We are pleased to introduce the latest release of Stratocore PPMS, one of the most significant workflow upgrades to the platform in recent years.

This release introduces redesigned interfaces across several core modules along with powerful new capabilities designed to strengthen governance, visibility and reporting, including a new Asset Catalogue for organising and presenting research infrastructure.

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A Structured View of Facilities, Equipment & Services

A key highlight of this release is the new Asset Catalogue, a centralised, searchable catalogue designed to bring together core facilities, services and instruments across an organisation, helping users discover, find and access available resources more easily.

The Asset Catalogue turns PPMS into a browsable showcase of research infrastructure, making it easier to understand what facilities offer and how they can be accessed.

Research institutions often manage a wide range of instruments, services and facilities across multiple departments and locations, making it difficult to maintain a clear and consistent view of available capabilities.

The Asset Catalogue provides a structured way to organise this infrastructure within PPMS. Systems, services and equipment can be classified and presented within hierarchical structures that reflect the organisation of the institution, such as campuses, departments, buildings or facilities.

Facilities can also define their own classification structures, creating custom hierarchical trees tailored to their organisation. Backed by controlled vocabularies, this provides a flexible and consistent way to organise infrastructure, enabling more powerful navigation and exploration of equipment, services and capabilities.

Each asset can include detailed information such as descriptions, specifications and images, along with designated stakeholders including owners, operators or technicians. The catalogue also supports lifecycle tracking, allowing institutions to record events such as acquisition, calibration, maintenance and decommissioning.

Granular privacy controls allow facilities to define which information is visible to different user groups, ensuring that the catalogue can support both internal management and broader visibility where appropriate.

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Supporting Better Infrastructure Oversight

Beyond simply listing equipment, the Catalogue helps institutions develop a clearer and more structured view of their facilities and capabilities.

By organising assets consistently and centrally, institutions can improve internal visibility, support infrastructure benchmarking and provide leadership with a better understanding of available capabilities across departments and facilities.

It also provides a more effective way to present and promote facility capabilities, helping researchers, collaborators and new users quickly understand what is available and how it can be accessed.

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Enhanced Workflows, Oversight & Reporting

Alongside the introduction of the Asset Catalogue, several core modules have been redesigned in this new release to improve usability, governance and operational oversight across facilities.

The Training module introduces a modernised interface with clearer validation and improved visibility of user rights, with training requests now linked directly to projects for better traceability and access management.

The Projects module has been enhanced to support stronger governance and collaboration, with a dynamic project list, multi-step approval workflows and improved visibility of sessions and accounts, alongside a new read-only role.

Updates to Requests and Forms provide more flexible ways to capture and manage submissions, including a new generic request form and the ability to export submitted data for analysis and reporting.

The Price Rules interface has been refreshed to simplify pricing configuration, with a guided Price Wizard alongside advanced options for more complex pricing models.

Finally, the Statistics module has been redesigned to provide more interactive and flexible reporting, with multi-system analysis, multi-KPI comparison and advanced filtering to support better visibility of facility performance.

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A Significant Update for Your Research Operations

This latest PPMS release introduces new capabilities that help institutions manage and oversee research infrastructure more effectively.

With improvements across asset management, training, project governance, pricing and reporting, the update provides a more structured and transparent way to manage facilities, users and operations more effectively at both facility and institutional level, supporting more informed decisions around infrastructure use, investment and performance.

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If you would like to learn more about this update, to arrange a demo, or to request an upgrade if you are already a PPMS user. Please get in touch here.