Historian is a single solution for recording, auditing, and reporting computer use. Historian tracks a number of activities independently of each other. Historian can, at the administrator's discretion, record application usage, file access and operations, Internet Web page access, user activity, job costing information, and pages sent to a printer.

Historian consists of two separate functional components, a recorder and a reporter. The recording component runs as a system service. It starts invisibly as soon as the computer starts and continues to silently operate in the background. The recording component is a very efficient, optimized service which does all intensive processing only when the computer is idle. No decrease in performance should be noticed while the recorder is running. The reporter is a multiple document application which allows the usage information to be displayed in a variety of ways. Additionally, the reporter has export capabilities to place usage information in standard data formats for custom queries and aggregation with third party data manipulation tools. Historian's collection of useful usage information will fascinate you.