Integrate Enterprise Identities
Okta makes B2B collaboration simple and secure
Business is complicated—the technology that makes it work shouldn’t be. Okta’s B2B identity solutions help reduce administrative overhead and simplify partner onboarding.
Big businesses trust Okta to secure partner integrations
Okta helps Flex connect the applications in its supplier portal, automate onboarding and offboarding, gain control and visibility into their supplier network, and bridge communication with thousands of factory workers and the rest of the company.
Bazaarvoice extends the Okta Identity Cloud to their client-facing products, where strong user authentication ensures accuracy of content and connects internal moderators with external products.
Minimize administrative overhead
Self service
Customers using external partner resources need to establish access to these resources. Typically, this requires extra security processes that must be executed manually—adding a huge burden to already busy teams.
- Registration: Okta allows your partners to create their own accounts and passwords, and even perform extensible identity proofing, drastically reducing your administrative overhead.
- Account recovery: Out-of-the-box workflows give your end users the ability to regain access to their accounts without contacting helpdesk.
- Support non-enterprise partners: Okta masters their local accounts created in the cloud.
Pre-build IdP connections
Most competitive companies already employ cloud business systems for email. Okta gives you turnkey integrations that reduce partner onboarding and rollout times in all of the most popular business applications.
Preconfigured IdP
We offer connections for the most common enterprise-class providers, giving your partners effortless access to your application through their existing identities.
Painless account creation
When your partners already have an ID to access your application, establishing new accounts is simple. Reducing friction increases adoption.
Integration maintenance
You no longer need to worry about maintaining code used for your integrations. Okta’s got it handled.
Enterprise-class solutions with federated Identity
Federation
Of all the ways to integrate enterprise identities—manually, self-service, prebuilt IdP—federation is the most secure and needs the least amount of administrative oversight.
- Standards support: Support for industry standards like SAML and OpenID Connect ensure federation by any compliant system your partners rely on.
- Just in time: No need to pre-create identities—establish users as they use the system and automatically route them to their applications.
- Highly secure: Since user access is controlled via the federation connection, access is determined by the user’s status with their own identity provider.
Lifecycle management
Allowing external users access to internal resources is risky since the lifecycle of their current status is not being internally maintained. Federated identity means the user's identity is associated with the status of their IdP.
- Leveraged status: A user’s privileges in their own system determines their access to your applications.
- Automatic revocation: When the B2B relationship ends, terminating one connection to that parter terminates all users associated to that connection ensuring access is revoked appropriately.
Delegated administration
Decentralizing administration eliminates the frustration of menial administrative tasks. Okta’s variety of roles let your partners keep administrative oversight over their own users.
- Scale administration: Increasing partner visibility reduces helpdesk calls to your team.
- Role-based access: Maintain an additional level of control by delegating administrative access to your choice of roles and groups.
97%
of IT executives surveyed agree that securing identities when connecting partners or enterprise customers to their systems is a primary concern.
Command and control
Okta is a fully customizable identity platform that lets you quickly deploy separate tenants for each of your customers or partners. You can connect each customer to individual applications, or connect everyone to a common application.
Securely segregate your internal workforce and external customer base.
Segregate partner identities to live in a separate entities while preserving all your internal employee identities.
Securely segregate each of your own customers with their own Okta tenant.
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Employee and customer
Securely segregate your internal workforce and external customer base.
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Employee and partner
Segregate partner identities to live in a separate entities while preserving all your internal employee identities.
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Multi-customer
Securely segregate each of your own customers with their own Okta tenant.
Standards-based B2B Integration
Now onboarding partners is quick and easy. Okta connects to any entity that supports SAML or OIDC.
Customize branding based on app context
You can tailor the look and feel of the identity experience to match your partners’ brands, from registration to authentication to authorization.