What is Banner?
Banner is an administrative software application developed specifically for higher education institutions by Systems and Computer Technology Corporation (SCT). Banner maintains student, alumni, financial and personnel data. It consists of six integrated systems: FINANCE ALUMNI DEVELOPMENT STUDENT FINANCIAL AID HUMAN RESOURCES GENERAL The systems are highly integrated because they all share a common database. This common database is shared by everyone who uses Banner at ECSU, which makes it easy to maintain records on someone who applies to the University, becomes a student, graduates, and then becomes an alumnus. Technically, data is not actually stored in Banner. Data is stored in a powerful database called ORACLE. It would be difficult for a non-technical user to directly add or retrieve data from the actual database. The Banner software acts as an interface to the ORACLE database, making the job of adding or retrieving data much easier. Banner provides the features and processing ca
Banner is an administrative software package developed by SunGard SCT for use in higher education. It is a highly integrated web-based system with a common database that is shared by everyone who uses Banner. Banner maintains data and consists of integrated systems for: Finance Human Resources Student Financial Aid Over the next several years Banner will be replacing our currently used campus-wide data systems.
