Great solution for "unknown" integrations
January 08, 2019
Great solution for "unknown" integrations
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Ellucian Ethos Framework
Ellucian Ethos is used by other software vendors to connect to our central system and get the data that they need. In the past, what we had issue with is the fact that with every software solution we purchased we had to build custom integration tools to be able to communicate with our ERP system. Ellucian Ethos bridges this gap. It allows us to connect two systems that don't know anything about each other, yet they are able to communicate.
- 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
- 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
- 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
We have not used any other product similar to this, but for us, it made sense that the first product we tried was made by the company who developed our ERP system because they know the system inside/out. Solutions made by other companies that only look into documentation does not mean they would be able to create a product that could do such integration well.