Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Presented by: Jeff Hinds, Sr. DBA, Tennessee Board of Regents Greg Turmel, Sr. DBA, Tennessee Board of Regents

AbstractThe Banner ERP system is constantly being updated to support campuses needs and maintain required regulatory requirements. However, Banner is changing and the technical changes and challenges are many and are coming faster and faster. Introduce this with the changes with technologies, Smartphones & Tablets & Clouds, all the current 3rd party applications we currently use and rely on, and the down-line services; how will the Campus IT shops keep up? The objective is to get the questions started, if not already, maybe not answer all the questions but see how we will be impacted.

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Introduction

Current environment and changes

Concerns and what to address

Conclusion

Agenda

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Introduction

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Evolving: Green screens to GUI, GUI to Web, and Web to Mobile

Source:Banner Commons. by permission

Source: Banner 9 Overview, What's on the Student Roadmap By Dave Becker and Robert Rullo

Current Environment• ORACLE database

• Banner

• ODS (with Oracle Streams)

• BDMS

• Argos

• Others ...

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Current Environment

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Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

• Introduction of New Banner products (web services)

• Introduction of Needs Analysis as a service

• Oracle 9i to 10gR2 to 11gR1 to 11gR2 to 12c to ...

• JAva JDK to Java JDK 5 to JDK 6 to ... and the discussion of JDK 8 released by January 2013

• Oracle Application Server to Oracle WebLogic

• Some institutions migrating to a different operating system (Solaris to Linux)

• Some institutions migrating into the OIR data center or the "Cloud"

Changes

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• Campus email services

• Portal products and services

• BOYD culture

• Big Data

• Data Analytics

• Identity Management

Other Changes may include:

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Changes

• TouchNET

• Needs Analysis as a service

• Nelnet financial aid service

• Cloud: Some institutions are moving to a remote data center (OIR)

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Hosted services that are currently part of our environment

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Banner Customer Roadmap

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Source:Banner Commons. by permission

Banner 9 Architecture

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Source:Banner Commons. by permission

Source: Banner 9 Overview, What's on the Student Roadmap By Dave Becker and Robert Rullo

Banner 9 Architecture

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Source:Banner Commons. by permission

Source: Banner 9 Overview, What's on the Student Roadmap By Dave Becker and Robert Rullo

ConcernsChanges in daily operations and processes

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• Change Management

• Connectivity and information security

• Downline processes and reporting

• Business process management and workflow control

ConcernsTotal cost of ownership and return on investment

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• Information exchange/integration between other products and services

• Skill sets, talent acquisition and retention

• Disaster and Recovery/Business continuity

• Service Level Agreements (SLA)

ConclusionThere are many changes coming in the foreseeable future

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

• User expectations

• Technologies and security

• Operational requirements

Change is coming, we need to prepare.

Additional Resources

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

• IT Management-Baseline

IT Skills Gap Hurts Business http://tinyurl.com/789dzxj

• Banner 9 Overview

What's on the Student Roadmap Dave Becker and Robert Rullo

• Banner 9 FAQ

Banner Commonshttp://www.edu1world.org/CommonsBanner/wiki/document/4299#7525

• Computerworld

Microsoft starts XP retirement countdown By: Gregg Keizer http://tinyurl.com/7vddh27

• Application Development Trends

Oracle Proposes Roadmap for JDK 8; Release set for Sept. 2013 By John K. Watershttp://adtmag.com/articles/2012/04/11/jdk-8-roadmap.aspx

Thank You !

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Contact Information

Jeff Hinds Sr. Database Administrator Tennessee Board of Regents email: jeff.hinds@tbr.edu

Coming Technical Changes to the Banner Environment

Greg Turmel Sr. Database Administrator Tennessee Board of Regents email: greg.turmel@tbr.edu

Web site: http://itinfo.tbr.edu