Benefits of Migrating from Web Access Management (WAM)

The proliferation of applications like Salesforce, Zoom, and Slack has enabled organizations to better serve their employees and customers while accelerating their cloud adoption. However, many companies adopting the cloud will still keep some of their mission-critical applications hosted on-premises, creating hybrid IT environments that require consistent security, identity, and access control.

*RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report https://info.flexerasoftware.com/SLO-WP-State-of-the-Cloud-2019

To address this challenge, many organizations rely on legacy Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions hosted on-premises – also known as Web Access Management (WAM), that are not built for cloud scale and to deliver unified access across the Hybrid IT. Enterprises can instead rely on the Okta Identity Cloud platform and Okta Access Gateway to support their Hybrid IT access.

Hidden cost of WAM

When evaluating the right identity management solution, organizations must assess the full costs to purchase, deploy and maintain the technology over its lifecycle, a calculation typically captured by total cost of ownership (TCO). For many on-premises identity management services, the TCO often goes beyond the upfront licensing costs. For example, licensing costs for legacy