Provisioning

When Frederic and I founded Okta in 2009, we did so with a vision to securely connect any combination of apps, devices and people. Today, while the company is much larger and our offering more robust, that original aim remains unchanged. Thousands of organizations — like Western Union, 20th Century Fox, Etihad Airways and Rotary International —…

It’s no secret that Office 365 has been on fire lately. With the recent release of Office 2016, Office 365 users can get business done more effectively, with new collaboration tools, integrations and full support for Windows 10. And as we shared in our recent Businesses @ Work report, it’s overtaken the likes of Google Apps and Salesforce as the…

As Oktane15 quickly approaches, we’re highlighting must-see sessions and activities categorized by theme so you can rock our annual user conference like a pro – whether you’re an Oktane veteran or joining us for the first time. In the second installment of this blog series, here’s your Oktane15 Insider’s Guide to the Platform track. Don’t Miss…

For many companies, creating an “enterprise-grade” product is the ultimate dream: Build an early version to fit smaller organizations’ requirements, demonstrate market viability and, finally, scale to larger customers. To be sure, that process of building an enterprise-grade SaaS product – and growing into a stable company that can support it – is…

In a document released this year by British intelligence and security organisation, GCHQ, it was revealed that the firm has called for firms to ban BYOD. In the report, the organisation claims staff represent the “weakest link in the security chain” and can, whether it is intentional or not, be responsible for leaking data to foreign espionage…

When we started Okta, we chose to integrate with a handful of applications: Salesforce.com, Box and Google Apps. (Microsoft Office 365, which recently surpassed Salesforce.com as the most commonly deployed app in our network of now 4,000+ applications, didn’t even exist.) As it turns out, we invested with the right ones – as those “original three”…

For 15 years, Amadeus Capital Partners has supported and funded more than 85 young technology companies. A commonality among Amadeus’ clients is that they utilize the connected world to drive innovation. Therefore, it’s logical that a company that advises fast-growing technology companies needed its own set of forward-thinking applications and…

It takes patience, attention and care to grow a seedling into a full-formed tree – and even more if you’re growing an entire forest. For Forest City Enterprises (NYSE: FCE.A), it’s taken almost a century to grow from a lumber and hardware business into a $9-billion diversified real estate management and development company that it is today. And…

For more than 100 years, National Gypsum has built its brand around dependability and security -- they don’t call one of their best-selling products Gold Bond for nothing. But with the advent of cloud computing, the Charlotte-based company also needed to manage their applications safely and securely. We sat down with Michael Brannon, National…

In enterprise software and services, there’s one thing you can always count on: vendor marketing teams delivering glossy customer case studies. Well, Okta does those too, we can’t lie. But ours are better. The best customer case studies are those done by third parties. Forrester Consulting recently spent time analyzing identity management at…