Banner 8 Unified Product Release

January 2 -5, Multiple-Year Encumbering for Grants Tracks labor and fringe encumbrances over the life of the grant —Identifies grant-related job labor distributions on employee job records —Utilizes Banner Finance grant associated dates with grant-related job labor distributions —Calculates grant-related salary encumbrances within a fiscal year, across fiscal years, or for multiple years —Feeds the calculated encumbrance to Banner Finance for entire period

January 2 -5, Banner Travel and Expense Management *******add on product Maintains a comprehensive, one system of record for all associated travel and expense activity across the institution —Automates travel and expense reporting —Enables improved processes —Increases employee awareness of expense policy —Enables stricter controls over spending —Leverages your investment in Banner Finance, HR, Workflow, Xtender, and Luminis Platform —Enables your institution to deliver superior travel-related customer service across the entire institution

January 2 -5, Algorithmic Packaging Financial Aid Enables the use of algorithms to extend and enhance financial aid packaging capabilities —Targets the right dollars to the right students —Automates the financial aid process —Meets or exceed desired yield rates —Leverages scarce financial resources —Automates complex packaging scenarios —Aligns award offers to institution’s awarding philosophy

Enforcing Compliance

January 2 -5, Enforcing Compliance Ensures compliance to regulatory, funding, audit, and business process rules —Proposal Development and Electronic Submission —Effort Reporting and Labor Redistributions —Faculty Load and Compensation —Benefit/Deduction Combined Limit Processing

January 2 -5, Banner eProposal Management ****add on Product Manages the sponsored research activity of proposal development and submission —Provides Proposal Development Portfolio Proposal Description Proposal Forms Proposal Budget —Integrates with Grants.gov —Supports private proposal funding and submissions —Supports configurable, electronic approvals

January 2 -5, Effort Certification and Labor Redistributions Automates functionality with effort certification and labor redistributions to facilitate compliance —Facilitates OMB A-21 compliance using the “after the fact method” —Enables Employee Self-Service effort reporting review and certification —Automates routing and approvals for effort reporting and labor redistributions —Maintains history for audit purposes —Incorporates Luminis channels —Leverages XtenderSolutions to manage documentation

January 2 -5, Automated Faculty Load and Compensation Improves integration between Banner HR and Banner Student for faculty assignments —Enables ability to use for all faculty: adjuncts, part time, and full time —Configures and automates compensation calculations —Creates/maintains faculty job assignments —Provides Employee Self-Service faculty view of compensation components —Manages contracts through Banner XtenderSolutions (optional) —Enables notifications through Workflow (optional)

January 2 -5, Benefit/Deduction Combined Limit Processing Provides the ability to grant individual deduction limits, combined limits, or annual compensation limits —Incorporates items such as 403(b), 401(k), 457(b) plans and Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP) —Defines employee, employer, combined, and annual compensation limits separate from benefit/deduction codes through new Combined Limits rules —Assign Combined Limits codes to benefit/deduction codes on employee’s deduction record, which can be overridden —Accommodates employee and employer flat amounts and percentages with matching and annual limits for each through new Calc Rules —Works in conjunction with Associated Deductions logic to accomplish institution-specific design

Managing Capacity

January 2 -5, Managing Capacity Increases ability to manage enrollment and access demand —Course Wait Listing —Incomplete Grade Processing

January 2 -5, Course Wait Listing Manages student course waitlist eligibility and status based on configurable rules —Provides registration conflict checking before adding to waitlist —Enables configurable rules for waitlist position priority —Enables configurable time limit for status change —Manages the movement of students from the waitlist to registered status as seats become available in previously closed course sections —Automates student notification when seat opens —Enables Student self-service waitlist status and position look-up —Enables Faculty self-service waitlist status and position look-up per class

January 2 -5, Incomplete Grade Processing Automates the process for incomplete grade changes based on institution- based policies and practices —Allows Registrar to define default permanent grades and time limits —Converts incomplete grade automatically in permanent history records after time expiration —Displays default grade and expiration date on administrative grading forms —Optionally, allows instructor to specify default grade and date for specific courses — Provides Student with Self-Service view of expiration date and default grade for all incomplete course work

Convenience and Constituent Demands

January 2 -5, Convenience and Constituent Demands Offers constituents more convenient, flexible options for access and process —Applicant Tracking Interface with PeopleAdmin —Catalog Extract and Load —Concurrent Curricula Phase V —Enhancements to Advancement Integration with Student

January 2 -5, Applicant Tracking Interface with PeopleAdmin Streamlines the new hire process between PeopleAdmin Applicant Tracking & Banner HR with new integration —Reduces duplicate and manual data entry, saving errors and time —Leverages your investment in both products —Populates Biographic/Demographic, Employee, and Employee Job information in Banner HR —Allows optional use of on-line electronic routing and approval of new hires through integration with Banner HR’s Electronic Personnel Action Form (EPAF) —Enables entry of additional data as needed on EPAF —Prevents duplicate person records in Banner through integration with Banner’s Common Matching functionality

January 2 -5, Catalog Extract and Load Improves ability to quickly and efficiently exchange course catalog data for transfer articulation —Provides foundation for a complete transfer articulation solution —Enables quicker decisions for transfer students —Reduces data entry —Extracts Internal Catalog Data —Uploads External Transfer Catalog Data

January 2 -5, Concurrent Curricula Phase V Incorporates Concurrent Curricula concepts into registration, fee assessment, and graduation —Enforces registration restrictions across multiple curricula —Allows designation of the field of study, department code, attribute code and cohort code to course registration and schedule restriction rules —Assesses fees across multiple curricula —Provides the ability to submit and pay fees for an application to graduate via Banner Student Self-Service —Configures rules to control applications to graduate via Student Self-Service —Saves graduation application information for re-use

January 2 -5, Concurrent Curricula Phase V (cont.) —Includes options to populate section rolls from the catalog vs. schedule —Includes field of study type, department, attribute and cohort in section rolls —Restricts registration maximum hours by more criteria than just level —Adds all curricular elements to the minimum and maximum hours checking in registration —Expands reserved seat capability to use curricular elements and matriculated term, admission term, learner graduation term, attribute, and cohort —Allows for a reserved seats overflow option

January 2 -5, Mass Entry Forms Adds concurrent curricula to existing graduation mass entry forms Incorporates 3 new forms for mass entry —Admissions —General Student —Registration Audits your mass entry usage —Determines who used the form, when, and the data used to search and update records —Finds all successful updates, or not successful —Holds mass update later for batch

January 2 -5, Banner Student to Banner Advancement Integration Leverages inherent integration between Banner Advancement and Banner Student —Provides flexibility to support institutional culture on how and when to incorporate students into the Advancement process —Includes innate ability to provide seamless transition from student to alumni, enabling continued engagement and support —Enables greater flexibility to specify name style preferences —Provides ability to create employment relationships

Personalizing your Unified Digital Campus

January 2 -5, Luminis Platform Enables increased security and data integrity across the institution —Provides new levels of security through an encrypted Banner PIN —Increases opportunity to collaborate through further security and privacy via data obfuscation —Improves flexibility in content management through rich text editing capabilities Enhances constituent experience with inherent Banner Enrollment Management integration —Manages prospective student experience using personalized content features —Enables automation and configurability based on institutional standards

January 2 -5, Banner Enrollment Management Suite RECRUITING & ADMISSIONSSTUDENTADVANCEMENT

January 2 -5, Banner Enrollment Management Suite Introduces a new standard for managing relationships —Delivers Information that Empowers Your People Connect with people and organizations more effectively Invest in activities that have proven productive —Enables Highly Personalized Interaction Efficient, high-touch relationship management Prospective and current students; parents, guidance counselors —Supports Knowledge-based Planning Rich longitudinal information guides strategic and tactical planning Plan across all recruiting, retention, alumni programs —Monitors and Adjusts Performance Real-time dashboards and metrics aligned to your goals Alerts when outcomes don’t match expected results

January 2 -5, Enterprise Identity Management Services Enables institutions to administer across their IT environment through flexible, configurable IdM functionality —Allows SGHE UDC applications to work with 3 rd Party Enterprise Id Management Systems —Adopts a standard UDC Identity definition —Supports user provisioning to SGHE applications —Supports user provisioning from Banner —Automates provisioning for SGHE applications when a Enterprise IdM system is not present —Provides standards-based authentication support —Provides flexibility and configurability to support multiple provisioning and authentication use cases in SGHE applications

January 2 -5, Globalization of Higher Education Expands field sizes to help our institutions address the rapidly changing, competitive, global environment —Delivers on the greater focus of educational accountability and access —Expands names, addresses, telephone numbers, and identifiers Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) standards CCITT telephone standards HR-XML specifications Names – 60 characters Telephone – CCITTE-164 standard – 15 characters —Lengthens Currency and amount fields General and Finance only Currency, amount and quantity fields digits, 2 decimal places Currency Rate field digits, 7 decimal places Finance Unit Price digits,4 decimal places —Incorporates Unicode/UTF-8 Database Encoding to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters

January 2 -5, Banner 8 Unified Digital Campus Services SERVICES DESCRIPTION UDC Strategy and Assessment Aligns your institution’s tactical initiatives, people, processes and technology with institutional vision and educational / business goals using an approach called Enterprise Architecture. The result? A UDC Roadmap that defines priorities, next steps and a path towards realizing your unique UDC vision. Provides an overview of SOA, its application to higher education, and how it will impact your current environment. The result? A plan to align and maximize SOA with governance and tech. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Workshops Delivers provisioning and authentication across UDC applications, real time data integration points for third party apps, and capabilities to extend for non-UDC apps. The result? Foundational SOA technologies for the UDC implemented. UDC Identity and Access Management (IAM) & Web Services Implementation, Training and Extension Advises your institution with the latest hands-on enterprise SOA integration and IAM experience. The result? Solving your unique complex IAM and SOA integration problems quicker. Enterprise SOA Integration and IAM Advisory Services Helps you identify key institutional problems to solve with SOA. The result? Next steps to reduce complexity and cost while increasing constituent services with SOA. SOA Integration Assessment and Planning

Quality Improvements

January 2 -5, Defect Backlog Reduction 16% Reduction UDC Target

January 2 -5, Unified Digital Campus Test Center All Banner UDC applications Used for performance, functional, regression, and interoperability tests Acquired leading test automation tools Built a team of experts

January 2 -5, UDC Test Center Distributed & Collaborative approach Built on top of Eclipse Foundation’s Test & Performance Tool Platform Any test script can be executed against any UDC configuration Beginning with Banner 8 Campus A Campus D Campus C Campus B Campus E UDC Test Center

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