Okta is an on-demand identity management service designed to help companies accelerate the adoption of SaaS applications across their Cloud Area Networks™.
Executives use Okta to maximize the business potential of the cloud while minimizing business risk. Okta gives IT the insight and control necessary to lead, not impede, the move to the cloud and end-users get one place to go to access the cloud applications they need, whenever they need them.
The Okta team has built upon our experience developing other large, successful business web applications like Salesforce.com
and SuccessFactors
to deliver a robust set of on-demand functionality spanning best-of-breed security, user management, and cross-application reporting and analytics.
That functionality is exposed via a consumer web-like user interface, resulting in a product that is extremely easy to use. With Okta businesses can be up and running in minutes or hours, not days or weeks.
Inside the Okta Solution
To address the security, scale, and business challenges associated with adopting a portfolio of SaaS applications, the Okta solution delivers:
Secure, Integrated Control
Okta provides one solution that offers flexible, secure single sign-on, robust user management, and integration with existing on premise directories.
Flexible, Secure Single Sign-On (SSO): SSO supports both Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) integration with those applications that support it or leverages Okta's Secure Password Store™ technology.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Policy driven SSO that offers fine grained control of access by user type, location or other key attributes.
Robust User Management: Easily create new users, assign applications, and manage permissions across all SaaS applications from one administrative portal.
Active Directory (AD) Synchronization: Automatic, ongoing synchronization with Active Directory to ensure user profiles and permissions are always up to date.
One Click User De-provisioning: Automatically remove user access to all SaaS applications that are integrated into the Okta solution.
A Simple & Flexible Solution
A robust solution that requires no upfront investment, is simple to use, and flexibly scales across both applications and end users.
Enterprise Functionality, Consumer Ease of Use:
Robust functionality is presented via an intuitive user interface with inline guidance in a way that users and IT can easily consume.
Scalable, On-Demand Service: No investment in hardware, software, or facilities, no ongoing management, and a solution that easily scales as you grow.
Simple End User Home Page:
Intuitive end user home page and password reminder on Okta login enables seamless access; no more password cheat sheets or sticky notes and more productive user time in the application.
Easy to Configure and Add Applications:
Guided on-boarding of your applications and user directory combined with a long list of pre-integrated applications accelerates time to value. A robust API makes adding new 3rd party or custom applications easy.
Comprehensive Visibility & Insight
Centralized analytics spanning usage, utilization, and cost that provide IT with the business insight necessary to optimize its cloud investments.
Cross-Application Reporting & Analytics:
Report on usage, seat costs, capacity/utilization with historical trends to analyze the application portfolio.
Optimize Seat Utilization & Costs:
Identify applications with high costs and low utilization to target either usage improvement or cost cutting.
Address Governance and Compliance Needs:
Report on access and permissions by user and track login and usage activity by application or user.
Some examples of cloud applications that are certified and plug into our Cloud Application Management Platform™:
