Essex County College Selects OculusIT for Banner® Migration to OCI Cloud

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, July 6, 2023 – Essex County College, a public community college located in Newark, New Jersey, has expanded its relationship with OculusIT, a leading IT managed services provider for higher education, to include Banner® migration services to the Oracle Cloud. This strategic partnership aims to streamline and enhance the college’s administrative processes, creating a seamless transition to the latest Banner® platform. Through remote services, Essex County College will harness the power of the cloud to minimize disruptions to their daily operations, reduce their overall costs, and secure a more efficient ERP migration process.

OculusIT brings years of experience in delivering comprehensive managed IT solutions designed exclusively for higher education. With a deep understanding of ERP systems – including Ellucian Banner® — and expertise in cloud technologies, OculusIT was the ideal choice for Essex County College’s migration needs.

Currently, OculusIT provides Essex County College with ERP Managed Services, OculusIT Easy Access – higher education’s complete Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution, and Active Directory Managed Services.

“We are honored to continue expanding our relationship with Essex County College. OculusIT is committed to delivering exceptional services that empower Essex County College to excel, driving student and institutional success,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT. “We are confident that this partnership will result in a smooth transition to the latest Banner® platform and significantly improve the institution’s administrative operations.”

OculusIT offers robust Managed ERP Services for higher education, including migration to the cloud, installation, cloud hosting, security audits, programming, and more. With deep expertise in multiple campus platforms, institutions look to OculusIT to ensure enterprise systems are operating at maximum efficiency with streamlined processes to give their institution a competitive edge.

Established in 1968, Essex County College is a public community college in Essex County, New Jersey. The college offers degree programs in more than 50 different majors along with 26 academic certificate programs. Approximately 25,000 students enroll at Essex County College every year to pursue various degree and non-degree programs. For further information, please visit www.essex.edu.

OculusIT is a global, all-inclusive managed IT, security, and cloud services company dedicated to serving the education industry. Our strategy is to offer the most cost-effective and responsive partnership that provides flexibility and nimbleness in response to economic changes and directly contributes to higher education’s ability to provide and maintain the highest quality IT services. OculusIT grows with you, adapts to you, and ensures consistency and continuity of service with a partnership, service philosophy, and cost savings unparalleled in the higher education IT services domain. Learn more at www.oculusit.com.