TrustRadius Insights for ActivTrak are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Custom Group Organization: Users have found the feature of defining custom groups for departments beneficial in organizing and managing teams efficiently.
Real-time Monitoring with Live Reports: The inclusion of live reports for tracking active users has been well-received for offering immediate insights into team activities and productivity levels.
Effective Workload Analysis Tools: Some users appreciate the workload analysis tools for identifying overworked or underperforming team members, which aids in resource allocation and support.
Essential Time Tracking Functionality: Customers have praised the time logging and management features as crucial for monitoring work hours and enhancing overall time utilization within the organization.
Comprehensive Data Analytics: The detailed data analytics, real-time activity insights, and reporting capabilities are recognized for providing actionable metrics and objective performance data.
User-Friendly Interface and Robust Security Measures: The platform's user-friendly interface, customizable configurations, easy navigation, and security features stand out as strengths that contribute to its efficiency and convenience.
We use ActivTrak in our organization to track performance and review the accuracy of hours. It is primarily focused on new employees and our out-of-country staff members. We also use it in the Key Performance Indicators, as a certain percentage is standard and a certain percentage is above-average job performance.
Pros
Easy to use dashboard and portal.
Quick generating reports.
Customizable productive & unproductive labeling.
Cons
Sometimes switching between employees delays the data from being generated..
It duplicates users quite often.
Deleting a user is ineffective. You have to put it as "Do Not Track".
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well-suited for offices with a mid- to large-sized employee base. I often review ActivTrak first before going to the employee with performance questions. We have 35+ people, and it is hard to keep track of them without a regularly updated performance tracking system. I do think that a small office might be offended by the tracking.
We use ActivTrak to track productivity of our teams. We also use it to ensure that during work from home days, our employees are working during the proper times. It also helps flag when work computers are being used for non-work purposes.
Pros
Easily provides real time tracking of employee computers
Tracks the amount of usage per application. This helps us determine that applications value.
Host monthly training sessions and showcases new updates. Makes it easy to stay informed.
Cons
Simplification of labels - it can be difficult to navigate due labels having confusing names.
I have teams in two time zones and I wish it was easier to navigate between the two.
It would be nice to have different logins for team managers that just show them their team vs the entire org.
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, I recommend ActivTrak. I think the pricing is very reasonable for all that you get. I like the monthly calls, they are well done and informative. I think there is a bit of a learning curve, due to so many tabs and confusing names for things. If it was a bit easier to navigate I'd recommend them more.
Track activity of employees on work computer, including time spent on productive and unproductive work. It helps the company ensure that employees are spending the required effort and doing productive work while working from home. It allows us to continue to offer work from home option to all our employees.
Pros
Track active and passive time spent on computer
Label productive and unproductive time
Provide detailed activity log and screenshots enabling deeper analysis
Cons
Ability to group consecutive activities with the same title, website, etc as one activity if there is only passive time activity in between
Likelihood to Recommend
good in tracking active and passive time good in productive and unproductive classification
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Watching staff to ensure they're active while working from home and not using websites that malicious. We also aim to track if sensitive data is being mishandled.
Pros
Generally watches if someone is working or not
Generally watches what websites are being used
Cons
Way to establish passive time as non-productive
Way to tie users together instead of automatically creating new users when people log in via a local account
Reduce seats on a monthly bases vs annual basis
Likelihood to Recommend
Every 2 months we have to delete users who aren't real users because someone logs into a local account or be faced to buy an annual seat. We also are forced to delete users on a short timeframe or face penalty of needing to buy an annual seat when someone logs into a local account.
AtivTrak has been a great addition to our company. We can successfully track the information we need. It is as easy as deploying the client to users' computers, and their computers appear in the admin console. This has allowed us to have a successful remote work experience.
Pros
I created an Intune deployment for installing agents based on group membership. All I do is add users to this group. After the software is installed, they show up in ActivTrak very easily!
I can uninstall the agents through the admin console.
I can add users to DO NOT TRACK. If I want to suspend tracking for some time, then remove them from there when I am ready to track again, without going through the agent reinstallation process.
Cons
Agents take too long to be uninstalled.
Likelihood to Recommend
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
ActivTrak helps us understand our resource usage across our team and where we can optimize our team. It gives us aircover of data to see if there are team members that need help in their bandwidth / resource management. Managers use it to better understand their team and needs. Its not meant to replace good management but an auxiliary tool to enhance their management capabilities
Pros
Tracking the teams active time on their computers
Providing the data to managers to see if there is anything to double click into. If an employee is underperforming and ActivTrak gives us data that shows bandwidth issues, we can address that with the employee quickly
Cons
often times an employee questions the validity of the data or the categories of Active or Inactive. More clarity around how the monitoring works would be helpful
The name of the program that is being installed should be more vague. We've had employees panic and start researching what is being installed. More discrete branding would be helpful
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for remote employees where the manager cannot physically see their team or employee, especially in this new world of AI, to understand how much effort they are putting into their output/deliverables. If someone is working in office, its probably less useful since they can physically be seen working.
We use ActivTrak to verify the working hours of our remote employees. It also is a good insight to what apps or webpages they may be using that should be deployed as a company resource.
Pros
Active and productive hour monitoring
Grouping users for detailed management view
Easy to digest graphics based on your company's data
Cons
License rotations
Detailed activity breakdown (showing inactive periods between active and passive records.
Likelihood to Recommend
Verifying user's active hours based on submitted hours from clients.
VU
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
We mainly use this to determine if workers are productive or not. It has helped significantly identifying the "Houdini workers" who appear to be busy but are either playing games or doing personal tasks during work hours. The system is very easy to use.
Pros
Tracks whether applications or websites are business or personal related
Capturing screenshots of users desktops for review
User friendly interface, easy to teach non-tech managers
Cons
Pricing module, sometimes for our use case having a minimum of 5 is too many.
Live view, unless I have missed it, of the users screen in real time
Email alerts
Likelihood to Recommend
This is our go to product and has been for several years now. This has helped our organization determine which users are working and which ones are not. Several times it has identified that an employee who was suspected of doing personal items was indeed doing work related tasks and was struggling. We were able to provide further training to help the end user.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
I monitor employees' daily activities and use it as a training tool. This helps me to see what areas are needed for improvement. We have issues with employees not utilizing time management correctly. As well as using the computer for personal use. This has helped our organization greatly. I would recommend.
Pros
Monitor computer usage
differentiate between productive and unproductive
allow a live view
Cons
a better filter for tracking screenshots
Likelihood to Recommend
It helps to make sure employees are doing what they are suppose to. It also serves as a training tool
We use ActivTrak to monitor computer activity, productivity and compliance. ActivTrak facilitates this through multiple dashboards, configurations and filters. It has been very easy to set up and maintain all our users information and device activity since day one. ActivTrak allows us to distribute workloads evenly throughout our workforce to avoid burnout or inactive employees.
Pros
Activity tracking
User and device management
Customer service
Graphics and filters
Cons
Data export to .csv or excel files for easier printing or analysis
Screenshots/alarms
Likelihood to Recommend
ActivTrak is suited for oversee and monitor employee/user device activity. The information collected allows direct and indirect understanding of an individual of group performance, workload and if there is any room for improvement or workload distribution.