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Ellucian Ethos

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What is Ellucian Ethos?

The Ellucian Ethos Framework is a data integration platform designed for higher education institutions and their business structures. The Ethos Framework can be extended to include other Ellucian products for greater analytics, workflow, and mobile capacities.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Ellucian Ethos has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Data security features

    Data security features include rights management, LDAP integration, password encryption, etc.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Support for real-time and batch integration

    Software supports both real-time and batch integrations

    Category average: 7.7

  • Connector modification

    Provision for modification of pre-built connectors to suit specific environments

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Pre-built connectors

    Pre-built, tested connectors to a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, HCM, Marketing Automation, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Monitoring console

    Central console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Data quality services

    Software includes capability to perform data profiling, deduplication, cleansing etc.

    Category average: 8

Reviews

What users are saying about Ellucian Ethos.
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Needs Some Improvements

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrative Assistant (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This system is supposed to be built for higher education but doesn't have the capability to process overload for faculty. We had a consultant attempt to assist us without success. Overload is not a unique issue at our community college.

Pulling formatted schedules to print, there is no process for this in a functional format.

Pros

  • Workload reports
  • Tracking vendor information/payments/activity, etc.
  • Entering requisitions and receiving items

Cons

  • Overload should be a standard operation with multiple capabilities.
  • There needs to be a standard report to be able to pull a formatted instructor teaching schedule to post on offices
  • There needs to be a standard report to be able to pull a formatted classroom schedule to put on classrooms.

Return on Investment

  • Overload has to be processed manually
  • Independent Study has to be processed manually.

Usability

Ellucian Ethos Framework: great features for existing clients

Incentivized
Stephen SwanView profile
DBA in Information Technology at Indiana Wesleyan University (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Out of the box integration: As an existing Ellucian customer, having a system that is already built is spectacular.
  • Customization: We can take various other sources and create models for those or add them to existing models
  • Analysis: Provides a feature set that is often difficult to obtain for smaller companies.
  • Cost: Basic integration piece is included for free, analysis piece is extra

Cons

  • Operational reporting: This does not replace or provide an easy platform for operational reports or warehousing. It would be nice if they provided a full stack.
  • Learning curve: Training and documentation are minimal.

Return on Investment

  • Our ROI is nonexistent at this time as we are still implementing. However, the minimal cost signifies that it will be a significant help.

Other Software Used

Colleague Student

Promising, but still a work in progress

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Ethos Integration obfuscates database access from the developers and functional users.
  • Ethos Integration provides common-denominator data model between different systems on campus.
  • Ethos Integration has good management tool - API Management Center.
  • Ethos Identity allows easy federated access with our Shibboleth IDP provider.

Cons

  • Ethos Integration - The traditional Banner API library is still much superior to the one available in Ethos. Not all APIs are available in Ethos.
  • Ethos Integration - Performance is not robust enough under the pick load.
  • Ethos Identity - The latest version is difficult to configure in a cluster-failover set-up.

Return on Investment

  • It's premature to evaluate that, since Ethos Integration is not in production yet. We would expect the reduction of cost due to elimination of some home-grown development.

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Ellucian Banner, Oracle SQL Developer, Toad for Oracle, Oracle Database Cloud Service

Great solution for "unknown" integrations

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It allows connection between systems that are completely different
  • It allows you to use workflows in terms of if one thing happens in one system you can "notify" multiple subscribers to take actions
  • It has analytics to provide you insights into your applications

Cons

  • It is expensive
  • Getting Ellucian Ethos does not mean you get all functionalities, other modules like workflow and analytics have to be purchased separately
  • Takes a while to set it up

Return on Investment

  • It allowed us to connect to other systems without having to pay consultants and spend an enormous amount of time creating an integration solution
  • It reduced amount of "IT time" needed on projects

Other Software Used

Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, osTicket, Technolutions Slate, Microsoft Office 365