Faculties, labs and research machines, managed without a central mandate war
A university's devices are owned by faculties, bought from research grants and run by people who do not take instruction from central IT. Purple MDM gives each faculty its own group and its own settings on a shared platform, brings Linux research machines into the same checks, and handles the thousands of personal devices on campus as personal.
What you are up against
Devolved ownership, central accountability
Every faculty is its own IT department
Different platforms, different habits and different budgets, and a central policy that lands as an edict is ignored.Research machines
Linux workstations and servers bought on grants, patched by whoever remembers, and outside every management tool.Everyone's own device
Students and academics on their own laptops and phones, and a network that needs to know which are safe.
How Purple MDM is set up
How Purple MDM is set up for a university
- A group and roles per facultyEach faculty manages its own group with the Helpdesk or Admin role, inside the university's baselines, with every action logged.
- Linux in the same consoleUbuntu and RHEL research machines run the Purple agent: encryption and update checks, patching, scripts and WiFi certificates, with the same compliance verdicts as everything else.
- Personal devices with a work areaAcademics' and students' own phones enroll into a work area with a transparency page; laptops that fail a check are kept off the staff network until fixed.
- Data in your regionEvery customer's data apart at the database level, kept in Europe or the United States, with export or deletion on request.
See everything Purple MDM doesHigher education WiFi on Purple Access
- Staff MacsIn compliancemacOS 15, EAP-TLS WiFi, FileVault
- Frontline iPadsPreviewing changeSupervised, shared, Return to ServiceRoll-outTest groupRolled outWhole groupWaiting for you
- Office PCsIn complianceWindows 11, BitLocker, LAPS
Revisions
The fleet
The university fleet
- Faculty Macs and PCsEncryption with key escrow, company sign-in and patching by group.
- Teaching labsShared devices with a device policy, apps by lab, reset between sessions.
- Research Linux machinesThe Purple agent for checks, patching and certificates.
- Personal laptops and phonesA work area and a transparency page; health shared with Purple Access.
- Halls and library devicesKiosks and loan devices locked to their job.
- The APIKeys per role, bulk actions and an event stream for the university's SIEM.
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Can a faculty run its own devices without central IT?
Yes. Groups and roles give each faculty its own group inside the university's baselines, with every action logged in the audit log.
Does Purple MDM manage Linux?
Yes, through the Purple agent on Ubuntu and RHEL: disk encryption and update checks, scripts, patching and 802.1X WiFi certificates.
How does this fit with eduroam and the campus network?
Purple MDM issues and renews device certificates and shares device health. The network side, including RADIUS and the secure network, is Purple Access.
Can we export our data?
Yes. Customers can export or delete all their data on request, and it stays in its region, Europe or the United States.
Other industries
Schools
Carts, classroom iPads and staff laptops in one console, with the school year built in.Multi-academy trusts
One console for every school in the trust, with central baselines and a group per site.Colleges
Workshop PCs, media Macs, loan iPads and staff laptops in one console.
See every device in one console, on your own fleet
Tell us which devices you run, how many, and what you manage them with today. The Purple team shows you Purple MDM on a fleet like yours: zero-touch enrollment, a change previewed and undone, a failed check explained in a sentence, and a device moved off the network and back. Already a Purple customer? Sign in to the app with your Purple account.
- We map your fleetA Purple expert maps your platforms, your groups and how devices arrive today, and answers your questions on enrollment, data regions, roles and migration.
- You see it on devices like yoursA demo of zero-touch enrollment, a previewed change, a failed check explained in plain English and, with Purple Access, a device moved off the network and back.
- You get your quotePriced per device, per month, for the platforms you run, direct or through your Purple partner, with a move in waves planned if you are coming from another MDM.
Your demo
Tell us your fleet. We show you Purple MDM running it.
A Purple expert comes back to book a demo on devices like yours, from the team behind Purple WiFi and Purple Access.