Banner Student Review
Updated November 22, 2021

Banner Student Review

Ken Turner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ellucian Banner

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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 Student
  • API for scheduling
  • Banner 9 now allowing cloud versatility
  • 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.

Do you think Ellucian Banner delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Ellucian Banner's feature set?

Yes

Did Ellucian Banner live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Ellucian Banner go as expected?

No

Would you buy Ellucian Banner again?

Yes

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.

Ellucian Banner Feature Ratings

Student Data
8.5
Grade Book Management
9
Student Background Records
9
Student and Parent Portal
8
Transcript Management
8
Student and Faculty Administration
7.6
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
7
Online Registration Management
7
Student Data Security
9
Class Scheduling
8
State and National-level Reporting
7

Using Ellucian Banner

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.

Evaluating Ellucian Banner and Competitors

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.

Ellucian Banner Implementation

very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
  • 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

Ellucian Banner Training

Configuring Ellucian Banner

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

Ellucian Banner Support

I give this rating an 8 because of the ease of use for students and developers and the ease of access to data.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
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.

Using Ellucian Banner

Ease of use and knowledge it gives the end user.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Familiar
Slow to learn
  • 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.

Ellucian Banner Reliability

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.

Integrating Ellucian Banner

The tools given are easy to use and support is always there if you need them.
  • 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
use ellucian support as much as possible.

Relationship with Ellucian

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

Upgrading Ellucian Banner

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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