user management

For the companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list, change is more than just a given. It’s an imperative.  For these massive global organizations, high-stakes moments like mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, expansions, and restructuring all drive growth and innovation. They also present sizable challenges that leave executives asking, “How can…

You’ve just adopted a new service! Great! But no one is using it. Why not? It appears that no one has access to the application, so no one wants to create a new account with a new set of credentials. Even worse, the team who created the system failed to port over all the users. Would you want to use such a system? This scenario may sound odd, but…

Up until recently, most technology architecture has been monolithic, with services and code contained within a single large and complex application. Now, we’re increasingly seeing architecture broken into autonomous units—or microservices—built for specific individual functions. Microservices increase the agility and scalability of an organization…

In the modern app ecosystem, virtually every application leverages identity to provide customized and secure user experiences. Customer identity and access management (CIAM), also known as secure user management, or secure customer identity, is the system an application deploys to determine who a user is, and what information they have access to…

Interested in how Okta works with cloud app vendors to enable the latest in advanced user provisioning? Or are you curious to get an insider’s take on our new provisioning developer program? We recently chatted with Rob Christiansen, director of product management at Lucid Software, to understand why Lucid chose to work with Okta to enable user…

The largest enterprises with the most sophisticated IT teams in the world are now starting to adopt SaaS applications. They now see that SaaS is not just a new deployment model. With faster innovation cycles and all customers running the same version, SaaS applications are quickly becoming the best applications in every category of IT. As a result…

Business today is more specialized than ever. Companies in every industry must focus on their core strengths and outsource non-core functions to partners who can deliver more value for less. For example, providers of insurance products are enlisting broker networks to bring their products to market. Manufacturing companies are hiring suppliers to…

Google Apps for Work has become wildly popular because it solves so many collaboration, communication, and support problems for businesses of all sizes. Small companies love it because it’s a quick, easy way to set up email and share documents. While large companies like LinkedIn, Avago and Tarmac also embrace Google Apps email and collaboration…

Manufacturing has come a long way since the textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Recently in the United States, the state of the manufacturing industry has sparked a debate around a possible contemporary revolution thanks to more competitive global costs and increasingly efficient technologies. One company making a difference in the…

There’s a certain kind of satisfaction you get when you turn on your phone, tablet and computer, open an application and find it just works. Like when you select an icon and a cab appears at your location right when you need it. Or when you push a button and that photo of your brother’s graduation is instantly shared with all of your friends. Such…