ActivTrak - An Extremely Powerful And Free Employee Monitoring Tool
Employee monitoring is an efficient method of maintaining work discipline, restricting access of employees and students to unwanted websites and preventing information leaks outside the company. A good monitoring solution must possess a number of important characteristics, such as low consumption of client computers' resources and network traffic, discreet operation, ease of deployment and, of course, convenient, informative and intuitive management and reporting tools. ActivTrak efficiently combines all of the above into a perfect solution for educational, medical and financial organizations, as well as small and medium businesses of all types.
August 19, 2010: Birch Grove Software is glad to announce the release of a free version of ActivTrak, the company's award-winning activity tracking and employee monitoring tool. The free version offers the same set of advanced tools found in the paid version (no functional limitations whatsoever), but only limits the number of monitored computers to 3, which will well suffice for small private businesses, classes or families willing to monitor the online activities of their underage children. Essentially, this is the only solution on the market offering such a rich feature set at no price at all.
ActivTrak does not require advanced computer skills to be deployed and configured and its clean and self-explanatory interface allows virtually anyone to start using the program just minutes after installation.
The software has client-server architecture and allows the administrator to install invisible clients on the computers being monitored. ActivTrak provides comprehensive statistics for every computer, including a detailed log of applications launched, documents opened, and sites visited. Unlike many other activity logging applications, ActivTrak provides tools for real-time monitoring of user sessions with one-click access to remote desktop and historical data views. ActivTrak tracks the active window title bar data to collect statistical data, which combined with idle detection gives a accurate view of how the user is actually spending his or her time.
The program enables users to configure rules that will trigger an alarm whenever a suspicious activity has been detected on a monitored system, as well as to restrict users' access to specific applications, resources or websites. which makes it more flexible in terms of configuring alarm rules and cutting off access to specific resources.
ActivTrak cannot be normally detected and removed from the memory of remote systems by their users. Only network administrators have the rights to disable or uninstall the client.
Apart from offering real-time monitoring and activity logging functionality, ActivTrak enables the administrator to view a remote screen to investigate a suspicious activity report (such as a report on an established VPN connection with an external system) in greater detail and possibly prevent information theft or contraction of spyware or other types of malware. The admin can also chat with users of monitored computers to warn them about their workplace policy violations.
"The success of ActivTrak demonstrated the significant potential of this market niche, which made us consider releasing a free version of the program. Our primary target audience here ranges from security-concerned families to small companies seeking reliable protection for their know-how's and willing to improve their performance and save some money on the payroll," - says Anton Seidler, the company's Marketing Executive. "And we really hope our product will serve a good purpose for these users."
ActivTrak is a uniquely powerful and totally free solution for efficient real-time monitoring of employees' and students' computers that is a snap to install and use. It will be a perfect choice for a great number of professional and home users willing to protect their confidential information.
About Birch Grove Software
Incorporated in the state of Texas since 1995, Birch Grove Software develops and markets productivity monitoring software and other utilities for network administration. Longtime customers, who manage networks large and small, know that we are committed to quality and that we support what we sell.
SOURCE: Birch Grove Software