StopWatch Desktop Analytics is a software tool that measures employee workflow and resource utilization. It captures accurate data on application usage, helps analyze process compliance and inefficiencies, and enables monitoring of metrics to prove business cases and optimization successes. The tool generates logs of desktop activity without installing software or updating the registry. It then transmits these logs to a portal, shared folder, or processes them locally for analysis and graphical reporting on usage patterns down to the hourly, daily, and monthly level. Implementation occurs over three phases from workstation analytics to transaction analytics to optimization.