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.

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Organize Once, Scale Forever

Organize devices by the criteria that make sense for your business (like store locations)

Define settings, content, and send updates by device group

Nested subgroups for sophisticated workflows and ultra-large fleets

Mix and match Android and iOS devices into groups as needed

Manage at all levels: Full fleet, by group, or individual device

Easily move devices between groups, and groups themselves

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Build a Single Source of Truth for Your Fleet

Grouping may not seem like the most impactful feature at first glance, but it’s a fundamental component for achieving fleet productivity at scale. Without a robust grouping scheme, simple things become hard very quickly. Esper is designed to ensure that you have reliable, repeatable workflows as your fleet grows.

  • 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.
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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.

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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.

Jan W. Jr.
Software Engineer

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.

John L
Esper User on G2

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.

Kieron Stoddart
CTO at Senscio

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Device Management Isn't All or Nothing

Your devices probably aren't all in one place or aren't all the same type. So why use a device management platform that treats them like they are? Sign up for a trial and find out how device grouping changes the management game.

FAQ

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. 

kiosk mode

Organize Your Hardware. Scale Effortlessly.

Give customers and employees the right experience with every device
Never worry about your dedicated Android and iOS devices being used for anything other than their intended purpose. Create secure, distraction-free environments that delight customers and employees with a hardened kiosk mode solution you can trust. It’s the most reliable, unbreakable way to lock down critical company hardware at scale — no exceptions, no compromises.
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Trusted by thousands of enterprises around the world

Organize Once, Scale Forever

Lock devices to a single app or a set of applications, ensuring a seamless, intuitive experience
Simplify workflows and ensure consistent behavior by configuring device settings to your exact needs
Prevent access to distracting apps and content for supercharged productivity
Maintain polished, predictable behavior across locations and device types for a cohesive brand experience
Stop device misuse before it happens, lowering maintenance and support costs
Reduce wear-and-tear, and maximize your investment by keeping devices secure and maintained

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Unreliable Device Lockdown
Threatens Business

Purpose-built devices have a job to do. From point of sale systems to digital kiosks, Android to iOS, these devices are central to modern business interactions and revenue generation. When they deviate from their intended function, operations grind to a halt, causing customer frustration and lost revenue.
Don’t let an unsophisticated kiosk feature bring down your business. Esper’s hardened kiosk mode can’t be bypassed, offering robust protection for valuable hardware assets while ensuring every device in your fleet is always doing what it’s supposed to.

Go Ahead, Be Controlling

Esper’s kiosk mode enables you to create and deliver consistent, secure experiences on Android and iOS. With extensive, flexible control of settings and content, you’ll be certain devices are operating to your specifications no matter where they are in the world or who’s interacting with them.

Streamline

Guarantee that every user has the exact experience you want — nothing more, nothing less.

Reduce OpEx

Fully lock down devices to prevent misconfiguration and other tinkering that leads to costly troubleshooting and maintenance.

Enhance prodcutivity

Limit devices to essential functions, eliminating employee distractions and customer confusion.

Strengthen security

Shield devices from unauthorized access and modifications, keeping sensitive company data safe.

Future-proof your fleet by easily configuring and securing a range of devices - from POS systems to tablets and digital signage - adapting as your business grows.

See What Other Esper Users Say About Kiosk Mode

As a service provider, 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.
Strategic Technologist
Esper User on G2
What surprised me about Esper was the ease of use and deployment to our devices bundled with the amount of features that it offers. It is a complete package that allows me to take control of the devices within our company to remote manage without the need to have the device in my hands.
IT Manager
Esper User on G2
We use Esper to provide new Versions of our Android apps to Android tablets. Before using Esper, we had to upload the app to every single device ourselves. With Esper, we assign the new Version to the existing group, and the app is delivered to the tablets within 5 minutes.
Software Engineer
Esper User on G2
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Your hardware roadmap goes beyond the status quo. It’s time to use device management tools that put you in the driver’s seat with powerful tools built for scale. 

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FAQ

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.