Digital Applications & Solutions

The overarching role of IT governance is to provide strategic oversight and guidance around IT matters. It provides the framework of processes and structures that ensures the effective and efficient use of information technology.
Significant goals of the current IT governance structure include better aligning IT infrastructure and services with the university’s mission and business while making it more efficient and better differentiating the work of operational and advisory groups from the governance-related structure.

The Enterprise Applications team is a transformational step in the evolution of enterprise level systems and solutions at PVAMU. Our group of talented functional experts, business analysts, and technical professionals is a truly cross-functional team united to break down traditional organizational silos and develop customer focused, sustainable enterprise level systems. We empower our team members with the latest tools, a new culture, and needed resources while striving to meet user needs in everything we do.

Banner is the university’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, which is a fancy way of saying it’s the centralized system that PV uses to support the business of running the university. Everything from awarding financial aid, helping a student register for classes or paying the university’s bills is done in Banner.
Banner itself is broken into several modules that roughly correspond with different divisions at Prairie View.

• Banner Student contains student, course and other academic data, and it supports advising, course scheduling, registration, grading and other academic activities at the university.
• Banner Student Accounts Receivable is a subset of Banner Student that we use to track students’ bills for tuition, housing and other fees.
• Banner Financial Aid is what Student Financial Services uses to track the financial aid packages provided to students, manage their scholarships and work-study awards, and provide student financial reports to the federal government.

Banner® 9 by Ellucian is a major modernization to the university’s primary administrative information systems. It delivers a fresh user experience, many new tools, and significantly improved capabilities across all Banner components. Banner 9 eliminates the existing web browser restrictions and will be accessible on mobile devices.

What do students want most from their college mobile app?
1. Convenience
2. Ease of use
3. Improved campus experience
4. One-stop shop
5. Seamless, cross-device integration
6. Secure Data
7. Single Sign-On

PV Mobile 2.0 Coming July, 2023

PVAMU has partnered with NextGen Web Solution to provide the campus community with a tool for creating digital forms. Their product Dynamic Forms is a cloud-based forms system that provides a simple, effective way for end users to create web-based forms for data collection and electronic signatures.

Our team is passionate about designing best fit applications and integration solutions that eliminate the hassle and enable the hustle for our users and customers.

On the front-end, this team builds human-centered mobile and web applications for students, staff, and faculty of Prairie View A&M University. Behind the scenes, they bring together disparate systems. Building data integration pipelines for efficient transfer and integration of ERP data, they keep critical systems operational. They also lead the day-to-day technical operations of the enterprise Event Management System.

The Integration Services team consists of creative technologists who believe in collaborative decisions and delivering the best experience to customers through products and support services.