Shady Maple Takes Back Control Over Employee Technology Use

“Before CurrentWare we had ways of managing and dealing with HR that simply weren’t scalable.”

Kevin Porsche

IT Admin, Shady Maple

Shady Maple

About the Company

Shady Maple is a family-owned farm market and fresh produce distributor with multiple locations across Pennsylvania.

For over 50 years Shady Maple has made it a priority to give their customers the freshest products, the best recipes, and the greatest service. 

Headquarters
Pennsylvania, US
Industry
Grocery & Retail
   
Business Type
B2C
Company Size
800+ Employees

CurrentWare Products Used
browse control access patrol

Shady Maple Takes Back Control Over Employee Technology Use

“Before CurrentWare we had ways of managing and dealing with HR that simply weren’t scalable.

Kevin Porsche

IT Admin, Shady Maple

Shady Maple

About the Company

Shady Maple is a family-owned farm market and fresh produce distributor with multiple locations across Pennsylvania.

For over 50 years Shady Maple has made it a priority to give their customers the freshest products, the best recipes, and the greatest service. 

Headquarters
Pennsylvania, US

Industry
Grocery & Retail

Business Type
B2C

Company Size
800+ Employees


CurrentWare Products Used
browse control

access patrol

Shady Maple found CurrentWare during a significant period of growth in their company. As their number of employees grew, Shady Maple knew that they needed an employee productivity solution that could scale along with them.

Their old ways of managing employee internet abuse—manually checking each employee’s computer individually and hoping that they didn’t clear out their web history—would no longer be sustainable.

“It was going onto the employee’s machine and hoping that they didn’t clear out their history, things of that nature.

The more requests I got from our HR department requesting to know what the user was doing at a particular point in time, it became apparent that we needed to get a central management system in place for monitoring web activity.”

Kevin Porsche

IT Admin, Shady Maple

Putting a Stop to Employee Internet Abuse

Since implementing CurrentWare’s employee internet management tools, Shady Maple’s operational efficiency has skyrocketed.

With CurrentWare in place, Shady Maple could review the web browsing, bandwidth consumption, and application usage of their entire workforce from a central console.

These insights helped Shady Maple answer key questions:

  • Are employee performance issues being caused by excessive unproductive web browsing?
  • What bandwidth hogs are slowing down the network, and who is responsible for the excessive bandwidth use?
  • Are our employees spending the majority of their time on-task, or do particular distractions need to be limited?

BrowseReporter’s ease of use and automated reporting made the solution accessible for use by managers, HR, and IT personnel alike.

Commonly abused websites and applications were effortlessly blocked from being accessed using BrowseControl. Employees that needed access to blocked content for legitimate work purposes could be readily exempted from BrowseControl’s content filtering policies in just a few clicks.

    “There wasn’t any 360-page instruction manual—it just worked!

    When we first saw the employee tracking reports we were totally surprised by some of the behaviors and habits that had gone under the radar.”

    Kevin Porsche

    IT Admin, Shady Maple

    BrowseReporter productivity dashboard - individual user

    The Advantages of Advanced Visibility & Control Over Employee Computer Usage

    Thanks to CurrentWare, Shady Maple’s network performance has dramatically improved and their workforce has regained focus on their core tasks.

    The CurrentWare client maintained the integrity of the user activity data even when employees deleted their browser’s web history, providing Shady Maple with accurate and actionable information about their browsing habits.

    The records of excessive unproductive web browsing and application use gave the HR department the insights they needed to effectively diagnose performance issues.

    The reports proved useful for the employees themselves, too! Once Shady Maple gave employees access to their own data they were able to benefit from the same productivity insights that the business leaders had.

    “The employees find the reports to be an extremely helpful self-analysis tool, and use the reports to analyze and reconfigure priorities!”

    “The HR department suddenly gained the ability to present tangiable evidence of disinclination to employees who had been underperforming or slacking on the job.

    Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time.

    We have become an extremely efficient workforce.

    Kevin Porsche

    IT Admin, Shady Maple

    CurrentWare Grows With Its Customers

    As customers like Shady Maple continue to grow, CurrentWare has grown alongside them.

    We continuously make improvements to our products based on the feedback and ideas of real users such as Kevin.

    CurrentWare takes user feedback, and actually reacts to it.

    We have definitely enjoyed making use of their propensity to involve feature requests from customers as part of the roadmap for future updates.”

    Kevin Porsche

    IT Admin, Shady Maple

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