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The dashboard overlays all the detailed individual user/end point data that iscontained within Ni Enterprise Manager, to provide summary-level information of theentire network condensed to a few views. Ni Enterprise Manager includes a DashboardBuilder tool that enables customers to create customized views which detail theirspecific areas of personal interest and concern, selecting the criteria from apre-populated list of 15 industry standard metrics. Views can include Top 10s ofmessenger users, web users, blocked sites, virus threats, most used applicationstogether with other metrics such as email volumes, blocked categories, softwarechanges, web site traffic, local virus incidents, application usage and messengertraffic.
In addition to the live updates, each view contains data for the previous 7, 30 and90 days providing instant trend analysis capability.
The data that populates the dashboard is collected in real time from every end pointthat has a Ni Enterprise Client installed upon it. Each time the end point connectsto the internet, be it via the LAN, an internet cafà or a hotel room, theuser/activity data is sent back to the Ni Enterprise Manager databases. It is thenmade available for viewing through the customerÂ's personal secure on line ControlCentre.
Once areas of concern have been identified, via the dashboard, the customer candrill down further and view the detailed reports for individual users or machines.Should any action be required, the customer can change/create and apply a policy viathe Control Centre. The new policy will then be distributed, via the internet, toevery Ni Enterprise Manager Client installed on the customers end points.
Phil Worms, Director Product Marketing stated: Â The introduction of this Dashboardprovides our customers with relevant real time information pertaining to the use andstatus of their entire computing estate, including their off network mobile workers- on demand. Traditionally this type of information has been obtained by ITdepartments trawling through log files or through individual point solution controlpanels - but until now, it has not been available with the simple click of a mouse.If anyone is in any doubt as to the benefits of the Ni Enterprise Dashboard, I wouldsimply ask this question of them: What exactly are your away from base employeesusing their laptops for at this very minute? If they had our service installed theywould have the answer within seconds.Â