Patent ID: 8615581

Claim:
A managed services portal, comprising: one or more user interface elements configured to enable a user to make selections associated with the management of services for one or more portable computing devices; and a processor that is communicatively coupled to the user interface elements, wherein the processor is operable to: receive a request to determine a status of one or more of the portable computing devices or to cause an action to occur on one or more of the portable computing devices; and provide the status of the one or more portable computing devices or to effect the action on the one or more portable computing devices; wherein the processor is further operable to provide the status of the one or more portable computing devices or to effect the action on the one or more portable computing devices on an individual basis, a group basis or a global basis; wherein the processor is further operable to cause the presentation of one or more bundles, wherein the bundles are assigned to one or more performance functions and the bundles contain information that is based on the assigned performance functions; wherein the information includes configuration settings and applications and at least some of the applications are default applications and the processor is further operable to enable an application to be designated as a default application for a bundle; wherein at least some of the default applications are selected from an application repository that is associated with and under the control of a first enterprise and the user of the portable computing device is associated with the first enterprise; wherein the first enterprise controls the application repository by at least determining which default applications are to be published in the application repository.