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Best Workpuls Alternatives for Monitoring Remote Teams

Looking for Workpuls alternatives (now called Insightful) that are flexible, intuitive, and fairly priced?

CurrentWare has the user activity tracking, web filtering, and data loss prevention features you need to keep your business running securely and productively—at a fraction of the cost!

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Use CurrentWare if	Use Workpuls/Insightful if
You want a one stop solution solution for managing the productivity and security of your remote teams You’d like endpoint security and employee monitoring software that provides greater control and visibility over employee web surfing, USB activity, and application use You want an employee monitoring solution that is fairly priced and simple to use	You’re searching for HR and project management features like payroll and manual time tracking You’d like to monitor employees in a multi-platform environment with Macs and PCs You need a time tracking tool with manual work tracking features

Compare Workpuls/Insightful vs. CurrentWare Key Features

CurrentWare has the best Workpuls alternatives for employee monitoring. The CurrentWare Suite has the key features you need to monitor time spent on applications and websites, giving insights that helps businesses understand how much time their employees spend on non-business tasks.

Review both employee monitoring software solutions so you can choose the right fit for your company.

Employee Monitoring

✅	Bandwidth Usage Tracking	❌
✅	Websites & Applications Tracking	✅
✅	Idle Time Tracking	✅
✅	Productivity Score	✅
✅	User Logon & Shutdown Tracking	❌
✅	IP Address Location Tracking	❌
✅	Web Category Tracking	✅
✅	Email Reports & Alerts	⚠️ Alerts not supported
✅	Desktop Screenshots	✅
❌	Manual Attendance & Time Tracking	✅
❌	Payroll Calculator	✅
✅	Monitor Remote Workers	✅
✅	Track In-Office & Remote Workers Separately	✅
✅	Optional Stealth Mode	✅
✅	Raw Data Access	✅

Employee Monitoring

This section will compare the employee monitoring and time tracking software features of CurrentWare’s Workpuls alternatives to Workpuls/Insightful.

CurrentWare’s employee monitoring software and Workpuls/Insightful are both excellent options for tracking employee performance, monitoring remote workers, ensuring that your employees are on the right track, and collecting valuable user activity data.

CurrentWare provides more granular insights, making it the best employee monitoring software for managing remote teams. Workpuls’ offline time tracking and payroll management features make it an ideal time tracking software.

Web Filtering

✅	User-level Blocking	❌
✅	Computer-level Blocking	❌
✅	Category Filtering	❌
✅	Whitelist URLs & Domains	❌
✅	Blacklist URLs & Domains	❌
✅	Block Applications	❌
✅	Custom Warning Message	❌
✅	Scheduled Blocking	❌
✅	Internet Quota & Timer	❌
✅	Port Filtering	❌
✅	Enforce Google SafeSearch	❌

Web Filtering

This section will compare the content filtering features of CurrentWare’s Workpuls alternatives to Workpuls/Insightful .

CurrentWare’s internet and application blocking software BrowseControl is the best option for controlling employee internet use. It allows you to proactively block undesirable websites and applications to help keep your workforce secure and productive.

USB Control

✅	Block USB & Storage Devices	❌
✅	Email Reports & Alerts	❌
✅	Device Blacklists & Whitelists	❌
✅	Block External Devices	❌
✅	Block USB File Transfers	❌

USB Device Control

This section will compare the device control and USB activity monitoring features of CurrentWare’s data loss prevention software AccessPatrol to Workpuls.

Monitoring and restricting USB file transfers is critical for protecting sensitive data against insider theft. AccessPatrol lets you restrict the use of a wide variety of peripheral devices including external storage hardware, Bluetooth, WiFi, and printers.

Setup & Deployment

✅	On-Premises	✅
✅	Database Access	✅
✅ Self hosted Cloud	Cloud Platform	✅
✅	Local & Remote Client Install	✅
✅	Command-Line Deployment	✅
✅ 14 Days	Free Trial	✅ 7 Days
✅	Remote Workforce Management	✅
✅	Compatible with Windows	✅
❌	Compatible with Mac	✅
❌	Mobile App	❌

Setup & Deployment

Thanks to its simple interface and setup process, getting started with CurrentWare is easy—whether or not you’re an experienced system administrator. CurrentWare offers a variety of deployment options that suit the installation needs of organizations of all sizes.

Customer Support

8:00 AM – 8:00 PM EST, Monday to Friday	Support Availability	8:00 – 22:00 CET
✅	Live Chat Feature	✅
✅	Phone Support	❌
✅	Training Videos	✅
✅	Email Support	✅
✅	Knowledge Base	✅

Customer Support

Even the best vendors need to have a reliable support team to ensure that their customers get the services they need to make the most of their employee monitoring solutions. This section will compare the customer support options of Insightful to CurrentWare’s Insightful alternative.

Case Study

Shady Maple Transforms Their Productivity With Internet Filtering & Employee Computer Monitoring Software

“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."

Read Shady Maple’s Story

Compare CurrentWare vs Workpuls/Insightful Pricing

CurrentWare Pricing

CurrentWare’s Workpuls alternatives are a cost effective solution for tracking the computer usage of your team members.

When purchased individually, CurrentWare’s solutions start at $3.99 USD per license/month.
The full suite (BrowseControl, BrowseReporter, AccessPatrol, enPowerManager) starts at $8.99 USD per license/month.

CurrentWare’s advantageous pricing includes discounts for the pre-purchase of multiple year plans, purchasing the all in one solution, large volumes of licenses, and education/non-profit organizations.

Workpuls Pricing (Insightful Pricing)*

Workpuls has three pricing tiers for their employee monitoring and time tracking software.

Employee Monitoring – $6.40 USD PUPM
Time Tracking – $8 USD PUPM
Automatic Time Mapping – $12 PUPM

Their Time Tracking tier provides a time tracking tool with additional project management and task tracking features; their automatic time mapping tier adds automatic time tracking that is customized for your industry.

*Insightful pricing current as of November 2022

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The reporting feature offers accurate insights on internet activities in order to ensure compliance & organization policies are met. The offsite management feature makes it easy to monitor those working from home.

Carroline Achieng O., Sales Consultant
Absa Life Assurance, 10,001+ Employees

BrowseReporter is simple to use and provides our company with the information we were looking for. Having BrowseReporter installed has prevented any internet abuse. This was exactly what we wanted!

Denise P., IT Manager
Paper & Forest Products, 51-200 Employees

BrowseReporter allows us to better control the activities of our remote employees, which are growing in number due to our transformation policy. It prevents irregular practices that go against our company's basic labor standards.

Kilmer M., Senior Director of Advertising
Financial Services Company, 51-200 Employees

BrowseReporter is an extremely useful piece of software for monitoring our employees' devices while they are at work. It enables us to view data in real time, conduct detailed analyses of each employee's activities, and improve productivity where necessary.

Sebastian P., Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer
Retail, 10,001+ Employees

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Make Informed Decisions with User Activity Monitoring

BrowseReporter’s detailed reports provide managers with the activity data they need to better understand how in-house and remote team members are spending their time at work.

Improve productivity and efficiency by identifying employees that are wasting work time on social media, games, and other distractions
Track productivity and efficiency for your entire workforce, a specific team, and individual employees
Find out the time slots that remote workers and other employees with flexible schedules are the most active

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Enforcing Acceptable Use Policies Has Never Been Easier

Our employee computer monitoring software gives you detailed evidence of web activity, making it the perfect Workpuls alternative for enforcing internet use policies.

Empower anti-harassment initiatives with evidence of employees that are visiting inappropriate websites during work time
Improve security with triggered alerts every time your employees visit high-risk websites including porn, torrents, and file sharing websites
Track computer activity to collect evidence of unwanted computer usage, then use BrowseControl to block unwanted websites and applications

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Automatically Capture Screenshots of Employee Desktops

With CurrentWare’s Workpuls alternative you can see exactly what your employees are doing on their computers. With BrowseReporter you can easily capture screenshots when specific websites or applications are used.

Capture high-resolution and compressed screenshots of your employee’s desktops
BrowseReporter can be configured to automatically delete older screenshots to reduce storage requirements
Screenshots are tagged with the website or application that was being used, the time, and the name of the computer that was captured

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Employee Computer Activity Dashboards & Reports

BrowseReporter’s user activity dashboards and computer usage reports give you the insights you need to identify productivity leaks, detect excessive bandwidth usage, reduce software costs, and improve business intelligence.

User Activity

User Activity Dashboards

Use the collected data to review aggregated results of your entire workforce or drill down to individual users
Select the date range and activities you want to populate the dashboard with
Use the activity log to review raw data; add/remove columns, sort data, and export to .XLSX or .PDF

Employee Productivity

Track Productive vs Unproductive Time

View time spent on productive vs unproductive web browsing & app use
Customize to what is considered productive in your organization
Compare trends in aggregated & individual productivity over time
Use IP-based location tracking to compare productivity levels between time spent in-office vs time spent working remotely

Idle Time Tracking

Find out when remote employees are idling for too long or spending too much of their working hours on non-work related activities
Customize idle time based on the last keyboard/mouse inputs
Discover which departments or employees are the most active

Bandwidth Usage

BrowseReporter bandwidth tracking dashboard

Bandwidth Monitoring

Detect bandwidth-hogging websites on your network
Review bandwidth usage trends to inform network capacity planning
See which individual users or groups have the greatest bandwidth usage

Website & App Usage

Track Website & Application Usage

Detect the use of unauthorized software applications
Track which apps & sites employees use solo, as a team, or as a company
Determine software adoption rates with usage data for apps and SaaS sites

Take Screenshots

BrowseReporter's employee desktop screen capture feature with a grid of screenshots displayed

Take Screenshots Of Your Employees’ Desktops

Capture high-resolution and compressed screenshots of your employee’s desktops to see exactly what they're doing on their computers.
The employee screenshot monitoring software feature can be configured to automatically delete older screenshots to reduce storage requirements
Screenshots are tagged with the website or application that was being used, the time, and the name of the computer that was captured

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Employee Monitoring Software Features to Improve Transparency & Respect Employee Privacy

The best computer monitoring software provides the flexibility you need to monitor employee computer activity while respecting workplace privacy expectations. Here are some of the best privacy and security enhancing features of BrowseReporter.

Share Data With Staff

End-User Reports

Give your users access to their own computer activity data. By giving employees access they can see exactly what data is being captured and use it for their benefit.

Limit Data Retention

CurrentWare auto delete scheduler with checkboxes for URLs, applications, bandwidth, and device data

Custom Data Retention

Automatically delete user activity data after a set period of time. Maintain auditable records of computer usage and time tracking for only as long as needed.

Notify Employees

Monitoring Software Notifications

Periodically display a pop-up message to notify your users that their computer activity is being monitored. The notification's message can be customized.

Show in System Tray

Enable this feature to make the CurrentWare Client visible in the system tray of your users' computers.

Limit Access to User Data

Restrict access to user activity data with a password-protected console and unique data access permissions for each manager.

Schedule Monitoring

Schedule BrowseReporter’s computer tracking to only collect data during work time. Turn off monitoring during non-work hours and personal browsing periods.

Disable Tracking

Disable Computer Tracking

CurrentWare's computer tracking software features can be selectively enabled or disabled, giving you full control over what is being monitored.

Admin Activity Logs

Admin Activity Logs

These audit logs help your security, auditing, and compliance teams answer “who did what, where, and when?” when it comes to configuration changes and data access within the CurrentWare Suite.

Share Data With Staff

Limit Data Retention

Notify Employees

Show in System Tray

Audit Admin Activity Logs

Disable Tracking

Schedule Monitoring

Limit Access to User Data