Eric Berg

Former Chief Product Officer

Eric Berg is a seasoned product and marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across engineering, marketing and business development for both early stage SaaS companies and high growth software businesses within larger organizations.

Prior to Okta, Eric served as the VP of Product Management and Marketing for Apptio, the market leading SaaS provider of IT financial management solutions, the Director of Product Management at Microsoft, and the Director of Product Marketing and Business Development at Ensim. Eric also has experience working at Goldman Sachs and Intel, where he held a variety of engineering management, technical marketing and product management positions.

Eric earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering at the University of Washington and his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Eric also enjoys running, cycling and spending as much time in the outdoors as possible with his family.

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Device Aware Access: Okta Identity & Best of Breed Device Management

Okta enables users to securely access the applications they need, wherever and whenever they need them. Cloud app and mobile device adoption in the enterprise have created a world where people can work from anywhere, and enjoy incredible experiences that make them more productive. Employees are no longer sitting behind a proxy or firewall when…

Identity and Device Management for The Extended Enterprise

The scope of what an IT department manages today is changing rapidly. They have to continue to secure and manage their existing on-premises technology while also taking advantage of the cloud to modernize their systems, become more competitive and better serve their users and the business. And the definition of the users that they need to serve…

Introducing API Access Management: Connecting and Securing APIs in the Cloud

Think about the last time you went home after dinner with friends. You pulled out your cell phone and hailed a ride using an app. As a customer, you had a seamless experience with just a few taps. But the backend technology that made it possible was actually a tapestry of interwoven apps, connected into one unified experience using APIs. The…

Contextual Access Management: Innovating Across SSO, Adaptive MFA and Mobility Management

Seamless and secure access— anywhere, any device, anytime for any user. It sounds simple, right? Gone are the days when employees had a Windows desktop and authenticated with the corporate network to AD to get access to apps running in your datacenter. If users were outside the company, they were funneled in via the VPN. It’s a challenge to…

An Integrated Approach to Lifecycle Management

The modern workforce is fluid— the proliferation of part-time workers, contractors, vendors and distributed partner networks, each with unique lifecycles, poses a huge hurdle for access management and compliance. Organizations need to empower these users with the access and apps they need, from the (many!) devices they use, without jeopardizing…

Meet Okta Adaptive MFA

We’re pleased to announce that our new product, Okta Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is generally available today. Okta Adaptive MFA, which companies can purchase as a standalone product, offers a broad set of easy-to-use factors combined with policy-driven contextual access management — all informed by data from our thousands of…

Okta, The Perfect Complement to Google for Work

When we started Okta, we chose to integrate with a handful of applications: Salesforce.com, Box and Google Apps. (Microsoft Office 365, which recently surpassed Salesforce.com as the most commonly deployed app in our network of now 4,000+ applications, didn’t even exist.) As it turns out, we invested with the right ones – as those “original three”…

We've Got the Magic: Gartner Names Okta a Leader in IDaaS

For those of you who have been in enterprise IT – either as a buyer or a vendor – you know that Gartner’s Magic Quadrant isn’t just another vendor evaluation matrix. When it comes to analyst organizations with deep market insight and significant influence, Gartner is always at the top of the heap. In the past, Gartner’s identity management…

Making our Sharepoint Integration More Intelligent: Seamless BI Access

Last summer, we announced an integration with Microsoft SharePoint that enables companies to easily give customers and partners secure access to a mix of on-premises and cloud apps through a SharePoint-powered external portal. But as customers started taking advantage of this integration, we encountered a second challenge – giving access to…