Wrong: http://youtu.be/kuOj-Ssf4y8 Right: http://youtu.be/arQmNjWsTz0 So, you’ve found the cloud application of your dreams. It does everything you ever thought you could want and ten things you didn’t know you wanted but now can’t imagine living without. It took less than … Continue reading
At Okta, we’ve gone through many iterations of using Jenkins to build and test our software. We use a number of tools to make sure our code works properly, and we like to have Jenkins manage these. The list would … Continue reading
It’s common practice to evaluate a company primarily on its product and features — and for good reason: often technology companies and their products are one and the same. This is especially true in Silicon Valley where the race to … Continue reading
Let’s start with a hypothetical situation: I’m going to hand you an on-premises identity management solution for free. Well, great, but there’s plenty left to do to turn your identity management dream into reality. First, let’s get the solution installed. … Continue reading
Last week, I welcomed Adam Aarons and Hector Aguilar to the Okta team and offered some thoughts, culled from my time as an engineer, on what constitutes a great engineering team. It was meant as a bit of advice (for … Continue reading
With Adam Aarons (SVP of worldwide sales) and Hector Aguilar (VP of engineering) joining the Okta team, I thought I’d reflect on what makes a great engineering team — and how that philosophy also applies to building a rockstar sales … Continue reading
One of the things we are very proud of here at Okta is our ability to deliver constant innovation via our weekly releases, and delivering that innovation in a high quality way. To achieve that we maintain a very high … Continue reading
At Okta we provide enterprise grade identity management from the cloud. Specifically, Okta delivers single sign-on across all your web applications, centralize user management and control, and integration with Active Directory. We invest heavily in test automation and validation. A … Continue reading
Part II: Bringing the Consumer Experience to Okta That was then, this is now Fortunately for all of us enterprise application users, today’s environment is very different from the one I described in Part I of this post. As Eric … Continue reading
Part I: Why Enterprise Software Has Such a Bad Rep We are all consumers. The experience we have with products in our personal lives helps set expectations for any product that we interact with – the enterprise software we use … Continue reading