Our Banner Consulting Services continue to empower Higher Educational Institutions

Our Ellucian Banner expertise coupled with over two decades of experience in Higher Education domain makes us the perfect consulting services partner for Banner ERP and Student Information System (SIS).

Ellucian Banner Consulting services for Higher Educational institutions is a core practice of Kastech. We have a dedicated Banner Center of Excellence comprising of experienced consultants for various core modules such as Banner Student, Finance, Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financial Aid. The team works with higher educational institutions in maintaining their Banner applications and providing strategic consulting services. Based on the specific needs of our Higher Ed customers, we offer customized Banner solutions that are affordable, reliable and flexible.

Whether you are looking for leveraging critical Banner application capabilities and updates or optimizing the Banner functionality and integrations or to simply ensure a seamless student lifecycle through a robust Banner Student System, Kastech is your trusted “go-to” partner. We also provide the roadmap for transitioning to Ellucian SaaS system from on-premise Banner SIS and ERP systems.


Ellucian Banner Capabilities

Banner Advisory Services

Our Banner Advisory services are designed to help Higher Education institutions leverage the full potential of Ellucian Banner to streamline operations and enhance student experiences in a dynamic educational landscape.

We perform comprehensive Banner ERP IT assessment to provide a technical deep dive into deployed Banner applications, servers, third-party integrations, and data reporting needs. Through this assessment, we recommend the college/university with best-practices and Banner solutions so they can manage the Banner application/Enterprise Systems more effectively, allocate resources, prioritize system effort, and execute Banner operations. Our recommendations also cover key areas including IT Governance, Institutional Integration, Standards, Data Governance, and Metrics/Continuous Improvement.

Kastech has experience in conducting detailed business process review and re-engineering to maximize ROI. Through our experience, we have observed that institutions are able to leverage only 30-40 % of Banner capabilities and investment. The existing business processes are carefully studied to identify the areas of improvement such as process automation and re-engineering, new integrations for data exchange, and replacing customizations with standard Banner features.

Kastech Banner consultants work with academic institutions to create a roadmap for implementing the improvements and necessary business process changes for optimal utilization of existing Banner functionality and making the most of the investment in Banner applications.

Kastech performs readiness assessment for successful transition to SaaS from on-premise Banner systems. This includes IT Infrastructure assessment to ensure the current landscape is cloud-ready and SaaS-compatible. We review network, data center, and system scalability; identify gaps and deliver a modernization IT Infrastructure roadmap. We also review and enhance RPO/RTO strategies to strengthen Disaster Recovery (DR) posture and align it with SaaS resiliency expectations. We support planning for cloud-based failover solutions.

Banner Managed Services

Kastech specializes in providing comprehensive managed services for deployed Banner applications and modules. Our Banner managed services cover Banner Student, Banner Financials, Banner Human Capital Management and Banner Financial Aid. Our Banner Managed service models are flexible to suit the business needs of our clients. Higher Educational institutions can choose from fixed monthly support hours to time and material engagements.   

We offer the following portfolio of services as part of Banner Managed Services

Functional and Technical Support

Helpdesk Escalation and Ticket Resolution

Proactive Monitoring and Maintenance

Patch Management, Release Upgrades, and Compliance Updates

Custom Reports and Analytics

Business Workflow Automation

Banner Application Database Management

Oracle Data Guard Set-up and Database maintenance

Third-party Integrations

Implementation of DegreeWorks

Implementation of Single Sign On (SSO) for Banner Self Service and Admin Pages

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Activities

Banner Staffing Services

Kastech provides on-demand staffing services to higher educational institutions to meet their short term as well as long term Banner staffing needs. Our Banner staffing services provide several advantages to our Higher-Ed clients:

Kastech’s large pool of qualified Banner functional and technical consultants allows our clients to augment their in-house Banner team at any point in time during critical projects or sudden ad-hoc needs. All these resources are carefully vetted on both skillset/qualifications and work experience who can be onboarded quickly. Currently, we are providing just-in-time Banner resources for supporting and maintaining Banner application(s) for several higher ed institutions across the USA. 

Kastech provides Banner resources for both onsite and remote job requirements. Based on our clients’ business requirements, work location, and scope of the work, appropriate Banner consultants are assigned.

Kastech offers Banner consultants at highly competitive hourly rates to align with our clients’ budgetary constraints. Based on the years of relevant experience, we group our Banner consultants into three levels – Junior, Mid-Level and Expert. Each level of experience and skillset has a defined hourly rate card which is maintained at competitive rates.

Why Kastech is your Partner for Banner SaaS Transition?

Kastech understands the current challenges that grapple Higher Educational institutions when they plan to move to SaaS application from Banner on-premise systems.

Strong Bench Strength of Banner SaaS Experts

Higher Educational institutions struggle to find professionals with hands-on experience in Banner SaaS migration and configuration. Kastech provides experienced functional and technical SMEs with real-world SaaS implementation experience including data migration to SaaS application.

Custom-to-Standard Optimization Framework

Banner environments are often highly customized, making "lift and shift" to SaaS platform impractical without significant re-engineering. Kastech leverages proven methodology to reduce customizations and re-align business processes to Ellucian SaaS capabilities.

Integration Expertise



There are often difficulties in adapting APIs and third-party applications and tools to the new SaaS structure. Kastech has strong background in middleware and cloud integration platforms.

Change Management Champions

There could be lack of well-planned organizational change management causing end-user friction and user adoption issues. Kastech brings to the table end-to-end support in training, communications, and organizational alignment to facilitate quick user adoption and seamless transition to SaaS application.

Accelerated Timelines

Institutions are often under tight deadlines due to vendor timelines or internal mandates. Kastech has pre-built and proprietary accelerators/tools and repeatable frameworks to ensure faster go-live with lower risk. For instance, our data conversion tools & integration accelerators typically reduce project timelines by up to 30%.

SaaS Transition Roadmap

Kastech not just performs the foundational readiness for Ellucian SaaS implementation but we also create detailed roadmap for a successful transition.

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