The Novell Identity Manager driver for Ellucian Banner (Ellucian Banner) integrates with the Ellucian Banner system. The driver synchronizes identity information for people in the higher education environment: students, faculty, and staff. This information is stored in the Identity Vault where it can be synchronized with other applications.
Ellucian Banner provides the Unified Digital Campus to unify people, processes, and technology in an environment that addresses the needs of higher education institutions and the people they serve. The Ellucian Banner solutions involve the Banner Suite*, Luminis Portal* and Workflow and other applications. While the architecture of the Ellucian Banner driver and the Ellucian Banner integration points it ties to is intended to allow a single driver to integrate with any of the Ellucian components, version 4.0.2 of the driver is only supported by the Banner Suite.
Ellucian Banner communicates identity information using the UDCIdentity* Schema in SPML 2.0 formatted documents. The Identity Manager driver for Ellucian Banner converts the UDCIdentity schema from SPML 2.0 format into Novell XDS format and publishes the resulting document to the Identity Vault.
For more information about the UDCIdentity, see the Banner Enterprise Identity Services Handbook.
For more information on SPML 2.0, see <OpenSMPL.org>.