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Discover why it pays to switch to Pearl Software, with over 15% of new users switched from Websense and over 20% from Surf Control.

TopTenReviews ranks Pearl Echo number 1 as its "ultimate Internet Management Software."

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While businesses weigh the pros and cons of hooking their employees up to the Internet, executives are taking notice of Internet abuse. Employee Internet misuse and abuse is on the rise leading to computer-related firings and a growing climate of corporate misunderstanding and mistrust. Accessing pornography, chatting, gambling, investing and online shopping are the leading causes for disciplinary action or termination. Major concerns for managers are legal liability, security and reduced worker productivity. The latest business trends show a rise in the number of wrongful termination suits based upon an employer's inability to support accusations of Internet abuse or not having a clear Internet Acceptable Use Policy in place.

Pearl Echo’s Employee Internet Management technology is based on an independent agent-server architecture.  By creating an independent service, the software is not affected by high traffic volumes, where end-users are physically located or how they access the Internet.  Pearl Echo’s Employee Internet Management technology does not suffer from the performance and security problems of proxy monitoring solutions or from the overload and network dependency limitations of network sniffer solutions.

 

The product runs as an independent service resident on one of your Windows Domain or Stand Alone Servers or on a Windows Workstation. The Internet access rules you create at the Pearl Echo Administration Machine are retrieved by your managed workstations through a secure, zero-maintenance agent loaded on Windows workstations.

 

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The same secure, zero-maintenance agent is responsible for sending -- or echoing -- actual or attempted Internet transactions back to the Pearl Echo Administration Machine. For ultimate efficiency, Internet access rules are applied at the workstation by the Pearl Echo agent. Data to be logged is first compressed by the agent before being sent back to the Administration Machine on a path that is not dependent upon the path the workstation uses to access the Internet. The Pearl Echo Workstation agent can be installed manually from the Pearl Echo CD or automatically deployed by the Windows Installer files provided with Pearl Echo. In a Terminal Services or Citrix environment, the secure Workstation agent is simply loaded on the Terminal/Citrix server. Once deployed, the Pearl Echo Workstation agent is self-updating; the Workstation agent automatically retrieves any updates or upgrades to Pearl Echo when you update your Pearl Echo Server Software.

 

With Pearl Echo's Mobility Monitor technology, managed workstations can be connected to your local area network, wide area network or completely detached from your private network. The Pearl Echo Workstation agent does its job no matter how or where your users connect to the Internet.

 

Pearl Echo's agent-server technology is extremely efficient, has a small footprint, adds negligible network traffic, and scales well due to its agent-server architecture. Because Pearl Echo runs as its own service, Echo has no dependencies on legacy proxy servers or firewalls.