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Success Stories Our customers have implemented Spector CNE to help solve a wide range of business concerns. Here are some comments they have shared with us:
"Spector CNE is a frighteningly amazing product. It was easy to install. After we announced to the employees that their activities were being monitored, I noticed a great change in the employees surfing patterns. Productivity has improved and workers now look for work to stay busy rather than goofing off." Thanks, Timothy J Cunningham CTO of Information Distribution and Marketing IDMI Warner Robins, GA ____________________________________ "We love our Spector CNE software. It's one of the best software investments we've made. As Director of Information and Technology in a fairly large school district, one of our biggest challenges is providing a safe and secure environment that is conducive to learning. All of our students and staff sign Internet acceptable use policies, which prior to installing Spector CNE was a challenge to enforce. We didn't have anything like Spector CNE, and it's nearly impossible for the teachers to always be looking over the students shoulders. So, now that we have Spector CNE installed I feel reassured that even though we cannot look over the students shoulders every minute, we always know what they've been up to. You can imagine the students surprise when they had been caught doing something against our Acceptable use policy, staring at snapshots of their Illegal activities. Word spread fast! Since installing the software, it hasn't taken much time to realize SIGNIFICANT reductions in unacceptable computer use. As for your support staff, we found them to be most responsive and competent. Thanks Spectorsoft, keep up the great work!" Jeffrey Hunt Director of Information and Technology Park Rapids Area Schools Park Rapids, MN ____________________________________ "Since the installation of Spector CNE on a number of our computers in the office, internet abuse and inter-company email (gossip) has nearly been eliminated. The installation of our network two years ago together with fast internet access was a huge temptation to our 30 employees. This -- in combination with computer games being used after the lunch hour was over -- was costing us huge amounts in lost time. We informed our employees that your product was being used and this alone increased efficiency greatly. There were still a few unbelievers. So we were forced to print out the screens and give these to the employees. This action all but eradicated the abuse. Now we have reached a happy agreement whereby the employees use the internet for personal reasons only at lunch or after hours. This has also stopped the continual flow of email over the Outlook system. We would highly recommend your software to any business where internet use is available to employees. Many thanks." Yours sincerely, -Joseph Danenza Alexander Samuel & Co., Solicitors 16-17 Little Portland Street London W1W 8HH ____________________________________ "I wanted to write and thank you for your Spector CNE software. For the past 17 years I have directed a non-profit organization that operates in the inner-city and works primarily with high-risk low-income people. As part of our services, we offer incidental computer familiarization and job search training. This requires us to have all the internet options available including browsing, email, webmail, and MSN. Although we have strict guidelines as to their their usage, guidelines which are made clear to all computer users including our staff and volunteers, we can never be sure that the computer users are not engaging in illegal activities—activities that can be directly traced back to our computers. We have 16 computers and it would be nearly impossible, and a misuse of our human resources, to try to monitor without some serious help. And we found that help in Spector CNE. It is awesome. Absolutely invisible to the computer user, it tracks everything—even what I’m typing right now. For complete disclosure, we actually show the users the results of the Spector CNE log information; so they know before-hand what is being captured. Charities like ours cannot afford to take the liability of criminal computer use lightly. Words and usage can be flagged with Spector CNE and it stores all aspects of use for later discovery. The install, the look and feel and the ease of use are outstanding. This is the most superior program of its genre—absolutely years ahead of any similar-type program." -Juergen Severloh Family Support Centre of Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada			Spector CNE will help you... • Conduct Investigations on Employees Suspected of Inappropriate Activity
“I know who our problem employees are and I spot-check them with Spector CNE. With Spector I discovered that employees were spending huge amounts of time on games, websites, personal correspondence and more. The problem employees denied it at first, but when I showed them the details -- the screen snapshots, the captured emails and instant messages -- they were dumbstruck. Spector CNE has been so effective at reducing personal time spent on the computer that I expect to be able to reduce my staff from 100 to 90 employees WITHOUT losing any productivity, and expect an annual cost savings in wages and benefits of $220,000. Not only did we save money, but we increased revenue as well. Spector CNE has been an invaluable asset to track activities within our corporation.” -Daniel Anderson Northern Arizona Orthopaedics Flagstaff, AZ ____________________________________ "For more than three months, I researched for a solution that would enable our hospital to monitor web usage on our employee computers. I found Spector CNE to deliver a cost-effective solution, and one which did not require expensive hardware. I considered N2H2 and Websense, but found both their cost and the amount of time required to be too high. In addition, Websense and N2H2 only did web filtering. Spector CNE included email monitoring and provided information as to what programs our employees were using the most and even showed us that many employees were playing Solitaire 1 to 2 hours a day. Our company monitored four computers over a two-week timeframe and found that we were losing 10 hours per week due to employees doing their bankiing on the Internet and playing cards on the computer. We had been planning on adding staff to one of our departments. However, Spector CNE allowed us to take a second look, providing us with hard evidence of loss based on employee activity, and as such we have been able to reduce staff. I would recommend this software to companies large and small. The best part is it does not require a server to run and it runs without having to man it daily. Only when you need reports/results do you need to spend time with it, and it will save our small hospital of 300 employees more than $100,000 annually." Best regards, Jim Boyer Information Systems Manager Rush Memorial Hospital ____________________________________ "I wanted to say a few words on behalf of Spector CNE. I have found this software to be a very useful tool in the monitoring of web access and emails. The installation of this product and the client installations are very simple and straight forward. The way the Viewer works makes it very easy to maneuver through the various activities that are being monitored. Someone that doesn't possess technical knowledge can easily use this product. My users know they are being monitored, but don't know where the program resides or where the information goes to. By using Spector CNE, I know the data retrieved is accurate. My company officers are pleased with the product and found Spector CNE to be worth the money. We have been able to monitor user efficiency, which assists in determining whether an employee is utilizing their time well or not. Thank you for making a great product. You have made my life easier because of it. Kim Humphrey Network Administrator Power Systems, Inc. Knoxville, TN ____________________________________ "Spectorsoft has solved some big problems for us. We found out, completely by mistake, that a large number of our staff were playing computer games and chatting on the Internet while on company time. We had a monitoring tool but it only monitored web surfing. It did not have the capability to monitor Web mail or Instant Messaging Once we rolled out Spector CNE we were able to collect screen shots, Web mail sessions, and chat conversations from the offending employees. We had a Use of Communications Systems policy in place and could have terminated several people but the problem was so widespread, and some of the employees were considered quite valuable to the company, we decided to distribute the pictures anonymously to demonstrate the technology without naming any one person. The game playing stopped cold and we have only had very few isolated incidents since then which were dealt with swiftly because we knew about it immediately, thanks to Spector CNE. We had been delaying the rollout of Instant Messaging until we had a tool that would allow us to monitor the traffic. Spector CNE gave us that ability and much more. The return on investment in our situation was only a few months and allowed us to leverage new technology to increase efficiency within the company." -Bob Elliott RCS Communications Information Systems Louisville, KY ____________________________________ "Thank you for helping us purchase and install the Spector CNE monitoring software. We have been very pleased with the product and the features it provides! The remote installation was a breeze. The centralized storage with the DataVault is a great feature, and has saved us countless hours of connecting to each computer individually. The Content Alerts feature is the biggest asset to us -- we no longer have to worry about finding a way to record all traffic and events on the network computers. We can passively monitor all of the computers in real-time for inappropriate content! The Content Alerts have saved us from immeasurable frustration trying to sift through logs. Thank you again for providing a truly unique product in the monitoring market." -Richard Saffell Technology Director Lanham Grace Brethren Church			Spector CNE will help you... • Increase Employee Productivity by Reducing Frivolous and Inappropriate Activity
"I have only had a short time to operate the program on my SBS 2000 test network but I am truly impressed. The product has performed flawlessly and is greatly superior to any of the other products that I have tried. I am also very impressed with the documentation and help section. Many of your competitors have little or no documentation with their product. I work with a variety of small to medium size businesses and one of the major concerns I hear from my customers is about Internet misuse. I think this program will fill an important void for many businesses." Thanks again Bill Davis MCSE,CNE, NETWORK + ____________________________________ “Spector CNE is a great product, a great management tool. We purchased it for an investigation … and in just a few days we were able to document two employees who were planning to start a company in direct competition with ours, using proprietary information about suppliers and customers … activity in direct violation of nondisclosure and non-compete agreements signed at hiring. The employees were terminated. “Spector CNE’s ability to take screen snapshots, as well as record and report on Instant Messages and Emails, were crucial in our investigation. At first, one of the employees denied his actions, and denied it again. But once the Spector CNE reports were pulled, he rolled over … commenting ‘what can I say.’ “Spector CNE has paid for itself many times over. It’s shown me some eye-opening things, and it’s made an impact across the workforce. Since the investigation, there’s a noticeable difference. Work habits have changed and productivity is up.” -John Marshall Dubin Medical San Diego, California			Spector CNE will help you... • Eliminate Leaking of Confidential Information
			Spector CNE will help you... • Recover Lost Crucial Communications (Email, Chat & Instant Messages)
			Spector CNE will help you... • Assist Help Desk Staff With PC Recovery
"I have worked for three different brokerage houses during my career, and at all three, I was responsible for the technology to ensure compliance with SEC and NASD regulations regarding email retention and review. I have utilized several different products in the course of meeting those regulations and, by far, Spector CNE has the greatest potential of all. Spector CNE beats everyone else hands down, especially in the types of data collected at a price point per seat. Prior to Spector CNE, several of the packages I used were in the range of several-hundred-dollars per seat, and since most only archived email or email and IM, it became an extremely expensive proposition. Unfortunately, the market has become crowded with companies that take financial advantage of the brokerage houses’ need for compliance. Now I look forward to implementing your product and being able to provide my users and management with a very reasonably priced solution. No one else in the arena currently provides the level of surveillance or flexibility available in Spector CNE." -Ken Scott Associate Director PowellJohnson Nashville, TN			Spector CNE will help you... • Meet or Exceed Federal, Industry or Agency Compliance Requirements for Keeping Records of Company Communications and Transactions