Vantage Ultimate Key Benefits
Distribute Information. Distribute Responsibility.
IT Managers are too often left with the responsibility of managing and enforcing acceptable Internet usage for the entire organization.
Using Vantage Ultimate administrators can distribute reports to managers or department heads that show the activity of their direct subordinates, placing the responsibility of enforcing acceptable usage with the managers themselves.
Empower Users. Full Disclosure.
You can use Vantage Ultimate to distribute reports to each member in your organization detailing their own personal Internet usage (sites visited, search terms used etc).
This empowers users to modify their own behavior once they understand how much of their activity is productive or unproductive and what it costs the organization. It also serves as a gentle reminder to employees that their activities are being recorded and that they should keep their online behavior within the bounds of the organization’s acceptable use policy.
From a privacy point of view, Vantage Ultimate is an easy way to provide employees with full disclosure regarding the information recorded about them.
Self Serve, On-Demand Investigation.
You can also use Vantage Ultimate to distribute original data storages to any of your organization’s members, enabling them to conduct their own ad-hoc drilldowns on any information they require. For example, distribute storages to HR managers enabling them to investigate the activity of employees that have handed in their resignation notice, but still have access to confidential company resources.
Protect Employee Privacy.
By assigning permissions to each of your Vantage Ultimate users, you can ensure they can only view the reports they are allowed to view. However, some employees need to view the traffic of all users, but do not necessarily need to identify users. For example, a network administrator may need to view the amount of traffic downloaded from a particular site per user, but does not need to know which users where involved.
This is easily achieved using the ‘Identify users’ permission, which masks all usernames with a hash code.
