Use Machines+People when the pain of gathering the necessary information to perform a task for a client is greater than entering it once formally. You're an IT professional. You are called to a client site to deploy a new desktop computer. You take the machine out of the box and gather any software that needs to be installed. Now you need to know:

• What are the serial numbers for the software?
• Where else is might the same software installed, is there a conflict?
• If it's a site license how many seats have been installed?
• What is the email configuration for the user?
• What should the admin credentials be for the new machine?
• What should the user credentials be for the new machine?
• What is the network configuration for the new machine?
• What resources need to be configured and what are the settings?

You could spend a fair amount of time gathering this information. At best it's annoying to all involved. What do you do with the information once you have it? You probably write it down and then do what with it? Keep it for the next visit? Leave it with the client?

Machines+People is a database that runs on a flash drive and contains the machine, people, and software credentials needed to deploy new machines, replace machines, add new people to a machine, decommission a machine, add new software, move software licenses, and more. Machine+People will maintain the data that your clients probably don't take the time to library.

Machine+People is a cross platform application that will run on Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. Just plug the thumb drive into whatever machine you are working on.

Machine+People is targeted to small to medium size organizations. Organizations that are too small for the costly enterprise tools but big enough to make good use of a simple system that saves time. Even the home envirnoment is complex enough to have a need for Machine+People.

The database is encrypted and is secure. It is not a database on an internet server.

Continue learning more by clicking "Manage Client Credentials" menu to the right.