Cyclope is an advanced employee surveillance software which provides you 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.
Features: Cyclope is an employee surveillance software. You are able to monitor any machine on your company network. Cyclope is able to monitor details related to the employee`s activities through the day on any specific machine you want to monitor. Detailed statistics can be gathered about usage and the data can be used to counsel the employee to increase productivity and avoid/reduce misuse. The statistics can be printed out in detailed reports. The reports are customizable. You are able to monitor Windows activity, application activity, specific application usage, internet activities, web sites activities, chat sessions, documents worked on, Attendance, idle time and any overtime activity.
Without sacrificing privacy, the software monitors computer usage to ensure effective, productive personnel and stricter internet security. It can highlight particular areas of concern and inefficiency as they come out. Approved usage policy also can be better enforced by monitoring any misuse. This application allows a manager to create rules for each employee/ employee group related to schedule, idle time, internet and chat activities. You are able to set alerts and the application provides you data of what rules have been broken and who did that. The stats are viewable remotely and at any time. It takes care of the more traditional employee control concerns, such as attendance and overtime, accessed documents and work within the documents, documents printed.
Overall: Quite a comprehensive monitoring program. The question remains whether this is a invasion of privacy though the publisher mentions that it is non invasive.