Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Changes

Overview

Virginia Tech has been using its Banner Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution since 1997. Over time, new features needed or gaps in the system were remedied through university software development and customizations. This once standard practice in IT now creates barriers to our ability to be flexible in response to changing business requirements and advances in technology, take full advantage of vendor upgrades and new features, and provide an intuitive and modern user experience for students, faculty and staff who use the system.

Virginia Tech will switch from an on-premise ERP to a cloud-based system, starting with the student information system (HokieSPA). HokieSPA will be replaced with My Virginia Tech (my.vt.edu).

Frequently asked questions and informational material will be published on this site as they become available.

Benefits

The new system will provide many benefits for students and teaching faculty, the most significant of which include:

• Modernized for a better user experience
• Personalized student experience
• Consistent user interface
• Improved reliability, stability, and performance
• Increased automation of business processes
• Improved analytics and reporting
• Unified data
• Enhanced security and disaster recovery.

Goals

1. Provide a stable, effective, flexible, and scalable cloud-based student information system solution that together with Virginia Tech’s current Banner finance and HR applications provides a unified, cohesive, and performant solution set.
2. Deliver new features and streamlined processes beneficial to students and faculty: standardized curriculum, course program of study, personalized student experience, unified data.
3. Improve system reliability and stability, and enhance security and disaster recovery, of the student information system.
4. Establish a governance structure to oversee the implementation process, ensuring effective project and change management, stakeholder engagement, incorporation of Enterprise Architecture principles and practices, and outcomes aligned with strategic directions.

Contact

For more information, contact the ERP team at AskERP@vt.edu.