Meet Tim Gu, a product manager in our San Francisco office who joined the Okta team in June 2013 as a summer intern. More than a year and a half later, Tim is now responsible for taking customer ideas and suggestions and making them a reality by working across the many teams at Okta. From the annual Oktane conference to the maturity of the senior…

Many nonprofit organizations rely on us to make their IT departments more secure and efficient amid budget and resource restrictions. From connecting people with the apps they need to powering externally-facing member portals, these organizations use our service to ensure that their IT teams can easily manage access to the tools their constituents…

Microsoft is cranking with Office 365. It is the most commonly used application within Okta and the second most commonly deployed in our network of 4,000+. No matter if you’re a small business, large enterprise, or somewhere in between, organizations are choosing Office 365 for email, collaboration, calendaring and more. Once that decision is made…

Security was one of the hottest topics in 2014 for enterprise technology both in the US and overseas. In the EU, we saw high-profile companies such as HSBC Turkey, Domino’s Pizza in France and Belgium and the Central European Bank in Frankfurt become the victims of major data breaches. Both employees and customers found themselves in the firing…

A lot has changed since I joined Okta a little less than a year ago. We’ve doubled our customer base to 2,000+ enterprises, hosted Oktane14, our second annual customer summit, and announced a series of new offerings to securely connect more people, organizations, apps and devices. What hasn’t changed, though, is our focus on customer success. Our…

Another year, another opportunity to set resolutions and vow to stick to them in the new year. That might mean signing up to volunteer more regularly, trying to get some value out of your gym membership or simply straightening up your finances. But the new year is also a great time to reflect on the last 365 days and celebrate all that you’ve…

We’ve noticed something quite extraordinary happening on the Okta Application Network over the last few months: Microsoft Office 365 is quickly working its way to #1 – meaning the most commonly deployed application in our network of 4,000+. It’s also already the most used application (measured by raw number of authentications) across our 2,000+…

When we started to work on Okta Mobility Management (OMM) for Android about six months ago, our mobile team needed to extend the current Okta Mobile for Android to provide new OMM functionality. In doing so, we needed a process that ensured and improved the quality of Okta Mobile. At the center of this process was test automation, which let us…