INSIGHT Web-Based Education (On Demand)
INSIGHT Recordings
Broadcast Manager — Automating Stratum Report Delivery & Alerts 2023-05-18
This INSIGHT class covers all of the steps you need to easily deliver Stratum reports and alerts to key users throughout your business. We show you how to distribute views via email and file share and the most optimal way to build alerts in Stratum that notify folks about business events that require their attention. In addition, we discuss and show you some of our newest features in Stratum 7.4 for managing broadcast actions.
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Building Graphical Dashboards in Stratum – Best Practices 2023-05-04
We invite you to tune into this session and discover the new charting features offered in Stratum Dashboards. During the class we highlight several ways to visually showcase your data using gauges and a variety of other charting options. We offer up some best practices relative to what’s too much or too little when it comes to charting your data. We show you how to structure your charts so you can easily jump to views to see the underlying detail, and so much more!
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Stratum ‐ View Building Workshop 2023-04-20
Join us during this beginner-level, step-by-step session to discover proven best practices for building your own Stratum views. During the class, we start off with view building fundamentals and cosmetics and progress to a number of ways in which you can create Stratum views with a business purpose.
Stratum Financial Analysis Review 2023-02-23
Tune into this session to learn how the Financial analytics within Stratum can be used to drive a consensus-based budgeting and planning process for your business; foster improved management of budgets and expenses; and link financial reports with your operational performance metrics. You’ll also learn how to use the new Excel Add–In to pull Stratum data into your financial reports, charts and dashboards and automatically refresh that data once your financial reports and visuals have been created.
Connecting to Stratum with Excel & Power BI 2023-02-09
If you use Power BI for building visual dashboards and Excel for creating sales and other plans, we invite you to tune into this session! During it, we take you step–by–step through the process of creating and displaying drill–through visualizations of Stratum data within a Power BI report. You’ll also see how easy it is to request information from Stratum when working on your sales plans and budgets in Excel … and then push updated plan and budget information back into the Stratum data hub. The ultimate focus of this session will be on how to build the right views for both the Power BI and Excel connectors.
Importing Sales Plans & Other Data Into Stratum 2022-12-01
This information-packed session is geared toward power users and analysts looking to bring their own data into Stratum for the purpose of analysis. During the class, we show you how you can use the Stratum Data Import facility to import and update planning and cost data from spreadsheets. We also show you how you can easily maintain and update Master File attributes about products, locations, product classes, etc. in your Stratum reports and as drill-down dimensions in your Stratum views.
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Broadcast Manager — Automating Stratum Report Delivery & Alerts 2023-05-18
This INSIGHT class covers all of the steps you need to easily deliver Stratum reports and alerts to key users throughout your business. We show you how to distribute views via email and file share and the most optimal way to build alerts in Stratum that notify folks about business events that require their attention. In addition, we discuss and show you some of our newest features in Stratum 7.4 for managing broadcast actions.
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Broadcast Manager: Automating Stratum Report Delivery & Alerts 2022-08-25
This INSIGHT class covers all of the steps you need to easily deliver Stratum reports and alerts to key users throughout your business. We show you how to distribute views via email and file share and the most optimal way to build alerts in Stratum that notify folks about business events that require their attention. In addition, we discuss and show you some of our newest features in Stratum 7.4 for managing broadcast actions.
View the Broadcast Manager: Automating Stratum Report Delivery & Alerts Video
Building Graphical Dashboards in Stratum – Best Practices 2023-05-04
We invite you to tune into this session and discover the new charting features offered in Stratum Dashboards. During the class we highlight several ways to visually showcase your data using gauges and a variety of other charting options. We offer up some best practices relative to what’s too much or too little when it comes to charting your data. We show you how to structure your charts so you can easily jump to views to see the underlying detail, and so much more!
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Tips & Tricks for Making Your Data Stand Out in Stratum 2023-01-26
During this session we dive into some of the “cosmetic” features of Stratum that you may not be well versed with but that can make a dramatic impact in how your Stratum data “looks” from a visual perspective. Some of the features that we cover in this class include the use of conditional formatting, coloring, data grids and other visualization options to help you make the data you want to emphasize in your views and reports visually stand out from the rest.
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Stratum Dashboarding & Charting 2022-11-17
Tune into this session and discover the new charting features offered in Stratum Dashboards. During the class we show you how you can take advance of Stratum’s dashboard designer to visually showcase your data using gauges and a variety of other charting options. We offer up some best practices relative to what’s too much or too little when it comes to charting your data. We show you how to structure your charts so you can easily jump to views to see the underlying detail, and so much more!
Stratum Year-End Maintenance 2022-12-15
Make sure your Stratum environment is ready for the new year by tuning into this session! We walk through the items to verify so you are ready for 2023, including new tables and calendars for new year review, calculations referencing previous periods, Connector updates, etc. Plus, we offer suggestions for getting your year-end tasks completed as effectively as possible.
Review of Stratum V7.4 2023-01-12
Tune into this session to learn more about our current Stratum V7.4 release, including its new dashboard graphs with links to let you connect to related views for more detail. We discuss the enhancements we’ve made in the Stratum Broadcast Manager for automated report and alert scheduling. In addition, we talk about the integration Silvon is working on with Microsoft Azure AD for those of you who are planning to move your Stratum deployment to the cloud and are interested in how identity and access management can be handled.
Stratum ‐ View Building Workshop 2023-04-20
Join us during this beginner-level, step-by-step session to discover proven best practices for building your own Stratum views. During the class, we start off with view building fundamentals and cosmetics and progress to a number of ways in which you can create Stratum views with a business purpose.
Intro to Stratum Calculations 2023-03-23
This class is a must-see for entry-level users and those simply looking to refresh their skills when it comes to building calculations. During it, we show you how to create various types of common calculations like column difference, percentage calculations and conditional statements, among others. We also show you how to use the pre-defined Stratum functions, member properties and time dimensions to create calculations. Plus, we share ways in which you can use calculations to create Traffic Lights and Status Indicators as part of your views.
Building a View in Stratum – Best Practices 2023-03-09
If you’re new to Stratum or looking for a refresher on some of its core functions, we invite you to tune into this info-packed session! During it, we cover a host of best practices for building Stratum views, starting from building a view from scratch and the effort and thought process involved. Primary elements such as dimensions, measures, time-ranges, filtering and sorting are reviewed. We show how you can control the cosmetic look of your Stratum views using various display options. In addition, we dish up some tips and tricks for navigating your views, so they perform efficiently for you!
Drilling & Filtering in Stratum 2022-10-20
This session is designed for newer Stratum users. During it, we discuss various ways to drill in a Stratum view and how you can take advantage of drill-to views to uncover even more insight from your data. We also talk about subtotaling in Stratum, as well as best practices for applying and working with filter levels, measures, user lists, and other filtering options!
Building Stratum Views – A Focus on Using Business Calculations 2022-09-15
This class is a must-attend for entry-level users and those simply looking to refresh their skills when it comes to building calculations. During it, we provide a step-by-step review of calculation building in Stratum. We show you how to create some common business calculations that you can put to use right away when building your Stratum views. And we discuss and demo some of the functions available in Stratum to make calculation building easier for you.
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Building Stratum Views: A Focus on Time Dimensions 2022-08-11
Tune into this session to learn more about using Stratum’s time dimensions. During it we provide some guidance about when you should use “based” versus “absolute” time in your views, how you can set up trend-style views by month / weeks / days, how to drill in on time within your views, and numerous other tips and tricks related to time-based analysis in Stratum.
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Stratum as a Service 2022-06-09
More and more Silvon customers are moving Stratum to the cloud to offload their IT resources by having Silvon host and manage Stratum for them. During this session, we discuss Stratum’s cloud architecture, the security and access measures that have been put into place for Silvon’s cloud-based clients, and what’s involved to move Stratum to the cloud should you be interested in pursuing this option with us.