Staying Ahead of the Curve with a Foundation for Cloud-first IT

Undergoing a digital transformation is a top priority for most businesses today. When modernizing your infrastructure and operating environment, it’s important to adopt a foundation for cloud-first IT. Okta provides a secure identity lifecycle management solution for your business, regardless of what stage of your digital transformation you’re in.

Welcome to the department of Yes

Gone is the notion of command and control IT, where all devices, applications, and user experiences were dictated centrally. Adoption of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, with a boost from the Okta Integration Network, has enabled organizations of all sizes to start saying “yes” more often to business groups and end users. New marketing app? Yes! New tablet? Yes! New special-purpose project management tool? Absolutely!

With all these yeses, the number of cloud apps an organization uses explodes. Customers tell us that before they purchase Okta, they typically have five to seven cloud apps. Within six months of purchasing Okta, customers connect 10 applications, with 10% of Okta customers eventually connecting more than 40 applications. In the Okta Businesses @ Work report, we found that the average Okta customer has 13 cloud applications.

Putting these cloud applications into use brings new opportunities to streamline the connections between your organization and your workforce, business partners, and customers. With these new opportunities come new logistical challenges.

Connecting apps for single sign-on (SSO) and automating provisioning for IT apps like email and ITSM are great, but really just the start. As you get deepe