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Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution
Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution is an advanced employee surveillance software which
provides you valuable information regarding your
IT infrastructure usage and your employees computer related activities by allowing you to monitor any targeted machine
within your company's network.
Designed for the business environment, Cyclope provides managers the perfect surveillance software to monitor and control
their employees and increase efficiency while also respecting their privacy. Information is provided through detailed
statistics and customized reports based on all computer related activities such as application usage, documents opened,
idle time, windows and Internet/web sites activity.
Software Information |
System Requirements |
Version: | 3.6 |
- Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Pentium II CPU
- 64 MB RAM
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File Size: | 6.52 MB |
License: | Free to try, $30.00 to buy |
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Main Features of Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution :
Surveillance Features
Cyclope Employee Surveillance Software records all computers and Internet related activities such as application usage, documents opened, idle timeout of users and their windows and Internet activity.
- Window Activity
Cyclope logs all windows in which the user directly interacts on the desktop.
- Application Activity
Cyclope tracks all applications and programs launched/accessed as well as the total duration of each user's activity in each program / application (hours and percentage).
- Specific Application Usage
Cyclope records information regarding the way employees are using specific applications as well as the extent of a specific application usage within the company's IT related workforce - such as the productive applications (ERP, CRM, Office, Development or Planning Tools, etc.) as well as those less productive (Internet Browsing, Chat, Games, etc.).
- Internet Activity
Using Cyclope you will be able to determine the time or percentage the employees are involved in online activities such as Internet Browsing, Chat, Downloads etc.
- Idle Timeout
Cyclope tracks employees work time and pauses providing you information regarding their periods of inactivity within a specific period of time (days, weeks, months or custom).
- Web Sites Activity
Cyclope monitors every web page / site accessed by the employees and saves a record of those URLs and domain names. Also the time spent on those web resources is recorded.
- Attendance
Cyclope provides information on when work started or ended and the resulting overtime, if it is the case.
- Document Monitoring
Cyclope provides a list of all documents accessed by a monitored user.
Cyclope does not monitor the document content only the mane of the document and the period the user accessed it.
Statistics Features
Cyclope presents employee's activity in detailed graphical statistics and customized reports. This empowers you to take the right decisions, through an easier analysis and evaluation of employee's efficiency at work.
- Graphical Statistics
Cyclope provides you the recorded information through vivid, rich graphical statistics
on different time intervals: daily, weekly, monthly or custom periods of times.
- Customized Reports
Cyclope allows you to choose and configure the manner information is presented.
You can also generate printable reports that can be easily presented or analyzed by the decision factors.
- Employees Working Efficiency Evaluation
Employees working efficiency can be observed by analyzing the time they were involved in using
the productive or work related applications - thus you will be able to decide if your employees
are under or over loaded with work tasks and how well they concentrate on their tasks.
- Employees Comparison
Cyclope allows you to compare employee's performance and behavior in using specific
applications, observe their evolution in time and identify patterns in their work activities.
Cyclope Value Adding Features
The security and administration features complete the comprehensive set of Cyclope features.
- Web-Based Remote Administration
Cyclope offers a web-based intuitive interface, allowing both administrators and managers to configure and use it remotely from any location - inside the LAN or over the Internet.
- Non Invasive Surveillance Software
Cyclope respects employee's rights to privacy by not implementing invasive features such as keystrokes and passwords recording, chat activity logging or run background screen captures.
- Business Oriented Results
Specially designed for business environment, Cyclope can be used both by IT administrators and managers providing the perfect surveillance software to monitor and control employees IT related activities while also respecting their privacy.
- Log Filtering
Cyclope allows you to filter all recorded data, using specific filters and parameters, providing you accurate, useful and specific information.
- Central Remote Network Management
Cyclope can be installed on only one machine and through that particular machine you have a global perspective over your entire work force. Administrators do not have to install any client components on the machines they want to monitor.
- Easy to Use Graphical Interface
On Cyclope easy to use intuitive web-based interface all features are only one click away. Using Cyclope does not require specific IT knowledge thus it can be used both by IT administrators and managers.
Being browser neutral, Cyclope can be accessed through any of the available browsers without needing any client components.
- Secure Client Server Communication
All information flow between server and clients is secured so it can not be intercepted. Also Cyclope implements access restriction policies to prevent any unauthorized access to the configuration and management site.
- Low System Requirements
Cyclope Client is a thin client (developed in C++) that must be installed on all the machines you want to monitor. This client application can be installed on all Windows operating systems (95/98/Me/NT/2000 Professional and Server/XP Home, Professional and Professional/2003 Server). It does not affect the usage of the machine (the average CPU Usage is under 1% and Memory Usage is under 2,000 K - including the Virtual Memory usage).
Benefits of Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution :
Designed for the business environment, Cyclope provides managers the perfect surveillance software to monitor and control their employees and increase efficiency while also respecting their privacy.
- Proactive Human Resources Management
Cyclope monitors your entire network, providing valuable information in evaluating your employees work related performances.
For those companies looking to assess how widespread employee PC and Internet usage problems are, or are looking to hold specific employees accountable for their actions, surveillance software can be a real asset in identifying abuses and taking corrective action.
- Boosts Employees' Productivity
The majority of companies are simply concerned about employee productivity. People who buy monitoring software are concerned about the amount of time their employees are spending doing personal things on the Internet and not work-related things. The monitoring software helps the companies understand just how much time is being frittered away and provides the necessary documentation to address the problem with their employees.
Just knowing that they're being monitored is often incentive enough to get employees to refrain from non working related activities. Surveillance is a great wake-up call for many employees to stop wasting time.
- Graphical Vivid Statistics and Customized Reports
Cyclope presents employee's activity in detailed graphical statistics and customized reports. This empowers you to take the right decisions, through an easier analysis and evaluation of employee's efficiency at work.
The management team and administrators can access these reports directly on Cyclope interface or have these reports sent to them by e-mail or exported in a printable friendly format.
- Employees Working Efficiency Evaluation
Employees working efficiency can be observed by analyzing the time they were involved in using the productive or work related applications. You will be able to decide whether your employees are under or over loaded with work tasks, how well they concentrate on their work or to find the causes of deadline delays and not achieving the goals.
Cyclope also allows you to compare employees' performance and behavior in using specific applications, to observe their evolution in time and to identify patterns in their work activities.
- How Employees Are Using Specific Application
Cyclope records information regarding the way employees are using specific applications as well as the extent of a specific application usage within the company's IT related workforce - such as the productive applications (ERP, CRM, Office, Development or Planning Tools, etc).
- How Employees Are Using the Internet
Using Cyclope you will be able to determine how much time or percentage the employees are involved in less productive online activities such as Internet Browsing, Chat, Downloads, Online Gaming etc. Continuous monitoring provides a check-and-balance system with a corporation's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
While an hour of shopping online may be acceptable, viewing pornography puts the company at risk for a sexual harassment lawsuit. Employees downloading music files waste bandwidth and draw on network storage resources. This in turn causes IT administrators to purchase unnecessary, additional bandwidth and storage.
- Easy to Use Graphical Interface
Cyclope comes with an easy to use, intuitive web-based interface where all features are only one click away. Using Cyclope does not require specific IT knowledge thus it can be used both by IT administrators and managers.
- Non Invasive Surveillance Software
Cyclope respects employee's rights to privacy by not implementing invasive features such as keystrokes and passwords recording, chat activity logging or run background screen captures.
Why intelligent surveillance is important?
Continuous monitoring provides a check-and-balance system with a corporation's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Improving productivity, liability concerns, and bandwidth management have been the top three reasons why companies decide to better manage employees' Internet use. While an hour of shopping online may be acceptable, viewing pornography puts the company at risk for a sexual harassment lawsuit. Employees downloading music files waste bandwidth and draw on network storage resources.
Do you need to:
- Maximize employee productivity
- Prevent hostile workplace lawsuits
- Reduce demand on your network
- Protect your employees from offensive material
Using Cyclope you will be able to determine how much time or percentage the employees
are involved in work related activities such as the productive applications
(ERP, CRM, Desktop Application, Office, Development or Planning Tools, etc.) or those less
productive such as Internet Browsing, Chat, Downloads, Games etc.
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