Gopalan: Esper manages 2,000 devices per location across thousands of retail stores
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Yadhu Gopalan, co-founder and CEO of Esper, describes a massive enterprise retail client's scale to illustrate the necessity of centralized hardware fleet management.
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“Another example is in a retail store that we have. There's I mean, it's a product that I can't talk about too much, but as you, you're talking about 2000 devices per store. And, It's an amazing use case. And you can, and there are thousands of these stores and can you imagine having to manage all of these independent devices that are everywhere?”
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