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Stratum
Cos'è Stratum?
Silvon Software è un fornitore globale di soluzioni software di business intelligence per aziende di produzione e distribuzione all'ingrosso. La suite di soluzioni Stratum di questa azienda consente alle imprese di pianificare, analizzare e gestire le prestazioni operative mediante l'uso di report analitici predefiniti, metriche di KPI, schede di valutazione, dashboard e avvisi sulle prestazioni. La suite Stratum mette a disposizione anche applicazioni integrate per la pianificazione delle vendite, la previsione della domanda e l'ottimizzazione dello stock.
Chi utilizza Stratum?
Organizzazioni di produzione e distribuzione con un fatturato annuo compreso tra 100 milioni e 1 miliardo di $.
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Recensioni su Stratum
Stratum met our reporting requirements... twice
Commenti: Silvon was the only vendor that demoed and met our main reporting requirements (twice... initially when acquiring a reporting tool for users on the iSeries and 7 years later when we re-visited our reporting tools for SQL server). We especially needed criteria like "all these but not those". Stratum allowed our users to write and run their own reports, freeing up IT time for projects. The users love the crosstab reporting! Silvon employees are knowledgeable, friendly and caring. The on-line documentation is full of examples and the help videos are great!
Aspetti positivi:
We love the ability to manipulate the criteria. A primary requirement for us for reporting is give me all these (items, customers, etc.) but exclude these few. User lists allow us to do that!
Aspetti negativi:
We definitely needed Silvon's help to get the tool up and running, but they helped us with the extract, load and processing set-up.
Using Stratum for Numbers Review
Commenti: Stratum is very effective in compiling data and sales numbers for my accounts. I can drill down in many different ways to effectively get the tracings needed to conduct my daily meetings and calls. Sometimes it takes a bit of work to learn how to obtain the information that I am looking for but can always save my progress in order to utilize the report again in the future. I regularly import to Excel in order to manipulate and run totals for my yearly budget.
Aspetti positivi:
The program allows for me to utilize our sales tracings in order to effectively conduct calls and meetings. I can also track my progress and export to Excel in order to prepare for my upcoming days.
Aspetti negativi:
Difficult to get some of the more "funneled" reports and may take time to have the numbers needed but can be saved so work is not all lost. This saved report then can be used in the future.
To be or not to be: Silvon limits or Admin malfunction?
Aspetti positivi:
I like that you can splice and dice data and look at it various ways. If the report set up is done, you can access it quickly at a moments notice in near real time, within a days worth of updates.
Aspetti negativi:
My least favorite aspect of the program is that it does not inform you when you are outside of your authorized limits and cannot perform a function. It needs something else. It just lets you spin and try until you give up or determine it is not in the cards. It's a waste of time and disincentive to exploration. In fairness to Silvon, it it is hard to determine where Silvon's limitations are vs those dictated by administrators.
Stratum Business Intelligence Software
Commenti: Silvon Software has been providing Business Intelligence software before BI became a buzz word!They provide a robust, scalable solution to deliver business insights against any data set.
Aspetti positivi:
I'd have to say that I like the flexibility of the software the most. Insight to Sales, Inventory, Production, Receivables, Payables, General Ledger etc. can be gained by importing data from these applications into Stratum. The software handles 100+ concurrent users.
Aspetti negativi:
I frequently export to MS Office tools for better graphics and annotation capability.
Candle-lite Demand Planning Manager
Commenti:
Overall, I find Stratum easy to use and exceptional to use as I review data at several levels.
However, I struggle with the use of filters. As I drill down to several levels , it still pulls all original data in the fields instead of narrowing the list. I would like to see the filter function replicate the functionality of Excel.
Aspetti positivi:
Ability to drill to several levels and change the hierarchy of the fields.
Aspetti negativi:
The filter and search functions is not user friendly. As I drill down to a certain level, I expect to use the filter and only see values that are in the field I pick. Instead, I see all original values . I would to see the filter function perform similar to Excel.
Silvon is a Helpful Tool
Commenti: I am a financial analyst and monitor sales and GP daily for our business. Without Silvon my job would be very difficult to do efficiently. I have seen the capabilities of competitive software and I am very pleased that we have Silvon. Silvon is one of the most useful and user friendly tools on the market, I highly recommend it.
Aspetti positivi:
User friendliness, ability to build custom views on the fly and regoranize data quickly. This allows my team to get down to identify problem areas of the business.
Aspetti negativi:
Would like a multi sorting ability for columns like excel has.
Excellent customer service / OK software
Commenti:
Customer service on Stratum is top-notch. Questions and service issues are addressed quickly.
The software absolutely does what it says it will do.
The cons are primarily around some of the difficulties of building reports. It is impossible to copy and paste a measure item so it is more labor intensive than it seems like it needs to be to build and alter reports. This is especially bad at the beginning of the year when reports need to be changed.
Overall, I give Stratum 4/5 stars because I am happy with the support and the way the program operates other than the report building.
Aspetti positivi:
Service
Aspetti negativi:
Report building
Sales Reporting at your fingertips!
Commenti: Stratum is a good sales reporting tool and very easy to use. The issue at year end when the tool has January data and you want previous months data, the filters have been corrected to display the data. Previously you would have to set up two reports and have the filters set by year and months. Thank you!
Aspetti positivi:
Easy to use
Aspetti negativi:
Doesn't have data visualization or an impact tool.
Stratum Viewer Survey
Commenti:
I personally love Stratum, and especially Viewer, because of the flexibility setting up reports and its quick response time. the ability to slice and dice the data is endless. The business considers it a very powerful too.
For me, I would like to see two areas changed if possible. The node concept on the attributes is difficult to train on, and adds steps to every filter. If they were designed more like the measures where you can edit them without opening them up to the 2nd node would be wonderful.
Also the verbiage used within the software sometimes isn't very user friendly. Terms such as member list, edit attribute relationships caption expression and format string are not terms that are readily understood or received by new users. I still love it!
Aspetti positivi:
The flexibility of drilling down from year to months, and then back up. Also the ability to drill down on unlimited attributes. Ability to budget within the tool and at any level. The pre-built Stratum expressions in Viewer. The flexibility of inter-changing rows and columns. the ease of creating/applying conditional filters.
Aspetti negativi:
The node concept of attributes, the limitation of pick up fields, the export at size 13 font, the fact that the filters don't export out with the report, the difficulty of adding budget where no history exists,
Long-Time and Very Satisfied Stratum Users
Commenti: We have been using Stratum in its various iterations since the 1990's. Each new version and release has been am improvement of a very fine product. Their support and service rank amoong the highest I have ever dealt with in over 35 years. You can't go wrong by selecting Silvon Software and Stratum.
Aspetti positivi:
Very powerful and flexible
Aspetti negativi:
Slightly complex
Using Stratum for Financial reporting & analysis
Commenti: I find Stratum a useful tool for month-end reporting of sales results and analysis by customers and channels. Even though Stratum was initially bought by our Sales organization for their use, our finance organization is able to use Stratum by tailoring data views that enable us to understand the drivers of our monthly sales including customer pricing. Even though stratum has graphing capabilities, due to our internal presentation requirments we download stratum data to Excel and create our graphs using Excel.
Aspetti positivi:
Ease of use in creating views and downloading to Excel
Aspetti negativi:
Difficulty in using existing views as the year rolls-over to new year. Many existing views do not allow editing to change the year.
Silvon Viewer Review
Commenti: Titan has been a customer of Silvon for 20+ years and still with them because of value for the money. Recently working on moving the solution into a hosting situation to better reflect today's business requirements.
Aspetti positivi:
Ease of use
Aspetti negativi:
not real time data
Stratum Review
Commenti: Stratum consistently meets our needs and when it does not the issue is quickly resolved. It is an easy platform to learn and teach.
Aspetti positivi:
ease of use, multiple selections
Aspetti negativi:
The loading time but it is standard with comparable platforms.
A great analytic software
Commenti: I love all the features of silvon reports. I use this software every single day in my work...the only thing that this reporting software really needs is an undo button because sometimes when building a report if you click something you didn't mean to you have to start over in the report.
Aspetti positivi:
Great reporting, nice graphs, easy to use
Aspetti negativi:
No Undo button
Good bang for your buck
Commenti: The software was setup easily with great support from the company, and managing the software takes a little more work than we thought. However it comes with great features and functions that more than meet our expectations. I would recommend the software but keep in mind it will require a lot of training for the users.
Our experience with the Silvon Product
Aspetti positivi:
I like the fact that the software has grown with the industry and is the outcome of the company listening to it's customers. Silvon has done a good job staying knowledgeable about many niche industries including the fffood industry. They treat their customers like a partner. I always enjoy sharing our challenges and vision for the software and feel their team wants to hear our opinion. The Silvon software has been a great fit for us as we liked the versatility of the software (integration options, calculated fields, virtual dimensions, etc.). The access speed of the cube reporting has been a huge improvement for us as we transitioned from the thick client application.
Aspetti negativi:
Sometimes the software can be challenging to maintain (from the administration side). We are used to supporting our own software, but have looked to Silvon to help us maintain this area.
Powerful tool for data extraction
Aspetti positivi:
Silvon is great for getting reports on demand quickly using company data that in the past had to be handled via pivot tables. Once a view is set up, even the least tech-savvy user can get the information they need in the click of a button. Their folks are attentive and have many ongoing training opportunities for the casual to advanced user.
Aspetti negativi:
My only real complaint is that the formatting component (Planner) does not come standard and is an add-on for an additional fee. As my company did not want to invest in this fee for every user, most everything that comes out of Silvon has to be reformatted in Excel which kills a lot of the time-saving aspect of one button reporting. The coding used is also somewhat convoluted if you're not a programmer.
Gives us what we need
Commenti: Stratum.Viewer provides the data analysis tools that our business needs to run successfully. Most users are happy with the product, and our user base is constantly growing.
Aspetti positivi:
No software loads on PCs
Aspetti negativi:
Amount of time to reload cube
Stratum Review
Commenti: Stratum is a wonderful easy tool to use! All the information you need with a few clicks. Great graphs and pie charts.
Aspetti positivi:
Easy of use.
Aspetti negativi:
Nothing to report.
Very good
Aspetti positivi:
It is a flexible supply chain management software. Inventory, manufacturing, business can be tracked completely.
Aspetti negativi:
May take time to become an expert but it depends on the individual.
Stratum Viewer makes budgeting easy
Commenti: Stratum Viewer is easy to learn and the views are endless. We use Stratum Viewer for our annual budgeting process. Budgets can be entered at various levels (product, group of products, customer, territory, by month, etc). Users can quickly build views to allow this. Data can be uploaded from Miscrosoft Excel in seconds, literally. It takes additional preparation time to enter a budget for a product for which no budget history exists (new item). Conversations with Stratum IT suport helped us bridge that gap.
Aspetti positivi:
ease of use, easy to manipulate, simple to understand
Aspetti negativi:
entering budget for items for which no history exists
Silvon Product review for our company
Aspetti positivi:
This product gives us the ability to look at our data company-wide/multiple locations in an accurate and convenient way. I like to initially see the overall picture then like the ease of going in for more detail. The support for issues and training are top of the line
Aspetti negativi:
The only thing I can say on this is it is not the product or vendor that i might have an issue with, but the use of all it has to offer that we as a company are not taking advantage of.
Stratum by Silvon - Dependable Sales Data and Insights Delivery
Aspetti positivi:
I like the reliability. It's easy to build ad-hoc views on the fly. I also like the ability to select different time buckets for different columns on any report. Stratum always works with you as a partner
Aspetti negativi:
Stratum interface is showing its age. There is an opportunity to modernize. Services such as SSRS and PowerPivot enable nice cosmetic enhancements to view Stratum data. I'd like to see improved product support team's depth of product knowledge.
Great Product
Commenti: Many of my end users are enjoying the power of information on their tips. In the past they had to wait for IT department to create reports and now they have the ability to create their own
Aspetti positivi:
Ability for users to create their own reports
Aspetti negativi:
A bit difficult to create some templates
Stratum Viewer at Follett
Aspetti positivi:
I like its close tie to the iSeries Data Warehouse and the expanded functions over IDEAS that it offers. It also ties closely into Excel and scheduling abilities.
Aspetti negativi:
The daily update cycle is lengthy. This could be a reflection of our data, but it is a constant irritant with the users. Some views are run long, but this could be our data and the analyses the planners are doing.