# CurrentWare Reviews **Vendor:** CurrentWare **Category:** [Employee Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/employee-monitoring-software) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 43 ## About CurrentWare CurrentWare is a remote employee monitoring, data loss prevention, internet management, and cybersecurity software suite. Each module can be purchased individually or as a full suite for the best value. With CurrentWare's diverse yet intuitive feature set you will improve employee productivity, data security, and business intelligence with advanced awareness and control over how technology is used in your organization. ## CurrentWare Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **outstanding customer support** from CurrentWare, appreciating their prompt assistance and effective solutions. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of CurrentWare, finding it simple to install and integrate into their systems. (3 reviews) - Users value the **valuable insights and excellent support** from CurrentWare, enhancing their deployment and management experience. (3 reviews) - Users value that **unprivileged users cannot disable USB blocking** , ensuring robust security and effective management. (2 reviews) - Users find **easy integrations** with CurrentWare essential for seamless deployment across various systems. (2 reviews) - Users praise the **outstanding customer support** and seamless integration of CurrentWare for effective data control and productivity. (2 reviews) - Implementation Ease (2 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** of CurrentWare, enhancing monitoring and control across systems effortlessly. (2 reviews) - Users value the **automated reporting features** of CurrentWare, which enhance management insights and streamline operations. (2 reviews) - Setup Ease (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users miss the **track by IP feature** , limiting the ability to monitor connections to specific networks like school Wi-Fi. (1 reviews) - Users report **limited functionality** with CurrentWare, lacking essential features like tracking by IP for specific networks. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with the **tracking issue** for recording connections specifically to school Wi-Fi using CurrentWare. (1 reviews) ## CurrentWare Reviews ### 1. Best Small Business Employee Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hunter M. | Network and Computer Systems Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The CurrentWare platform has four main components sold ala cart or as a suite. The organization I work for has the entire suite of products for all our workstations within three facilities. The platform is easy to set up on an app server or cloud VM. We run CurrentWare locally in VMWare. I have worked several times with the CurrentWare support team for upgrades, troubleshooting issues, and custom setups for our deployment. Their highly knowledgeable support team will do their best to assist you. As the IT Admin, I am in CurrentWare daily to administer the system, run reports, and review the current data displayed in the dashboard. CurrentWare is easy to implement and integrate into your organization and deploy to your client devices (we use a GPO). **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The only issue or dislike I have had while using CurrentWare was a self-inflicted issue with redirecting clients to a new hosted server. However, the CurrentWare support team was able to assist, and we automated pulling back in most of the client computers without needing to access them directly. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using CurrentWare to assist with compliance to NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC 2.0 Level 2. Under each compliance we are using CurrentWare to meet specific controls for our devices. An example is controlling USB device and what can/cannot be connected to our computers. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for the stellar review, Hunter! We appreciate you taking the time to outline all of the details of your particular deployment scenario and your experience with our team, it helps a lot! ### 2. CurrentWare has meet our security needs with blocking usb access and has excellent customer support. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | Network Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I like that unpriviliged users can not disable CurrentWare usb blocking even by booting into safe mode. Also they are very quick and helpful to assist with any support needed. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** So far I have no complaints. They have been very helpful in supporting our deployment into our network. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is preventing unwanted access to our computer systems via usb thumb drives. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, David! I'll be certain to pass on your praise to our support team. ### 3. The best audit/investigative service we use for our company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew M. | Information Technology Support Technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** CurrentWare keeps us alert of any suspicious activity from our users during regular reporting, as well as on-demand reports when offboarding a user. AccessPatrol and BrowseReporter are intuitive and easy to use, as well as integrating with our Active Directory service. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** If a report is generated with an abnormally large number of pages, CurrentWare doesn't easily allow exporting of the file - resulting in some hacky workarounds to archive data. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** CurrentWare allows us to keep an investigative log on the website traffic that our users are browsing to on work-issued devices, as well as locking down/monitoring any files transferred from our servers and devices to portable flash drives. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Matthew! Wonderful to hear that CurrentWare's user activity reports and AD integration have proven valuable for your company. I'll pass on your feedback about needing smoother ways to export data for archival purposes! ### 4. Great product, and exceptional staff! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The customer support is outstanding! Anytime you have a question or concern, they will jump on a Zoom call and resolve the problem. They are also quick to add new features when suggested. The software is easy to install and integrate on Windows-based systems. This product and the company supporting it are both outstanding! **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** So far, nothing comes to mind. My experiences with the product and company have all been exceptional. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software has helped confirm the production of our employees and a look into what they are doing with their time. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Wonderful to hear that our support team has taken good care of you. ### 5. Exactly What We Were Looking For With Content Filtering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jude M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Over the past several years, we have used CurrentWare (CW) to manage over 150 computers deployed to different locations for a single client. Their requirements for are unique in that these workstations are all independent of each other, as well as the corporate offices. Furthermore, this client preferred to utilize a whitelist only solution, adding websites to the list once they were approved by the corporate staff. Finding a software solution that could be deployed individually, yet managed in a single interface had been a challenge in the past. We tried several different solutions, but it was not until we choose CW that all of our needs were met. To be completely honest, over the past year we had some issues with connectivity to the remote locations. Some of this was due to a change in Internet providers at our office, and some not. We were on the verge of cancelling our CW service. However, after spending some time talking with our representative, he brought in some of their engineers to discuss and review our setup. What they discovered was that some of the settings in our console were incorrect, and this was causing the intermittent issues we were having. By taking time to listen to our needs, they supported us and took time to explain and train. As a result of CW helping us “reboot” our setup, we are happily, and effectively managing these computers again. It is important to note that we are only using one of the many tools offered by CW. However, I am hoping to fully integrate the other modules with our client, and future clients, as there are some robust reporting and controls available. Setting up the software is very simple, and the interface is clean without unnecessary graphics. This allows us to quickly locate the list of computers, and effectively manage them. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** If I have a complaint, it is that sometimes the bottom of the page displaying multiple computers does not fully load. As such it does not show the "next' option. Not a big deal at all, but a minor issue that is fixed by clicking on the list again, or reloading the page. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our basic need was for our client to be able to control the web access for multiple users deployed in remote locations. CurrentWare gives us the tools to manage these, and gives peace of mind to our client as well. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Jude! Wonderful to hear that our support team was able to jump in and ensure your success with our products. We look forward to having you try out the rest of the productivity and security tools in the CurrentWare Suite! ### 6. One stop for all monitoring solutions. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudheer A. | Data Science Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The best thing about currentware is Reporting on Employee Monitoring especially on productivity and use of applications, businesses can make informed decisions to optimize workflows and enhance overall efficiency which is directly benificial to Employers. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The dislike about the currentware is the same thing of monitoring the employees raises the privacy concerns. As a employee, I can feel this. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a analyst, my role is to report the activity and monitor the employee metrics, applications usage, monitoring the activity etc; **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Sudheer! Great to hear that you've found CurrentWare's insights helpful in your role as an analyst. If you have any feedback on CurrentWare's data export/integration process and such, please pass it on to your CurrentWare rep so they can share it with the dev team. ### 7. Currentware is a very good tool to have control on your environment for different type of access **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Ease of use, tool is very easy to use and effective for daya to day management. Reporting is good to give you some insights. implementation is quite simple. very good customer support. used for daily tasks of browsing and device and access management **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The tools works perfectly as per requirement, no manjor downsides **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Browsing and USB and othe rhardware management is made super easy. ON=ne time USB access via code is very very helpful. Reporting is good **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! ### 8. CurrentWare Intsalll **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David G. | Senior Software Support Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I worked with Derek Brennan and Allan Reisch on installing Currentware Server. Both Derek and Allan were professional and provided valuable insight on the product. We will be meeting again to plan a client deployment process which I'm convinced will go smooth based on my expeience with them today. BTW the new UI looks great! **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** As of now, I have no issues with the product. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee browing activity, USB device managment and application control. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, David! Fantastic to hear that our support and success team has been taking great care of you, I hope you have a great time checking out all of the new features our dev team has been hard at work on since you last checked us out. ### 9. User friendly Interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yunus O. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The separation of productive versus non-productive browsing feature. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I couldn't find track by IP feature. We want to records only when employee connected to school wifi. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee and student visit history during working hours. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Yunus! We do not currently have a feature to limit tracking based on IP/MAC address/etc, but I'll make sure the product and success teams know you're interested so they can reach out if we release this feature later. Depending on your use case, you could use BrowseReporter's Tracking Scheduler or Do Not Track list to limit who is tracked and when. ### 10. Currentware provides me peace of mind witht he security of my network and data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The user interface is extremely good and enables me to find information quickly and if needed export it for further analysis if needed. I have been using Currentware for several years, especially for endpoint protection and network monitoring. On the very odd occasion I have needed support their Customer Service is first class. I also like the training videos enabling me to get full use out of the software. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I have been using the software for a few years and have no dislikes. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It prevents my employees taking valuable data from my network and enables me to gain an overview of which software is being used and therefore enables me to make commercial purchasing decitions. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! I'm happy to hear that the effort put into our training videos and knowledge base has paid off. I'll be certain to share your praise with our support team! ### 11. Easily review website traffic **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George S. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I like that the software is easily deployable in the cloud. The user interface is really easy to navigate. Updates are simple to install. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The categorization of websites seem to mis-categorize sites often. Maybe with the addition of AI the categorization could be improved. I often have to "whitelist" websites that are miscategorized. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitors risky websites or time wasting websites. Allows for blocking of websites as well. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, George! Thank you for flagging the website categorization. If you stumble on sites that are miscategorized (or you'd prefer it reclassified to something else for your deployment), you can use these resources: Reclassify Categories Locally: https://support.currentware.com/portal/en/kb/articles/reclassify-categories-locally-for-category-filtering/ Report a Misclassified Website: https://www.currentware.com/products/browsecontrol/reclassify-categories/ ### 12. Stay in the driving seat and keep op pruductivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** CurrentWare is easy to implement, integrate, and use even for non-IT persons, but enable an effective control of all sensitive data features and an optimization of the workload of the staff. Futher, the support is outstanding helpful and provides the right level of feedback to solve problems withease. It runs seamless in the background, and provides a daily oversight of all key metrics. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** You need to meet a minimum of technical requirements (Port enabling) to be able to modify settings for remote working staff. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** An effective data loss prevention, without the need to configure every device manually offline. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! ### 13. Great filter **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** It's easy to manage many devices and create separate device groups. Customer support is amazing as well as it's implemintation and integration. We use it daily and it has many features. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** It's reliability is not on par with other filters. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a way for our students to be able to access a filtered internet **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! We're surprised to hear that you've had reliability issues; I've discussed this with our customer success and support teams, and they'd like an opportunity to address this head-on. Please send us an email or fill out the form at https://www.currentware.com/contact/ so we can set up a time to take a look. ### 14. Good Software that does what we need well. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Browse Control is what we end up using the most in my organization. It's something we've found valuable and for every issue we've had the customer service has helped us out on fixing the issues. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** We do run into issues sometimes with Browse Control. URLs can sometimes take a while to update even if you hit refresh to clients. Anything bigger than that we've been able to talk to their customer support and fix. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We only use Browse Control currently which we use for limiting what websites our users can go to. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Wonderful to hear that our support team has been a great help. Sorry to hear you've had trouble with clients receiving policy updates in a timely manner! You can use the Web Filter Client Update Logs to determine which of your clients have received the latest policy updates and which ones are pending. You can learn more here: https://support.currentware.com/portal/en/kb/articles/browsecontrol-client-policy-update-log ### 15. Currentware is the right Software to help you manage your staff **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro C. | Firm Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The dashboard makes it easy to see productivity in our business and the software does not slow down our workstation. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I have had some issues accessing the software remotely, and uninstalling it requires only a password provided by currentware support. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to monitor our staff's workload and help with our Utilization rates. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Alessandro! In terms of accessing the management console remotely, the default configuration is limited to your internal network. If you want to have it accessible externally, you can find the instructions for doing so here: https://support.currentware.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-can-i-access-console-from-anywhere ### 16. Good product,easy to administer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** works out of the box, easy to administer meaning not much time is wasted. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** so far i haven't come across anything that i would say i dislike. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contolling access to USB ports allow us to control what peripherals can be used, but mainly that people cannot use them to take data away with them. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! ### 17. Currentware is a gamechanger! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen S. | Associate IT Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I love CurrentWare, it has become a primary tool for our organization. The reports are very easy to understand and the fact that they can emailed to you on a schedule are amazing, and have made finding productivity killers VERY easy. Customer support has been fantastic everytime I've had to reach out to them, and are willing to meet very quickly to iron out any issues I have run into, or provide help on how to see certain information. I highly recommend them! **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Nothing! Everything I've had issues with, CurrentWare has gone above and beyond to get it resolved. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to see who was using their Citrix Workspace and how often. Currentware has shown us this and so much more. **Official Response from Dale S:** > WOW, thank you for the stellar review, Kristen! I'll pass on your high praise to the rest of the team, they'll be delighted to hear that their consistent effort is noticed and appreciated 🙂 ### 18. Monitor your team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** We use currentwave as an employee monitoring tool as it has great set of features. Its easily compatible with all of our devices.aand its also has great customer support team. it allows you to make sure only some specific is run on your system and it also mak sure proper device control. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Its not that aesthetic to look at its ui is old and needs to be updated. monitoring is good but it can also track the employee data which can be a little bit concerning. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currentwave is a complete suite for employee management and it has also helped us make sure we are safe and no threat is there omn our system. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Priyanka! It sounds like you may be using a legacy version of our software, we'd love to get you on the most up-to-date version. You can get a feel for the new web console on our live demo before you upgrade! We offer several optional privacy-enhancing features to improve transparency and minimize data collection including the ability to control what is tracked, limit who can access user activity data, and more. You can learn more about these features here: https://www.currentware.com/products/currentware-suite/privacy/ ### 19. Organizational tool for efficient and tailored Internet access management. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry E. | Digital Strategy Marketing Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** My main point regarding CurrentWare is that it can make teamwork and productivity much better. A more concentrated and efficient workatmosphere can be achieved through the judicious management of Internet Access. A progressive and dynamic work environment is fostered when individuals can adjust to the requirements of their team. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The initial setup process is so complicated, and it bothers me every time I deal with CurrentWare. When it comes to efficient execution, I feel that there is a lack of clear standards and insufficient contextual information. Another factor that adds to the initial feeling of confusion is the absence of real-time support. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the CurrentWare program, I solve problems related to time management and increasing productivity. With this software, I am able to effectively monitor internet use, reducing distractions. Additionally, I experience benefits such as improved concentration and greater efficiency in my daily tasks. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Terry! Great to hear that CurrentWare's employee monitoring and web filtering capabilities have made managing acceptable internet use much easier for your team. I am terribly sorry to hear that the initial setup process did not go smoothly. We pride ourselves on our stellar support team and we'd love to get more information about how we can improve. Please reach out to us so we can collect your feedback and pass it on to our customer success team. We offer real-time support 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST, Monday to Friday; you can call our support team directly via phone, email, or live chat. Please visit https://www.currentware.com/contact/ for more information. In addition, we have a self-serve knowledge base that's regularly updated with videos and articles to help you get the most out of CurrentWare: https://www.currentware.com/support/ ### 20. Program that provides the ability to track users' online activity in real time. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loraine D. | Freelance Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I am drawn to CurrentWare because of its user-friendly interface, which makes it easy to monitor and control online activities. It helps me to optimize resources and make sure the digital environment is efficient by giving me a complete picture of how people use the internet. Management is made easy and effective with its clear design and advanced functionality. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** When I use the CurrentWare program, I encounter certain inconveniences. I experience some dissatisfaction with the interface, which seems somewhat cluttered. Additionally, I feel the response speed could be improved, occasionally causing delays that affect my workflow significantly. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** When using CurrentWare, I face work time optimization challenges. I solve problems of procrastination and distractions, improving individual and collective productivity. Benefits include more efficient use of time, increased concentration on important tasks, and an overall improvement in work effectiveness. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Loraine! Wonderful to hear that CurrentWare's employee internet management tools have helped you to improve employee productivity. We regularly release new quality-of-life and performance enhancements to ensure our platform is intuitive, insightful, and efficient to use. We've made particularly significant performance improvements since version 8.0; if you need help updating your CurrentWare deployment our support team is available 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST, Monday to Friday or you can visit our upgrade guide at https://www.currentware.com/support/upgrade/ ### 21. Excellent tool for online activity monitoring. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anya M. | Social Media Marketing Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I admire CurrentWare for its ability to enhance efficiency in the management of computing resources. The ability to intuitively monitor and restrict internet access provides complete control over the digital environment, ensuring network integrity and team productivity. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I don't like that I can't personalize my alerts in CurrentWare. I find it challenging to quickly recognize crucial events due to the absence of customization options that meet my personal tastes. Another thing that doesn't sit well with me is that there isn't a way to get feedback in real time. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** I optimized resource distribution to improve network efficiency and avoid congestion. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Muchas gracias por sus comentarios, Anya! Great to hear that CurrentWare's internet control features have helped you address bandwidth hogs in your network. I'd love to get more feedback about what user activity alerts you'd like to see in CurrentWare so I can pass it along to the product team. Can you please reach out to us with more information? In terms of getting real-time user activity updates, in addition to our email alerts, in version 8.0 we introduced Today's Insights to BrowseReporter; it helps you keep a pulse on your team’s recent activity with an at-a-glance overview of their online status, most recent app/website, and top activities. Version 8.0 also includes a significant overhaul of the client/server architecture to maximize performance and provide an optional Active Connection Mode to allow for real-time user activity updates. You can learn more about our latest updates in our release notes; we release new features and enhancements every quarter, with v9.0.2 expected to be released in late January. ### 22. Internet broweser control for a small business without dedicated IT staff **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The company was helpful and responsive in my setup - it blocks sites I do not want staff to have access to and it allows me to make different policies for different workstations. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Only one critique is that the browse reporting is a seperate applicaiton and license. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workstations need to be limited and somewhat restricted but allow other access, we want to control access to in and outbound email applications and huge time wasters like TikTok etc. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review; it's great to hear that our support team helped to ensure a smooth deployment! We understand that requiring an additional license for BrowseReporter user activity monitoring software may be a barrier; fortunately, BrowseReporter operates from the exact same console and client as the BrowseControl web filter so if you later decide to opt for BrowseReporter you can activate the module without needing to re-deploy; simply enter your license key in the web console! ### 23. Solid Software with Exceptional Customer Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Very easy to install and administrate new computers. Very responsive support, wide and reliable featureset. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The CurrentWare feature of being obscure to the end user can make it difficult to do traditional reporting on software inventory or versioning for compliance checks. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We manage clients across a multitude of customer networks, making it logistically impossible to administrate a network-based content filter. With CurrentWare we are able to set a client-based filtering system to make sure our customers are only able to access resources they have explicit authorization to access. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Michael! Wonderful to hear that our support team has provided you with everything you need to get the most out of CurrentWare. ### 24. Good Internet Access Control program. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Libby S. | Human Resources Administrative Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** For its remarkable capacity to optimize enterprise internet management, CurrentWare is my favorite. A more productive and safe work environment is crucial to any organization's performance, and its adaptability offers useful solutions for monitoring and filtering web material. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The CurrentWare program's user interface makes me dissatisfied since the way the options are laid out is confusing to me. On top of that, data loading is a bit sluggish, which could hinder my efficiency when using it on a daily basis. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using CurrentWare, I solve Internet and application usage management problems, ensuring the productivity of my team. By efficiently controlling access, I avoid unnecessary distractions. Additionally, I gain benefits by improving security, mitigating data breach risks, and optimizing overall network performance. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Libby! Great to hear that you're finding value across multiple use cases within the CurrentWare Suite. Sorry to hear that your first impression of the user interface was overwhelming. To help improve the onboarding process we've created a series of how-to guides and videos that can be found at https://www.currentware.com/support/. Our customer success team is also available to provide personalized product demos and training to ensure your team gets the most out of CurrentWare. It's unexpected to hear that data loading is feeling sluggish; can you please follow these troubleshooting steps? 1) Ensure the management software and database are installed on a computer that meets the recommended specs found at https://www.currentware.com/support/system-requirements/ 2) Upgrade to the latest version following this guide: https://www.currentware.com/upgrade/ 3) Configure your client settings based on these recommendations: https://www.currentware.com/support/client-connectivity/ If you need further assistance, our support and customer success teams are here for you. You can reach them at https://www.currentware.com/contact/ Thank you! ### 25. Excellent Product and Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Deployment of Access Patrol has been straightforward and intuitive. User Guides, menus and options are clear and easy to follow. The product itself includes all the features necessary and many additional ones for secure control of USB devices. Customer Support staff have responded promptly and clearly to any queries logged. We are confident in Access Patrol's ability to comprehensively secure and monitor all USB activities daily on our network. One of the features which most attracted us to Access Patrol was the range of reports available. We use these regularly in reporting to management. Overall an excellent product, with excellent support. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** There is very little to dislike about CurrentWare. A few minor teething issues were quickly resolved by support. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Access Patrol module of CurrentWare is allowing us to easily and effectively control the use of specific USB devices within the network, allowing and disallowing as configured. It further provides us with comprehensive reporting on USB use. It also has a cost-effective licensing model for various sizes of customer. Some other products have a very restrictive licensing model wich was unsuitable for the size of our organisation. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! It is wonderful to hear that our accessible pricing has given you access to critical security capabilities; organizations of all sizes are vulnerable so each one must be protected to keep sensitive data and critical systems safe. ### 26. Excellent Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** It is very easy to use and also collects all the data that we as a company wish to collect on our users. It breaks it down in very easy to review format. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Uninstalling the program and reinstalling it on a PC can be a challenge at times. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Users are aware it is on their computers and tend to stay more productive throughout the day. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Wonderful to hear that CurrentWare's user activity monitoring tools are providing you with all of the data your company needs to make informed decisions and protect your network. ### 27. Quality logging software for any size team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** CurrentWare is great because their software can be choosen ala cart. And their software is easy to use for small and large teams. The staff always reaches out when there is a new feature of update. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The pricing structure is not always explained clearly, but thats standard for the industry. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We currently use CurrentWare products to provide user web tracking reporting for our c-suite. The reports are easy to configure, and easy for our c-suite to understand and use. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Christopher! Glad to hear the option to purchase individual modules is appreciated; if you'd ever like to unlock additional modules it's as easy as activating licenses for them, no need to re-deploy! If there's anything we can do to improve the communication of our pricing structure please do let us know. Our starting prices and related FAQs can be found at https://www.currentware.com/store/, though I understand the variety of discounts available based on non-profit status, volume, length of contract term, etc can cause quite the variance. ### 28. Currentware offers all the features a monitoring software should have **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Perry M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Currentware is set and forget type of software offering a tons of helpful features to provide you with a variety of reporting for a business owner. It has minimum set of requirements for most businesses. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Web console is a much better improvement over desktop console but it breaks down time to time. Hopefully they will have a more permanent fix in next release. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to track employee time and improve their overall productivity **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Perry! Agreed, the move to a modern web console in v6.0 has been a significant improvement to the capabilities and UI of our software. I'm surprised to hear that you are experiencing stability issues. Can you please reach out to our support team so they can investigate further? https://www.currentware.com/contact/ ### 29. Currentware AccessPatrol is a great product for securing devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** It's easy to deploy and control USB access on all of our PCs on-site. I don't have to worry about foreign devices from being plugged in. I can also restrict devices such as printers where they are not needed. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Currentware installs with all it's products listed (even if not purchased). It would be nice if you could have individual installers so you can install just the product you have purchased. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Company data loss and security is a big issue with USB devices. By utilizing the software, we are able to minimize both of these and provide greater security to our environment. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Wonderful to hear that the AccessPatrol module is giving you peace of mind against rogue USB devices. It's true that the installer provides a free trial of each module so you can experience the full CurrentWare Suite; this also allows you to activate additional CurrentWare modules without the need to re-deploy after your trial. I'll pass on your feedback to the dev team! ### 30. Good product for what it does. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** CurrentWare support is amazing. The product does will with very little impact on the host computer. We use the Browse Reporter software to monitor internet usage. Any issues that we have had are promptly addressed, even to the point of bringing in the developers to make a custom package for us. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I haven't seen anything I dislike. The product works well and has a great dev team to support it. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is an issue with the maximum database size of SQL lite, which they use by default. Work with support to get it connected to a full MSSQL server and you won't have any issues. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Wonderful to hear that the effort our support and product teams put in is being noticed, I'll be sure to let them know about your review. ### 31. Makes it easy to track user activity in many ways **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinicius P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I like it because the interface is very simple. Provides valuable insights into my team's productivity. The application provides information in real time. I love easy-to-use research reports. Offer a comprehensive way to track. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Requires a good connection to avoid errors. Sometimes it is difficult to find a specific deadline. There are so many capabilities on the platform that it can be a little overwhelming at first. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to accurately track all parameters. It has allowed us to stop possible leaks of sensitive information. We also use the tool to perform quality control reviews. Provides a detailed view of all employee activities. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Vinicius! I'm happy to hear that you've found CurrentWare's user activity reports valuable and intuitive. We'd love to get more details about some of the difficulties you highlighted; can you please reach out to your account manager so they can get more details that we can pass on to our support and product development teams? We strive to keep our product accessible to everyone regardless of their technical background so if there is anything we can do to improve the way our diverse feature set is communicated and accessed we'd love to know! In the meantime, you can use our onboarding guide for a curated sample of the most important features and settings: https://www.currentware.com/get-started/ The CurrentWare client does not require a continuous internet connection to track user activity; it will cache the last received security policies and user activity data locally until a connection to the central management software is re-established. ### 32. Program that produces Detailed Reports for Strategic Decisions. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael H. | Human Resources Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** The way CurrentWare encourages productive collaboration is really remarkable to me. The program's integrated security measures and its capacity to connect with other apps substantially improve collaboration and communication. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** There doesn't seem to be any way to connect CurrentWare to other systems when I'm using it. It would be helpful if there was a better way to link and sync data with third-party tools. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** The adoption of CurrentWare in our organization has solved network congestion by managing traffic. This has greatly improved network speed and stability, enhancing our daily operations. We have also improved enterprise security by swiftly recognizing and combating attacks. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Michael! We appreciate your feedback about the lack of an API/official data connector for CurrentWare and I'll make sure our product development team is aware of the demand for this sort of integration. In the meantime, all of the data captured by the CurrentWare Suite is kept in either the default SQL Express database or in your existing SQL database, depending on what you chose during installation; if you have the resources a custom solution could be created. ### 33. Great Productivity Reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hiba H. | Huma Resources Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Using Browse reports, the different types of reports, ability to see websites and applications, ability to do individuals and group, as well as different time periods **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** had some difficulties setting it up for remote employees **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** showing productivity levels, time spent, websites accessed for work, allows us to communicate with employees on their performance levels and ensure they focus on getting work done. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Hiba! Great to hear that you're making the most out of CurrentWare's BrowseReporter employee monitoring software module. Sorry to hear that the initial configuration for remote employees presented some difficulties. If you ever need technical assistance our support team is available 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM EST, Monday to Friday. We also have a configuration guide for monitoring remote employees at https://www.currentware.com/support/installing-currentware/#6-remote-install-video ### 34. Easy to implement monitoring at a consistent cost **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan C. | Managing Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** It's easy to implement and quickly see which machines are being actively monitored from an administrative standpoint. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Its rather vertical in its scope compared to some other products out there - it could be made to be more robust overall. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** BrowseReporter makes it easy to monitor employee Internet usage to both increase productivity and stay in front of potential security threats. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Nathan! We regularly introduce new features based on feedback from our customers; if you have any capabilities you'd like us to consider please do reach out to your CurrentWare account rep and they'll pass it on to the product team! ### 35. Pretty nice tool for remote employees **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I love how easy it is to use and manage as a IT admin. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Sometimes it can be a little confusing for average end users. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving issues I was having with production being low due to Netflix users and TikTokers. Production is way up now that my employees know I am monitoring. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Joseph! Great to hear that you've noticed an immediate increase in employee productivity after deploying CurrentWare. If there are any aspects of the software you think we should cover more in-depth please do let us know and we'll bolster our knowledge base accordingly! ### 36. Easy to use and very informative **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** I like the detail that you can get from the Browse Reporter. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** None of our offsite clients will report back until they touch our internal network. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us to monitor and track employee efficency **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Scott! Great to hear that BrowseReporter is providing you with the insights that you need to track employee efficiency. If you would like your offsite clients to continuously send data to the management software in your internal network you can follow this configuration guide: https://www.currentware.com/support/configure-port-forwarding-for-remote-workers-sql/ If you need further assistance you can reach our support team via email, live chat, or telephone at https://www.currentware.com/contact/ ### 37. Excellent Employee Productivity Monitoring **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Simple to use interface. Easy to set up and get started. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Haven't found anything yet that I do not like about the product. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's providing oversight. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Sean! ### 38. A straightforward solution to a complicated issue **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Platform is straightforward to set up and support were excellent. Renewal process was easy and sales team are responsive and helpful **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** Automated reporting is sometime a little complicated to create in the first instance - for example sending daily reports by email requires steps in multiple locations **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Call center employees spending too much time on non-work related websites (social media for example) **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! I'll pass on your feedback to the rest of the team, they'll be delighted to hear that you had a positive experience with them. We appreciate your feedback on the ease of use of the automated reporting. We regularly release performance and quality-of-life upgrades, I'll make sure the product team hears your feedback. If you'd like to provide more details please reach out to us! If you've not upgraded in a while, we've introduced an integrated email delivery system in version 8.0.1; with this, you no longer need to configure your own SMTP/Exchange Server. Simply set up your email reports & alerts and they’ll be sent to the chosen inboxes from the CurrentWare console. ### 39. Monitoring ON POINT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Peace of mind knowing employees are productive and certain activities and websites are blocked. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I dislike the fact that I have to have this software. It's sad that employers have to pay for monitoring software. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** CurrentWare is helping us keep employees from visiting websites that are not related to our business. For instance, porn sites, social media, etc.. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Amy! I'm happy to hear that CurrentWare has provided you with the peace of mind that your company's resources are being used appropriately. If you do not already have a written internet use policy in place we have a template you can download here: https://www.currentware.com/internet-usage-policy-template-sign-up/ ### 40. Tool for Monitoring Employee Productivity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** You can created automated reports which can include screenshots. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** The install of the agents in my experience typically requires being logged directly into the computers. The remote install was not successfull in my experience. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** The client wanted to be able to make sure that employees were stay on task and being productive during the hours they were supposed to be working. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review! Terribly sorry to hear the deployment via the built-in remote client install tool was not successful—Remote deployment tools can be interrupted by firewalls, security tools, insufficient permissions, User Access Control (UAC), etc. You can see our troubleshooting steps here: https://www.currentware.com/support/troubleshoot-remote-client-install/ Our support team will gladly assist you with remote deployment should you ever need to deploy additional clients. We also provide guides for deploying via PDQ Deploy, Intune, and Active Directory with a Batch File. Thank you for being a CurrentWare customer! ### 41. Monitor Employees Activity from Anywhere with BrowseReporter **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xiomara V. | Senior Director of Technical Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Help me comprehend when employees are using work time for other interests like playing games and watching porn. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** I always fear to get caught by my manager who track me - anyway this help improve productivity. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposing web activities for employees enaures that we maintain high security when they visit high-risk webs and apps. **Official Response from Dale S:** > Thank you for your review, Xiomara! ### 42. Simple, Self hosted Web filter **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan S. | Vessel IT Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Ease of set up and deploy. I also like the console view and all the settings it has. **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** It would be nice to be able to change filter lists from mobile. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote filtering of of over 300 pc’s **Official Response from Dale S:** > Hey Evan, apologies for the late reply! In case you haven't heard, the new web console that was introduced in version 6.0 can be accessed via a mobile phone, though desktop remains the best experience. You can learn more about what's changed since your review here: https://www.currentware.com/support/release-notes/ ### 43. Browsing activity monitor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rogelita T. | IT Support Technician, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about CurrentWare?** Easy extraction of reports and even sents pdf reports to my email **What do you dislike about CurrentWare?** None. Its very useful and i can easily grab reports from it. **What problems is CurrentWare solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to track who is wasting company's bandwidth resource. 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