SaaS ISVs and Okta
Building a Well Managed Cloud Application
If you are like most rapidly growing SaaS ISVs, your engineering resources are focused on creating features for your customers that help differentiate the functionality of your product in the market. You probably don’t have the bandwidth or the desire to tackle the range of user authentication and user management integration challenges that customers are asking you to solve as your application is adopted more broadly across their organization.
The Okta Application Network provides our joint customers with hundreds of pre-integrated applications across user authentication and management. We do the technical integration work with you once, and thousands of customers benefit from point and click customization for their environment.
Working with Okta transforms your product from a siloed, application into a coordinated and integrated IT part of their overall IT infrastructure, leading to increased customer adoption and retention, and net new customer opportunities.
“We are very excited about our collaboration with Okta to provide our joint customers with a turnkey, on-demand solution that both accelerates the secure deployment of Box and scales with their broader cloud application management needs.” Aaron Levie
Co-founder and CEO, Box
By integrating with Okta, you can:
- Increase user adoption and overall usability across your installed base by simplifying user access and change management.
- Integrate into on premise, corporate Directories such as Microsoft Active Directory.
- Take advantage of best-of-breed authentication and provisioning capabilities without distracting your developers from your core product functionality.
- Reduce friction in sales cycles by partnering with IT around service deployments, user management, and security as well as integration with behind-the-firewall environments.
Get Started with Okta
Download our whitepaper, "Building a Well Managed Cloud Application," a developer guide that provides real world, actionable steps ISVs can take to address customer identity management requirements in their applications.
This whitepaper lays the foundation for building a well-managed cloud application. It introduces some of the key customer challenges in dealing with cloud applications – particularly in the area of user authentication, account and access managing and reporting. Some of the key areas discussed are:
- Federated Single Sign-On and Delegated Authentication – eliminating the pain of password fatigue and better manage and monitor user authentication across cloud applications.
- Directory Integration – allowing integration with existing on-premise user directory to enable efficient account provisioning and authentication.
- User and Access Management – efficiently managing user lifecycle including on-boarding, account provisioning and de-provisioning and ongoing access management.
- Beyond User and Access Management – covering customer challenges in areas such as subscription management, application usage and system management.
Next Steps:
- Contact Us today to become a partner.
- Download our whitepaper, "Building a Well Managed Cloud Application".
- See where your application falls along the Okta Scale of Well Managed Applications.
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