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Overview

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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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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November 22, 2021

Banner Student Review

Ken Turner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Banner Student is being used across campus. We create programs for banner with our databases. One of the problems is banner the upgrade plan of banner. The banner upgrade process is to frequent. It seems like we are upgrading monthly. Banner is a good product for higher education, simply because of the format the data is in and the ease of pulling data from banner.
  • Ease of querying data from the Oracle database.
  • Allows users to get data fast and effective.
  • Also, is a very good source of data for the student to pull his or her information.
  • Definitely, upgrading frequency.
  • Also, better documentation on the Ellucian website.
  • I would say also, addressing bugs within the program instead of doing a full upgrade.
Banner allows students easy access to their information. The interface of banner has gotten better since I started using it but still needs work. It could use some improvement in upgrading frequency and improvement of documentation on the website. The overall performance has gotten better from years past.
  • Banner Student
  • API for scheduling
  • Banner 9 now allowing cloud versatility
Student Data (4)
85%
8.5
Grade Book Management
90%
9.0
Student Background Records
90%
9.0
Student and Parent Portal
80%
8.0
Transcript Management
80%
8.0
Student and Faculty Administration (5)
76%
7.6
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
70%
7.0
Online Registration Management
70%
7.0
Student Data Security
90%
9.0
Class Scheduling
80%
8.0
State and National-level Reporting
70%
7.0
  • Definitely, both positive and negatively.
  • Positive would be the ease at which the student can access data and also the developers that use the data.
  • Negative - Upgrade frequency and poor documentation.
  • Overall, Banner Student is a good product and I would recommend it to another school.
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.
500
basically all over campus impacting most business functions.
Need to have very good customer service skills and patience with the customer as well as knowledge on the subject.
  • Registration
  • Degree Works
  • Scheduling
  • Scheduling
  • Banner Student
  • API's for students and advisors
  • cloud banner
Banner has become prevalent throughout our University and is widely used everyday, we for that most part can't function without it.
Not Sure
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Just my opinion but I think banner allows students, faculty, advisors, and staff make their job easier by using banner on a daily basis.
Don't have any bearing on the selection of the software process.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Third-party professional services
Ellucain
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
This was a major concern basically because people don't like change and the whole look and feel changed in the previous updates.
  • end user push back
  • training
very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
  • no training
We had some in house training which made it easier
A little complex but with support is not that bad.
I think just using ellucian support is the best practice we did.
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively
pretty easy, did some new interfacing for luminis.
No - we have not done any custom code
No
I give this rating an 8 because of the ease of use for students and developers and the ease of access to data.
We purchase our support straight from ellucian. The support has been very good since I have been there and especially with the application that I'm responsible for.
Yes
Most are resolved in a timely manner, however some are resolved in the next version or upgrade.
when we had a problem they specifically sent us some code to run so that we could debug the problem and figure out what was going on.
Ease of use and knowledge it gives the end user.
  • banner forms
  • banner student
  • API's for banner once setup correctly
  • I would just think not knowing your way around
Yes
Have not used it yet.
being able to scale with hardware was easy and not cumbersome. We were allowed to user virtual machines which made things very scalable.
It's pretty much up all the time.
Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
  • Degree Works
  • Workflow
Both had a learning curve for sure, but overall with support were not that bad.
I work mostly with degree works and integrate with this application mostly.
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • ETL tools
The tools given are easy to use and support is always there if you need them.
use ellucian support as much as possible.
They were willing to help in any way possbile
Good, and we continue to have good relationship.
I didn't.
Make sure you update your tickets and keep them flowing
Yes
Smoothly, for the most part there was some downtime but was able to get it online and functioning pretty quickly after the new release.
  • campus wide was able to use it and benefit from the new features
  • cloud
  • new look and feel
Yes
Considering banner 9
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