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Okta's 12 Days of Customers

'Tis the season for holiday cheer, and at Okta we're brimming with it. Whether you're decking the halls, spinning the dreidel, lighting the kinara or setting up the Festivus pole, we love all the holiday cheer this time of year brings. Plus, it's a reason to raise our glass of eggnog to another year of spectacular enterprise customers who've…

School of Rock on #Oktane15: If You’re Like Me, There’s Plenty to Look Forward to at Oktane15

In this installment of our Oktane15 customer blog series, Sam Dresser, senior director of information strategy at School of Rock, waxes poetic about why he attends Oktane every year – and what it’s like to be an Okta groupie. If you’re at all like me, the thought of giving up a couple days of work sounds scary. And if you’re at all like me, you’re…

A Day In The Life of Tim Gu: Intern Turned Product Manager

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…

Okta 2014 Highlights: A Year In Numbers

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…

1,014 Conference Attendees, 182 Hands-On Lab Participants and 635 Party Dancers: Oktane14 by the Numbers

27 customer-lead sessions. 937 tweets about #Oktane14. Plus, the fire alarm only went off once -- and, as our co-founder and COO Frederic Kerrest joked, zero Okta employees were deprovisioned after our big customer celebration at the Exploratorium. On November 10-12, we welcomed more than 1,000 customers and partners to our second annual user…

Understanding the New DNA for IT: Celebrating Customers & Partners on Day Two of Oktane14

I want to start things off by saying thank you to the more than 1,000 customers and partners who joined us for Oktane14. It was an exciting week for us, and a major part of that was seeing our team’s hard work finally come to fruition – putting on an incredible event and sharing our biggest product news to date. In case you missed the first day of…

Why Your Boss Needs to Send You To #Oktane14

Maybe you attended Oktane13 last year. Maybe your IT department recently adopted Okta and you want to learn more about identity management. Or maybe you heard about last year's customer appreciation party. Whatever the reason, you’re interested in attending Okta’s second annual user conference, Oktane14, and we don’t blame you. Much like this…

Partnering with Jive: Enabling Customer Productivity and True Collaboration

We’re a company centered around customer success. Plain and simple. If you’ve spent even a few minutes browsing our website or blog, you probably already know that. But what you might not see immediately is that our idea of customer success extends beyond the enterprises who have subscriptions for Okta -- it also touches our partners’ customers as…

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…

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