Sapience is an enterprise-level people analytics solution that delivers unprecedented visibility into how people work, by providing real-time work pattern reporting and analytics.
Sapience is a PC usage solution that tracks employee use of desktop and web applications on office PCs. It operates with a client-server architecture. Agents on individual PCs collect user time utilization data. Each user has access to an individual dashboard that shows their daily and hourly time use. Company leaders and managers can view company-level, aggregated data, and business analytics on a central server. Data is collected in real-time, and reports can be generated on demand.
Sapience automatically classifies work into activities (such as design, development, and communication) and end objectives (projects, functions). It also determines when an employee goes offline for periods of time – i.e., when the computer is not in use. Sapience allows managers to view and understand work patterns across their organization, and gives employees greater visibility into how their daily time is spent.
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Sapience is very secure. We use military-grade encryption on the data we collect. Sapience also works in compliance with your company’s corporate security and authentication systems.
Client surveys across our user base have shown:
Sapience measures the following defined employee productivity metrics:
Sapience comes with a number of standard reports, charts and software audit tools—but even better, you can create custom, user-defined reports. Reports may be generated immediately.
Sapience works on the following operating systems:
It is compatible with the following browsers:
Yes. Sapience reports can be viewed and used through any mobile device’s compatible Web browser. Sapience can also collect data from mobile devices.
Sapience tracks time spent in business apps, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as development platforms commonly used by software companies.
Sapience does not capture key strokes; nor does it perform screen scrapes. It captures time spent on the PC, and application information.
No. Sapience is not a monitoring tool. It is a business process management solution, designed to address the concerns of enterprises, which are interested in actionable, high-level work trends, rather than data about each individual’s time. For more about how Sapience protects privacy, view our privacy page.
No. Sapience is not a monitoring tool. It is designed to provide the ‘big picture’ about enterprise effort. While data is collected from each employee, companies only have visibility into work-related time spent on the PC. Time spent on personal activities is not visible to the organization. Employers also do not have visibility into each employee’s daily breakdown of time by the hour or minute—they only receive totals of time spent on work-related tasks.
From an employee perspective, the biggest privacy concern is often about an employer’s ability to see which websites they visit. Employees are often unaware that companies already have access to all the websites and content visited by employees via their web proxy server or other network management tools. Most global companies record emails and chats, too. Yet, companies rarely access that data.
Companies don’t want to monitor employees; but rather want to move their performance from good to better. They have to become more competitive, and to do so, they need to raise the performance bar.
Sapience facilitates this objective by automatically showing Enterprise Effort in various dimensions. Once you have the facts, you can improve. Sapience also promotes self-improvement at the individual level, with guidance from managers on which activities need more focus. Let employees know that the goal of using Sapience is not to monitor individual employee performance, but rather to gain a big-picture view of how the company is performing—and to gain insights that can help the company become more successful.
Trust but VerifyWe all want a trust-based environment. However, trust has to be reciprocal. If Sapience shows that work hours are not reasonable, not because of lack of motivation, but because time is being lost to distractions, then it needs to improve.
Manager as CoachManagement is not about hiring star employees and leaving them to perform on their own, without any guidance. If that was the case, companies would only need good recruiters. Great managers guide team members to achieve their full potential. A selector can only look at results, while a coach will actively seek tools to improve performance—like Sapience, which will help them guide the team to greater success.
If you want to reap the performance benefits of Sapience while ensuring maximum privacy, you can choose to run Sapience in “Anonymous” mode. In this mode, Sapience is used primarily as a self-improvement tool, with individual data only visible to individual employees. Managers may view total employee productivity metrics and trends across the company, including gaps between “reasonable” and actual work time, at the team level.
Yes. Sapience is designed to encourage the pursuit of excellence by improving employee engagement. Encouraging and rewarding performance will help your company become more efficient, so you can move to the next level. Sapience allows you to measure performance. If it shows that employees are working at expected levels, no improvement is needed. However, if work performance is below expectations, Sapience can show the way to higher levels of output with more reasonable efforts. As performance improves, employees can take greater pride in their work and enjoy positive recognition from management.
Yes. Simply add a new user ID to your account, or disable an existing user ID, and deploy the data collection agent.
Employees may classify the use of their offline time within the app. Meetings configured in Outlook are automatically incorporated into Sapience data.
No. Sapience can track usage across multiple PCs. Just log in with your user ID, and Sapience will gather data from whichever PC you are using, and aggregate it into a single report.
No. Sapience can gather data from multiple log-in user IDs, and aggregate it into a single Sapience user ID.