The Silvon Stratum product suite complements existing enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and other transaction systems, which typically cannot support the analytical needs of the entire enterprise.

• Integrates data from multiple sources
• Provides a common view across the enterprise
• Enables an integrated Enterprise Performance Management process that ties execution to strategy
• Leverages and analyzes customer-centric data from external sources, such as point-of-sale systems and syndicated data

Stratum is comprised of seven modules designed to support both customer-centric and operations-focused performance management across the enterprise. It is supported by more than 700 pre-built, customizable analytic views and reports based on supply chain-specific business models.

TARGET MARKETS/ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Manufacturers, distributors and retailers today face a multitude of supply chain challenges. The Silvon Stratum™ suite of EPM applications address these challenges as follows:

Business-driven reporting - Stratum enables supply chain businesses to transform their performance analysis and reporting needs from being IT-driven to being end-user driven, enabling them to quickly analyze and respond to market conditions in real time.

Increased business velocity - Through its collaborative planning, forecasting, and performance analysis capabilities, Stratum enables customers to stay proactive despite the growing velocity of business and continued need by supply chain businesses to be more responsive to their customers.

Less predictable demand and supply - Stratum's predictive forecasting and inventory optimization capabilities enable businesses to accurately calculate advantageous inventory levels, including the safety stock they should carry in the event of unexpected spikes in consumer demand or disruptions in the supply chain.

Demonstrating product category and promotional performance knowledge - Stratum enables manufacturers in the retail market to become experts at pinpointing consumer purchasing trends and needs, so they can effectively price and promote their products with retailers while consistently meeting customer demand. It also allows them to highlight how well their products are performing for retailers, to determine how well their trade promotions are working in terms of lift, and to use the analytical information as the basis for future promotional plans.

New product classification and tracking standards - Stratum integrates and supports new data standards like Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and UCCnet, allowing customers to measure and share product movement and product performance data with their supply chain partners.

Sarbanes-Oxley compliance - Stratum provides accurate forecasting functionality, trade promotions management capabilities and hundreds of key performance indicator (KPI) metrics to support the corporate governance initiatives of supply chain enterprises.

Rapidly multiplying data volumes - Stratum was designed to handle the extremely large data volumes of supply chain businesses and can scale to grow as their data volumes rise. Today's increased data volumes are resulting from smaller (and more numerous) customer transactions, the growing need by supply chain businesses to analyze more granular levels of data, and new industry standards and initiatives like RFID that are yielding huge volumes of product movement data.

 COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1987, Silvon Software, Inc. (www.silvon.com) develops and provides Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications to manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail enterprises. Silvon's mission is to deliver powerful Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications that can be implemented quickly while generating quantifiable results and a fast return-on-investment for customers.