What's New in the Ellucian SaaS Platform
The Elements of a Sustainable Institution
Our product innovation announcements have a fun, new twist! The Chemistry Update is the latest product update from Ellucian named after higher education fields of study. Learn why institutions across the country are embracing the elements of a financially sustainable institution.
A Complete, Interoperable SaaS Platform
According to Inside Higher Ed, "one-in-five higher education financial leaders lack confidence in their institution's 10-year outlook." Higher education must adapt new processes to operate more efficiently as enrollment and expectations shift. The Ellucian SaaS Platform helps you create more opportunities through fast innovation — from how your people and students apply and access information—to no-code solutions.
Help Everyone Work Smarter
Help everyone on campus work smarter with automated tasks, approvals, and forms that are easy for users to create without code. Embrace AI and build integrations.
- Increase efficiency and reduce paper-based tasks with notifications and forms
- Create forms in Experience and seamlessly integrate with Ellucian products
- Ramp up efficiency with AI by directly integrating OpenAI into Data Connect
- Build integrations quickly, and leverage the Experience SDK to create extensions using our PATH design system
Create Engaging Experiences
Navigate work and school from your Experience dashboard. With enhanced navigation, improved dashboard design options, and better content management, your campus users are set up to be more productive and engaged. The new Experience dashboard lets you:
- Know exactly what actions to take as Experience connects your entire campus tech stack
- Improve the employee experience with new Experience cards for Banner and Colleague Human Resources
- Ease stress around degree completion and financial health keeping students "on track"
Unlock ERP Productivity
Get your work done faster — from compensation automation to FAFSA updates:
- Increase efficiency with Banner Finance using budget and grant rebuilds in job-submission, enhancements to Finance Self-Service for default query configuration, check disbursement information, as well as expanded search capabilities, and GL Posting process automation
- Improve workflows in Banner Human Resources by auto-assigning position and suffix numbers to faculty assignments
- Help Colleague Accounts Receivable teams work faster with additional CSV reports, advance scheduling, and improved student and schedule bill loading
Reimagine How Students Apply
Reimagine your admission and enrollment process with Ellucian Apply, an admissions application that offers a seamless experience for prospective students and saves precious staff time by streamlining data collection and validation. Ellucian Apply provides:
- Standardized CRM Recruit SaaS integrations, removing the dependency on middleware while leveraging new real-time data updates and improvements
- A frictionless experience for prospective students with secure, password-free, multi-factor authentication
- Personalized templates to meet student needs that are easy for enrollment staff to configure
Act on Data-Driven Insights
Ellucian Insights unifies data for individual institutions and across university systems. The alchemy of this systemwide view empowers faster, data-driven decisions that improve student equity, attainment, program effectiveness, and address regional workforce needs. Ellucian Insights will:
- Empower the creation of system-wide dashboards featuring integrated near real-time data across all institutional data to expedite strategic decisions
- Enable proactive identification of trends and patterns, ensuring that institutions stay ahead of the curve in addressing evolving needs
- Run comprehensive reports easily with Data Connect bulk data extracts for Insights
