ActivTrak

Avantages

This lets you spy on their screen and see what they see. You can block out website from loading. For example: employees during working hours can't load Netflix. You can also monitor when their computer goes to sleep and when they are inactive.

Inconvénients

One of the employees uses a MacBook Pro. When his iOS updates sometimes the permission setting of ActiveTrak need resetting.

Avantages

ActivTrak has been a great tool for monitoring productivity across my team. The ability to set the parameters and also conduct on spot auditing has been great to the development of my team.

Inconvénients

I wouldn't say it's what I like the least, but I wish we could have a way to save screen activites, at least snapshots to be reviewed at a later time.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à ActivTrak

Avantages

Decent hours reporting, I can see my teams screens.

Inconvénients

The app is often buggy, and not always operational. Not truly accurate

Avantages

It was really helpful for me to see what kinds of things people on my team were doing while they work and where we had people spending too much time using certain tools and programs.

Inconvénients

The difficult part of using ActivTrak for us was that we had to send it out to all of our people to have them install in on their computers. It led to some issues with people feeling uncomfortable with being tracked and took a lot of time/conversations to get everybody on board with what we are trying to do.

Avantages

Being able to review how staff works/hours worked

Inconvénients

No clear understanding of what some of the descriptions of work actually are tracking

Avantages

Good service, easy to use and lots of nice features. I really would have like to use this services. It was my first choice and would have use it if not for the cost.

Inconvénients

You shows a good price per users but when you go to subscribe it requires minimum of five users. I only needed one user which made the price was very high for me.

Avantages

ActivTrak is a great tool, and shows accurate information. I like that it's in real time that you can view employees productivity.

Inconvénients

The printable reports is lacking and could be better formatted.

Avantages

Easy to install, works across pc and mac

Inconvénients

User Aliases don't always work so if you use a generic login things can overlap

Avantages

It is a simple tool that works really well and gives me basic information I need.

Inconvénients

I would like more specific data, it feels like for the price it needs more.

Avantages

Ability to track so many things, websites, utilization, productivity decline, high passive time. I am able to see whether the team is actively using tools provided for workflow. I can also verify if team members are using unauthorized websites such as social media sites.

Inconvénients

Nothing come to mind at this time. I am getting everything I need.

Avantages

It is a great way to see how your team spends their shifts, if you have problematic people you can see what they are doing by installing an invisible client, this way you can ensure that your equipment is not being missused.It has great reporting capabilities.

Inconvénients

It sometimes does not updates as intended and it can be a bit problematic to delete the client if you want to be secretive.

Avantages

Provides tracking & monitoring of employee activity & productivity efficiently.Helpful insights are provided to line managers to address concerns before they become an issue.

Inconvénients

Cost - Reductions would be appreciated, but I suppose you get what you pay for & the service is delivering as promised

Avantages

There is really are no pros to this software.

Inconvénients

I would not recommend ActivTrak to my worst enemy. Good luck trying to cancel it when it does not work for you. I tried cancelling it and they wouldn't so I cancelled the card and now they are trying to send me a bill for a month I was not even using the software. Finally had to turn them over to our legal counsel today.

Avantages

ActivTrak is a cloud based software that allows employers to monitor employee activity in the workplace. It provides real time insights on employee behavior, productivity, and engagement. The software is designed to help employers improve their workplace productivity, reduce cyber security threats, and gain valuable insights into how their employees are using their time. ActivTrak provides comprehensive analytics and comprehensive reports that allow employers to gain a better understanding of how their employees are working and how they can improve their productivity. It is also designed to be easy to use, so employers can quickly and easily set up the software and start monitoring employee activity.

Inconvénients

ActivTrak does not offer a mobile app to monitor employee activity on the go.

Avantages

This application has helped us a lot in ensuring we are able to protect the business from any fraudulent and non ethical practices that may put the business in a difficult position. Moreover, Activtrak has helped us in ensuring we have proper documentation when we have to deal with any infractions.

Inconvénients

NONE! I love how convenient and helpful this application has been towards my work and the business I support with. I cannot think of anything I don't like about this application.

Avantages

Given the heft price I like the fact that there's a free version of the software. From a feature perspective I like the ability to see a history of screenshots and the ability to monitor usage real-time. I also like the new feature that was recently added that allows me to easily exclude people I do not want to monitor. Another really great thing about this product is not the product itself, but the technical support team that supports it. The quality of help I received and the timeliness of responses was absolutely awesome!

Inconvénients

The thing I like least is the price. As a non-business user I'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for the software, but the current price is simply way too high for the ability to monitor my children's PC usage. Sure, it's important to me as a parent, but not at the current price. I have mentioned this software (as well as other phone monitoring software) to other parents and I'm confident if the price was in the sub $100 range, you'd sell a LOT of licenses to parents! Add support for monitoring Apple and Android phone usage for the same price and you'd be amazed how many you'd sell to parents. All parents I talk to are looking for these capabilities. Of course, the other limitation I'd like to see changed is the fact that the screenshots are only captured when a screen is shown for 20 secs. I know this is a limitation of the free version. Again, I'd be willing to pay for the ability to specify the cadence of screenshots, but not at the current price.

Avantages

You can see screenshots of different time intervals and you can export the time to excel for records. It has very easy to use interface and track the productive time effectively. it also provides two factor authentication along with Active directory integration which completed the feature list.

Inconvénients

All the stored information can eat up your hard drive space very quickly. No OCR for screenshots it captured and no keylogging mechanism is provided.

Avantages

ActivTrak does everything you need and nothing you don't. It's user friendly, visually appealing and robust. Additionally, they release the most updates of any related software. I have tried more than six applications for this purpose and theirs is the best.

Inconvénients

The software has a tendency to create multiple "users" (people you are tracking) for the same person. One record for the computer, another for their associated Windows/Chrome identity and sometimes others if they have multiple user accounts on the same computer. This can cause you to have 3 or more user records to track for a single person. You can group them together and use an alias, which is great, but the overall number of users reporting will affect your billing plan.

Avantages

The ease of installation along with the multitude of reports

Inconvénients

I wish the software could be user-based rather than per machine - when users hotdesk, this will knock out our licensing and stop reporting until it is noticed/dealt with

Avantages

The dashboard allows you to drill down from group setting to each employee's uses. Coaching and insights help keep everyone in focus. The ability to see where and when folks are using what software or sites allowed us to capture the fact that one of our remote workers was performing two online jobs at the same time.

Inconvénients

I don't really have any. Easy to set up and use.

Avantages

I like that it is not completely intrusive in a keylogger like fashion as other softwares are, while still giving my bosses the information they need to keep everyone honest.

Inconvénients

The completely hidden nature can be a little uneasy - be sure to be transparent to your employees that you have this installed on the machines they'll be working on. Want them to be honest? Be honest yourself!

Avantages

The recording of information on a active desktop into a spreadsheet allows for accurate timesheets (billing to clientele) and updates on staff productivity. Screenshots also provide an effective method for assessing exact work conducted. As it is all online, the access to the dashboard can be done anywhere, even on holiday!

Inconvénients

Inability to record activity when device is offline (not connected to the internet) and then upload said activity when online again.

Avantages

It's user interface is simple and intuitive. It provides an in-depth report of each computer and what the user spends time doing.

Avantages

Easy to install
Unobtrusive and almost completely invisible to the end user
Compatible with antivirus and other security applications
It does what is claims to do

Inconvénients

Limited customization for enterprise type deployments, for example I would like to capture screenshots more frequently but at lower resolution
No keystroke logging - I understand the philosophy behind not doing it, but enterprise customers need this functionality

Avantages

You can try it first and decide if it is the proper solution, and it allows you to configure it and setup permissions. It is very useful.

Inconvénients

Once you uninstall it, and install it on other machines it will not bring the screenshots. The settings menu could be more user friendly and the stats page should allow more detailed reports.