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.
Banner · SITS · Quercus · Colleague · Spreadsheets
Platforms we run and connect for colleges
Your student record, imported and reconciled,
in a system built for Irish and UK colleges
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
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
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
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
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
How we do things
Partnership, transparency, user-centred design and long-term quality guide every project. Each one runs through the same six stages, so you always know where it stands and who is accountable.
DISCOVER
Audit and workshops
Scope of work
Integration mapping
Risk and dependency analysis
Finalised project plan
Scope of work
Integration mapping
Risk and dependency analysis
Finalised project plan
DESIGN
User experience
Concept proposals
Stakeholder reviews
Design development
Final specifications
Approval to progress
Concept proposals
Stakeholder reviews
Design development
Final specifications
Approval to progress
BUILD
Software development
System integration
Customisations
Content and data migration
Front end interface
System integration
Customisations
Content and data migration
Front end interface
TEST
Functional and user acceptance testing
Browser/app performance testing
Accessibility
System and security
Browser/app performance testing
Accessibility
System and security
DEPLOY
Training
Final configuration and domain go-live
Hypercare in the first weeks
Bug-fix support
Handover to support
Final configuration and domain go-live
Hypercare in the first weeks
Bug-fix support
Handover to support
SUPPORT
Tailored service level agreements
Responsive support
Planned maintenance
Quality control
Performance tuning
Responsive support
Planned maintenance
Quality control
Performance tuning
We love API environments
and the challenge of integration
We’ve integrated systems others refused to touch!
“Inneall’s impact on our ability to deliver reliable, scalable technology has been absolutely enormous. What sets them apart is their deep knowledge of our business, they understand our systems, our teams, and our priorities. That means we’re not dealing with a technology supplier; we’re working with a partner who genuinely cares about getting it right.”
Edward Ormonde
Head of IT, Dublin Business School
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.