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Banner an ERP product• Enterprise Resource Planning system

• Large suite of integrated software products

Banner as an ERP

FinanceFinancial

Aid

Alumni

Development

Student

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Self ServiceBanner Operational Modules

HR

Alumni

Employee

Self Service

Fiscal Agent

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What is Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP

• Endocardial Resection Procedure - ???

• Been around for almost three decades

• Private business; profit, productivity

• University; enroll, educate, graduate

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What is Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP

• Broad set of multi-module application software that helps manage the important parts of an organization

• Technology that integrates key business functions into one big centralized information system

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What Should an ERP Do?• Regulate flow of information among different business

elements within an organization

• Provide oversight and control that is absolutely necessary for a manager

• Coordinate activities across functional departments

• Make sure that all resources are working towards the same goal

• Automate activities such that every department can carry out its tasks effectively and in timely manner

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More Do’s & Advantages• Improve the performance of organizations' resource planning,

management control and operational control

• Smooth functioning of an organization is directly related to the work flow and information flow among core business functions

• Improve the effectiveness of the business which results in

– timely business information

– better customer relationship

– improved internal processes

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More Do’s & Advantages

• Automate departments such that customers are better served because departments have access to every bit of information regarding each relevant process

• Integrate information and speeds up internal processes

• Provide a competitive edge

• Initiate significant change to how a company does business

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Banner – Why?

• Continued & improved delivery of mission critical & core services

• Efficiencies - immediate & future

• Cost savings

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Benefits for Eastern• Fully integrated • Operational efficiencies

• Improved customer service– Anytime – Anyplace

• Information for decision making

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Benefits for Eastern• Long term cost savings

• Improved disaster recovery & security

• Staged for the future

• Resources and assistance from other Universities

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Shared Solutions

• Several Midwest institutions and hundreds of others to draw ideas from

Project Success• Leadership, Planning, Decision

making– Well defined project structure

• Work teams

• University wide participation

• Top administration commitment

• A lot of hard work

• Some discomfort expected

Opportunity is missed by most peoplebecause it is dressed in overallsand looks like work.     ~ Thomas Edison

Challenges & Opportunities• Assimilating new methods

• Disseminating new information

• Workflow – process automation

• Luminis Portal – Personalized web view for Banner information, email, announcements, news, etc.

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Status as a Student, Employee, Alumni

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