Vantage is WebSpy’s award-winning analysis and reporting product range that provides an interactive reporting interface into all areas of Internet, email and network usage within an organization.

Vantage is WebSpy’s ultimate analysis and reporting solution that assists organizations in identifying Internet and email misuse, identifying and resolving network problems and download issues, strengthening security controls, preserving bandwidth, minimizing litigation risks, and identifying the source of data loss or damage.

Vantage empowers you to see it all with intuitive, easy to use navigation and powerful drill down capabilities, making it possible to get to the root of the problem

Import

Import text or SQL log data from a wide variety of third party vendor products, or Windows Event logs directly from servers or workstations on your network. WebSpy Vantage supports over 200 log file formats from different vendors.

Ad-hoc Investigation (Summaries)

Interactively drilldown into any area of logged information to interrogate specific events.

Reports

Choose from a comprehensive list of web, email, network and security reports or create your own custom report templates for your environment. Reports can be generated in HTML, Microsoft® Word, CSV and Text formats. Create separate report documents for each user, department, date or any other logged item.

Aliases

Represent raw log data more meaningfully using Aliases. For example, you can transform IP addresses and computer names into actual employee names and then group them into departments. You can also group IP addresses into network subnets, or long user-agent strings into browsers, instant messaging applications and other common web-enabled programs.

Profiles

Categorize web site URLs, email subject lines, instant message chats and any other logged data using customizable keyword profiling technology.

Tasks

Schedule any action such as importing and reporting to occur at convenient times such as overnight or on weekends.

 Vantage Key Benefits

Maximize Employee Productivity

·         Identify misuse by monitoring which sites are being viewed, for how long, what’s being downloaded, and by which employee.

·         Ensure the Internet is being used according to company policies such as checking time limits on recreational browsing, or confirming that restricted content is not being accessed by certain individuals or departments.

·         Monitor email activity and instant messaging to protect the transmission of confidential information or control non-work related communication.

Identify Download Issues

·         Identify excessive downloading by specific individuals, departments or locations.

·         Determine the most expensive websites that are wasting away your Internet quota.

·         Analyze the types of files that account for a majority of downloads.

·         Identify the senders and recipients of large emails.

Strengthen Security Controls

·         Verify the configuration of the network’s firewall and other threat management systems.

·         Identify and investigate security breaches.

·         Examine logon activity and unauthorized file access.

Improve Network Management

·         Investigate traffic between computers, ports or applications to diagnose network problems.

·         Gather information to help decide which protocols to prioritize over others.

·         Better manage network resources and troubleshoot certain events.

Report on Website Statistics

·         View reliable statistics of your company's own website, including the number of visits, pages viewed, visitor browsing times, and referring websites.

·         Publish valuable reports on website statistics to improve the website’s design and functionality.

Enhance Workplace Morale

Limiting or denying employees’ Internet access can create employee resentment, hostility and even reduce productivity further by complicating and delaying the accomplishment of Internet related tasks. A certain amount of (monitored) online recreation can enhance many workplaces and ultimately make employees more productive.

Reduce Software, Hardware & Administration Costs

Vantage imports and analyzes different types of log files (see full list), while most competing log file analyzers are hard-coded to analyze a particular log file type. Achieving all reporting requirements, using only one application, means spending less on software maintenance, hardware and administration.

Vantage Technical Information

Minimum requirements 

·         Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, Server 2003 SP1, Vista, Server 2008.

·         Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0

Recommended requirements    

·         64 bit Windows operating system.

·         2 GHz CPU or faster

·         2 GB RAM or above

·         Microsoft® Word Viewer 2003 (free download) to run Microsoft® Word reports.

·         Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher to view HTML (MHT) reports

·         Microsoft® MDAC 2.8 or higher (to import from an SQL database)

·         An Internet connection capable of accessing XML web services (to receive automatic updates)

Upgrading from Vantage 2.0

If you are upgrading from Vantage 2.0, you have the option to migrate across your old settings files. These files include your Storages, Aliases, Profiles, and Templates. This is achieved using the Settings Migration Wizard which is found under Tools | Migrate Settings in the main menu.