Business productivity
“82% of UK employees admit to personal surfing at work for more than three hours per week”
“72% of UK firms have dealt with internet misuse in the work place”
“Disciplinary cases for e-mail and internet abuse at work in the last 12 months exceeded those for dishonesty, violence and health and safety breaches put together”
The internet is a great tool and essential for nearly every business but with this comes the opportunity for lost productivity and security/legal implications that are best avoided. To see how much money you could be losing through casual internet surfing use our ROI calculator
Browse Reporter
Browse Reporter is a powerful web-monitoring tool that allows you to monitor the browsing activity of your employees or students. It is a non-intrusive tool, running in stealth mode, without the users knowing that their systems are being monitored.
Browse Reporter captures the URLs of every visited web site through Internet Explorer and FireFox. It includes a powerful reporting utility for generating tabular and graphical reports. URLS deemed to be a threat to the organization can readily be identified from the reports. In addition, unproductive users spending too much company time browsing the net can readily be isolated.
| Track/Report on Internet Activity | Automated Email Reports |
Monitor web browsing activity on a per employee or per computer basis. Generate comprehensive tabular/graphical reports. |
Reports can be automatically generated and emailed directly to the administrator(s). |
| Bandwidth Monitoring | Remote Screen Capture |
Track the Internet traffic on your network, to isolate users that are congesting the organization’s bandwidth. |
Monitor your users’ computer activity by capturing screenshots of their desktops. Identify unproductive employees/students. |
| Schedule URL Tracking | Set Idle Browsing Time |
Specify the time ranges when the Internet activity should be collected, ensuring that you view only relevant information. |
Web activates that are perceived to be inactive or idle can be suppressed from displaying on the final report |
Browse control
For companies that have identified a problem and who want to do more than just report on internet activities you can add on Browse Control.
Browse control helps you control and restrict inappropriate surfing and enforce Internet usage policies in your organisation. Browse Control can completely block internet, allow access only to Web sites you specify, deny web access to the websites you specify, and schedule internet ON at only certain times of day. E-mail, FTP sites, Instant Messaging, ICQ, Newsgroups, etc can also be restricted.
In addition to restricting internet activity Browse Control includes an Application Blocker, which allows you to specify software applications you want to block the user from running. This can be useful in preventing users from using games, messaging programs, P2P applications or any unauthorised software.
How much does it cost?
Both of these products are delivered as a managed service so there are no upfront software costs with each one costing £2 per computer per month or £3.75 if you take both of them at the same time.
ROI Calculator
A year is based on 235 days (5 days x 47 weeks, Month is based on 20 working days. The above calculation does not include additional costs the company would incur from a higher bandwidth requirement due to non work related browsing.