User monitoring without micro managing
August 30, 2024

User monitoring without micro managing

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ActivTrak

ActivTrak allows us to monitor remote users without micromanaging or being intrusive. It highlights potential issues for further investigation automatically. The ability to see the entire history of a user provides the ability to build a case if needed, or see trends for coaching. Being able to compare the productivity of the team week over week at a glance is a nice bonus as well.

Pros

  • Passively monitors activity - both active and passive
  • Allows for customization of "productive" and "unproductive" activity
  • Tracks usage over time across different devices for an individual user
  • Provides supervisors the ability to see only their team
  • Reports activity without being resource heavy or intrusive

Cons

  • Deletion and merging of users is painfully slow
  • Site navigation can be confusing to find the correct dashboard view
  • Identified remote users taking advantage of less supervision
  • Improved productivity of team YoY
  • Identified areas and times of unproductive use that eat into work hours
  • Visualization of passive time
  • Comparison of target user to rest of team
  • Long history comparisons
Our business requires a lot of time on the phone, and using phone logs to overlay on top of ActivTrak logs helps give a complete picture of "passive" time. ActivTrak is a great tool to coach your team on how to prioritize tasks and activities as well as organize schedules to be more efficient.
Seeing the average active to passive time of all users across the company has allowed management to have a better understanding of expectations for what can be accomplished in a workday, and why less passive time does not necessarily mean more productivity.

Do you think ActivTrak delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ActivTrak's feature set?

Yes

Did ActivTrak live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of ActivTrak go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ActivTrak again?

Yes

ActivTrak is great for keeping honest people honest. It does not do well at proving users actively trying to subvert monitoring with mouse jigglers or macros. It provides insights into the productivity of a users day to help guide decisions on whether coaching or further investigation is needed, but it is not the only tool you need.

ActivTrak Feature Ratings

Automated data collection
9
Data analysis
10
Data integration
8
Benchmarking
10
Report designer
9
Pre-built content
8
Data management
9
Self-service insights
10

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