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SIS migrationMoving to Innealla

Moving to Innealla from your SIS.

Whether you run Banner, SITS, Quercus, Colleague or a patchwork of spreadsheets, we migrate the student record into Innealla with a fixed-price discovery, a parallel run and a cutover timed to your academic calendar.

Live in under two monthsWritten rollback planIntegrations on day one

Moving from  Banner · SITS · Quercus · Colleague · Spreadsheets

What you get

Your student record, imported and reconciled, in a system built for Irish and UK colleges.

One student record from application to transcript, a fixed-price migration that imports your existing data, and a supplier you can actually talk to. Your current system stays the source of truth until cutover, and we prove the numbers before anyone switches off the old login.

What Innealla does →
Student 360 in Innealla: enrolment, results, attendance and fees for one student
Student 360 in Innealla: enrolment, results, attendance and fees in one record.
Why colleges look at a move

Six pressures we hear about.

None of them is a criticism of the system you have. They are the questions any college asks when a long contract comes up for renewal.

  • 01

    Cost

    Licence, hosting and change requests adding up to more than a smaller college can justify, with little visibility of what the next three years will cost.

  • 02

    Fit

    Irish fee structures, QQI returns, instalment plans and sponsor billing handled through workarounds and spreadsheets beside the system.

  • 03

    Distance

    A large supplier, a ticket queue and a release cycle that does not move at the pace of an academic year.

  • 04

    Integration

    Moodle, CRM, timetabling and finance each holding their own copy of the student, with re-keying in between.

  • 05

    Reporting

    Management asking questions the system cannot answer without a developer or an export to Excel.

  • 06

    AI

    Wanting staff to ask questions of the live student record in plain English, without sending student data to a third party.

Is Innealla the right move?

Who it suits, and when it may not.

It is not the right move for everyone, and we will say so at discovery.

It usually suits

A few hundred to several thousand students, and a system shaped around Irish and UK processes.

Colleges that want a system built for how they work, rather than adapted to it, with Moodle and CRM connected from day one.

  • Private and professional colleges leaving a large enterprise SIS
  • Institutions renewing Banner, SITS, Quercus or Colleague contracts
  • Institutions whose fee, instalment and sponsor processes live in spreadsheets beside the SIS
  • Groups that want one platform with a separate instance per campus or brand
  • Colleges already on Moodle or Salesforce with us who want the student record connected
When it may not

We would rather tell you at discovery than at cutover.

If your estate is outside that shape, discovery will say so plainly. Complex multi-campus estates take longer than the usual two months, and discovery sets that date before you commit to anything.

If your data cannot move cleanly, the grading shows it table by table, with a clear list of what will migrate cleanly and what needs a decision.

Talk to us →
How the move works

A known shape of project, not a leap into the dark.

Most colleges are live in under two months, including a parallel run. The migration itself takes days; your intakes and your sign-off set the calendar.

12 weeks

Discovery

We take a full export, grade every table from A to G, and give you a fixed price for the migration and a go-live date.

  • Export assessment
  • Data graded A to G, table by table
  • Clear list of what migrates cleanly and what needs a decision
  • Fixed price and go-live window before you commit
2Days

AI-assisted migration

Students, programmes, modules, enrolments, results and fees mapped and cleansed in days.

  • Every transformation logged
  • Your data office can audit each step
  • Historic records and transcripts kept
3Agreed period

Parallel run

Innealla and your current system side by side, with reconciliation reports your registry and finance teams can check.

  • Reconciliation on students, enrolments and fees
  • Rollback plan written before the parallel run starts
  • Staff trained as part of set-up
4Go-live

Cutover

Timed to your academic calendar, usually between intakes, with a rollback plan agreed in writing.

  • Moodle, CRM, finance and identity reconnected on day one
  • Old login switched off only once the numbers match

Your current system stays the source of truth until cutover. We prove the numbers before anyone switches off the old login, and if something does not match, the written rollback plan says exactly what happens next.

Start with discovery →
What carries over

Your history comes with you.

Everything a registry relies on has a home in Innealla, and discovery tells you exactly how clean yours is before it moves.

StudentsApplicantsProgrammesModulesEnrolmentsResultsAwardsFee history

Historic records and transcripts

Historic enrolments, results and awards come across, so transcripts can be produced from Innealla for past students.

Documents

Where the old system holds documents, we migrate them to the student’s record or keep a read-only archive, whichever you prefer.

Integrations rebuilt within the fixed price

Our Moodle plugin, the Salesforce managed app or Zoho connector, and GL and payment exports to your finance system are rebuilt on the Integration Hub as part of the fixed price. Anything bespoke is scoped at discovery.

The Innealla dashboard: applications, enrolments and fees in one place
The Innealla dashboard on day one: applications, enrolments and fees in one place.
Pricing

A small college pays a small college’s price.

Innealla is a hosted subscription banded by student numbers. At discovery we put the figures beside your current licence, hosting and support costs, so the comparison is on paper, not in a sales pitch.

  • Banded by studentsHosted subscription priced to your student numbers
  • Fixed set-upSet-up and migration at a fixed price agreed at discovery
  • Rate held 24 monthsYour subscription rate is held for 24 months
  • Integrations includedMoodle, CRM and finance connectors rebuilt within the fixed price
Discuss pricing →
Fees and invoicing in Innealla
Fees and invoicing in Innealla.
Where you’re moving from

The same playbook, for the system you run today.

Each route has its own page, with the specifics for that system. On TSM or Thesis? See that route →

Moving from

Banner

Ellucian

For colleges approaching a Banner renewal. Your Banner data imported and reconciled, with Banner and Innealla side by side during the parallel run.

Banner to Innealla →
Moving from

SITS

Tribal

For colleges approaching a SITS renewal. Your SITS data imported and reconciled into a system built for Irish colleges.

SITS to Innealla →
Moving from

Quercus

Long used in Irish institutions

For colleges approaching a Quercus renewal. A fixed-price migration that imports your Quercus data, live in under two months.

Quercus to Innealla →
Moving from

Colleague

Ellucian

For colleges approaching a Colleague renewal. Your Colleague data imported and reconciled, with integrations rebuilt on day one.

Colleague to Innealla →
Moving from

Spreadsheets

Your first SIS

Excel, Access and a shared drive. Your spreadsheets are the migration source, taken as they are.

Spreadsheets to SIS →

Your spreadsheets are the migration source. We take them as they are, not as you wish they were.

One student record, live in under two months for most colleges, on a subscription banded by student numbers.

Moving from spreadsheets

The signs it is time.

Spreadsheets are the right tool for a college of fifty students. Colleges usually know they have outgrown them well before they do anything about it, because the people who hold them together are too busy to stop.

  • 01The same student exists in four files, with four spellings of their name and three different fee balances
  • 02One person knows how the results spreadsheet works, and they are on leave in results week
  • 03QQI returns, transcripts and award letters are assembled by hand, every time
  • 04Students email to ask for their timetable, their balance or a letter, and someone looks it up
  • 05Moodle enrolments are keyed in by hand from the enrolment sheet, and lag by days
  • 06Management cannot get a number for enrolments or fees owed without a day of work
  • Taken as they are

    Send us the files. Discovery grades every sheet from A to G, so you see exactly where the gaps and duplicates are.

  • Cleaned with every decision logged

    The migration de-duplicates students, reconciles fee balances and maps programmes and results into one record. Nothing loads until your team has checked the reconciliation.

  • Configured, not coded

    Programmes, intakes, fee matrices and award rules are set up in screens, not code. Training is part of set-up, and our service desk is there afterwards.

The AI brain

An AI brain, on your terms.

Innealla is built with AI running through it, not bolted on. Staff ask it questions and tell it to do things in plain English, and it works against the live student record within the permissions that person already has.

  • Early alerts on students at risk, drawn from attendance, grades and fees together
  • Runs on a model hosted by Inneall in Ireland, so your student data never leaves our platform and there is no per-token bill from a third party
  • Optionally bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic keys for the tasks or hours you choose, so you control the cost model
  • Every request and every action is logged against the person who made it
How we approach AI for colleges →
Integration Hub

Every connector reconnected, on day one.

Innealla owns the student record and the Integration Hub connects it to everything else a college runs. Enrolments, courses and CRM applications are reconnected as part of cutover, not as a later project. We build connectors for a living, so if one is missing we add it.

  • Moodle

    Our plugin provisions courses, cohorts and enrolments from the curriculum and keeps grades and announcements in step

  • Salesforce

    A managed app we built, so applications and cases flow into the student record without re-keying

  • Zoho

    The same, for colleges on Zoho CRM

  • Finance

    GL journal export to your accounts system, payment providers, sponsor billing

  • CAO, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace

    Plus email and SMS

  • Timetabling

    In the core; an existing Celcat export imports for cutover

See our integrations →
The Integration Hub in Innealla
The Integration Hub in Innealla.
Insight

Moving off Banner, SITS or Quercus: what a SIS migration involves

What to expect through discovery, data grading, parallel run and cutover, and who this kind of migration suits.

Read the article →
Case study

A technology partnership at the heart of DBS’s digital ambition

Dublin Business School, whose Moodle estate we build, integrate and operate.

Read the case study →
FAQ

Questions about moving.

Something else? Talk to us about your system.

Which systems can you migrate from?

We regularly plan moves from Ellucian Banner, Tribal SITS, Quercus, Ellucian Colleague and spreadsheet-led operations. If yours is not on that list, discovery still grades the export and tells you what is possible.

How long does a migration take?

Most colleges are live in under two months from the start of discovery, including a parallel run. The migration itself is AI-assisted and measured in days; the calendar is set by your intakes and your sign-off, not by the tooling. Complex multi-campus estates take longer, and discovery sets the date before you commit.

Will we lose historic records or transcripts?

No. Historic enrolments, results and awards come across so transcripts can be produced from Innealla for past students. Where the old system holds documents, we migrate them to the student’s record or keep a read-only archive, whichever you prefer.

What happens to our Moodle, CRM and finance integrations?

They are rebuilt on the Integration Hub as part of the fixed price: our Moodle plugin, the Salesforce managed app or Zoho connector, and GL and payment exports to your finance system. Anything bespoke is scoped at discovery.

How does the cost compare?

Innealla is a hosted subscription banded by student numbers, so a smaller college pays a price set for its size. Set-up and migration are a fixed price agreed at discovery, and your rate is held for 24 months. We put the figures beside your current licence, hosting and support costs.

Our data is messy. Is that a problem?

It is normal. Discovery grades every table from A to G so you see exactly where the gaps and duplicates are, and the migration tooling de-duplicates students and reconciles balances with every decision logged. Nothing is loaded until your team has checked the reconciliation.

Will our staff need to be technical?

No. Programmes, fee matrices and award rules are configured in screens, not code, and the AI brain lets staff ask questions and give instructions in plain English. Training is part of the set-up, and our service desk is there afterwards.

Can students see their own information?

Yes. The student portal and the branded mobile app give students their timetable, results, fee balance, documents and re-enrolment, which takes the lookup emails off your admissions and finance teams.

What is the first step?

A fixed-price Innealla Discovery. You get a graded assessment of your data, a migration price and a go-live window before anything is committed.

Start here

Two weeks to know exactly what a move costs.

Book an Innealla Discovery: your data graded from A to G, a fixed migration price and a go-live date, before anything is committed.

Your student record, imported and reconciled,
in a system built for Irish and UK colleges

Innealla student 360 report showing enrolment, academic performance, attendance and fees for one student

Why colleges look at a move

Most conversations start with one of a handful of pressures. None of them is a criticism of the system you have; they are the questions any college asks when a long contract comes up for renewal.

  • Cost: licence, hosting and change requests adding up to more than a smaller college can justify, with little visibility of what the next three years will cost
  • Fit: Irish fee structures, QQI returns, instalment plans and sponsor billing handled through workarounds and spreadsheets beside the system
  • Distance: a large supplier, a ticket queue and a release cycle that does not move at the pace of an academic year
  • Integration: Moodle, CRM, timetabling and finance each holding their own copy of the student, with re-keying in between
  • Reporting: management asking questions the system cannot answer without a developer or an export to Excel
  • AI: wanting staff to ask questions of the live student record in plain English, without sending student data to a third party
What Innealla does

How the move works

Every SIS migration follows the same shape. We treat your current system as the source of truth until cutover, and we prove the numbers before anyone switches off the old login.

  • Two-week discovery: export assessment, fixed price and go-live date
  • AI-assisted migration: students, programmes, enrolments, results and fees mapped with every transformation logged
  • Parallel run with reconciliation reports your registry and finance teams can check
  • Cutover timed between intakes, with a written rollback plan
  • Moodle, CRM, finance and identity reconnected through the Integration Hub on day one
Start with discovery
Innealla Integration Hub with connectors for Moodle, Salesforce, Zoho, Microsoft 365, CAO, SUSI, HEA and QQI
Staff member using the Innealla student information system with its built-in AI assistant

An AI brain, on your terms

Innealla is built with AI running through it, not bolted on. Staff ask it questions and tell it to do things in plain English, and it works against the live student record within the permissions that person already has.

  • Ask: “Which second-year students on the diploma are below 85% attendance and owe fees?” and get the list, with the figures traced to where they came from
  • Tell: “Set up the September intakes from this spreadsheet” comes back as a preview to approve before anything changes
  • Early alerts on students at risk, drawn from attendance, grades and fees together
  • Runs on a model hosted by Inneall in Ireland, so your student data never leaves our platform and there is no per-token bill from a third party
  • Optionally bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic keys for the tasks or hours you choose, so you control the cost model
  • Every request and every action is logged against the person who made it
How we approach AI for colleges

Is Innealla the right move for you?

It usually is when the student operation is a few hundred to several thousand students and the college wants a system shaped for Ireland and the UK, with Moodle and CRM connected from day one.

  • Private and professional colleges leaving a large enterprise SIS
  • Institutions renewing Banner, SITS, Quercus or Colleague contracts
  • Groups that want one platform with a separate instance per campus or brand
  • Colleges already on Moodle or Salesforce with us who want the student record connected
Talk to us
AI & Intelligent automation

Every connector, through one Integration Hub

Innealla owns the student record and the Integration Hub connects it to everything else a college runs. We build connectors for a living, so if one is missing we add it.

  • Moodle: our Moodle plugin provisions courses, cohorts and enrolments from the curriculum and keeps grades and announcements in step
  • Salesforce: a managed app we built, so applications and cases flow into the student record without re-keying
  • Zoho: the same, for colleges on Zoho CRM
  • Finance: GL journal export to your accounts system, payment providers, sponsor billing
  • CAO applications, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, email and SMS
  • Timetabling is in the core; an existing Celcat export imports for cutover
See our integrations

Frequently Asked Questions

Which systems can you migrate from?
We regularly plan moves from Ellucian Banner, Tribal SITS, Quercus, Ellucian Colleague and spreadsheet-led operations. If yours is not on that list, the discovery still grades the export and tells you what is possible.
How long does a migration take?
Most colleges are live in under two months after discovery, timed to the academic calendar. Complex multi-campus estates take longer; the discovery sets the date before you commit.
Will Moodle and our CRM stay connected?
Yes. Enrolments, courses and CRM applications are reconnected through the Integration Hub as part of cutover, not as a later project.
What is the first step?
A fixed-price Innealla Discovery. You get a graded assessment of your data, a migration price and a go-live window before anything is committed.