What is Okta?

Okta is an on-demand identity management service that helps companies accelerate the adoption of SaaS applications across their Cloud Area Networks™.

What is a Cloud Area Network™?

The adoption rate of cloud-based or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications has been dramatic.

Just a few years ago, small groups in your company started experimenting with applications like Salesforce.com, WebEx, or NetSuite, and those trials have now transitioned into enterprise-wide deployments that store critical information and power core business processes. This shift to the cloud is changing how companies think about their IT infrastructure, and what they must to do manage it.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Local Area Network (LAN) powered business applications and data that were nascent in their importance to the business, served a well defined set of users, and were available only behind the company firewall.

That equation has fundamentally changed and the LAN of the 90's is giving way to the Cloud Area Network™ of today. Cloud Area Networks™ power a federated collection of on-demand services, provided by a variety of vendors, for a set of highly distributed users, and all in a business environment where these IT services have become mission-critical systems that must be available from anywhere at any time.

How Okta Powers Your Cloud Area Network™

In working with hundreds of business executives the Okta team has witnessed first-hand the increased value of using on-demand applications instead of installing and maintaining software and servers.  We know that today's CIOs understand that the value which IT delivers to the business must change with the move to the cloud. IT must do more than just keep the application servers running. 

When scaling a Cloud Area Network™, IT faces the challenge of securing and controlling users and access, simplifying the adoption and scaling of these applications, and providing real insight on usage and utilization to ensure the business is optimizing its cloud investments. Okta understands these challenges and is here to help.

Okta's on-demand solution is designed from the ground up to address these challenges at all levels of the organization and gives:

Executives the ability to maximize the business potential of the cloud while minimizing business risk,

IT the insight and control necessary to lead, not impede, the move to the cloud,

End-Users one place to access the cloud applications that they need, whenever and wherever they need them.

Built for the Cloud, by people who know the Cloud

Okta is built by professionals who have worked in the Cloud, with SaaS applications since their genesis and is advised and backed by the best in the business. Members of our team have built, deployed, and supported market-leading, on-demand solutions including Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors. We truly understand the power of cloud applications and the challenges of running a Cloud Area Network™.

We know how to build native multi-tenant applications, because we've done it before and we've designed Okta from the ground-up for enterprise-grade, multi-tenant, Internet scale usage.  We deliver that robust functionality with a vigilant focus on usability so with nothing to download or install, our customers are up-and-running in minutes or hours, not days or weeks.