10 Best Student Information System, Higher Education, 2026: Ellucian Banner and Anthology, Workday Student, Oracle PeopleSoft and Slate Integration Picks

If you built integrations around Anthology Student or PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, recent changes give you good reason to check them again. Anthology's SIS and ERP business now belongs to Ellucian, Oracle describes a migration path from PeopleSoft to its cloud product, and admissions teams on Slate or Salesforce still need a dependable feed into the student record. Every change at the SIS layer ripples out to your CRM, LMS, payments and identity systems.

This list helps you pick a platform whose integrations you can rely on. You'll find ten options, from ERP suites to specialists, with Full Fabric first for Salesforce, Dynamics and HubSpot connectivity.

What to Check in an SIS Integration Layer

Start with the data model. If admissions, CRM and the student record share one model, you'll have fewer integrations to maintain in the first place.

Then read the API documentation yourself. You want published rate limits, clear authentication options and coverage of the entities you actually use, such as applicants, programmes, enrolments and payments. Ask whether webhooks are available, because event notifications let your other systems react immediately instead of polling.

Check identity next. SAML 2.0 single sign-on, or an equivalent, saves your service desk a great deal of password work.

Look at payments and documents. Native links to providers such as Stripe or Flywire, and to e-signature tools, cut manual reconciliation.

If you run Slate, ask each vendor exactly how admitted students reach the SIS, and get the answer in writing. Finally, confirm you can export all your data. You'll need it for analytics, and you'll need it if you ever leave.

1. Full Fabric

Full Fabric gives your developers a public API reference and developer resources, with a REST API allowing 5,000 requests per hour, webhooks for event notifications and SAML 2.0 SSO. You get the building blocks for automation documented up front, not negotiated later.

You also get ready-made two-way sync with HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce, a link to UCAS, and payment processing via Flywire, Stripe, Adumo or PayPal. You can also connect DocuSign, PandaDoc and Turnitin, link Canvas and Blackboard through the API, and push data to SITS by API or CSV.

Since recruitment, applications, payments and student records already live in a single shared model, a lot of the plumbing you'd normally commission never has to be built. You'll pay a €12,000 per year platform fee plus usage-based modules. Finance and HR stay outside the platform, so plan for those connections separately. If you're a Slate institution, note that Full Fabric publishes its own comparison with Slate and positions its CRM and admissions as a replacement rather than a partner, so decide early if you want to keep Slate or consolidate. The AI Console is disabled by default, which gives your data protection team control over when it is switched on.

2. Jenzabar One

Jenzabar describes One as an integrated ecosystem of cloud ERP, SIS and point solutions on a single system of record. If you're a US private college, that means fewer joins to manage between your student, financial aid, finance and HR data.

Communications, data analytics and automated workflows run inside the same environment, and the Campus Marketplace adds commerce. For students, that means messages, payments and records come from one place; for your IT team, it means fewer vendors to coordinate when something changes. Flexible and recurring payment plans are built into Jenzabar Finance rather than bolted on.

API details aren't stated on the pages reviewed, so ask about external connections, especially to a CRM like Slate, before you commit. Request a list of existing customer integrations, since that shows what has already been built and supported in practice. UK and European reporting isn't mentioned.

3. Oracle Student and PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

If you're on PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2, Oracle's blueprint describes integrating with the cloud Student Financial Planning application first, then moving to Oracle Student. That staged route lets you modernise financial aid before you touch the core record.

Oracle Student sits beside Oracle Cloud ERP and HCM, so student, finance and HR data stay inside one vendor's cloud. Dynamic entities let you model consortia and multi-institution degrees without reimplementation.

External API details aren't stated in the documents reviewed, and the material is US-oriented. Pricing isn't published. If you're working with a partner institution on joint programmes, ask Oracle how those shared records are exposed to external systems such as a partner's CRM.

4. Classe365

Classe365 publishes public API documentation alongside its modular pricing. If you have a small technical team, you can wire up other tools without a services contract.

The product already combines SIS records, an LMS, CRM and admissions forms, fees and online payments, so you may need fewer external systems in the first place. Parent and student portals and mobile apps are part of the package, and degree audit is included without an extra system. Add-on modules carry unlimited students, so connecting a growing LMS user base won't change your module bill.

You'll pay by Core student numbers plus add-on activations, with 10% off annual renewals. National reporting isn't mentioned, so check that first if you file returns.

5. Ellucian

For developers, Ellucian exposes two families of interface, REST and business process APIs, and its Ethos layer standardises data as it moves between products. If your institution is standardised on Microsoft, you'll want to know that Ellucian's own CRM products now run on Microsoft's Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

Anthology Student customers should know Ellucian says it will continue to deliver and maintain Anthology's existing systems. Ask for the integration roadmap in writing, since no convergence plan across Banner, Colleague and Anthology Student has been published.

Student aid processing, degree planning and early alerts all sit within the same Ellucian Student portfolio. A partner catalogue lists third-party connections, and Ellucian Experience provides a central workspace for staff and students. Reporting and analytics, process automation and document management round out the platform layer, so many of the jobs you'd otherwise integrate a third-party tool for are available in-house.

6. TechnologyOne OneEducation

TechnologyOne reduces your integration count by putting student management, financials, HR and payroll on one data model. You trade connectors for consolidation.

An Enterprise App Store and App Builder let you extend the suite, the DxP Student portal gives learners one front door, and the SaaS+ fee includes implementation, support and upgrades.

You won't find API specifics on the pages reviewed, and the suite is only sold in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Curriculum management from the CourseLoop acquisition, timetabling and exam management are part of the same suite, which helps your timetable and student record stay in step. Standard support is included in the fee, with premium options available.

7. Tribal SITS

Tribal SITS includes much of the UK admissions and registry stack in one product: an online admissions portal, campaign management, Clearing on the Web, student finance and statutory returns for HESA, OfS, SLC and Graduate Outcomes. For a UK university, that reduces the number of systems you need to connect.

Global payments let students pay in their own currency, and university apps extend the student experience.

API details and deployment model aren't stated on the page reviewed, so ask Tribal directly how SITS exchanges data with your CRM and LMS. Its Trust portal is the place to request security documentation before you share any data. Independent providers are directed to EBS. Retention tools for engagement tracking and absence management sit inside SITS too, so you won't need a separate analytics feed for those.

8. Workday Student

If you already run Workday, your student, finance and people data already share a platform. That removes the hardest integration job before you start. Student Records, Advising, the student experience and Student Financials all read from that shared data.

For anything outside that core, Workday points you to its integration and extension tools, the Extend app platform, Data Cloud and a partner marketplace. If your admissions team runs Slate or another external CRM, ask Workday which integration route it recommends and who maintains it.

External CRM connectors aren't named on the overview pages, and Workday cautions that unreleased features may change. Pricing comes through sales, so ask for integration costs to be itemised in the quote. Named users such as Deakin and the University of Queensland show the platform at scale, and embedded analytics give your planning team one view across students, staff and budgets.

9. Classter

Classter names more than 40 integrations, including Office 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace and HubSpot, plus an open API. If your tools are mainstream, there's a good chance a connection already exists.

Modules cover admissions, academics and LMS, billing and payments, and HR, priced per active student by module.

National higher education reporting isn't mentioned, and the platform serves schools as well as colleges. Support runs through a Freshdesk portal and knowledge base, and a public changelog shows what's been released. Classter also sells audits, migration and hosting as services if you'd rather not run the integrations yourself.

10. Thesis SM

Thesis SM's G-Cloud listing says its open APIs can write as well as read nearly every record type, and you can authenticate with OAuth or a username and password. Every piece of data can leave as CSV, so you're never locked in.

UK statutory support covers HESA and HESES, ILR, UniStats and UKVI, and Canadian institutions get T2202 tax forms. Standard, ad hoc and user-defined reporting means you can build many outputs inside the system instead of exporting data to another tool.

No CRM connectors are named, so plan to build them on the APIs. Implementation runs 12 to 24 months, so schedule your integration work to finish with the core migration rather than after it. Custom workflows with email automation let you encode your own business rules without development work.

Integration at a Glance

Conclusion

Your best SIS for integration depends on which system sits at the centre of your estate. If it's a CRM such as Salesforce, Dynamics or HubSpot, Full Fabric is the strongest pick, with bidirectional connectors, a documented API and a unified record that removes many integrations altogether. If it's Workday or Oracle, stay inside that estate. Ellucian suits Microsoft-aligned North American institutions, and Classter or Classe365 give smaller providers useful connections at a visible price.