Introduction

Efficient management of company IT resources and their usage by employees is becoming one of the most essential determinants of professional management for companies facing the necessity of optimising their expenses and abrupt increase of computer crime.

Representatives of boards of companies and institutions frequently have to cope with the task of increasing their employees' efficiency. Low efficiency may result from various reasons. Supposedly, in almost each company there is a group of employees who participate in chats, Internet forums, computer games etc. during their office hours. It is not exceptional that mistakes and the lack of commitment on the part of the mentioned group have a negative impact on the whole team. Until this time an employer has been just helpless against such persons, having no influence on this type of behaviour.

In this scope, persons responsible for observing software licence agreements and companies providing audit services need a tool which quickly and efficiently finds and identifies software that has been installed. This will provide basis to remove illegally used applications or to arrive at a decision to supplement a licence.

statlook is a program which due to its various functions allows you to:

• perform software audit,
• control software legality within your company,
• optimise the use of applications and computers,
• monitor time and manner of employees' work, ^*
• eliminate or control the access to specified, undesired areas such as chats, computer games, etc.
• plan the purchase of new software.

statlook will provide you will answers to the following questions:

• How many copies of various programs have been installed in our network?
• Do we hold the licence for each program?
• Which applications have been installed arbitrarily by our employees?
• What is the scope of use for specific applications and computers?^*
• What is the real work time of my employees? Do they work effectively? ^*
• How much time of the office hours is devoted to unrelated activities? ^*

 ^* - Available in the version including the statlook module.