Resource optimisation can increase profit margins

Companies are desperately seeking solutions to streamline their business processes and at the same time, remain competitive and profitable. The economic strain on businesses today requires them to be extremely efficient, closely monitoring their costs and ensuring that they are strictly controlled. With employees being one of the largest expenses to any organisation, a major focus has now been placed on resource optimisation to ensure survival.

J2 Software managing director John Mc Loughlin says very few companies have the tools to monitor and optimise their resources. “Very little consideration has been given to providing solid management systems to ensure that the investment in technology delivers maximum benefit. With users being able to access the Internet, send and receive email and browse the local network, often in an unstructured manner, it is more important than ever that employees are monitored and kept productive. It is extremely important that executives take corrective steps and ensure there are preventative measures in place for this.”

SystemSkan is a total user management tool that provides business managers with the ability to view and record every user’s actions on the network, including Internet and email activity. SystemSkan will track, monitor and control every user activity on the network. There is also an easy-to-use comprehensive Web-based reporting module to track user activity. SystemSkan will also give one the added ability to manage and control external device usage, a major risk area for modern organisations. This will enable business managers to detect program usage, file access and activity including Internet usage. It gives them a holistic view of what is really going on across the network.

Many organisations are now looking for solutions to cover the obvious gaps in their approach to information security. The changing requirements of information security are evolving rapidly and these organisations need to find comprehensive, simple-to-use solutions — based on a whole new set of emerging challenges and threats.

SystemSkan can be used to identify security risks within an organisation, and provides policy enforcement tools to minimise these risks. It assists in setting the appropriate policy and provides enforcement tools to protect company information. Furthermore, it will greatly increase the efficiency of network management and reduce the cost of administration services within the workplace.

“SystemSkan is user friendly enough for CEO’s and managers to use quickly and easily. It is an essential policy enforcement tool to manage networks, knowledge workers and to protect intellectual property,” he explains.

Mc Loughlin says companies can realise a good return on investment from software like SystemSkan. “The measurement we use to determine a return on investment is certainly quantifiable, it is evident in the improvement, both from a data loss prevention aspect as well as employee productivity, with the added advantage that users are proactively being prevented from doing things that place the company and its information at risk.”

“This makes the return on investment tangible, reliable and unlike other software products, J2 Software provides solutions that have a direct impact on the bottom-line,” he concludes.

For more information contact J2 Software on (011) 794 2537 or email john@jtwo.co.za.