Banner unavailable Saturday, October 12, through Wednesday, October 16, 2024
We have been using Banner (an Ellucian product) for over 27 years as the university’s centralized administrative and academic records system. Until now, Ellucian applications, including databases, have been hosted on-site at ODU. We have been working closely with Ellucian for the past year on a plan to move Banner and other Ellucian applications to the cloud, and we are finally ready to make that move during Fall break.
To complete the migration process, Banner products will be offline and unavailable from Saturday, October 12 (beginning at 12:01 a.m.), through Wednesday, October 16 (at 11:59 p.m.).
Go-Live Event
We are scheduling the Go-Live event for migration to Ellucian Managed Cloud during Fall break. Banner and other Ellucian applications will not be available for regular usage from:
Saturday, October 12, 12:01 a.m.
to Wednesday, October 16, 11:59 p.m.
Impact
During the outage, users of Banner and other Ellucian applications cannot access the systems to do normal daily operations. This will be like the times when we do Banner upgrades or year-end processing, except the outage will be a little longer.
During the migration, we plan to have a “read-only” version of Banner database available to some supporting systems like MIDAS and Shibboleth to enable continuous operations of other systems at ODU.
Timeline
We have prepared the following timeline in consultation with Ellucian. These timings and dates will be finalized in early September.
October 1-11 |
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October 11 |
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October 12 |
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October 12-13 |
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October 14 |
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October 15 |
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October 15-17 |
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October 16 |
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October 17-31 |
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Ellucian applications that are moving to the cloud
- Banner
- DegreeWorks
- Banner ePrint
- Banner Workflow
- Axiom Elite
- Touchnet BannerConnect
- Banner Document Management System (BDMS)
- Evisions FormFusion
- Evisions IntelleCheck
- Banner Operational Data Store (ODS) & Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
- Banner Recruiting and Admissions Performance (RAP)
- Cognos
New applications that will be available in the cloud
- ISE Enterprise Schedule
- Ellucian Experience
- Ellucian Cloud Peering Service