A lot of work continues behind the scenes for the Banner 9 migration project. The developers and other technical teams continue preparing the Banner environment for the migration. The review of modifications to customized Banner forms also continues (see our July project update for more information).
In addition, our recent work has included the following:
Upgrading Banner 8
Ellucian published several upgrades to Banner 8 that had to be installed prior to Banner 9. Information Services installed those upgrades on September 15-16.
Identifying business processes
The stakeholder leads from each area have been busy identifying the business processes that are currently using Banner 8 and the forms and objects associated with those processes.
Planning the first migrations: Payroll
Stakeholder leads for Payroll and HR determined that it would be best to migrate payroll-related business processes from Banner 8 to Banner 9 in two groups. The first group will include payroll-related business processes that are used only by those two units. The second group will include payroll-related business processes that are used by staff elsewhere on campus. Once those two migrations have been scheduled, we will share scheduling information in this blog.
Developing dashboard view
In future updates, we will share a “dashboard” view that will list all of the business processes currently using Banner 8 and indicate the progress toward migrating each of them to Banner 9.