Elllucian Finance Reviews & Product Details

Banner by Ellucian is a very robust ERP system. It has a lot of options for large accounting systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how hard it is to get reports out of Banner. You almost have to have a report writing software to be able to truly utilize the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Banner Finance has plenty of options and is a very flexible part of the banner suite. It integrates seamlessly with the rest of the banner suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a very steep learning curve to the program and it can be less friendly to non tech savvy users. The new banner 9 front end display helps users with this issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once learned, it is efficient, the software can do many different features including budget management, and keeping up with student data and course data. After you have mastered certain features, it is very easy to input data and have it available for everyone who needs it in the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very difficult software to learn. It is not user friendly or intuitive. If there were step by step tutorials available for the software it would greatly improve the experience. When using it, especially for student data records, there were often little things that would cause errors, and if you did not input the information in the right order it could mess up the whole transaction. Search features are also not great - you have to be very specific with what you are searching for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The process of billing and invoicing students is a breeze! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no delete function. If there is a mistake, you have to put in a counter-line to cancel out the error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User-friendly and has all documents needed for our Accounting Services Department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the application freezes when I am entering information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the most part, Banner is pretty simple to use in concept. The best part of Banner is it is easy to exact data from screens into Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike many aspects of Banner. I primarily use Banner Finance in a higher education setting. When entering invoices there are too many screens for 1 entry. I worked with other systems and it process is more streamlined. I also dislike that a check processing feature is not built into the software. Another downside to this software is you also have to use another outside software to get customized reports from Banner. As much as this software cost, it should do more than it does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that we can personalize Colleague UI to add forms that make our work flow more efficient and faster. We have so much information in this platform from student/employee records to all the bills we pay on a weekly basis. It is not too hard to learn how to run reports, I think that's a big plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the only thing I can think of is that the new Colleague UI 5 is a bit slower than the older version, I'm used to going at a certain pace and now the program freezes. I just have to remember to go a little bit slower. but the new features with the upgrade make it still worth it to switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We went to Banner 9 years ago. Previously all campus areas were on separate systems but Banner was going to allow us to have one database campus wide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This system is not user friendly. It takes longer to do everything because the data isn't linked across screens. Like a name - If you fill in the fields on the Name screen - you still have to enter on at least 2 more screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While tricky, if you are trained on how to use it, Banner is a great reporting system. The newer updates to come will assist with its clunky distemper and make it more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not very user friendly and you must know exactly what you want to do in the software. There is no guessing game. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use. Self explanatory. Lots of query options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn’t work well with java. Our university won’t let us update java because of the issues it causes with banner. We have to wait on the banner update first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.