Elllucian Finance Reviews & Product Details

Financial clarity is essential to institutional success. Ellucian Finance helps colleges and universities navigate financial complexity with greater visibility, accountability, and confidence. Built specifically for higher education, Ellucian Finance supports fund accounting, grants management, multiyear projects, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance in one connected platform. With AI-guided insights and real-time access to financial data, institutions can make more informed decisions, strengthen stewardship, and respond more effectively to changing priorities. Working alongside Ellucian Student on a unified AI-native platform, Ellucian Finance helps leaders align resources to institutional goals, support long-term sustainability, and invest more strategically in student success.

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Ellucian

Discussions

Elllucian Finance Community

Languages Supported

Arabic, English, Spanish

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Srijana Angdembey

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Anne W.

Administrative Assistant

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/30/2017

"Banner, a Tool for Schools"

2/5

What do you like best about Elllucian Finance?

Banner is a great way to keep track of finances, when and where they go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elllucian Finance?

Banners software looks like it came straight out of the 90's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/31/2016

"Not great"

1/5

What do you like best about Elllucian Finance?

As an end-user, the reports are useful and the speed of reporting is adequate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elllucian Finance?

Although both our financial and payroll systems are running Colleague, the financial reports do not include encumbrances for salaries (!!), making it effectively useless as an end-user. Apparently we need to purchase yet another "module" of the software to link the payroll and financial reporting systems. In other words, a shake-down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elllucian Finance:

Don't listen to the salespeople, they don't know what their software is actually capable of doing. Speak to other users before making a decision, and be sure that you understand all of the various "modules" you'll require to meet your expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elllucian Finance solving and how is that benefiting you?

Colleague was brought in to replace a mish-mash of home-grown systems. It has been a long and costly transition, but Colleague is certainly more robust than the older systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/3/2016

"Banner"

4/5

What do you like best about Elllucian Finance?

The ability to work across functional departments enterprise wide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elllucian Finance?

User interface is still behind. It would also be nice if Banner used HTML instead of Java interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elllucian Finance:

Banner is a large ERP application that does many things well. However, it does not do any one of those things exceptionally well. There is some details left out for the sake of a wider focused application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elllucian Finance solving and how is that benefiting you?

General Accounting, HR, Student Accounts, Student Records, Registration, Recruitment. Modules are interconnected for seamless workflow and enhanced interdependence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AB

Verified User in Broadcast Media

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/14/2016

"Banner Ellucian review"

3/5

What do you like best about Elllucian Finance?

I like that I was able to access information regarding budget and spending fairly easily once I learned how to navigate the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elllucian Finance?

Learning to navigate the system was somewhat complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/30/2015

"Review of Banner"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Elllucian Finance?

It's nice to have pretty much all the business functions connected in one spot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elllucian Finance?

I'm frustrated that we are still doing most of our business functions via paper. Find it crazy in this day and age that timesheets and budget work is still done via paper forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Elllucian Finance:

Seems important that organizations carefully check to see what's included in their package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Elllucian Finance solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have very little involvement with determining next steps in terms of business problems we will be addressing via Banner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.