You and your business have had to adapt in unexpected ways this past year—and so have your customers.  The option of visiting a physical office, classroom, or store may no longer be available; locations that are open may be operating under strict capacity limits or other COVID-19 restrictions. Increased use of telephone, chat, and email customer…

When Okta took the 1% pledge in 2016, we founded our social impact arm, Okta for Good, with a mission to strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community. The importance of these connections has never been more clear than over the last year — when we experienced a global pandemic, rising inequality, and global calls for racial…

Partners are at the centre of everything we do at Okta, and they continue to be critical to our growth as a company. That’s why, as we kicked off our new fiscal year this month, we invited our entire partner ecosystem to join us virtually, where we recognised the values and growth of our top partners with the Okta Partner Awards for FY21. For the…

Microservices architecture, also known simply as “microservices,” is an approach to building software with modular services that are distinct and independent from each other.  In recent years, microservices have become a popular choice for designing and deploying applications. They allow apps to be broken into smaller and loosely coupled pieces …

Importing new users into Okta from directories like Active Directory and LDAP, or HR systems like Workday and SuccessFactors, can be a painful experience for IT administrators. Okta Admins had no way of knowing what imports were currently running, had recently completed, or failed, or any way to gage the completion of an in-progress import.  That…

Since its beginnings, the vision for Okta has been to enable any company to use any technology—that promise includes use of the ubiquitous Powershell code in enterprise environments through the Okta platform.  Microsoft Powershell is commonly used as part of the Joiner, Mover, Leaver identity-centric business processes to manage Microsoft…

Okta has always been squarely focused on identity, and while we normally talk about digital identity, today we’re unveiling an updated brand identity. As Okta grows, scales, and enters its next phase of growth, we’re evolving and focusing for the future. I’m really proud of what we’ve built at Okta so far, but we still have a lot ahead of us, and…

What exactly is a brand? While its origins began with a physical mark of ownership, the 20th century morphed the word into something much more desirable: a name brand, recognised as a mark of quality. In only the last few years, this term has changed again. From persons declaring themselves a brand for commerce or job creation, to the traditional…

Customers are the number one priority of any business who want to stay in business. Every customer has a digital identity – usernames, passwords and personal information - to interact with your business. These identities are stored in directories. Imagine each directory is like an individual world because that’s how they can appear and behave. The…

Anyone who has ever experienced back problems will know that the greatest pain often manifests itself far from where the source of the problem lies, in the spine. The same is true in business, where directories are the backbone of every organisation, but the pain they can ultimately cause manifests itself in every business area from revenue to…