In one aspect, a firmware on a management controller operatively connected to a plurality of managed computing platforms is disclosed. In one embodiment, the firmware includes a plurality of emulated instances of platform management firmware. Each emulated firmware instance contains platform-specific configuration data for a corresponding one of the managed computing platforms. The management controller is operative to perform one or more platform management functions for each of the managed computing platforms based at least in part on the configuration data for a corresponding one of the emulated firmware instances.