WebSpy Analyzer Standard (Internet Monitoring)

WebSpy Analyzer Standard (Internet Monitoring) Short Description:
See all employee Internet activity & helps maximize productivity.

WebSpy Analyzer Standard (Internet Monitoring) Long Description:
Analyzer Standard enables you to see ALL employee Internet activity and helps you maximize productivity, identify Internet misuse, minimize costs and reduce legal liability. You can import log files, that your Internet proxy server or firewall generates, into Analyzer Standard and conduct detailed investigations into all areas of your organization's Internet usage. Analyzer Standard enables powerful drilldowns into data and clearly identifies who did what, when, for how long, the information accessed or downloaded.

• $295 USD / year
• ONE Installation (no monitoring agents or additional network configurations)
• Report on unlimited amount of users (no per user fees, up to 2 GB of log file import*)
• Supports a variety of web proxy servers and log file formats
• Produces detailed, categorized and actionable Internet use reports

Analyzer Standard Key Features Import Import text or SQL log data from a wide variety of third party vendor products, such as proxy servers, firewalls, web and email servers. WebSpy Analyzer supports over 200 log file formats. Ad-hoc Investigation (Summaries) Obtain a holistic view of your organization’s activity and interactively drilldown into any area of logged information to interrogate specific events. Reports Choose from a comprehensive list of web and email reports or create your own custom report templates (Giga only). Reports can be generated in HTML, Microsoft® Word, CSV and Text formats. Distribute reports automatically, either by email or by coping to location such as an internal file server or intranet site. Aliases Represent log data more meaningfully using aliases. For example, you can use aliases to group users into departments or to identify the programs being used to access the web. You can also easily import user and department information from Active Directory or NT User Groups. Profiles Categorize web site URLs into profiles such as Adult, Sport, and Entertainment using customizable keyword profiling technology. Tasks Categorize web site URLs into profiles such as Adult, Sport, and Entertainment using customizable keyword profiling technology. New Analyzer Features

• Windows® Vista Support Installs and runs on Microsoft® Windows Vista
• Export to Block List Export any list of sites to a Microsoft ISA URL Set or to a Hosts file. ISA URL sets can be imported into Microsoft ISA and used in firewall rules. Hosts files can be deployed to problem PCs to redirect browsing to a specified IP Address.
• Anonymize users on Import To protect privacy, user information can be anonymized on import. Usernames and email addresses are replaced with an MD5 sum (such as f96027794b7b97711c093fe1fc7b7dca)
• Don't Email Reports Greater Than N MB Specify the maximum email attachment size before reports are automatically emailed.
• Date Modifiers for Storage & Report Names Use date modifiers such as -1m (last month) or -7d (last week) when creating storage names and specifying which storage to report on. Syntax is %[modifer,dateformat]. For example “My Storage %[-1m,yyyy-mm]” will create a storage name of “My Storage 2007-09” if created in October 2007.
• MHT Report Format Create packaged Web reports in MHT format. MHT provides an alternative to the WebSpy Report Format (WSR) that requires the installation of WebSpy report viewer components. MHT files are natively supported by Internet Explorer 5 and above.
• Loose HTML Report Format Create non-packaged Web reports (html file, and a folder containing all graphics and other resources). These reports can be viewed in browsers other than Internet Explorer, and can be published to a web server's file system for publishing to an Intranet site.
• Compressed Reports Compress your reports using zip compression. This makes reports easier to send via email and reduces the disk space necessary to store your reports.
• Importing Compressed Log Files in Analyzer Premium Analyzer Premium can now import compressed log files such as zip and gzip. This feature has previously only been available in Analyzer Giga.
• Schedule Imports from a CSV file into Aliases Update CSV files using your own internal processes and automatically import them into aliases via a scheduled task.
• Filter Windows Username imports by Group You can now filter by specific groups when importing Windows users from Active Directory. Previous versions imported all users into the Usernames alias by default.
• Miscellaneous optimizations and bug fixes In addition to the above features, Analyzer 2.3/4.3 delivers all the improvements and optimizations made since the last public release of Analyzer 2.2/4.2 which was released as an automatic update on the 27th of February 2006.

Analyzer Benefits Maximize Employee Productivity

• Identify misuse by monitoring which sites are being viewed, for how long, what’s being downloaded, and by which employee.
• Ensure the Internet is being used according to company policies by monitoring and analyzing aspects such as time limits on recreational browsing.

Minimize Costs

• Identify the sites, file types or users responsible for large non-business downloads.
• Analyzer Standard imports and analyzes different types of log files, while most competing log file analyzers are hard-coded to analyze a particular log file type. Achieving all reporting requirements, using only one application, means spending less on software maintenance, hardware and administration.

Reduce Legal Liability

• Identify inappropriate activity early so you can take the appropriate action and protect the business from sexual harassment, defamation or illegal activity lawsuits.
• Prevent hostile work environments by minimizing exposure to inappropriate material.

Enhance Workplace Morale

• Limiting or denying employees’ Internet access can create employee resentment, hostility and even reduce productivity further by complicating and delaying the accomplishment of Internet related tasks. A certain amount of (monitored) online recreation can enhance many workplaces and ultimately make employees more productive.