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Client: 25,000-student public university

Challenge: Legacy batch enrollment inside Ellucian Colleague Student System could not cope with same-day course add/drop traffic.

Solution: Two Smartbrain.io augmented Java engineers built an event-driven enrollment microservice using Spring Boot and Kafka, interfacing with Colleague via REST. Parallel workstreams let in-house staff focus on UX while our team handled backend logic.

Result: 67 % latency reduction during peak registration, zero downtime, and a 40 % drop in support tickets.

Client: 8-campus private college network

Challenge: The Ellucian Colleague Student System tuition module produced inconsistent ledger entries, delaying monthly closes.

Solution: Three senior Java architects from Smartbrain.io rewrote the billing logic in a clean hexagonal architecture, added JUnit 5 coverage, and implemented real-time validation APIs.

Result: Closing process shortened from 9 days to 36 hours, with reconciliation errors falling by 92 %.

Client: Government-funded science institute

Challenge: Decision makers lacked quick visibility because Ellucian Colleague Student System reports ran overnight.

Solution: A blended team—one in-house BI analyst and two Smartbrain.io Java engineers—implemented a streaming ETL pipeline using Spring Cloud Stream to feed a React dashboard every five minutes.

Result: Grant allocation decisions accelerated by 4×, and infrastructure costs fell 28 % through optimised JVM tuning.