Special offer in December 2010

Published on November 29, 2010 in Cyclope, Employee Monitoring, Internet Filtering, Product Releases and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Winter holidays are getting closer and closer. Everybody needs to buy presents for family, friends and colleagues, so we, at Cyclope-Series, decided to give you a present too: 30% discount for our employee monitoring and Internet filtering solutions. Save 30% from the normal price if you decide to purchase Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution or Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy during December 2010.

Save money at the end of the year so you can buy presents to your family, friends and colleagues but don’t forget about your business :) .

Also, we need to announce you that a new version of Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution is now available. A few features of the new version (5.7) are: Continue reading ‘Special offer in December 2010′

How to work out with a stressed person

Published on November 24, 2010 in Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Stressed people are unconsciously transferring their feelings to people around them. That’s why the most affected are the persons that spend most of their time with these persons and I refer to family and work colleagues.

A major characteristic of these people is that they are continuously nervous and stressed because of a specific think. But the more they stress, the more they will not find a solution and will be unable to control the situation.

If you have a discussion with a person that walks from one side of the room to another, asking questions with no answers, it will make you lose your focus and attention. How can you handle this situation?

Terri Guillemets had a great saying: “Give your stress wings and let it fly away!” Continue reading ‘How to work out with a stressed person’

8 reasons you are always out of time

Published on October 29, 2010 in Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Whether you are an employee, employer, freelancer or student, time might be a real problem for you.
Skipping from one activity to another, at the end of the day you realize that most of the tasks scheduled are uncompleted or you don’t even have the time to take a look over them. Why? Because you don’t have enough time!

Well, sorry to disappoint you but time doesn’t move faster than in the past. What make you feel like “oh God it’s already evening” is related to you habits and life style.

1.Information and technology.

Decades ago, life was pretty simple and information was less. These days’ people are bombarded with new technologies and some will easy your work but some will just distract you from work.

2.Unfinished tasks.

If you are the kind of person that starts a task but skip to another before finishing the previous one, then you definitely like to complicate things. Tasks undone will actually create more work for you because they take more time to pick back up when you return to them. Continue reading ’8 reasons you are always out of time’

Summer heat – makes us sluggish employees

Published on August 26, 2010 in Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

I don’t know how you feel, but summer heat makes my working days real pains. I often find myself sitting in front of the computer thinking at the perfect vacation – I probably shouldn’t say that – but it’s a fact and I can’t deny this feeling. While outside temperature may be rising, inside productivity is on the decline. Not even the air conditioning can change this “summer syndrome”.

It’s not just me, it’s about all of us and there are surveys to prove it. For example, experts from CarrierBuilder.com have conducted a survey which revealed that:

  • - “More than a quarter (27%) of workers describe the temperature at their work place as “too hot,” while 2-in-10 (19 %) workers say it is “too cold.”
  • – More than 1-in-5 (22 %) workers said that a “too hot” work environment made it difficult to concentrate. 11% of workers said the same about a “too cold” work place.

    • Continue reading ‘Summer heat – makes us sluggish employees’

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Feedback

Published on August 23, 2010 in Employee Monitoring, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: .

As the customers’ feedback is very important for us in improving the solutions we provide, we would appreciate if you could give us your feedback regarding Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution usage.

It takes no more than 3 minutes to answer the questions below, and be sure that your answers will help us a lot: Continue reading ‘Cyclope Employee Surveillance Feedback’

How much is your employees’ un-productivity cost you?

Published on August 18, 2010 in Business Tips, Cyclope, Employee Monitoring, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

It is proven that there are unproductive employees in almost every company. We will not discuss here about the reasons for this decreased productivity, instead, we will discuss about how Cyclope Employee Surveillance can tell you how exactly the un-productivity of each employee costs you.

It is enough to set the working hour cost of each employee or department, select the currency and here you are. Just look into the un-productivity report and you will find the top of unproductive employees along with the corresponding losses. Now you know how much it costs you the inactivity of each employee and you can easily decide what further actions must be taken. See the video below: Continue reading ‘How much is your employees’ un-productivity cost you?’

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution – version 5.5 released

Published on June 25, 2010 in Cyclope, Employee Monitoring and Product Releases. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Two weeks ago we were announcing that a new version of our Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution is in “laboratories” for important changes. The developers have done their job and the new version of our employee monitoring solution is ready to be released.

The most important change for Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution version 5.5 is that fact that it has been developed on a new technology, .NET framework 2.0. Also, due to many requests we received, a new functionality has been added, Continue reading ‘Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution – version 5.5 released’

Avoid employee rights violation with workplace policy

Published on June 18, 2010 in HowTo, Internet Filtering and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Workplace policy is a formal policy created by the management / business owners in order to set clear restrictions, protecting both employees and employers. Workplace policy covers more topics like: rate of pay, discrimination, abuse within workplace, employee rights etc. To avoid misunderstandings and malpractice within the company it is very important to have a clear and complete policy. On the other hand, employees should read these policies carefully because sometimes these policies can be sneaky and if there is something that looks suspicious, they should ask for more details.

Now, in regard to employee monitoring, this issue should definitely have a complete section into the workplace policy. Continue reading ‘Avoid employee rights violation with workplace policy’

Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy – new version available for download

Published on June 15, 2010 in Internet Filtering and Product Releases. 0 Comments Tags: .

As I announced in a previously post, this week we are making public the latest version of Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy, 4.0 build 300.
The application has been technically improved but there were also some improvements regarding the design and the interface. Continue reading ‘Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy – new version available for download’

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution version 5.5 – coming soon

Published on June 8, 2010 in Employee Monitoring. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Our top business solution, Cyclope Employee Surveillance, is in “laboratories” for important changes. Developers are now performing the final tests in order to release the newest version at the end of next week.

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution, version 5.5 has been created using a new technology, .NET framework 2.0. Beside the technical improvements our team worked to improve the interface and to add new features. I will mention some of the changes and a detailed description I will provide you when the new version will go live:

  • - Quick Info page is now 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

This new version will be of tremendous value to business professionals and small business. We will provide you more details as soon as the new version will go live. Until then, keep an eye on our blog and see what other events are upcoming.