Customers + Partners

We recently introduced “The Okta Thought Cloud,” a new blog series that encourages our customers and partners to share their thoughts about what’s going on in the enterprise — and enterprise IT. To kick it off, we asked, “What is the most difficult challenge of being a CIO in today’s hybrid world?” We know abandoning on-premises applications in…

Here at Okta, we’re always having interesting conversations with our customers and partners around what’s going on in the enterprise. In light of some of these recent conversations around the evolution of IT and the CIO role, we’re introducing “The Okta Thought Cloud,” a blog series that will explore customer, partner and broader Okta community…

Today, we officially announced the Okta Partner Program, a crucial step forward in our mission to expand our partner ecosystem of system integrators, resellers, referral partners and ISVs. The program will extend the reach of our future-proof identity management platform, delivering immediate value to both our customers and the customers of our…

School of Rock might not toot their own horn, but we certainly will. The music school franchise, already the national leader in music education, has recently expanded into several countries including Mexico and Brazil. As one of the largest musical instruction franchises with more than 100 schools worldwide, School of Rock faces the challenge of…

We are incredibly excited to announce our inaugural Okta User Conference: OKTANE13! Taking place November 3-5, 2013, at the InterContinental in San Francisco, OKTANE13 is an event you won’t want to miss. Join hundreds of IT professionals and industry thought-leaders for the premier identity, security and mobility event of the year. Whether you’re…

Energy management is a hot topic (sometimes literally.) One of our customers, EnerNOC, is playing an industry-changing role in the energy management space by offering technology-enabled solutions to commercial, institutional and industrial organizations. In addition to providing demand response solutions, the company also offers energy consulting…

In the past twelve months, we added a few customers you might recognize, from your laundry detergent and cleaning supply brand to your favorite fast food fried chicken and your window to the world. That’s right: Clorox, Popeye's Chicken and National Geographic are now among our hundreds of enterprise customers. Another new customer that’s…

We recently hosted a CIO panel with four IT leaders to discuss the evolving role of IT amid the pressures of mobile and cloud adoption in business today. Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital) represented an eclectic mix with backgrounds in consumer goods,…

We recently had the pleasure of catching up with Welles Hatch, City Year’s CIO, to learn what Okta’s doing to help this not-for-profit organization challenge the educational status quo. If you’re not familiar, City Year provides AmeriCorps corps members on teams to work as mentors, coaches and tutors in schools across the country to get kids at…

Big changes are affecting the enterprise as increased cloud and mobile adoption pushes businesses further beyond the firewall — and IT is right in the middle. That’s why we’ve gathered senior IT leaders from Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis) for an…