“Students really like the ability to create a four-year plan, and the visuals are great. They can see the impact of moving courses around or picking up a minor with the safety of knowing they aren’t locking in a change. It puts the students in the driver’s seat and empowers …

“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.”

"Course copy is very manual, it was high-difficulty, and it's not done frequently by faculty. Therefore, there was a pretty high error rate."

"Administrative staff appreciates that the Ethos connection allows our student course evaluation software, SmartEvals, to be virtually hands-off. The Ethos upload automatically keeps the rosters, sections, and faculty information up-to-date. All that's left is for the system to send out the evaluations to the correct students on the preset days."

"When we have third-party vendors that have worked with Ethos, they can say 'Oh yeah, we're confident that it works; it's just plug-and-play from here on out,' that's been nice."

“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.”

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

"Ellucian showed up when we needed a true partner. That responsiveness built immediate trust and helped us move forward with confidence."

“Technology will never stop changing, nor will the expectations of our end users—especially students. There aren’t many universities with the resources needed to support constant, rapid change without sacrificing cost-effectiveness or strategic focus. We are making sure that technology will enable, not limit, us wherever we need to go long …

“Ellucian takes responsibility for every phase and aspect of deploying Banner in the cloud, providing a single point of contact, backed by a broad base of experts. I can’t overstate the value of having higher education-specific functional and technical experts that understand our systems, business processes, and unique IT requirements …

"The outbreak of the coronavirus and subsequent shut down of the campus would previously have meant learning would have ground to a halt. With the Banner system, we were ready. We had the software, infrastructure and technology to continue to deliver learning remotely."

"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.”

“We have started recording this data from day one. I know that will make a big difference to the person who sits in my seat 10, 20 years from now. We’re trying to give good data for future fundraisers.”

“The reporting tools keep growing in popularity. We have created more than 60 reports that are being used by all departments throughout the college and increasingly by our faculty members.”