June 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, ECM

Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) is a service-oriented mode, where service provider provides content on demand to the content consumer as a service which is licensed under subscription. Many research institutions adopt this mode to provide services on line, such as Gartner, Forrester and Infotech, etc.

The core digital assets are stored in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. ECM manages the authoring, versioning, approval workflow, archiving and content retention policies, etc. Web Content Management (WCM) / Content Management System (CMS) is in charge of presenting these content on line.

In previous career life, I experienced multiple combinations between ECM and WCM in different organizations...

June 29, 2017 Posted in Blogs

What’s the mostly used suggestion by Ellucian Support when you looked for help? Based on my experience, the answer is always “to upgrade to the latest version with all prerequisites”. That’s the answer with which I never satisfied since I believe it’s an excuse for incapability. Am I correct? The answer is yes till I experienced the GJAPCTL report issue on Banner 9.

In Banner 9 environment, I tried to run GJAPCTL report, for instance NBRPOSN, but unfortunately I got “ERROR” There is no saved output for the Process Name/Number in the database.

There was no report output file nbrposn*.lis generated on BANJOBS home directory. The log file was created with error message below:

       Username: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
       Username:
       Password: ORA-01005: nul...

June 12, 2017 Posted in Blogs

Migrating Ellucian Banner 8 to Banner 9 is now the biggest project in Higher Education area. Many of universities and colleges are now working hard for this: recruiting the team, organizing the resources, building up new hardware and software platform, and so on.

Yes, upgrading to Ellucian Banner 9 is a very challenging job as it introduces much hardware and software prerequisites before performing function level upgrade.  Those are now widely known: Ellucian Ethos Identity, Application Navigator, Ellucian BEIS SSO Manager, and Ellucian Solution Manager. All of them are required for Banner 9 upgrade. But, where may we get started? The quick answer is Ellucian Solution Manager.

From project management perspective, at the very beginning, we need to create plan, schedule, and upgrade path ...