When Okta was founded back in 2009, just getting to the cloud was a herculean effort for many organizations. We helped solve that with a catalogue of pre-integrated cloud applications that enabled our customers to securely connect to their applications — and we called it the Okta Application Network (OAN). Over time, more organizations moved to the cloud, our customers asked us to connect them to critical services like VPNs, firewalls, and endpoint management systems. Thus, the OAN transformed into the Okta Integration Network (OIN), which removes the friction of interconnecting identities and delivers network effects to customers and partners alike. As the OIN evolved, so did Okta’s commitment to social impact, leading us to ask, “how can we use the OIN to deliver powerful network effects for communities around the world?” That’s exactly what we’re doing today: expanding the OIN with a new category of integrations called Apps.