Deploy purpose-built AI agents that act on live Banner SIS data — owned by your institution, running on your infrastructure.
Ellucian Banner is the backbone of student information at hundreds of higher education institutions, managing enrollment, academic records, financial aid, and HR data. Connecting Banner to ibl.ai Agentic OS unlocks a new layer of intelligence — enabling AI agents that understand your institutional data and act on it in real time.
Agentic OS transforms Banner from a system of record into a system of action. Purpose-built agents can monitor enrollment trends, trigger advising workflows, surface at-risk student signals, and automate administrative tasks — all grounded in authoritative Banner data.
Unlike generic AI tools bolted onto your SIS, this integration is designed for institutional ownership. Your agents run on your infrastructure, your data never leaves your environment, and you maintain full control over agent behavior, access, and deployment.
The integration uses a secure middleware layer to bridge Ellucian Banner's REST APIs and database views with the ibl.ai Agentic OS agent runtime. Agents are granted scoped, role-based access to Banner data and can both read context and trigger approved write-back actions through governed API endpoints.
Authenticates and queries Ellucian Banner APIs using OAuth 2.0, exposing student, enrollment, and HR data to the Agentic OS runtime
Ellucian Ethos Integration / Banner REST APIsHosts and executes purpose-built AI agents with defined roles, memory, and tool access scoped to Banner data domains
ibl.ai Agentic OS (self-hosted or institution-managed cloud)Indexes and vectorizes Banner data for semantic retrieval, enabling agents to answer nuanced queries grounded in institutional records
ibl.ai RAG pipeline with institution-controlled vector storeLogs all agent actions, data access events, and write-back operations for FERPA compliance, audit trails, and institutional oversight
ibl.ai Compliance Module with configurable retention policiesCreate a dedicated Ethos Integration application in your Ellucian Experience dashboard. Generate OAuth 2.0 client credentials scoped to the Banner data domains your agents will access (e.g., students, courses, financial aid).
Install the Agentic OS runtime on your institution's cloud environment or on-premises servers. ibl.ai provides Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments and Docker Compose configurations for smaller environments.
Enter your Ethos OAuth credentials into the Agentic OS connector configuration panel. Map Banner data entities to Agentic OS data schemas and set refresh intervals for batch-synced data domains.
Use the Agentic OS Agent Builder to create agents with specific roles — such as Enrollment Advisor Agent or Financial Aid Navigator Agent. Assign each agent a scoped data access policy tied to Banner data domains.
Activate the Governance and Audit Layer. Configure data retention policies, enable PII masking for non-privileged agent interactions, and connect audit logs to your institution's SIEM or logging infrastructure.
Run integration tests using Banner sandbox data. Validate agent responses against known records, confirm write-back actions execute correctly, and conduct a UAT session with advising or registrar staff before production launch.
Agents query Banner in real time to answer questions about enrollment status, holds, degree progress, and registration — providing accurate, record-backed responses rather than generic guidance.
Agentic OS monitors Banner enrollment events and automatically triggers downstream workflows — such as advising outreach, orientation assignments, or LMS course provisioning — without manual intervention.
Agents continuously analyze Banner academic and enrollment data to surface early warning signals for at-risk students, routing alerts to advisors with contextual student summaries.
Purpose-built agents interpret a student's Banner financial aid record and guide them through next steps, missing documents, or appeal processes — reducing call center volume for financial aid offices.
All agents, data pipelines, and Banner connectors run on institution-owned infrastructure. No student data is sent to third-party AI providers. Institutions retain full portability and control.
Agentic OS uses Banner as the authoritative data source while orchestrating actions across connected systems — LMS platforms, communication tools, and credential systems — in a single agent workflow.
An Advising Agent pulls a student's Banner academic record, degree audit, and enrollment history to provide personalized course recommendations and flag missing requirements — available 24/7 without advisor intervention.
Students interact with an Enrollment Agent that reads their Banner registration status, surfaces available sections, explains holds, and guides them through the registration process in natural language.
A Financial Aid Agent interprets Banner award data, identifies outstanding requirements, and walks students through verification or appeal steps — reducing inbound inquiries to the financial aid office.
Administrators deploy reporting agents that query Banner data on demand, generating enrollment summaries, retention snapshots, and compliance reports through conversational interfaces — no SQL required.
Upon Banner enrollment confirmation, an Onboarding Agent automatically provisions LMS access, sends personalized orientation content, and tracks completion — orchestrated entirely from the Banner enrollment event.
See how ibl.ai deploys AI agents you own and control—on your infrastructure, integrated with your systems.