Integrating Okta with Ellucian Banner and Ethos Identity

Many educational institutions are upgrading their Ellucian solutions to Banner 9. Leveraging this time to consider modernizing current approaches to IAM will present significant opportunities for achieving efficiencies in manual operations, infrastructure, and maintenance costs for most campuses.

In this white paper you'll learn about:

• Utilizing Okta to enable a great end user experience while reducing IT friction

• Lowering IT administration costs

• Securing your banner applications with multifactor authentication

• Improving and simplifying user lifecycle management

Many educational institutions are upgrading their Ellucian solutions to Banner 9. The new Ellucian platform introduces Ethos Identity to bring a Single Sign-On (SSO) experience to the user. Ethos Identity is built on standards-based SSO technology. This allows for choice in the selection of an Identity Provider. Leveraging this time to consider modernizing current approaches to IAM will present significant opportunities for achieving efficiencies in manual operations, infrastructure, and maintenance costs for most campuses.

Bring Your Own Identity Provider

The Ethos Identity architecture allows for choice of identity provider. By utilizing Okta, institutions can easily enable a great end user experience while simultaneously reducing IT friction. The Banner applications are SAML capable, which makes them a perfect fit for Okta’s SAML capabilities. Integration with Okta solutions is seamless, taking implementations from weeks to days, so your students, faculty and staff will have a delightful experience, usually with zero downtime for upgrades.

Lower IT Administration Costs

The Okta solution is 100% cloud-based. Given a choice of identity providers, it makes sense to leverage a mature IDaaS IDP. Integration