Category: Planning

  • Banner Deployments to AWS

    IT Services will be doing some prep work for having Banner 9 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) this weekend during our Banner upgrade defined window. If you are working in Banner 9 between 12:01 am – 10 am Sunday morning, June 23, you may experience a brief outage. This won’t affect any automated jobs running…

  • November 14 Update

    Here is the latest update from the Banner 9 project. All seven of the Admin modules have been completed and are in Production. Only two of those modules are also running Banner 8 (General and Student). EMSS has agreed to disable access to the Student and General modules (with the exception of one or two forms)…

  • Banner 9 Finance: A message for all users

    By Sarah Persinger, Controller’s Office As you may know, the entire Banner system is being upgraded to a new look and feel with version 9. The Finance portion of the upgrade is scheduled for complete conversion for all campus users by 10/1/2018. The upgrade for Finance is rolling out in two phases. The first phase…

  • Banner 9 Go Live Dashboard

  • Update: 7/17

    These Banner 9 modules have been created in Test General Advancement Student Banner Document Management System (resolving issues) Accounts Receivable (in progress) Production environment hardware installation should be complete today – 7/14. Software prep will begin next week.   Current activities: Advancement Installed Advancement, BDMS, General, Student (baseline) modules Testing/Training consultant starts on Monday, 7/17 Go…

  • Wading through the mods and forms

    Over the past 18 years, we have generated lots of ways to make Banner give us the information we want in the format we want. Some of those have been created via Banner mods (modifications – see Glossary) and some via Oracle forms. Because Banner 9 is so different, we need to be sure any…

  • Plan for the Journey: March 27

    Program manager, Frank Pahlke, was onsite the week of 3/27 and the core team focused on lots of project logistics. Here are some of the highlights: Presented draft project charter to the Implementation Committee at its regular meeting. Continued to plan training on the Ellucian Extension tool for IT Services developers. High-level project timeline being…