Morgan Asher

Senior Manager, Customer Marketing

As part of the customer marketing team at Okta, Morgan runs the customer reference program to share the impact Okta makes at our customers’ organizations. She’s always eager to learn how Okta customers are leveraging cloud technologies to drive change and find different opportunities to promote their success.

Originally from Michigan, Morgan now lives in San Francisco. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants and running.

Empowering the Next Generation of Makers: Okta for Manufacturing

When you’re creating the world’s most innovative products, you’re constantly responding to consumer needs. The conventional methods, legacy IT, and on premises systems that many manufacturing companies still rely on aren’t enough to keep up with the rising complexity and demands of modern manufacturing. Whether you’re on your laptop in the office,…

Becoming 100% Cloud: How Three Companies Went All-In on Cloud Adoption

Cloud computing has become a cornerstone of doing business today, and it’s no surprise that companies worldwide are adopting the cloud for better security, reduced costs, and central application access. Yet many organizations are still unsure how to contend with legacy systems and out-of-date architecture to running 100% in the cloud. The…

Enabling the Next Generation of Patient Care: Okta for Healthcare

When you think of the impact of technological innovation on different sectors, healthcare might come to mind — perhaps for its advancements in treatments or new tools for diagnostics. But productive and innovative collaborations are also starting to take place in the cloud as the industry continues to digitize. This has created opportunities to…

Okta and Gavi: Bringing Immunization to Far Corners of the World

When you hear about pledges to increase immunization in countries like Haiti, where 69 out of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday, Gavi—the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization—is probably behind it. The organization, started in 2000 with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brings together key UN agencies,…

BMC Streamlines its SaaS Offerings With Okta

Houston-based company BMC began building its knowledge of computers back in the days when single mainframes filled entire rooms. Now, over three decades later, the firm has grown to support more than 10,000 organizations all around the world, including Global 100 giants. Serving such a large and diverse client base with its cloud and IT management…

Celebrating Okta’s Customers with our Customer Advocacy Program

Readers of our blog may be familiar with the success stories our customers tell about how they’ve evolved from legacy systems to a cloud-first strategy and how the Okta Identity Cloud has helped enable transformations for their organizations. Our customers’ journeys reveal the critical role that technology plays in advancing their organizations,…

How Massdrop Solved its Identity Crisis with Okta

Like all start-ups, Massdrop started small. Really small. A-bunch-of-Canadian-guys-working-out-of-a-house small. But their concept was huge, and it didn’t take long for Massdrop’s e-commerce site to take off. That success isn’t surprising, since the idea behind the retail site is truly innovative—it allows individuals to join interest-based…

To Ensure Integrated Customer Experiences, Experian Standardizes on Okta

You may know Experian as a credit reporting agency. While it’s definitely that, like any modern company, it is broadening its focus in response to expanding customer demands. Today, Experian also helps business customers prevent fraud, offer on-the-spot credit to consumers, and make data-driven marketing decisions. In 2015, Barry Libenson came on…

AFGE Employees and Members Seamlessly Access their Applications and Benefits with Okta

With 300,000 members and 400 employees, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the Federal government and DC government’s labor union. AFGE provides comprehensive legal, legislative, technical and educational services for members. As IT director at AFGE, Taylor Higley is charged not only with developing a strong culture and team of…

Okta's 2nd Annual "12 Days of Customers"

As the temperature drops and the decorations go up, we’re counting down the days ‘til we’re sipping eggnog fireside with family and friends. But before leaving the office to celebrate the holidays, we’re trading in twelve drummers drumming and celebrating you with our annual “12 Days of Customers”. Experian: What was originally a credit bureau,…