Customers + Partners

Customers + Partners

Crossing the Atlantic: Thoughts on our Series D Funding

Last week, Okta proudly announced a $27 million series D round of funding, which will be used for growing our company internationally. This funding marks a very strong vote of confidence from our investors for Okta and for cloud-based identity management as an industry, but I’m personally most excited about what it means for our future and wanted…

How Okta Helped Teknion Find Feng Shui with IT

The ancient Chinese used the principals of feng shui to make their workspace healthier and more fortunate by balancing a space’s energy. Though not entirely dependent on the elemental energies, Teknion puts just as much thought and passion into the development of their office solutions. With that in mind, we set out to determine how Teknion…

Shire: Partnering with Okta to Help Improve Lives

Shire has a clear mission: to enable people to lead better lives. Whether through treatments in neuroscience, rare diseases or regenerative medicine, there aren’t many companies with more dedication to improving people's lives than Shire. “We’re a company that touches almost every aspect that a business can be in,” said Bob Litterer, senior…

Top 5 Reasons to Attend Oktane13: Identity Management Conference

The countdown has officially begun. That’s right, there’s fewer than 75 days until Oktane13, our inaugural user conference! Whether you’re a customer or thinking about becoming one, a partner, or simply an identity enthusiast, Oktane13 is the place to examine the increasingly critical role of cloud and hybrid identity management in the enterprise…

Softchoice: Expanding into the Cloud with Okta

Softchoice believes in the power of people and the potential of technology — how could they not? The company started in 1989 and continues to help organizations use technology to become more productive, competitive and successful. We jumped at the chance to speak with Francis Li, vice president of IT at Softchoice, about how the company has been…

What Are The Essential Cloud-Based Tools in the Enterprise?

Everyone has tools they can’t live or work without. For math teachers, it’s multiplication tables; for radiologists, it’s x-rays; for me, it’s my morning coffee. But what about for CIOs and IT directors? To find out, we asked our customers and partners which cloud tools (besides Okta) they couldn’t live without for the second installment of “The…

How Okta Lights the Way Into the Cloud at Enterasys

What Okta does for Enterasys could be compared to what Thomas Edison did for the light bulb: significantly increase efficiency. That link may seem far-fetched, but according to Dan Petlon, CIO of Enterasys, Okta “frees the IT guys from just keeping the lights on and maintaining systems, all those traditional IT things, to doing new things:…

Wilbur-Ellis: Growing Their Agribusiness in the Cloud with Okta

Any plant will tell you that in order to grow, it could use a helping hand. The team at Wilbur-Ellis, a 92-year-old company with a serious knack for agribusiness, knows this better than anyone. That’s why when the time came for the company to start managing their employees and partners’ identities in the cloud, they turned to Okta to help them…

Make Us Your To-Do List: 5 Reasons to Choose Okta

Busy day? We know you’re probably reading this right now while avoiding an epic Monday to-do list. If “streamline my IT operations system and move to the cloud” is on that to-do list, then you stumbled upon the perfect place to procrastinate. Our customers love to talk about how we’ve helped them manage the same task so, in the spirit of lists…

Encore Capital: Bringing Financial Services to the Cloud with Okta

For financial service companies, moving to the cloud can be daunting given heavy regulation and compliance and security requirements. But Encore Capital isn’t shying away from the cloud. The financial service company is strategically implementing cloud-based applications to improve employee productivity and satisfaction. We recently sat down with…

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