Microsoft Office 365

Okta helps organizations manage identities through a modern, Zero Trust approach and a vendor-agnostic platform that easily integrates with critical applications in the cloud or on-premises. One app that remains important to both commercial and public sector organizations is Office 365, also known as Microsoft 365. It is one of the most popular…

According to our Businesses @ Work Reports, Microsoft’s Office 365 has ranked as the #1 most popular application within the Okta integration network for the last few years — both by number of customers and by number of monthly active users.   Top apps by number of customers - Businesses @ Work 2020 Top apps by number of monthly unique active…

There aren’t many workplace apps that have achieved the same widespread adoption Microsoft Office 365 has. Year over year, we see it topping our list of customer’s most popular applications—but it doesn’t come without its challenges. Most organizations have multiple Office 365 tenants, making it difficult to manage users across instances. In fact,…

"How did you do it so fast?" According to Matt Freeman, senior manager of identity management at Emerson, this was the most common question he received from Emerson leadership once they’d completed their largest transition to a Hybrid IT environment. In a move toward modernization, this Fortune 500 company decided that their Office 365 solution…

Today, most users expect to be able to access all their applications on any device, from anywhere they’re working. And as our 2019 Businesses at Work report shows, the most popular app by far is Microsoft Office 365. So how can organizations make it easy for their workforce to access applications securely? Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) has…

Okta and Microsoft share thousands of common customers, and millions of common users. Countless have approached us with questions on Okta’s integrations and partnership with Microsoft. “Will Okta work with my Microsoft Windows 10?” “Should I buy Azure AD Premium to get some of the newer security features?” Or, “How can I justify spending on an…

As part of our commitment to enabling choice in the cloud, I’m proud to share that Okta has achieved status as a Microsoft Gold Partner in both the Messaging and the Datacenter competencies. As a Gold member of the Microsoft Partner Network, we have demonstrated our ability to deliver quality solutions through the Okta Identity Cloud in…

When you’re watching your favorite new show or catching the highlights from the big game, you probably don’t think about the process required to deliver that entertainment. And there’s a good chance that the DISH Network team is behind it — they provide programming and technology to about 14 million pay-TV subscribers with a mission of being the…

We've written before about Office 365's popularity as a result of Microsoft's pursuit of the enterprise and massive push to the cloud. But Office 365 isn't the only app winning this game. Many cloud apps — from Box and Workday to relative newcomers Slack, Envoy and Zapier — are collectively taking the enterprise by storm. According to our data,…

For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords in technology. And despite its hype, many companies and analysts still consider it a relatively obscure concept that they haven’t quite gotten their arms around. Not at Okta. We hired our first Director of Analytics and Big Data back in September 2013 to define our strategy, promote data…