Using the Stratis Platform
Welcome to Stratis – a platform designed to help you turn complex, time-sensitive information into clear, shareable, and defensible decisions. This guide is your practical starting point. It assumes you’re fluent in your domain, but are not familiar with our software. You don’t need to be “technical” to use Stratis, you just need to know what you’re trying to answer, and this guide will help you get there. The focus here is on helping you get productive quickly, without jargon and without detours.
What Stratis is built for
Stratis is organized around repeatable workflows: you set up a project and workspaces, which will be your working context, and then compose the view panels you need, connect them so they stay in sync, and then refine how conditions and queries represent what matters to you.
The goal is consistency – so that two people looking at the same project reach the same understanding, and so that your outputs can be explained to colleagues, partners, and stakeholders.
How to use this guide
You can read straight through, but you don’t have to. You can start with the basics, going through the chapters step by step, or you can just wade in, play around, and start to get a feel for the system, referring back to sections here when things become unclear.
This guide uses a small set of consistent terms (like project, workspace, panel, connection, condition, query, entity and so on), which will all be explained in due course. Let’s get started!
- Projects, workspaces and templates
- The panel system
- Panel types
- Adding panels
- Removing panels
- Connections between panels
- The Meteogram and Timeline Panels
- Setting the target location
- Controlling time
- The Conditions Matrix
- Configuring categories
- Setting up test queries
- Setting conditions
- The Map Panel
- Setting up a map
- Connecting the map to different panels
- Starting to build complex workflows
- Entities and Events
- Understanding entities and events
- Using the Entity Table panel
- Visualizing entities on the map
- The Query Language
- Custom conditions in the conditions matrix
- The query editor
- Showing queries on the map