ESM is an acronym for "Ellucian Solution Manager" is the latest example of Ellucian’s Extensible Ecosystem in action, helps institutions dramatically change how they plan and manage their Banner® by Ellucian product environments, software upgrades, and implementations.

Ellucian Solution Manager provides a centralized view and consistent methodology to download, deliver, install, configure, and manage all solutions. And IT staff can easily choose the upgrades they want to implement and do so with a single click.

A software engineering and systems design principle where the implementation takes future growth into consideration. The term extensibility can also be seen as a systemic measure of the ability to extend a system and the level of effort required to implement the extension.