Case Study: George Mason University achieves total integration and reliable automated processing with Automic

Automic Earns High Honors for GMU Workload Automation

George Mason University, founded in 1972 and the largest four‑year college in Virginia with nearly 30,000 students, faced a disconnected IT landscape after adopting Banner by Ellucian. Because Banner lacked automated scheduling, the Registrar, Fiscal Services and Financial Aid offices were burdened with labor‑intensive, overnight and term‑start manual processing—including managing aid distribution for nearly 15,000 students—creating integration and scalability challenges.

Automic delivered calendar‑ and event‑driven workload automation with out‑of‑the‑box Banner integration, enabling GMU to automate almost every routine Banner task, handle up to three semesters concurrently, and run backlog jobs on weekends. The deployment produced reliable, integrated processing with granular role‑based security, faster automated output delivery, reduced human intervention (saving up to an hour per day in Fiscal Services), fewer data errors, and freed staff resources.

George Mason University

Laurie Miller

Director, Registrar’s Information Technology