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Global commerce company unifies device management and improves compliance with Fleet
A global commerce technology company manages a large, distributed fleet of macOS and Linux devices. With multiple tools across operating systems, the company needed a single platform to consolidate device management, close visibility gaps, and automate compliance.
Fleet helps the company unify tooling, improve Linux visibility, and automate compliance through a single platform.
At a glance
- Industry: Technology and e-commerce
- Devices managed: macOS and Linux at a global scale
- Primary requirements: GitOps workflows, real-time visibility, multi-OS management
- Previous challenge: Fragmented tooling and limited visibility into device performance and user experience
The challenge
Before Fleet, the company relied on multiple tools to manage different operating systems. This created operational complexity and made it difficult to maintain consistent policies across a global fleet.
Linux systems were especially challenging, with limited visibility and no unified management approach. Integration issues and performance bottlenecks added overhead as the environment continued to scale, making it difficult for the team to get a clear picture of device performance and end-user experience.
The evaluation criteria
The team focused on three priorities:
- GitOps workflows: Manage device configurations through version-controlled code.
- osquery integration: Enable real-time visibility and automated remediation.
- Unified multi-OS management: Manage macOS and Linux from a single platform, with room to expand.
The solution
Fleet provides a single platform for managing all operating systems in the environment.
The team uses Fleet to run live queries, enforce policies, and automate remediation workflows. Devices are continuously evaluated, and actions are triggered as soon as they fall out of compliance, replacing manual review with a real-time, policy-driven model.
Labels and API integrations allow dynamic device grouping and automated policy enforcement, removing manual workflows from the team's day-to-day. Fleet's lightweight agent also improves the end-user experience while maintaining consistent security controls across the fleet.
The results
Fleet improved visibility, reduced complexity, and accelerated response times.
- Unified management: All supported operating systems are managed from one platform.
- Faster response: Compliance issues are identified and resolved quickly.
- Reduced overhead: Consolidation replaces multiple tools and manual processes.
- Better user experience: A lightweight agent keeps devices secure without slowing users down.
Why Fleet
For this company, the key advantage is real-time, scalable control. Fleet combines deep visibility with automation, allowing teams to manage a global fleet efficiently without relying on fragmented systems.
About Fleet Fleet is the single endpoint management platform for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, and cloud infrastructure. Trusted by over 1,300 organizations, Fleet empowers IT and security teams to accelerate productivity, build verifiable trust, and optimize costs.
By bringing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices to device management, Fleet ensures endpoints remain secure and operational, freeing engineering teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
Fleet offers total deployment flexibility: on-premises, air-gapped, container-native (Docker and Kubernetes), or cloud-agnostic (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean). Organizations can also choose fully managed SaaS via Fleet Cloud, ensuring complete control over data residency and legal jurisdiction.