BannerTime
A certified Ellucian Ethos integration that connects modern time-tracking to Banner payroll for higher-ed institutions, with FERPA-safe student-worker handling and multi-bargaining-unit support.
A community college runs payroll for hundreds of student workers, adjuncts, and staff off paper timesheets in 2026. The hours get keyed into Banner by hand, every pay cycle, by a payroll office that knows it is absurd but cannot get IT to build the integration. Modern time-tracking tools exist; none of them talk to Banner, and the institution is structurally stuck between the system of record it cannot replace and the manual process everyone hates.
The payroll or HR director at a Banner institution -- the person who owns the timesheet-to-payroll cycle and personally signs off on hand-keyed hours every pay period. The budget line already exists: the staff time spent re-entering paper timesheets, plus the standing line item for campus systems and integrations that IT controls.
The Ellucian Marketplace launched at Ellucian Live 2026 with 'Verified for SaaS' badging and no certified time-to-payroll product at launch -- a distribution channel that just opened.
Payroll and HR directors at the 1,400+ named Banner institutions, current alternative literally paper -- institution type, count, and pain all confirmed by two strong signals.
Four connections including cross-run kin and two signals plus one cross-reference -- a moderate real echo, not a dense convergence; this is a new-vertical entry.
Top-decile evidence quality: two strong signals (a marketplace that just launched plus a viral, confirmed pain), a countable and named buyer universe, and a distribution channel that did not exist before Ellucian Live 2026. The buyer persona is crisp -- a named role at named institutions whose current alternative is literally paper.
Convergence is only moderate (a new vertical entry with limited prior-run echo), and the whole thing depends on the same vendor whose gap it exploits -- Ellucian controls the certification gate. Leverage is dragged down by heavy per-institution onboarding (bargaining units, FERPA configuration) and the third-party ETL dependency for the roughly 40% of institutions without Ethos REST.
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