Banner Outage over Spring Break

Alamo Colleges Colleagues:

Due to Banner Student System conversion efforts and software upgrade exercises, the Banner system (Finance, HR, Payroll and Student) will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 16, at noon and remain unavailable until Monday, March 22, 8:00 a.m. During this time, approximately 50 million records will be loaded into Banner (from SIS-Plus) and the Banner software will be upgraded to current levels to allow Financial Aid processing for 2010-2011 and to prepare for Fall registration beginning in April. We’ve projected this to be a five-day effort and thus the need to take the system on Tuesday. There is some risk that the outage may extend into Monday, but rigorous testing has shown this to be a minimal risk. This is by far the largest conversion effort of the Banner implementation project. It is our hope that scheduling this during the Spring Break holiday will minimize impact to the system user community. In any case, please plan your Banner needs accordingly.

Thank you. Please feel free to provide feedback and/or concerns,
Roger


Roger Castro
District Director of Information Technology Services
rcastro50@alamo.edu
210-485-0400