“All the colleges now use the same catalog, same naming conventions, and same data standards. That way, we’re truly comparing headcount in service programs at every institution on a one-to-one basis, as opposed to doing it 25 different ways.”

"The registrar would spend days, maybe weeks, compiling spreadsheets, which now happens in less than a minute. The savings to the student has been immeasurable, too. The students are happier. The process to them is a lot less complicated."

"We chose CRM Advance because we were looking for technology that was built today but had a future for tomorrow."

"Everyone is expecting to get information at their fingertips—and not just during office hours, and not just when they can speak to someone."

"We are excited to partner with Ellucian to modernize our enterprise systems. Banner SaaS provides us the opportunity to accelerate our transformation while minimizing disruption to our campus community.”

"I think that the most beneficial piece of Ellucian CRM Recruit is the way that we can now communicate easier, quicker, faster, and more accurately with our prospective students."

“We’ve been able to automate a lot of things that have, in the past, been fairly mundane tasks for somebody. Those changes allowed counselors and general admissions staff to focus on recruiting higher caliber students.”

“From an operational standpoint, the real advantage with Ellucian CRM Recruit is we don’t have to write the import for Ellucian Colleague for SAT and ACT scores and applications. It’s all part of the Recruit import. Previously, when the new formats came out, we had to dedicate programmer time to …

"I believe all the major features that any higher education institution needs can be found in this system."

"I think a lot of institutions should implement an IT governance model, and they will realize, as did Brookdale, how it was the one, important element that was missing."

"We wanted to clear away the clouds and identify the technology that was most important. The plan would help us map expectations to our strategic plan so that we could rank projects accordingly.”

“While the word nimble has been used to death, hosting makes us more nimble, because we’ve been able to accomplish a lot more, a lot faster, than if we’d been doing it on our own.”

“Our goal is to have one centralised system for more effective implementation of our business processes. We believe this will ensure an efficient data flow across every task and department and it will improve decision making to support the University’s longterm mission, vision and success.”

“Expandability and scalability have become very easy for the university. Banner brought globally proven best-case technology practices for the use of our team, and now we have a digital conveyor which takes student data within the student lifecycle using the latest web technologies. The interoperability of Banner gave us a …

“Twice a semester we would do a mass mailing informing students about their payments and balances. There was a lot of back-and-forth emailing in between departments. Imagine how much manual work that required. With Banner, it is done automatically and all information—including all charges and payments—is being updated in Banner. …