Based in New Westminster, BC, Deep Software Inc. is the manufacturer of Activity Monitor. The company's primary focus is on the development of security applications for both businesses and home computer users.
Activity Monitor, an employee monitoring software, assists business owners with the protection of their confidential customer information and trade secrets. Moreover, the employee monitoring software can identify unseemly employee behaviors such as coworker harassment, corporate espionage, illegal software downloading and more.
Activity Monitor is an adequate and reliable employee monitoring software. The app's PC monitoring may assist managers in increasing their employees' productivity. The employee monitoring software records a worker's online activities. Supervisors can perform PC monitoring in real time as their subordinates complete assigned tasks. The app also stores the collected data for later viewing and incident documentation.
Activity Monitor logs all visited websites. It can assist managers in identifying employees who squander their work time by playing online games, watching videos, engaging in social networking behavior or viewing pornographic websites. Further, the employee monitoring software's screenshot feature can take snapshots of accessed websites, instant messages or other online activity.
The PC monitoring capabilities of the app can track email exchanges sent through POP3/SMTP protocols. Compatible apps include Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird and others. Currently the employee monitoring software has no support for Microsoft Exchange email.
Supervisors can view transcripts of their employee's chat and instant messaging conversations. The app supports MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, ICQ and IRC clients.
Regrettably, viewing the contents of blog posts, social network-based chat, forum posts, profile updates and webmail is complicated. To obtain this collected data, the supervisor must sort through both the logs of captured keystrokes and screenshot images. Depending on the screenshot frequency setting, the PC monitoring software could fail to capture and document potentially compromising situations.
Omitted from this otherwise good employee monitoring software is the ability to schedule, filter and block a worker's online activities. Perhaps the manufacturer will consider these features in future releases. These missing features render the app ineffective at preventing undesirable employee behaviors. However, its employee monitoring capabilities are reliable and efficient.
The app's administrative console allows the monitoring of multiple employees at once. All that is required to view the collected data or real-time information is the app's administrative password.
Activity Monitor empowers supervisors with the ability to take control of networked computers. Available remote commands include computer shut down and reboot, starting or terminating processes, run commands, file copying and more.
In addition to remote management, the software monitors all worker-launched computer applications. It records time, hour, application name and length of use.
Multiple departments within a company can use Activity Monitor to track their worker's computers and online activities. Additionally, when highly questionable employee activities occur, multiple supervisors can jointly monitor one computer from separate administrative consoles.
All recorded data is SSL encrypted and housed in a centralized log database. Available reports include Top Programs, Top Websites, View all email and chat messages.
Managers can search reports and filter the data by date, username and more. Once generated, the app displays reports in an easy-to-read HTML format for browser viewing. For in-depth analysis, the options of exporting the data to an MS Excel or CSV formats are available.
Activity Monitor is an effective employee monitoring solution. The app can capture a worker's online and local computer activities. Unfortunately, the app lacks scheduling, blocking and filtering capabilities for online and PC activities.
