Dear EIU Faculty and Staff,
EIU is commencing the upgrade to Banner 9. This new release delivers a number of important enhancements, including a modern user interface, enhanced navigation and process management tools, and new functionality across the student, HR and finance functions. It will also give us greater flexibility as we’ll be able to run Banner on multiple browsers and tablets/mobile devices.
With any system upgrade, we know that people often grow concerned over what will change, and we have been working closely with our partner, Ellucian, to understand and anticipate those changes. To date, most of the feedback that other institutions have provided indicates that getting used to the new interface and navigation takes minimal effort. To date, hundreds of Banner customers have already upgraded or are in the process of upgrading, and we will be able to share experiences across the Banner community as we roll out Banner 9 here.
Our team plans to begin the move to Banner 9 by upgrading all of the various administrative modules. We have reached out to Functional users to coordinate system testing as we work to complete the overall project schedule. Because we are upgrading the administrative modules, there will be little to no impact on our students.
We are targeting implementation for August 3-5, 2018. During this time, all Banner production applications will be unavailable. This includes Banner INB, PAWS, REPORTDB and ODS. Any third party applications that depend on these will also not be available. We will have our PPRD instance available as a READ only source to help users assist our students during this down time.
To see what’s coming check out these quick videos:
Please refer to our website at http://www.eiu.edu/banner/B9.php for some additional resources to help you learn more about what’s coming in Banner 9 and to keep up to date on our progress.
We welcome your involvement as a part of this initiative. If you currently use the Banner INB system, please log on to the new Banner 9 Administrative Pages to test your processes at https://bannertest.eiu.edu:8443/applicationNavigator/ and follow the instructions on the Banner 9 User Testing page http://www.eiu.edu/banner/B9UserTesting.php to report any issues.
If you have questions or feedback, please feel free to email dba@eiu.edu.
Sincerely,
Rhonda E. Nichols, MBA, MST
Associate Director IT
Eastern Illinois University
(217)581-7602
renichols@eiu.edu