device grouping
Organize Your Hardware. Scale Effortlessly.
Get rid of the spreadsheets and start organizing your fleet natively
Organizing your devices by location, type, OS, function, or hardware revision is a painstaking process, let alone finding a way to do it inside your MDM. With Esper, you can group devices based on these and other criteria (or even with your own custom tags), and then assign relevant apps, content, and settings to each group and subgroup. It’s scalable, straightforward, and it all lives in a single pane of glass.
Organize Once, Scale Forever
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Your Devices, Your Rules: Build Smarter with the Esper Device SDK
Managing Android devices at scale doesn’t have to be a grind. Esper’s device SDK gives you the tools to build exactly what you need, whether it’s optimizing for custom hardware or automating tedious tasks. Debugging? Streamlined. Updates? Effortless. Fleet management? Totally in your hands. It’s all about giving you the power to tweak, fine-tune, and scale your setup without breaking a sweat.
Grow with confidence: Categorize devices precisely to keep your fleet manageable at scale. Create parent groups for regions and subgroups for individual stores.
Granular visibility at enormous scale: Groups give you the ability to zoom into exactly the level of depth necessary to monitor and manage your fleet. Need to check in on a specific store’s devices? Get there with just a few keystrokes or clicks.
Target updates to reduce risk: Deploy updates as staged rollouts to your fleet in targeted groups, or purpose-built test groups, so that you know how software and content perform in the field.
Keep a truly live device inventory: Stop organizing your fleet in one place and managing it in another. Manage devices, organize them, and deploy software through a single pane of glass — even across operating systems and device types.
Esper Device Grouping Scales Your Fleet Sustainably
Reliable, repeatable, and scalable are in our DNA at Esper. We know how complicated and unapproachable typical MDM tools are, and how difficult they make achieving these outcomes. Grouping is one piece of the puzzle in fleet scale, but it’s a crucial one, and that’s why we built this feature so robustly. That means Esper can grow with you, from five stores to 5,000 — letting you define your device organization in the way that makes the most sense to you.
Whether it’s about precisely defining your software testing rollout strategy, keeping an inventory, regionalizing your content deployments, or distributing fleet management across locations, there are dozens of reasons that grouping your devices is a foundational part of fleet strategy. With Esper, you can do it all.
What Esper Customers Say
We use Esper to provide new versions of our own Android apps to Android tablets. Before using Esper we had to upload the APK to every single device by ourselves. With Esper, we assign the new version to the existing group, and the app gets delivered to the tablets within 5 minutes.
Maintaining security is about maintaining control of your assets. Esper provides the controls necessary to secure and manage the Android tablets we have deployed. We value Esper's ability to manage everything at the device level or group level (department/customer) and stagger updates to ensure that devices don't go down during critical hours, remote debugging, and hardware validation.
Before we implemented Esper, our technology team would be spending too much time making sure that our devices were locked down and that our devices were able to upload and install new versions of our applications. With Esper, we don't have to worry about that.
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FAQs
Device Grouping FAQs
What is device grouping?
Device grouping is a way to organize your devices to make them easier to manage.
What are the different ways I can group my devices with Esper?
You can group your devices any way you can think of — device type, hardware, device location, OS version, and more.
How many subgroups can I create with Esper?
You can create 5 subgroups nested within a parent group.
Can I include different device types within the same group?
Yes. A device group can include different device types within it.