Google is rolling out a broader Internet monitoring tool for IT managers that can be used to analyze employees' Web usage. According to foreign media reports, GoogleApps analytics can provide managers with some data and pictures, through these data and pictures, managers can learn how often employees visit GoogleDocs and Google esites. And the duration of each visit.
Google says companies use GoogleAnalytics to tell whether employees are following the company's latest policies, for example, by how adept they are at finding a particular website. NickCooper, an engineer at GoogleApps, wrote in a blog post that managers can break down information needs into specific things like an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a user's location and browser type, and then analyze them. Google Analytics was originally launched to help companies know the external traffic status of the website, so as to improve the enterprise's initiative in the market. But now Google plans to let companies use the tool to monitor how employees respond to corporate decisions. Google says that both the Premium and Education hypervisors of GoogleApp can connect to the analytics tool GoogleAnalytics and then report analytics results to GoogleApps through the Admin Control panel. According to a person familiar with the matter in a personal blog post, Google has also announced that it will expand the functionality of the GoogleVisualizationAPI with information that developers can access widely from all sources on the Web. The GoogleVisualizationAPI was designed to make it easy for developers to install applications on top of Google spreadsheets, but these applications can now be installed on any database or spreadsheet.
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