Managing the ERP Modernization Timeline
Across higher education, colleges and universities are planning transitions from on-premise student information systems (SIS) to cloud environments like Ellucian Banner SaaS and Ellucian Colleague SaaS.
These modernization projects take years and require substantial cross-departmental coordination. In the middle of testing financial aid packaging, admissions funnels, and registrar degree audits, third-party academic systems—such as course evaluations—can easily become project bottlenecks.
Attempting to migrate course evaluations at the exact moment of the core SIS cutover introduces avoidable risk: data sync errors during finals week, unfamiliar administrator interfaces, and potential delays in delivering promotion and tenure reports.
A Practical Strategy: Migrate Evaluations Early
Our recommendation to institutional leadership is straightforward: Migrate SurveyDIG to the cloud prior to your campus ERP SaaS migration.
Moving SurveyDIG to our cloud hosting environment ahead of time takes evaluations off the critical path:
- Pre-Migration Cloud Setup: SurveyDIG transitions to our cloud hosting environment ahead of time during a brief, scheduled maintenance window. All historical survey data, question banks, and department hierarchies transfer intact, eliminating the burden of managing local evaluation servers.
- Evaluations Off the Critical Path: Evaluations run normally in the cloud for full terms while campus IT stays focused on core ERP migration tasks. Faculty, chairs, and administrators continue their standard review schedules with zero disruption from ERP testing.
- Seamless Ethos API Cutover: When your campus officially cuts over from on-premise or managed hosting to Banner SaaS or Colleague SaaS, the SurveyDIG transition requires no outage. Because SurveyDIG supports Ellucian Ethos Data Integration APIs, updating the integration is as simple as applying a new Ethos API key to pull roster data from your new cloud SIS.
Ready When You Are Ready
Institutions move at different speeds. Some colleges are migrating this year; others are several years away.
Because SurveyDIG supports both traditional database connections and cloud-native Ethos APIs, your evaluation process stays reliable and uninterrupted—ready whenever your campus decides to make the move.