The expertise your Banner environment demands—from a team that’s lived it.
Ellucian Banner is the enterprise backbone for more than 1,400 institutions worldwide—powering student information, financial aid, finance, HR, advancement, and the integrations that connect them all.
It’s also one of the most advanced platforms in higher education, with decades of configuration history, deep functional interdependencies, and a technology stack that’s evolving rapidly as Ellucian accelerates the move to SaaS.
How we help
SaaS Readiness
Prepare your institution for the move to Banner SaaS before the migration begins. SIG’s readiness engagements assess your current environment, identify business process gaps, evaluate custom code and integrations, and build a realistic roadmap that accounts for your timeline, resources, and institutional priorities.
First Time Implementation
Standing up a new Banner environment from scratch—whether you’re a new Ellucian customer or replacing a legacy system, SIG leads the full implementation lifecycle from requirements gathering and business process design through configuration, data conversion, testing, training, and go-live. We staff implementations with functional and technical senior consultants across every Banner module so nothing falls through the cracks between functional areas.
SaaS Migration
Move to Banner SaaS with confidence. SIG’s migration methodology addresses the hard parts that trip most institutions up—business process redesign, data cleansing, custom code remediation, integration retooling, and organizational change management.
Optimization
Get more out of your current Banner environment. SIG works across Student, Financial Aid, Finance, HR, Advancement, and AR/CR to clean up configuration, eliminate workarounds, improve data quality, and align the system with how your institution actually operates today—not how it operated when Banner was first set up.
Integrations
Connect Banner to everything else. SIG builds, maintains, and troubleshoots integrations between Banner and your CRM, LMS, payment processors, document imaging systems, data warehouses, and third-party applications—using Ethos, APIs, and custom development as needed.
Support | Managed Services
Dedicated, ongoing Banner support tailored to your institution. Choose a full managed services engagement with defined SLAs, proactive monitoring, and a strategic roadmap—or bring in targeted virtual support to fill gaps on your team with experienced functional analysts, technical developers, and DBAs.
The SIG difference
SIG is an Ellucian Premier Service Partner and the 2024 Ellucian Service Partner of the Year—a recognition earned by delivering consistently excellent work across hundreds of Banner engagements.
Our consultants are former registrars, financial aid directors, CIOs, DBAs, and Banner developers who’ve spent their careers inside this platform. That depth means faster ramp-up, fewer surprises, and a partner who understands not just how Banner works, but why your institution configured it the way it did.
Ready to get more from Banner?
Every day is a chance to dismantle the status quo.
I almost look at SIG as our safety net. We have Ellucian implementing the software, we have our Broward team, but then we have SIG. If we’re going to stumble or fall, SIG is going to be there to help pick us up—because they’re in it with us for the long haul.
Liz Perrone, Implementation Director, Broward College