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The focal point for employee monitoring and filtering in Spector 360 is the Dashboard, a powerful yet easy-to-use Windows-based application that can reside on one or more PCs on your network. Just like the dashboard of a sports car, the Spector 360 Dashboard provides you with literally dozens of controls and views that enable you to navigate and quickly access the information most important to you. With the Dashboard, you can centrally monitor all of the computers on your network from one location.

Over time, as event data is collected from your employee’s computers and stored into the Spector 360 SQL Database, trends and patterns start to form that the Dashboard can display. You can analyze this information by using any of more than 50 built-in graphical charts and reports provided, or you can customize these views to suit your specific needs. You can change the view of time for all recorded events, enabling you to focus on the events recorded today, yesterday, last week, a specific month or over an entire year. You can also focus on the activities that occur during specific times of the day. You can focus on one employee, a department, or all of the employees in your entire company. You can also focus on specific computers. For example, in an environment where many users are sharing computer resources such as in a school or library, the monitoring of specific computers may be advantageous.

When you observe the event data across one or more employees in your organization, you can quickly detect performance problems including inappropriate and unethical activity. Analyze how these activities are affecting your company and react to them accordingly.

With Spector 360’s security features, you can empower a front line manager to monitor those in his group while restricting his Dashboard view so he can analyze only the data collected for them and no one else.

The Dashboard offers the following tools for performing analysis of your recorded event data:

Quick View Tool
Access dozens of predefined charts and grids showing Top "N" and other comparative data from recorded user, program, file, email, chat, and network activity.  Adjust the built-in charts and create your own.

Data Explorer Tool
Explore recorded events by activity.  An "Explorer" style window lets you navigate across the activities of your employees with access to the associated event detail.  You can export your findings for use in other Windows applications or print the information displayed on the screen.

Quick View Tool

The Quick View Tool enables you to search, filter, and consolidate recorded activities to produce charts and data tables describing trends and patterns of PC and Internet usage. With the Dashboard, you can visualize these trends, make comparisons at a glance, and at any time access the underlying details.  The Dashboard presents the data collected from the PCs residing in your network with productivity, security, compliance, and return on investment in mind.  Spector 360 empowers you to monitor your employees with both a high degree of granularity and flexibility.

One of the most powerful features in the Quick View Tool is the ability to view predefined charts and data tables showing exactly how PCs and the Internet are being used within your organization through "Top N" and other comparative data. Spector 360 provides literally dozens of these built-in intuitive graphical charts.

You can adjust the predefined charts to customize the environment for your specific needs or create entirely new charts. Click on any data element in a chart to display the details associated with that event.

From this perspective, you can quickly determine when suspicious activity is taking place and find out all of the details associated with the event on demand.  At any time you can “drill down” and inspect the associated data with pinpoint accuracy. Focus on one or more employees suspected of inappropriate, illegal, or unapproved conduct or scope out the activities of an entire department or company.

At any time you can invoke the Spector 360 Screen Snapshot Viewer, with its VCR-like controls, to replay the screen snapshots associated with any event just as if you were standing over the shoulder of your employee with a VCR when he typed on his keyboard.  You can also generate professional looking usage reports suitable for management review.  Alternately, you can access the various parameters associated with each event and filter and sort them based on the criteria that is most important to you.

Additionally, the Quick View Tool empowers you to generate reports on demand from any of the displayed charts or data tables.

By leveraging off of the many features of the Spector 360 Dashboard you can achieve all your employee monitoring objectives.

With the Spector 360 Dashboard you can perform a quick analysis of how your employees are using Company PCs and the Internet by answering the following questions categorized by event type: