This meeting will provide background on the State Systems Consortium building efforts of the SUNY SICAS Center and the Georgia Board of Regents. It will focus on common issues experienced by users of Banner UDC products in Higher Education State Systems. Updates will be provided on the deployment of the listserv, survey and survey results, and how others can become engaged. This session will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss common challenges and solutions on topics such as release management, multi-institutional functionality, integration with third-party vendors, along with ad hoc topics of interest to the attendees. The goal of this session will be identifying and exploring areas where collaboration adds value, reduces costs, and encourages cooperation. Directors or managers of IT for state systems or coalitions of colleges and system-level IT users are the target attendees.