My name is Ramiz Khan, I manage our marketing at ActivTrak. In this 2017 retrospective, you'll see that this was an important year here. We’ve made a lot of delicate, deliberate expansions to our team, culture and product that we believe will not only allow us to help you create a more efficient business, but also help to propel ActivTrak, Employee Monitoring and the Behavior Analytics market forward in 2018.
Here are some of the highlights from this year.
The ActivTrak team (minus a few) at our annual company holiday party.[/caption]
Over the past year, our team has grown from 14 to 24 people in less than 12 months! This has come with quite a few expansions to our culture as well. I'll get to the changes we've made to our office in a moment, but first and more notably, we've added a few team building activities and standing events. Our Team Breakfast and Happy Hours are monthly events for our team to take a break, relax and get to know the people they work with every day.
With the additional support, we’ve added quite a few new toys to tinker with moving forward. As always, we’ve taken our usual approach, which is to listen to what you need from us to make your life easier while using ActivTrak. Once we’ve evaluated and prioritized the needs of our users, we build a solution.
Another first for ActivTrak is that we sent some of our team out to engage with clients and industry experts to gain more knowledge and to better understand their needs.
From the Google Cloud Next Conference in San Fransisco and HackerX in Austin to the AllState Mega Agency Conference in Florida and client meetings in London and here in Dallas, we were all over the place! We wanted to send our team out into the world to display their expertise and to gain more knowledge from other clients and industry experts.
Keep an eye out for some lessons learned from these experiences coming out later this year.
Because our growing team needed more room, late last year we moved into a larger office. And just a month ago, we were forced to double our office space again by knocking down the wall to the office next to ours.
Not only does this give us more room for our growing team, but it's an opportunity to make the space we work in our own. We've put some paint on the walls, added some flair, and most notably, our founders opted to replace every person's desk with a mechanical standing desk by Fully!
Our office is buzzing since the renovations. We really love the new additions, and we can't wait to bring in new team members.
Interested in working for ActivTrak? Checkout our open positions here!
The Team:
We take time and care with the addition of each new team member at ActivTrak. For us, it’s important we find the right people who are willing to come in, wear many hats, and simply get the job done. Well, that's exactly what we’ve found. [caption id="attachment_5882" align="alignleft" width="300"]
The ActivTrak team (minus a few) at our annual company holiday party.[/caption]
Over the past year, our team has grown from 14 to 24 people in less than 12 months! This has come with quite a few expansions to our culture as well. I'll get to the changes we've made to our office in a moment, but first and more notably, we've added a few team building activities and standing events. Our Team Breakfast and Happy Hours are monthly events for our team to take a break, relax and get to know the people they work with every day.
With the additional support, we’ve added quite a few new toys to tinker with moving forward. As always, we’ve taken our usual approach, which is to listen to what you need from us to make your life easier while using ActivTrak. Once we’ve evaluated and prioritized the needs of our users, we build a solution.
Another first for ActivTrak is that we sent some of our team out to engage with clients and industry experts to gain more knowledge and to better understand their needs.
From the Google Cloud Next Conference in San Fransisco and HackerX in Austin to the AllState Mega Agency Conference in Florida and client meetings in London and here in Dallas, we were all over the place! We wanted to send our team out into the world to display their expertise and to gain more knowledge from other clients and industry experts.
Keep an eye out for some lessons learned from these experiences coming out later this year.
The Office:
You wouldn't recognize our office if you were here a year ago. No really, we're in a completely different space!
Because our growing team needed more room, late last year we moved into a larger office. And just a month ago, we were forced to double our office space again by knocking down the wall to the office next to ours.
Not only does this give us more room for our growing team, but it's an opportunity to make the space we work in our own. We've put some paint on the walls, added some flair, and most notably, our founders opted to replace every person's desk with a mechanical standing desk by Fully!
Our office is buzzing since the renovations. We really love the new additions, and we can't wait to bring in new team members.
Interested in working for ActivTrak? Checkout our open positions here!
The Vision:
We had three main goals this year as we continued to develop ActivTrak. One, we wanted to create easier access to the more granular data that gets collected by ActivTrak in order for you to get the insights you’re looking for faster. Now, you’ll notice that many of the dashboard widgets will take you deep into your reports to views you would otherwise have to navigate through 3-4 pages to access. Two, we wanted to make sure we added some security features for those users that needed some additional security. Lastly, we've added integrations. Over the last 12 months, we’ve added two separate methods to let ActivTrak either talk to or directly integrate with your existing infrastructure. ActivTrak becomes much more powerful when you can integrate the data from ActivTrak with your existing metrics, giving you the ability to step back and look at the bigger picture.The Product:
Here are some of the more recent additions to ActivTrak that you may not have heard about yet.Mobile App
First off, we have a free iOS App! PC Mag named our mobile app one of the Top 25 Business Mobile Apps of 2018. Now you can take your data on the go with you! ActivTrak has always been mobile responsive, which allowed our users to check their data from any browser, but now we offer a more easily accessible option with our iOS app. This is just the first iteration of the app, which is intended for data viewing purposes only at this time. We will continue to add to the features and availability of the app in the coming year.
