Patent ID: 8903365

Claim:
A system to manage a plurality of mobile devices of an organization via a common interface, the system comprising: a processing device configured to: receive an identifier for each of the plurality of mobile devices, wherein each identifier indicates a platform operating on its respective mobile device from the plurality of mobile devices, receive, for at least two of the plurality of mobile devices, end user information regarding at least one end user, wherein the end user information comprises enterprise role information regarding the at least one end user's role within the organization, and wherein the enterprise role information is defined from an existing directory of the organization, formulate a management task definition based at least in part on the enterprise role information, wherein the management task definition defines a management task to be performed on the at least two of the plurality of mobile devices, and determine, using the received identifiers from the at least two mobile devices, a first platform operating on at least a first of the at least two mobile devices and a second platform operating on at least a second of the at least two mobile devices, wherein a first platform server formulates instructions, specific to the first platform, to perform the management task on the at least a first device, and wherein a second platform server formulates instructions, specific to the second platform, to perform the management task on the at least a second device.