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What Is Cost Insights?

Cost Insights is a powerful feature designed to analyze and optimize for cost-saving opportunities and software license usage, providing clear visibility into usage patterns, license compliance, and financial efficiency. According to a report citing Gartner, global software spending is projected to exceed $1.2 trillion in 2025, marking a substantial 14.2% increase from the previous year.

How to Block Websites Using the Hosts File on Windows 10/11

Book a Demo Learn More Editing the Hosts file to block a website on multiple devices is a time-consuming, inflexible, and labor-intensive process. For just $5 per license per month, you can take advantage of BrowseControl to block billions of websites across over 100 URL categories. More than 10,000 new domains are added each day, making it simple to restrict internet access even as new sites emerge.

How to Check Computer Activity: Monitor Usage with CurrentWare

This article will answer this common question: “How do I check recent activity on my computer?”. I will show you how to review recent activities using apps that come included with Windows as well as CurrentWare’s employee and computer monitoring software solutions.

How to Manage Software Licenses with a Software Metering Audit (and Why It Matters)

Managing software licenses shouldn’t be a guessing game. With rising IT costs and stricter compliance demands, visibility into software usage has become essential — not optional. Software licensing is one of the most controllable areas of IT spend, yet it’s often overlooked due to a lack of usage data. That’s where software metering comes in.

What Is Software Metering? A Complete Guide to Software Usage and Asset Management

Software metering is a critical part of software asset management (SAM) that helps businesses understand, control, and optimize how software applications are used across their organization. Whether you're trying to cut costs, stay audit-ready, or improve software ROI, software metering provides the visibility you need. Software metering is the process of tracking and analyzing software usage on individual devices and across a network.

Why Teams are Replacing Time Logs with Productivity Visibility

Implementing productivity visibility tools often uncovers eye-opening insights that traditional time tracking fails to surface. Here’s what professional services leaders are learning—and how they’re acting on it. The Real Cost of Underused Tools What you see: Software licenses sitting idle—even as renewal and susbscription costs mount, unchecked. Roughly 40% of SaaS licenses go unutilized in many organizations.

Understanding Employee Utilization Rate, Single Sign-On (SSO), and More! (v11.0.0)

CurrentWare version 11.0.0 is here! CurrentWare 11.0.0 introduces powerful new enhancements designed to provide more insights into employee work trends, improve security, user management, and system performance. In this update, we’re rolling out Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, reporting trend improvements, a secondary client database, new application productivity grading, and much more.

The 7 Best Internet Filtering Software of 2025 (Tech Review)

Want to block distracting websites, monitor internet use, and keep your network secure against web-based threats? This list of the best internet filtering software covers website blocking solutions that are suitable for businesses, parental control, Mac users, and more.

How Absenteeism and Presenteeism Affect Productivity

Absenteeism—being absent from work without a valid reason—is a chronic problem for U.S. employers, conservatively costing $3,600 per hourly employee per year, and $2,650 per salaried employee per year. Based on this, a company of 5,000 hourly employees will lose over $18 million per year without a strong absence policy. But being physically present isn’t always the best thing for overall productivity.