Amadeus Capital: Minimal IT. Maximal security.

Amadeus is realising an ROI of more than 350% with Okta’s Enterprise Edition. The payback period on this investment was less than one month.

Unify. Manage. Secure.

Concurrent with Amadeus Capital Partners’ decision to deploy Dropbox for Business, the company realised a need to centrally manage employee identities. Amadeus’ investment in Okta has allowed the company to realise significant IT savings, end-user productivity and security benefits.

The Situation

Rob Butterworth, IT Manager at Amadeus began exploring identity management solutions when he "realised that we were using Dropbox through people’s personal accounts for collaboration with portfolio companies. One of the things that became apparent was that the space that people had in their Dropbox accounts was running out, and I had several requests for purchase of additional space. Rather than perpetuate the use of the personal accounts, we looked at bringing Dropbox for Business on board as a supported solution. One of the criteria for bringing the system on board was that we didn’t have a separate set of identity details for people to log into and for IT to have to manage."

Amadeus evaluated another cloud-based identity management provider. They ultimately chose Okta because it “was significantly easier to implement than the other options available."

The Solution

Okta was deployed at Amadeus in November 2011. With Okta, Amadeus was able to manage end-user identities and avoid the rogue IT scenario mentioned above. According to Butterworth, “Okta allows us to be much more confident that we are complying with our regulatory requirements without significantly str