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Plenty of good colleges run admissions, enrolments, results and fees on Excel, Access and a shared drive. It works until it does not: a lost file, a formula nobody understands, a QQI return built by hand. Innealla is a cloud student information system built in Ireland that takes those spreadsheets in as its starting point and gives you one student record, live in under two months.
Live in under two monthsWritten rollback planIntegrations on day one
Other routes Banner · SITS · Quercus · Colleague · TSM or Thesis · All SIS migration
One student record from application to transcript, a fixed-price migration that takes your spreadsheets in as its starting point, and a supplier you can actually talk to. The spreadsheets stay the source of truth until cutover, and we prove the numbers before anyone stops using them.
What Innealla does →
It is not the right move for everyone, and we will say so at discovery.
Colleges that want a first system built for how they work rather than a cut-down version of something designed for a university.
If a spreadsheet still holds your operation safely, 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 →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.
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.
Students, programmes, modules, enrolments, results and fees mapped and cleansed in days.
Innealla and your current system side by side, with reconciliation reports your registry and finance teams can check.
Timed to your academic calendar, usually between intakes, with a rollback plan agreed in writing.
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 →Everything a registry relies on has a home in Innealla, and discovery tells you exactly how clean your spreadsheets are before they move.
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.
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.
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.
Each route has its own page, with the specifics for that system. On TSM or Thesis? See that route →
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 →For colleges approaching a SITS renewal. Your SITS data imported and reconciled into a system built for Irish colleges.
SITS to Innealla →For colleges approaching a Quercus renewal. A fixed-price migration that imports your Quercus data, live in under two months.
Quercus to Innealla →For colleges approaching a Colleague renewal. Your Colleague data imported and reconciled, with integrations rebuilt on day one.
Colleague to Innealla →Excel, Access and a shared drive. Your spreadsheets are the migration source, taken as they are.
Spreadsheets to SIS →One student record, live in under two months for most colleges, on a subscription banded by student numbers.
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.
Send us the files. Discovery grades every sheet from A to G, so you see exactly where the gaps and duplicates are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our plugin provisions courses, cohorts and enrolments from the curriculum and keeps grades and announcements in step
A managed app we built, so applications and cases flow into the student record without re-keying
The same, for colleges on Zoho CRM
GL journal export to your accounts system, payment providers, sponsor billing
Plus email and SMS
In the core; an existing Celcat export imports for cutover
What to expect through discovery, data grading, parallel run and cutover, and who this kind of migration suits.
Read the article →Dublin Business School, whose Moodle estate we build, integrate and operate.
Read the case study →It is normal. The discovery grades every sheet 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.
Innealla is a hosted subscription banded by student numbers, so a college with a few hundred students pays a price set for a few hundred students. Set-up is a fixed price agreed at discovery, and your rate is held for 24 months. We will put the figures beside what the spreadsheets are costing you in staff time.
Most colleges are live in under two months from the start of discovery, including a parallel run. The migration itself takes days; the calendar is set by your intakes and your sign-off.
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.
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.
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.
Book an Innealla Discovery: your data graded from A to G, a fixed migration price and a go-live date, before anything is committed.
From a shared drive full of spreadsheets
to one student record, in under two months
Spreadsheets are the right tool for a college of fifty students. The college usually knows it has outgrown them well before it does anything about it, because the people who hold them together are too busy to stop.
Your spreadsheets are the migration source. We take them as they are, not as you wish they were, and the discovery tells you exactly what is in them before anything is committed.
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.
Colleges and training providers that have grown past what a spreadsheet can safely hold, and want a first system that is built for how they work rather than a cut-down version of something designed for a university.
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.