SaaS Readiness, Implementation

Moving to Ellucian SaaS is a big deal. Let's make sure you're ready for it.

Moving to Ellucian SaaS is one of the most consequential decisions a college or university will make this decade. It promises innovation with multiple releases and easier maintenance paths.

Whether a migration or net-new implementation, the path forward demands more than a technical lift; it requires your processes, organization, and technology to be aligned before, during, and after go-live.

How we help SaaS Readiness

How we help SaaS Readiness

Before you migrate, make sure your foundation is solid. Our SaaS Readiness offerings analyze your current process, technology, and organization—and get your institution in shape for a successful transition. Getting on SaaS won’t slow you down and can be done as part of the core SaaS implementation.

Back to Basics (B2B)

A focused, few-week onsite engagement that assesses how your institution is using Ellucian today. SIG experts workshop across all major functional areas—student, financial aid, student accounts, HR/payroll, and finance—to create a shared understanding of current state, surface gaps and workarounds, and identify opportunities to bring your system usage back in line with best practices.

Business Process Redesign

SaaS necessitates more standardized configurations, which means your processes need to evolve too. We facilitate cross-functional workshops to map your current workflows, identify inefficiencies and customizations, and redesign processes to align with SaaS-native capabilities. The goal is to move to SaaS leaner and smarter, not to replicate every legacy process in a new environment.

How we help Implementation

Whether you’re moving an existing system to the cloud or starting fresh, SIG provides end-to-end implementation support that keeps your project on track, on budget, and aligned with your institutional goals.

SaaS Migration

For institutions moving from an on-premise version of Banner or Colleague to SaaS, we manage the full migration lifecycle. Our consultants know where the landmines are because they’ve navigated them at institutions like yours. We ensure your migration preserves what’s working, eliminates what isn’t, and positions your team for success on day one in SaaS.

Net New SaaS Implementation

For institutions implementing Ellucian SaaS from the ground up. SIG brings the project discipline and deep Ellucian expertise to get your implementation right the first time, with a focus on adoption and long-term sustainability, not just technical completion.

The SIG difference

We’ve been implementing and optimizing Ellucian systems for over 35 years across more than 1,000 institutions. We bring the right recipe of process optimization, organizational change management, expert program governance, project discipline and technology expertise ensures success. Our consultants have spent careers inside these systems and understand the functional, technical, and organizational realities of making them work. The result is fewer surprises, faster time to value, and a partnership that lasts well beyond go-live.

As an Ellucian Premier Service Partner, we bring the deep product knowledge, battle-tested methodology, and institutional fluency to ensure your SaaS journey delivers lasting value, not just a new hosting model.

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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