Frank

Early next year we’ll be releasing an updated look for Stratum.

I thought I’d post a quick preview of some of the look and feel changes we’ve made. There are many other new features to go along with some of the visual changes we’ve made. There’s more info coming out. Many of you may of seen some of this in a product update, if you’ve not had a…[Read more]

Adding a dashboard as a home page is now even easier in Stratum with the new Dashboarding features in 7.1. But users might not want the easily accessed Favorite and Recent window to pop up when Stratum starts since it can block the view of their dashboard.

Users can decide if they want the Favorite and Recent window to display at start up.…[Read more]

This is possible in the latest version. The business case for combining two dashboards into one that I’m aware of is:
DB1 is a dashboard that is company level and common to everyone.
DB2 is specific to the users area of responsibility – Sales, Supply Chain, Fin, Prod, etc. or unique to that user.

So…first you create the base DB’s (DB1 and DB2…[Read more]

When you filter a measure in Stratum there are 3 different types of Top counts – what are they and why have them?

Good questions we got from a customer. BTW if you didn’t get our survey on our education let us know at info@silvon.com and we’ll send a link so we can get your feedback. If you did get the survey and respond thanks! If you didn’t…[Read more]

With the updated dashboarding features of Stratum this question is more pertinent than ever.

We’ll start with some basic suggestions and we can go from there.

We’ll start with the easiest idea. One of the things we’ve seen is that customers simply want to put 2 or 3 of their most often used views, or those that they come in and look at…[Read more]

Stratum provides predefined calcs that can help out if you want to use either the total for a measure or the subtotal amount. To use the total there is a specific calc function you can use in the Stratum Viewer Functions. For the subtotal you can back into the subtotal amount from the Stratum provided % of Subtotal function. I’ve included a…[Read more]

Do invalid users and users that are marked disabled cause an impact on performance?

Not anymore! Previous versions (prior to 7.1 I think) users that were marked disabled were still processed in the post process authority (role) processing. If a user was no longer a valid user, say they had left the company and their user id was no longer valid,…[Read more]

Most importantly I hope this finds everyone doing well. You may have some time on your hands right now and it’s a perfect time to learn more about Stratum. There are some great resources you can take advantage of that are easily available. So break out the popcorn and tune in for some edge of your seat Stratum video learning!

You can find the…[Read more]

Here’s an example of a view that shows inventory that is ‘dead’ or not moving based on 2 different business rules.

A couple of things:
1. The view only shows me my dead stock which we’ve defined as – Anything that has averaged less than 100 units moved in the last 13 weeks, or anything that has 0 movement in the last 4 weeks. Of course you…[Read more]

Just want to add a simple calc – the difference between a couple of columns.
This is easy to do in Stratum via the Add Calculated Measure window.

1st just a little terminology – in Stratum the numbers that you report – things like Sales Amount, Units, Inv. Qty, Budget Amount, PO Qty etc are called Measures. When you want to add a calculation…[Read more]

Using the new view search feature (V7.1) or in View maintenance in the Admin group at the top right of the display is the search field – to the left of that is a drop down with Active, Inactive and All. What is Inactive vs. Active?

Got this from a customer after a Stratum Product Briefing (if you’ve not had one yet contact us and we’ll give you…[Read more]

Can I change the tab name in the browser for Stratum? – Simple answer is Yes! This question comes up from time to time. A couple of scenarios usually bring it up.
1. – You don’t call Stratum – Stratum – you call it Silvon or something else
2. – You’be got multiple instances of Stratum – Production, Dev etc.

You can control what the browser…[Read more]

I’m using a YTD date range of January (or the start of your Fiscal year..) to Previous Month so we see only the closed months of data as we move thru the year. What happens in the first month of the year? ‘January to Previous Month’ – this would be Jan This Year to Dec of Last year which shows up in Stratum as an invalid date range (as it…[Read more]