Okta’s Directory Integration Edition Seamlessly Integrates Leading SaaS Applications with Active Directory for just $1/user/month.
SAN FRANCISCO — August 25, 2011 — Today, Okta, the leading on-demand identity and access management service, announced a new product, Okta Directory Integration Edition, to make the secure, integrated adoption of even just a single SaaS application possible for all enterprises. The new product provides an extremely low cost, easy to use option that helps enterprise IT address the two significant barriers faced with first time cloud application deployments: integration into their corporate directory and secure, widespread adoption by their end users.
Developed with leading SaaS ISVs, including Salesforce.com, Workday, Box.net and Google Apps, Okta’s Directory Integration Edition takes full advantage of these vendors’ robust APIs, providing a complete turnkey solution that enables customers to securely accelerate adoption of these applications across their organizations.
With the introduction of Directory Integration Edition, Okta now provides the industry’s most comprehensive and flexible set of offerings, enabling customers to securely adopt cloud services — whether they have one app or an entire cloud services network.
Seamless Active Directory Integration to the Cloud
Most enterprises rely on Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) to control access to on-premise applications, so cloud applications — with their own user directories outside of the firewall — present a unique challenge. To integrate a cloud application with Active Directory, IT organizations typically have to build their own solution, investing a lot of time and resources to maintain it as the highly ava