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We recently held our latest Okta Community Ask Me Anything with Okta Group Product Manager, George Kwon. George tackled questions on provisioning approaches and best practices for customers. We’ve highlighted a few select questions and topics from the AMA below, ranging from how to best provision applications to how to add apps to the Okta…

Last week we held the Okta Community's first-ever Ask Me Anything with Okta Senior Product Marketing Manager, Arturo Hinojosa. We were thrilled by the response and it was great to see so many active members both in the Community and on Twitter join the conversation! Here we've highlighted a few specific topics and answers from the AMA. Given our…

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…

In preparation for Oktane15, we’re featuring Okta customers and speakers in a series of blog posts. To kick off the series, Matt Egan, senior IT systems engineer at Varian Medical Systems – a leader in radiation oncology treatments and software – shares more about himself and why he’s excited about Oktane every year. Two years ago, my…

Almost nine months ago, we built and launched the Okta Help Center. An initiative many months in the making, the Okta Help Center introduced a central destination for all things Okta service and support within the Okta Community. It created one central location for our customers – many of whom had already been active since 2013 – to troubleshoot…

Work is happening everywhere, and Okta has a unique vantage point into the cloud and mobile apps and services that organizations are choosing to help their employees, customers and partners be more flexible and productive. That’s why we’re releasing our first-ever "Businesses @ Work" Report, which shares findings from our network of 4,000…

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…

Embarking on a treacherous solo expedition? Studying for a final exam that could make or break your semester? No matter the situation or your level of experience, it can’t hurt to have a few tips and tricks from the pros to put your best foot forward. Okta’s known for our simple and delightful user experience, but for those just getting to know…

Splunk: derived from ‘spelunking’, the hobby or practice of exploring caves. Splunk envisions an IT world where big data makes sense and does not require any headlamps or helmets to crawl through the digital muck. In this world, data is both valuable and usable and can offer key insights for critical areas of a business, such as application…

Splunk’s mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. And there’s big value at the intersection of data and identity. In a great post on Splunk’s blog, “Splunk SSO using SAML through Okta,” the company describes its integration with Okta to improve the user experience. “As part of our ongoing efforts to make Splunk’s…