A Fresh Idea: Del Monte Foods Adopts Okta Mobility Management
Alyssa Smrekar February 3, 2015
From mandarin oranges to green beans, Del Monte Foods, one of the largest branded food producers in the world, has been synonymous with premium quality fruits and vegetables since the 1800s.
“We Were Amazed By How Simple It Was”
Del Monte was eager to build out a brand new IT landscape and take advantage of a greenfield opportunity. “We looked to the cloud and needed to ensure that we had mobile capabilities for our new solutions,” Weaver explained. Going mobile was a no-brainer, but Del Monte also needed to deliver that capability with speed and security. “We needed to make sure that we could provision those mobile devices with speed,” but also needed to deliver them “in the most secure manner possible.”
Because identities are so intrinsically tied to a person’s device, it didn’t take much to convince Del Monte to test out Okta Mobility Management. “We were amazed by how simple it was to set up and deploy to our existing users,” and as an added bonus, Tim said the service worked seamlessly with their already implemented identity service, which (no surprise) happened to be Okta.
Hitting Two Birds With One Stone
For Tim and his team at Del Monte, it wasn’t just about the security of their users’ devices. “It’s an attraction of talent and retention issue,” he explained. “Whether it’s your employee or your contractor, how you work with that individual is very important. And the more effective IT is at giving modern day technology to our end-user population, the more attractive we can be as an organization to people looking to join the workforce.” Now they are confident that all their people, devices and data are safe.
When both end users and the IT department are equally excited about the technologies they use every day, you know you’ve found success. To find out how you can be successful with Okta Mobility Management just like Tim and Del Monte, head to https://www.okta.com/product/mobility-management/. If you want to listen to Tim’s entire interview, check out the video below or Del Monte’s customer testimonial.