Okta Introduces Self Service Capability, Enabling IT Organizations Everywhere to Extend the Power of the Okta Application Network To Their End Users

New Functionality Gives IT a Customized Enterprise App Catalog, Provides End Users with Instant Single Sign-On to More Than 1,200 Web Applications

San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2011 — Today, Okta, the leading on-demand identity and access management service, announced the availability of powerful new Self Service capability to the Okta Application Network. This release marks the unprecedented ability for enterprise IT organizations to easily publish a custom app catalog to their organization and for end users to seamlessly discover and get single sign-on to the cloud apps they rely on to get their work done.

Employees, accustomed to popular consumer and enterprise app stores, have come to expect easy access to the apps they need and want. With instant access to more than 1,200 cloud and web apps via Okta, employees can easily find the consumer and business apps that they need to use on a daily basis and self-configure to achieve single sign-on across all of their apps from their Okta homepage. It makes it easier for employees to get up and running with the cloud apps that matter for their job and accelerates the secure adoption of cloud apps throughout the organization.

The customizable Self Service catalog also enables IT organizations to expos