Activity Monitor 4.3 (new!) - employee monitoring software

Ever thought of how useful it would be to know what your employees or students do when they are supposed to work or study?

Ever lost money and/or confidential information, lacking control over your staff online activity?

Activity Monitor is the solution you needed!

This powerful tool allows you to track any LAN, giving you the most detailed information on what, how and when your network users performed. Whether it is a library public network, university or commercial organization network – Activity Monitor offers efficient control.

The system consists of server and client parts. Activity Monitor server can be installed on any computer in the entire LAN. Remote spy software (Agent) is a small client program that is installed on all computers on the network you want to monitor. It can be installed even remotely from the PC with Activity Monitor on it or via Active Directory Group Policy in a Windows domain.

Any computer in the network under control can be spied remotely. You may tune this computer monitoring software so that it will record activity on all networked computers. This information can be later used for the deeper analysis and advanced report generation.

Activity Monitor has proved its excellent efficiency in increasing the overall productivity of the establishments where it was used to track the local networks. This powerful tool from Softactivity saves your money.

New! >> Read why you need to monitor staff in Employee Monitoring white paper

SUMMARY Current version: 4.3 (Changes) Price: from $179.95 Free Trial: 15 Days OS: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003. (32- and 64-bit editions) System requirements ARTICLES WHITE PAPER Employee Monitoring: An essential component of your risk management strategy Explains why organizations need to monitor their staff’s computer activity and provide some practical guidance on how they can do it right. 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey published by American Management Association. Annual survey results: Over Half of All Employers Combined Fire Workers for E-Mail & Internet Abuse More articles ... KNOWLEDGE BASE Activity Monitor with Symantec Antivirus Activity Monitor with McAfee AntiSpyware How To Install Agent on Windows Vista Activity Monitor FAQ Versions History Watch Online Demonstrations >>Read Knowledge Base... USERS TESTIMONIALS "We love this program it is the best program we have used and we have tested quite a few. It has helped tremendously in our silent monitoring of the customer services reps. Now the manager/team leaders can see what is happening while the customer is speaking with the rep. and can provide guidance on how to improve our systems or service." JR Williams, Uline, System-Network Engineering Lead "This is truly the best software of its type on the market as far as I am concerned" Ross Naylor, Vice President, McElroy & Associates Inc. "We tested your software in our lab and it works flawlessly. Its easy to use and it doesnt crash (big plus compared to others we tested)." Thomas, Computer Consultant, USA "Many thanks for this product - it's paid for itself dozens of times over." Lars, Director of Internet Cafe & Games Centre >>Read more user opinions... QUICK FACTS Activity Monitor is now used in 100+ countries. Activity Monitor can monitor from 1 to hundreds computers. It's successfully used in companies, government and educational organizations of all sizes. Keylogger technology in Activity Monitor supports characters in all languages.

Activity Monitor Key Features:

• Live view of remote desktops.
  • You may easily have a look at any user’s desktop.
• Easy Internet usage monitoring.
  • Web surfing history logging. Real time tracking and recording of all URLs visited in browser.
• Monitor software usage.
  • Monitor programs usage activity in real time. With this feature you know what programs and for how long your network users use during the day.
• Record activity log for all workplaces in one centralized location on main computer with Activity Monitor installed.
  • Central Log Database stores typed keystrokes, records of switching between the programs with time stamps, application path and window names, visited web sites, email, IM messages and more.
• Store complete history of communications for every user.
  • Emails sent and received via POP/SMTP.
  • IM chats in MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo messenger, ICQ, IRC. You can see both sides of all conversations.
  • Messages typed in all web forums, chat rooms, social networking, webmail can be seen on a keystrokes log.
• Track any user’s keystrokes on your screen in real time mode. Passwords, email, chat conversation - you have the full picture!
  • SoftActivity Keylogger module supports all international characters including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, etc.
• Take snapshots of the remote PC screen on a scheduled basis. Easy spying without your presence. Time-sorted history of the activity in compressed JPEGs on your computer.
  • Screenshots recorded on all computers can be stored in one centralized location on main computer
• Total control over the networked computers. Start or terminate remote processes, run commands, copy files from remote systems. You may even turn the computer off or restart it, not to mention logging off the current user.
• Deploy Activity Monitor Agent (the client part of the software) remotely from the administrator's PC to all computers in your network.
• Autodetection of all networked computers with Agent installed.
• View logs and export reports to HTML, Excel, CSV.
  • Includes convenient viewer for logs and Central Log database.
  • Easy to understand reports in HTML format for viewing in browser.
  • Export logs to MS Excel for advanced analysis. View total picture of what programs users work with.
• Several managers in the organization can use Activity Monitor to track users in their departments.
• Multilingual international features
  • Activity Monitor user interface is available in 11 languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean
  • Can display emial, chat, other reports and record keystrokes is any language. Activity Monitor is a unicode program

Product Benefits:

• Increase personnel productivity instantly.
  • Eliminate personal use of Internet, Email, IM and social networks at work
  • Prevent viewing of inappropriate content by employees at work
  • Stop employees wasting work time on computer games
• Protect your company from legal lawsuits & reduce liability risk.
  • In most jurisdictions, employers hold some form liability and accountability for the actions of their employees. You need to monitor their communications
  • Employees can sue the company for a hostile workplace environment if they are unwittingly exposed to inappropriate or offensive materials on company computers or harassment via email, for example
• Protect your company from fraudulent activity.
  • Employees often have access to sensitive personal information which can either be misused by the employee or sold on to a third party.
• Protect from intellectual property and trade secrets theft
  • A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute found that 75% of IPT’s were carried out by current members of staff.
• Keep records of your company’s electronic communications
  • For some companies/organizations retention of records can be a regulatory compliance requirement
  • Collected records can be used in an internal investigation if such need arises

Other Activity Monitor features include:

• You see it instantly on your screen when users type text on their computers.
• Monitor multiple employee computers simultaneously from a single workstation in LAN ( ). You will need to purchase a license for as many computers as you want to monitor. Free evaluation version allows to monitor one computer, either remote or local.
• Workplace surveillance software part, running on the monitored PC, is difficult to find for an employee as it runs completely invisible. Users can not terminate Activity Monitor Agent in Task Manager without Administrator user rights.
• Install, uninstall or stop Agent spy program remotely from the administrator's PC.
• Automatically download recordings files from all computers on a scheduled basis and store them in central database.
• Easy to install and use.

History of Changes in Activity Monitor - employee monitoring software

Activity Monitor System Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium 233 MHz or equivalent (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or newer)
• Microsoft® Windows® Vista; Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition; Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows 2003 Server;
  Both 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows are supported
• 128MB of RAM (Recommended: 512MB or more)
• Hard Drive Space:
  • Activity Monitor: 100 MB or more for recording logs for longer periods or more computers. About 50Mb per computer
  • Agent on monitored computers: 50 MB or more for local recordings
• Network connection to the monitored computers (Recommended: 100Mb LAN)

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