This is a three year project, that will have an impact on every office, every student, and every administrator. Our goal is to make the transition as painless as possible, and to incorporate the more modern technology of Banner into our campus. The projects officially began Monday, October 16th at 2:00 P.M.

The new system will include a portal and web services software that we do not currently have. This is our way to introduce the new look Otterbein will have when we are finished. We will also have a new name for the project. Banner is the software name, but we will be making the official Otterbein project name announcement. There is a reward for the person who suggested the name.

More than 900 institutions, world-wide rely on SunGard Higher Education and the Banner solutions to achieve their goals of enhancing individual and institutional performance and supporting learning communities.

Modules to be installed in stages:

Banner Finance

• Configurable, rule-based budgetary controls to ensure expenditures remain within budgetary guidelines for all funding sources
• Central repository for all financial transactional processing with real-time query access and reporting
• Electronic approvals workflow to eliminate the paper chase
• e-Procurement partnership with SciQuest to reduce and control maverick spending on supplies and equipment
• Full integration with Banner Student, Financial Aid, and Human Resource systems allowing you to focus your resources on improving operational efficiencies, not on maintaining interfaces to third-party software

Banner Student

• Consolidate each learner's record into one, from recruiting to graduation.
• Make your online application a unique signature of your institution
• Use e-mail to communicate quickly with prospects, applicants, and students
• Support your non-traditional learners and open learning courses with flexible scheduling, registration, teaching, and learning modes
• Create, track, and record multiple programs for today's learners who may seek unlimited majors, minors, and concentrations within a term or across academic periods
• Quickly access faculty classroom and office hours formatted in a weekly or daily calendar view with course title links for instant access to course details (class schedule, enrollment, roster, office hours and syllabi information)
• Provide Advisors with dashboards for quick and easy searching tools to obtain pertinent information about advisees (name, class standing, major) and pertinent links to academic transactions (degree audit, academic transcript, test scores, e-mail address)
  

Banner Human Resources

• Manages data to recruit, hire, and retain the best talent
• Self service enrollment for employee benefits
• Channelized content of employee details that gives employees quick access to important information about their benefits and employment.
• Enable employees to enter their time sheets, leave reports, and/or advance leave requests via self service
• Automate and easily track personnel actions including compensation changes, promotions, leaves and termination Integration with Banner Student, Financial Aid, and Finance.

Several other smaller applications will be implemented as well including Banner Financial Aid, Banner General, Workflow, Luminis and CAPP.