Maximize business strategies with Okta for Mergers & Acquisition

The world's largest organizations need flexible and adaptable technologies to drive business and enable them to quickly respond to change.

An identity security platform that accelerates adaptability

As your business strategies change, your tech stack needs to adapt. Okta for M&A brings together core Okta identity capabilities in a flexible deployment model to supercharge your organization’s ability to pivot and tackle critical needs.

Mergers and acquisitions

Integrate new acquisitions and spin off divestitures without disrupting business productivity and security.

Holding company models

Establish repeatable and scalable automated management processes for high growth and profitability.

Multinational organizations

Meet regional data residency compliance requirements without limiting efficiency and oversight.

The versatility global businesses demand

Power organizational flexibility

Maintain delegated user, application and/or brand administration, while seamlessly sharing corporate resources.

Automate identity management

Create a single, consolidated view across integrated or distributed structures, building identity-centric automation into every process.

Enhance security

Discover hidden risks, prioritize critical threats, and automate protection of your entire portfolio.

The simplicity large organizations want

Programmatically scale

Use infrastructure as code with Terraform to seamlessly manage and deploy standardized configuration across multiple organizations.

Automate using Workflows

Automate identity actions across distributed and shared corporate resources with new workflow use cases.

Manage multi-org environments with Okta Aerial

A single pane of glass to view and manage your Okta organizations, simplifying complex multi-org management and M&A scenarios.

Optimize your operating model with identity

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“At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs. As a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, Indeed relies on Okta to deliver the agility we need to make our own technology decisions while still providing our parent company with broad visibility.”
Anthony Moisant

CIO at Indeed

FAQs

Yes, Okta Universal Directory can sync with multiple Active Directory forests and LDAP domains simultaneously. This allows the parent company to maintain a unified view of the entire workforce while letting the acquired company continue using their existing directory infrastructure during the transition period.

Absolutely. On "Day 1," acquired employees can log into a branded Okta dashboard and immediately access the email, HR, and collaboration tools of the parent company using their existing credentials. This ensures they are productive from the start and helps build a cohesive company culture during the merger.

Okta accelerates M&A by providing a unified identity hub. Instead of months spent on complex network integrations, IT teams can quickly federate the identities of the acquired company into the main Okta tenant, granting "Day 1" access to shared corporate applications while maintaining high security standards.

Okta reduces M&A IT burden by automating the migration and provisioning process. By using identity as the bridge between organizations, you eliminate the need for costly and risky network-level "domain trusts," allowing you to realize the business value of the merger faster and with fewer technical roadblocks.

Yes, Okta ensures that security is maintained throughout the merger. You can enforce your corporate MFA policies on the newly acquired identities from the moment they are federated, ensuring that the acquisition process doesn't introduce any new security vulnerabilities into the parent organization's infrastructure.

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