Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution - recent changes

Aiming to provide you the best monitoring and filtering solutions, Cyclope-Series Team is constantly working to improve their solutions. Please find below the change log for Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution.

If you experience any problems with this new version, please let us know here.

Full Details of Improvements and Changes

NEW! Version 6.1.0

March 15, 2012

- Cyclope Client
 Disk log writing feature fixed;
 Time stamps issues fixed;
 Characters encoding fixed

- Cyclope Server
 Email Reports improved
 Productivity Report slider fixed
 Productivity settings inheritance on departments fixed
 Category Activity report fixed
 PDF exports characters encoding fixed
 Tops percentage calculation fixed
 Hyperlinks added on Internet Activity report
 Report size limitation feature added

Version 6.0

November 02, 2011

  New core and architecture. The new setup package includes the following applications: Apache 2.2, Php 5.3, MySQL and Cyclope Server (our application). This means that the server application runs independently of the installed operating system.

  More dynamic user interface build with a flexible php template and incorporates sharp high quality flash charts that reflect very well each monitored user's activity.

  The Internet Activity report comes with 3 separate listings, showing visited domains, visited links and the page titles of the accessed pages.

  Document and Chat reports show every used window from these categories, while the Application Forms report lists all the used windows in the employee's activity.

  Improved Timeline report for one user where each action is chronologically logged.

  Activity Categories added - to allow the administrator to create his own custom category where he can then include different actions like an email, a chat window, Internet pages or certain documents.

  Software Inventory report added - lists all the installed software on the employee's computer.

  Improved top reports - Top productive/unproductive, Top Active/Idle, Top Online/Websites and Top Applications.

  Alerts option improved - allows the administrator to create a set of local working rules.

  Improved reports by email section. You can select to receive by email any report from the Statistics section.

  Customizable color themes (used in building the charts) and with 4 languages included.

Version 5.7

November 29, 2010

  Cost of working hours - helps managers determine the cost of unproductivity

  Applications categories report added – the settings section allows adding categories, while the applications categories report allows grouping the activities in defined categories

  Applied Attendance filter – allows managers to determine attendance by active time only

  Internet report – return URLs in Firefox

  Overtime report - Printable Version fixed

Version 5.5

June 24, 2010

  E-mail delivery of overview report and alerts

  Internet activity filters - one can choose to see the Internet activity an all browsers or on specific browsers

  Document monitoring filters - can choose to see all the documents or only certain type of documents

  Chat filters – activity on all chat clients or on certain clients

  New top report added - Top productive - shows most productive employees from a certain group or from the entire company

  Possibility to show statistics only for work time or only for overtime

  Administration changes – choose what to include for Online time: only browser time or both browser time and chat

  Quick Info page added - providing screenshots summary with the most important reports available

  New types of documents have been included for monitoring: Oracle Reports Server, Oracle Forms Runform, Oracle Discoverer, Qlik, Charisma, Remote Desktop Connection, VNC, Windev, AutoCAD

  New chat clients have been included for monitoring: Pidgin, QIP, Miranda

Version 5.0

February 10, 2010

  New report added: File activity, which provides information about created, modified, copied and deleted files from both fixed and removable drives

  Improved Internet activity report (statistics aggregated per group or detailed per user)

Version 4.2

October 15, 2009

  New report added: activity timeline which provides detailed information about the chronological order of activities performed on the computer

  New settings available in the administration section:

• private time
• applications – allow administrators to define Labels for specific applications

  Support for Safari and Maxthon

  Slovenian language added

Version 4.1

February 27, 2009

  New design for graphics and main menu

  Improved translation for all the available languages (the main menu, the page titles, the timing, the calendar)

  Translated and improved graphics (both bars and pie charts)

  Idle Time was added to the productivity report

  Minor change for the Excel reports

  Hungarian language added

Version 4.0

January 25, 2009

  New reports added:

• Top applications used by an employee, department or entire company
• Top Websites visited by an employee, department or entire company
• Top Active – most active employees of the company
• Top Idle – most passive employees of the company
• Top Online – employees spending most time online

  Russian and Polish version (beside the existing ones: English, Spanish, Romanian, Czech and Italian)

Version 3.9.3.0

September 18, 2008

  Support for Google Chrome. This release monitors all sites visited using Chrome.

  Several bug fixes for Cyclope clients (CyclopeNetClient, CyclopeVistaClient, CyclopeMobileClient)

  New release for CyclopeServerMonitor.

Version 3.9.2.2

September 3, 2008

  Adding two account types: Manager with view rights only and Manager with limited view rights

Version 3.9.2.1

July 28, 2008

  Productivity report (productive / unproductive and forbidden / allowed applications usage)

  Internet activity white list

  Czech and Italian version (beside the existing ones: English, Spanish, Romanian)

  Cyclope mobile client - no data lost even when employee get out of the monitored network

Version 3.9.2

August 28, 2007

  Rules&Alerts module:

• Create rules for each employee or department in “Administration” section
• In the “Statistics” section, the alerts are activated only if the employee activity does not comply with the specified rules settings.

Version 3.9

August 01, 2007

  Chat monitoring statistics included

  Improved web interface

  Better reports management - export statistics/reports in MS Excel