Smaller Projects

Banner Finance Enhancements

The Banner Finance module was implemented at Alamo Colleges in September 2005 for core administrative functions including Purchasing, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Budget, General Accounts Receivable and post-award Grants.

Overview

The objective of the Banner Finance Enhancement Project was to ease and simplify Alamo Colleges' management of institutional financial data by automating and improving the processing capabilities through the addition of sub-modules in Banner Finance that were not deployed in the 2005 implementation.

To enable many Department functional end-users to effectively utilize Banner Finance data, a focus toward advanced Finance training for functional end-users was added by Banner Project Services, as well as full support of the implementation of Finance Self-Service for functional end-users. Banner Project Services modified the Banner Finance training material, conducted refresher training, and placed the revised training material on-line for easy access by all.

Scope

The Finance Enhancement Project improved operational processes and cost efficient management of financial data within the Alamo Colleges. Implementation of these sub-modules as well as additional end-user solutions resulted in the following successes for the Alamo Colleges:

  • No loss of funding for Alamo Colleges Grants
  • Increased capacity for Alamo Colleges to compete and receive public funds
  • Timely collections from agencies through automated Grants Billing and Receivables processing
  • Reduced timeframe from start to finish of Grants administrative tasks
  • Department end-user expressed satisfaction and effectiveness with managing, reporting and analyzing their Finance data