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Ellucian Banner

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What is Ellucian Banner?

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.

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Banner is a comprehensive software solution that is widely used across organizations, particularly in the higher education sector. Its …
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Popular Features

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  • Online Registration Management (7)
    8.7
    87%
  • Class Scheduling (7)
    8.4
    84%
  • Student Data Security (7)
    8.4
    84%
  • Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology (8)
    7.7
    77%

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Features

Student and Faculty Administration

Aspects of student management that entail faculty or administration's management of student data and related regulatory requirements.

8.2
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Ellucian Banner?

Ellucian banner is an ERP tool used for school management, at the K-12 and college levels.

Ellucian Banner Student: Manage critical student information and deliver services to keep them on track. Student can register on their own device and get a comprehensive view to help them, as well as their advisors, stay on top of attendance and grading.

Ellucian Banner Human Resources: A self-service platform that manages employee experience including employment, benefits, and leave plans. Also enables building out talent management and succession planning strategies

Ellucian Banner Finance: Institutional financial management that supports operations, budgeting, procurement, accounts payable, researching, and accounting. Ellucian Banner Finance can make actionable insights from real-time updates on data, and find efficiencies or cost savings when procuring goods and service across your institution.

Ellucian Banner Financial Aid:Institutional financial management for automation of financial aid processes. Funds are distributed accurately and data can be shared with students and staff.

Ellucian Banner Features

  • Supported: Ellucian Banner Student
  • Supported: Ellucian Banner Human Resources
  • Supported: Ellucian Banner Financial Aid
  • Supported: Ellucian Banner Finance

Ellucian Banner Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate State and National-level Reporting highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Ellucian Banner are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Banner is a comprehensive software solution that is widely used across organizations, particularly in the higher education sector. Its primary purpose is to manage student functions such as registration, class scheduling, grades, and GPAs. Users can easily access information on specific students or classes, making it an invaluable tool for academic advisors, registrar's offices, and faculty members.

With Banner, universities can create programs and databases, allowing for seamless integration and data retrieval between departments. It helps keep everything organized and flowing smoothly, from managing student accounts and financial aid to tracking course enrollment trends and adding new class sections as needed. Moreover, Banner Student provides simple and easy data access, improving work efficiency for all departments involved in managing student and faculty data.

Beyond academic functions, Banner also serves as a central hub for various administrative tasks. It supports financial reporting, accounts payable, human resources management, alumni records, addresses, giving history, and faculty information. Additionally, Banner ensures compliance with educational privacy and financial aid regulations.

While Banner is widely praised for its functionality and ease of use, some users have experienced challenges with its design complexity. Extensive customizations and additional purchases may be required to tailor the system to specific organizational needs. Nonetheless, many users appreciate the ability to add program changes within Banner itself, such as implementing automated accounts payable systems.

Overall, Banner is an indispensable tool for institutions of higher education that rely on it to manage student data effectively across multiple departments. Its user-friendly interface and extensive capabilities make it a reliable solution for streamlining administrative processes and maintaining accurate records.

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management as our supplementary platform, but it feeds into Ellucian Banner on a nightly basis to back up/cross-populate data. BFPM is much more user-friendly - has better search features, can easily run reports and/or pull lists without having to go into the back-end, etc. However, we have found that Ellucian Banner has a better data storage system and is used by other units on campus and within our organization, so that is why we continue to rely on it as the basis for our data management.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ellucian Banner is a fairly good integrated ERP system and stacks well against competitors in the industry. For example, Ellucian Banner provides and ERP system that is reliable and quite easy to use. The reason our organization chose Ellucian Banner is because it is not a very large institution, and the features in Ellucian Banner worked well for the finance department in terms of financial reporting and financial analysis.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We did not have much time on evaluting a lot of proucts however in the UAE and in the GCC we have had a lot of Higher Education organization having BANNER application for themselves which was a good reference.

Hence in case if we require to intergreate education systems in the UAE then this would be the ideal prodcut, hence we went ahead with this.


Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We actually selected a different product, but Banner's then-publisher promptly bought it and deprecated it. Banner was our second choice. There are newer products which are web-based and have great features, but the effort to migrate to one of them exceeds the resources we can offer now -- both within IT and in other departments.
November 22, 2021

Banner Student Review

Ken Turner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Banner Student is better than most of the other products that we have used in the past. It's ease of use tops all the other products that we have purchased in the past. We have never user another product other than Ellucian Banner since I have been there.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft had far more robust reporting tools and a shorter learning curve, but the navigability felt overwhelming. Where Banner provides several menus to click through (which, to be fair, can be frustrating when you just want to get to the application buried behind six menus) PeopleSoft provided expandable options from one giant list that could wind up feeling overwhelming when you're not sure which application or function you need.
Jeremy Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ellucian Banner is definitely a good product as it is able to serve several departments at once. However, newer programs are able to adapt a little easier to the coming generations and be a little more user-friendly. I was able to use Intacct for some time and I definitely found it to be much easier to learn and become proficient at as opposed to Banner.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ellucian Banner blows SIS Partner Platform and Oracle PeopleSoft out of the water. I worked in another university prior to where I am currently and I was trained on SIS; however, I found it to be quite difficult to navigate and I would often have to logout and log back in because I was unable to get my tabs to move; although, logging in was a process. Before I left the prior institution, we began training on Oracle PeopleSoft; although, it was more user friendly, and advisors could function with less difficulty, I still prefer the use of Ellucian Banner 9. Ellucian Banner 9, is much easier to navigate; therefore, I would struggle to work with anything less than Ellucian Banner 9.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UltiPro is just for employees, Banner is for employees and students and prospective students. CRM and Banner we use together. Both programs are a great asset to our organization.
Bartholomew Kallgren | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Being able to have the historical data, as I said I said before, is the huge Benefit that we have from using the system. All of the teams involved are well trained and no alternative has proven worth making the switch.
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