobile device management solution (MDM) for schools that gives users the ability to deploy and manage Apple devices. Jamf School management system also pairs with three apps, Jamf School Teacher, Jamf School Parent and Jamf School Student.N/A
Pricing
Ellucian BannerJamf School
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Ellucian BannerJamf School
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Ellucian BannerJamf School
Features
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Student and Faculty Administration
Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Product A and Product B
Ellucian Banner
8.5
8 Ratings
4% above category average
Jamf School
-
Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Registration Management8.97 Ratings00 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Roster Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Customization8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Student Data Security8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Community Support8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Class Scheduling8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance Support8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Ellucian BannerJamf School
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(21 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Ellucian BannerJamf School
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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Jamf Software, LLC
Jamf school is amazing at device management as far as tracking devices, installing apps, removing apps, pushing out updates, and putting persons in specific groups or classes based on the needs of the student/teacher. There could be improvement in the instance where you send an iPad for repair and it returns with a new SN and you have to swap out the license from one SN to another.
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
  • Concise management
  • Data tracking
  • Instructional tool
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
  • Steep learning curve
  • Cannot track MacBook locations
  • Unassigning and Reassigning devices when changing SNs from repairs is complicated
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
For the most part, Jamf School does everything it is programmed to do. However, there are a few instances where we have run into snags. This is to be expected with any software though and working customer support has always been helpful. Customer support does their best to help with each scenario we've had issues with.
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Reliability and Availability
Ellucian
It's pretty much up all the time.
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Jamf Software, LLC
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Performance
Ellucian
Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
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Jamf Software, LLC
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
We originally tried an MDM from Cisco and it did not deliver in useability or features like Jamf
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
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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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Jamf Software, LLC
  • Significantly reduced the time of managing devices on the class or using configurator
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