A method for managing policies for groups of wireless devices, each of the wireless devices being associated with a corresponding one of multiple different wireless device platforms (110, 112, 114, 116, 118), the method comprising: receiving at a computing device, for all wireless device platforms, sets of configuration settings and policy elements applicable to wireless devices supported by the platforms, the policy elements defining one or more aspects of the wireless device's configuration; generating by the computing device a master set of device agnostic rule definitions, the generating comprising: retrieving the received sets of all configuration settings and policy elements into a union set, the union set being a set of all distinct configuration settings and policy elements in the received sets; and processing the union set of all the distinct configuration settings and policy elements to form a plurality of groups, each group of the plurality of groups containing one or more configuration settings and policy elements associated to platforms that support the one or more configuration setting and policy elements, each group specifying one of the device agnostic rule definitions, wherein the device agnostic rule definitions define rules that limit functionality of the group of wireless devices; displaying the master set of device agnostic rule definitions from the processed union set, the device agnostic rule definitions having rules that are defined independently of constraints on the configuration settings governed by the multiple different wireless device platforms; receiving a global policy composed from a subset of the displayed device agnostic rule definitions; determining from each of the rule definitions in the received global policy one or more associated-to platforms and corresponding configuration settings and policy elements for each associated-to platform; and transmitting to the determined one or more associated-to platforms, the corresponding configuration settings and policy elements. receiving at a computing device, for all wireless device platforms, sets of configuration settings and policy elements applicable to wireless devices supported by the platforms, the policy elements defining one or more aspects of the wireless device's configuration; generating by the computing device a master set of device agnostic rule definitions, the generating comprising: retrieving the received sets of all configuration settings and policy elements into a union set, the union set being a set of all distinct configuration settings and policy elements in the received sets; and processing the union set of all the distinct configuration settings and policy elements to form a plurality of groups, each group of the plurality of groups containing one or more configuration settings and policy elements associated to platforms that support the one or more configuration setting and policy elements, each group specifying one of the device agnostic rule definitions, wherein the device agnostic rule definitions define rules that limit functionality of the group of wireless devices; retrieving the received sets of all configuration settings and policy elements into a union set, the union set being a set of all distinct configuration settings and policy elements in the received sets; and processing the union set of all the distinct configuration settings and policy elements to form a plurality of groups, each group of the plurality of groups containing one or more configuration settings and policy elements associated to platforms that support the one or more configuration setting and policy elements, each group specifying one of the device agnostic rule definitions, wherein the device agnostic rule definitions define rules that limit functionality of the group of wireless devices; displaying the master set of device agnostic rule definitions from the processed union set, the device agnostic rule definitions having rules that are defined independently of constraints on the configuration settings governed by the multiple different wireless device platforms; receiving a global policy composed from a subset of the displayed device agnostic rule definitions; determining from each of the rule definitions in the received global policy one or more associated-to platforms and corresponding configuration settings and policy elements for each associated-to platform; and transmitting to the determined one or more associated-to platforms, the corresponding configuration settings and policy elements.