“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.”

“We were having our instructors do the grading within Canvas, and then they would have to take all of those grades within Canvas, go to Banner, and then copy those grades over. This caused a lot of issues.”

“That the project was successful under these circumstances is tantamount to a miracle, and was principally due to the exceptional expertise, dedication, and extraordinary effort of staff from Ellucian and the institutions."

“We knew Ellucian was all-in on trying to improve the complex continuing education registration system process, and Elevate puts all of our student learners—credit and non-credit—in the same ERP.”

"The analytics tool has absolutely fulfilled the promise that I was hoping for, which is to give us a single pane of glass through which to view our data. It has helped us see what we need to do, where our data is flawed, where it should be adjusted, and …

"As we were getting ready for the 2024-25 FAFSA changes, our ISIR import and export needed to be improved. There were some duplication errors that made it really difficult to open up the server."

“One of the advantages of having the Ellucian team members here onsite is they become motivated with us and they share in our success. They start taking pride in not only what they do daily, but also being innovative partners and helping us look for those creative solutions.”

“We have all the issues that a school 10 times our size would have, but we have to accommodate all those needs with a minimal staff. By using an outside contractor such as Ellucian, we have access to expertise and lessons learned nationally that would not be readily available to …

“Ellucian has really made an impact the last two years helping us to increase our enrollments.”

"The student expectation of first-class institutions is akin to customer expectations from leading, world-class technology companies, like Apple. They want excellent in-person, over-the-phone, and online service, for everything they need."

"We had no central source for student information, and processes such as registration were manual, fragmented and time-consuming."

“Ellucian, as a company, has access to resources and people we can’t always get here in Abilene, Texas. They can better afford to train and compensate a pool of database administrators.”

“By bringing three databases into one, licensing, databases and infrastructure management is much smoother than before. Having now reduced the number of servers needed for the full implementation for the three entities by approximately 60 percent, there is also a huge operational cost-saving aspect.”

“We’re evaluating the possibility of implementing a number of other Banner systems to further improve our efficiency and service levels, because we now see the value in such investments. Now that the system is unified, it will be far easier to implement further technologies.”

"I think this is something a lot of institutions will eventually adopt. The benefits are just too great."