Employee Monitoring Software

Get the Employee Monitoring Software that Works

• Remotely Monitor Without Them Knowing. View their computers in real time – from your own PC. SoftActivity Monitor works invisibly, without slowing down their PCs.
• Track websites visited Tom from accounting was on Facebook for 3 hours a day, every day this week? Let him explain that to HR.
• Record their e-mails. End workplace harassment, IP theft and more.
• Record keystrokes. in work apps, emails, websites and IM chats in real time. See what’s happening as it’s happening.
• View multiple computers at the same time in your network. See disasters coming and prevent them from happening.
• Generate reports and schedule screen captures. Then show the bad guys the evidence. Even better, show everyone.
• Protect against insider threats. Your employees could be putting your company at risk.

LIVE VIEW OF REMOTE DESKTOPS

• You can easily have a look at any user’s desktop in real time. Dashboard shows at a glance live view of remote screens, like a security camera.
• Supports remote computers with multi-monitor configurations.

EMPLOYEE INTERNET MONITORING

• View their web surfing history. Record all URLs visited in any web browser including social media, webmail, search history and other websites.
• SoftActivity even records Internet activity when a user is browsing in Incognito/InPrivate mode, or clears their web browser history.
• Websites report shows the total time spent by users on each website.

MONITOR PROGRAMS USAGE

• Monitor programs usage activity in real time. With this feature you know what applications and for how long your users run during the day.
• Applications report shows in what applications users spend the most time.
• Apps History log with time stamps and screenshots for every user.
• Our employee monitoring tool records local and remote sessions, such as RDP/RDS, TeamViewer, LogmeIn, and others on your computers. Monitor your remote employees.

WEB CONSOLE FOR ADMINS AND SUPERVISORS

• View PC activity reports for all computers and users in a convenient Web Console using a web browser. Web app server is installed on-premise.
• Access control: web console accounts for multiple supervisors/managers with limited access only for viewing certain users or groups.
• Dashboard with company-wide stats of computer usage: top used programs, websites, most active users Search reports and filter by date, computer, user or a group.
• Export reports to PDF for printing or sharing (screenshot), and to Excel in CSV format for advanced analysis and reporting.

ALERTS AND EMAIL REPORTS

• If a user breaks company’s computer use policy, their supervisor or the admin gets an alert notification.
• Admin can create alert rules based on user activity, such as visited websites, used apps, accessed files or typed keystrokes. Screenshot
• A set of pre-defined rules is supplied for popular social media, video websites and other unproductive categories, copying of files to USB etc.
• Get alerts by email and view policy violations in the web console. Spend less time monitoring users and take action at the right time when it matters.
• Daily, weekly and monthly report by email that contains computer usage stats for all users. View it even on your phone without logging in to the web console.

TRACK USER ATTENDANCE

Record attendance and boost employees productivity. Time tracking of user sessions with the following information displayed for each work session:

• Log in, log off timestamps for tracking work hours
• Computer and user name
• Session duration
• Top 5 used apps and websites
• Number of keystrokes typed
• Complete timeline of screenshots

(new) Idle time tracking lets you see for how long and when exactly a user was away from their computer during the day.

EMAIL AND IM COMMUNICATIONS HISTORY

Record Emails sent and received by employees on their work computers. Supported email systems:

• Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Exchange® accounts;
• Microsoft Outlook with POP3/SMTP/IMAP accounts via SSL or unsecured;
• View web-based email messages, such as gmail, hotmail, ect. on series of screenshots on Websites tab in SoftActivity Web Console

View chat in instant messengers and other communications on series of screenshots in Applications report.

VIEW KEYSTROKES IN REAL TIME

• View keystrokes typed by users in real time on your screen with our employee monitoring software. You can also view keystrokes history in the web console. Passwords, emails, chat conversations – you have the full picture! Keylogger feature is optional and OFF by default.
• SoftActivity’s keylogger technology supports all international characters and allows monitoring keystrokes in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, and any other languages.
• Note: keystrokes recording is optional and can be turned off by the admin if required by the company’s policy or industry regulations.

SCREENSHOTS HISTORY

• The system takes snapshots of the remote PC screen with SoftActivity’s IntelliSnap™ technology. Easy monitoring of workers activity without your presence. Record just an active app or whole screen.
• Screenshots are recorded on all network computers and stored in a single centralized location on the main computer/server.
• View detailed browsing history for each website as series of screenshots. Easy to track their Facebook, web-based email (such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc.), Google searches, web-based IM, chats, forums.
• Filter screenshots by an application or a website that it’s been recorded for screenshots.
• IntelliSnap™ technology can capture screenshots based on user actions, rather than just time intervals. You will see a copy of the employee screen for every visited web page, every sent or received email or instant message. It can capture screenshots from once every second to once in a few minutes.

POWERFUL SERVER DATABASE

• SoftActivity Web Console is powered by PostgreSQL high-performance open source database server for storing activity logs collected from the monitored computers. It allows to store large amount of data on premise.
• PostgreSQL is included in the installation package and runs on premise on a customer’s server or admin’s PC. Customers have an option to use their existing PostgreSQL server installed on Unix or Windows platform.
• Activity Monitor Server application downloads activity logs from Agents into the Central Log Database. Logs do not consume a lot of disk space on on the monitored computers.

RECORD ACCESS TO SENSITIVE FILES

• Trace and prevent information theft by employees.
• Track possible file theft by employees on USB flash drives or external hard drives.
• View what documents they open and save. Track files users download from Internet, upload or attach to emails.
• Monitor all types of drives: local, network, flash/thumb drives, and USB-connected drives. Monitor selected folders that contain sensitive files.
• View all file operations such as Read, Write, Delete, Rename and Move.

COMPLETELY SECURE EMPLOYEE MONITORING

• Only authorized managers and supervisors can connect to a remote computer or sign in to the on-premise Web Console to view employee activity logs.
• Network communications are encrypted with SSL. Central Log Database is securely stored in PostgreSQL server installed on-premise.
• If required for HIPPA, or PCI compliance, the database and screenshots can be stored on an encrypted drive, using Bitlocker or other OS- or hardware-level encryption technology.
• No data flows outside of your company’s network – the system is not cloud based.
• Logs that are temporarily stored on the monitored employee computers are encrypted and protected by NTFS permissions, so the users cannot view or modify them.
• Not detected as a threat by most antivirus products. Although we recommend to add an antivirus exclusion to avoid future detection.

STEALTH TECHNOLOGY

SoftActivity stealth technology makes our PC monitoring software completely invisible for monitored users:

• No files on a hard drive, no processes in Task Manager or services in Windows are visible to monitored users.
• No icons on the Desktop or Start menu, no windows displayed, no traces of monitoring tools.
• Admin can install Agent remotely and silently on the monitored computers and start tracking users in seconds.
• You can invisibly monitor employee computers of even advanced users such as IT staff, developers or system administrators.

REMOTE DEPLOYMENT

• Network Administrator can easily and quickly install Agent, a client part of the software, remotely to multiple monitored computers, invisibly for users.
• Mass-deploy Agent application onto computers you want to track in your Active Directory Domain via Group Policy or a Powershell script.
• Install Agent locally by running an installation file. Optionally, include installed Agent into an OS image for Virtual Desktop (VDI) deployments.
• Agent application uses minimal resources of a monitored PC. There is no overhead on CPU, RAM, battery life and or drive space, and no noticeable impact on the user’s experience.

CONTROL OVER THE NETWORKED COMPUTERS

• View remote running applications, including system processes. Start or terminate apps remotely.
• Turn off or restart computers remotely, or log off a user, and more.

SUPPORTS MULTIPLE USERS & DEPARTMENTS

• SoftActivity solutions are used in small businesses with a simple LAN, as well as in large organizations with multiple departments and physical locations.
• Multiple managers in a company can track users in their departments. Create accounts for managers in the Web Console and assign access to certain users or groups.
• In addition, the Monitor console desktop app can be installed on a manager’s computer for real-time viewing.
• An employee’s computer can be monitored by more than one supervisor at the same time from their workstations in real time. View how to setup SoftActivity Monitor in your network architecture.
• Audit log. Monitor other admins’ and managers’ actions in SoftActivity web console. View history of sign-in and sign-out events, and changes they make to the system.

INTERNATIONAL & MULTI-LINGUAL APP

• SoftActivity employee monitoring solution can record and display emails, chats, keystrokes and all reports in any language. SoftActivity Monitor is a Unicode program.
• User interface is available in these languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Russian. Web Console: English and Spanish.

USER TESTIMONIALS

1.Jon DeVito , CTO, Amiee Lynn, USA

• “From the first minute we installed Activity Monitor, we cut out half the time I was spending monitoring people manually.”

2.J.S. , A-Legal, USA

• “This software is so effective, we’ve been using it for over a decade!”