Free Service Enables ISVs to Accelerate Customer Deployments, Provides a Clear Path Into the Enterprise for Cloud ISVs and Developers Everywhere
San Francisco, CA – September 17, 2012 — Okta, the leading on-demand identity and access management service, today announced several ISV partnerships and a broader partner program that offers free Microsoft Active Directory integration for a growing number of cloud ISVs and application developers. Based on the same technology that powers Okta’s popular Directory Integration Edition product, the free service provides secure, robust integration to Active Directory for enterprise customers and helps Okta’s ISV partners overcome security objections that often prohibit the broader scale deployment of their applications within the enterprise.
Unlocking Secure Enterprise Deployments of Cloud Applications
Many enterprises manage and control employee access to on-premises applications through Active Directory, with their cloud applications hosted outside of the corporate firewall and beyond reach. This forces IT organizations to either limit the scale of a cloud application deployment or attempt to develop a custom integration between the cloud applications and Active Directory. These integrations are often costly, fragile and difficult to maintain. As a result, many cloud ISVs have more limited deployments within the enterprise or experience higher levels of customer dissatisfaction because they don’t solve thi