Banner is McGill’s core ERP and student information system, supporting all student records and financial data. The Banner Modernization program aims to renew this digital foundation to deliver a more connected and seamless student experience. The transition to Banner 9 modules, an essential enabler for McGill’s broader transformation, is planned across two phases.

• Phase 1 (delivered April 2026): Replaced the INB form replacement to reduce technological risk and debt, produced a detailed fit-gap of current Banner 8 vs Banner 9.
• Phase 2 (in progress): Will progress as the ERP Modernization, which will compromise 3 projects covering strategic areas: Finance, Student and Data.

This project replaces two main integrations:

• Phase 1 (delivered July 2024): Replaced critical integration process for the School of Continuing Studies.
• Phase 2 (in progress): Replacement of eLearning, the Banner Adapter data integration between our main Banner SIS system and our main LMS, myCourses.
  • Release 1 (Summer 2026): Focus on Intelligent Learning Platform (ILP), username change and staff load integrations.
  • Release 2 (Fall 2026): Focus on web course provisioning and new data elements.

This project delivered a University-wide career services management solution that supports career counselling, student and alumni job searches, event management, internship, co-op management, and reporting and analytics. The new solution modernizes career services by improving integrations, mobile and bilingual support, and enabling automation for more efficient workflows and tracking.

Athletics and Recreation plans to implement a new recreation management solution to ensure continuity of services, to meet compliance standards and to provide efficient and improved user experience for clients and administrative users. The project was divided into two phases:

• Phase 1 (delivered April 2026): Successful launch of the new recreation management platform, Fusion, supporting Summer term programs and offerings.
• Phase 2 (target delivery: August 2026 for the Fall term): Configuration of Fall and Winter programs and offerings, as well as camp registration.

A new travel and travel expense management solution was required as the existing tools in the Minerva system (Advances and Expense Reports) were found to be cumbersome, highly manual, and principally paper-driven, providing a substandard user experience. This project implemented and deployed Workday’s Expenses module as the University’s new travel expense management application, which also integrates with the tools (Online Booking Tool, Central Airfare Card, and Individual Travel Corporate Card) that were part of the travel management program at McGill. It is now in hypercare.

The current Facilities Management solution, FAMIS, is built on obsolete technology. FMAS needs to move towards a modern Asset Management solution.

Rollout:

• Release 1 (delivered June 2025): Replaced functionalities of the current solution: Inventory management, work order management, self-service, and procurement processes.
• Release 2 (target delivery: Summer 2026): Will enhance the implemented solution with event and overtime management and enhanced reporting.

University Advancement’s (UA) customer relationship management (CRM) is a critical solution that facilitates stakeholder communications, engagement, relationship management, fundraising, and stewardship. This solution is essential for fundraising and alumni engagement programs, as well as other charitable organizations. The previous CRM was built with software that is nearing the end of its useful life. This project implemented a new CRM (Iris), to improve stakeholder experience with dynamic features that allow UA to automate manual processes and increase productivity while maximizing fundraising and engagement potential.

Rollout:

• Phase 1 (delivered August 2025): Launch of core CRM solution.
• Phase 2 (delivered April 2026): Strengthen the solution to ensure greater stability and scalability, paving the way for long-term success.

This evergreening initiative will replace the existing infrastructure with new firewall hardware that should last at least six years. It will leverage the technology built into new solutions to create new security rules based on the user's device and identity. This will give users better and more secure access to applications and systems. Target delivery: Fall 2026.

The firewall project plan prioritizes the firewalls posing the present highest risks, in the following order:

• Internet Edge (completed Nov 2025)
• Interzone (completed March 2026)
• Data Center (planned May 2026)
• Disaster Recovery Firewall new deployment (planned July 2026)

In addition, a new VPN solution (GlobalProtect) and security enhancement will be implemented (planned Sep 2026).