Okta Named a Leader in Identity-as-a-Service
November 17 2017 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Results rank Okta highest in Current Offering
and Strategy, and mark history of steady industry recognition
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of
identity for the enterprise, today announced that the company has
been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Identity-As-A-Service,
Q4 2017,* a report published by Forrester Research, Inc. The report
evaluates seven Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) vendors across
strategy, market presence and current offering, and Okta was
positioned as a Leader, earning the highest ranking in both the
“current offering” and “strategy” categories. The research was
authored by Andras Cser and Merritt Maxim on November 17, 2017. A
complimentary version of the report can be found here.
Forrester’s ranking follows a history of steady industry
recognition for Okta. In June 2017, Gartner Inc. named Okta a
Leader in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Access Management,
Worldwide.** Okta was recognized with this placement after
maintaining its position as the only company to appear in the
Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Identity and
Access Management as a Service, Worldwide*** report for three
consecutive years. Gartner retired the IDaaS Magic Quadrant, which
evaluated only cloud-based offerings, and the new Magic Quadrant
for Access Management, Worldwide includes both on-premises and
cloud-delivered solutions.
“We see our placements as a clear result of our industry-leading
product offering and commitment to innovation,” said Eric Berg,
Chief Product Officer at Okta. “Organizations turn to the Okta
Identity Cloud to manage and secure their extended enterprises and
transform their customer experiences. We provide the
mission-critical identity layer needed to securely connect their
employees, partners and customers to technology. We’re continuing
to innovate, and we’re dedicated to continuing to deliver products
and services that lead the way in identity and access
management.”
In the Forrester report, Okta earned the highest possible score
in a majority of the evaluation criteria, including “access
management policy administration,” “breadth of security
certifications” and “future overall development and market plans
for IDaaS and technology.” The report further describes Okta's
solution: “Okta offers a comprehensive IDaaS platform with
provisioning and API management. The meta-directory design of the
solution offers comprehensive directory management, access policy
administration, and easy-to-use schema mapping between its cloud
directory and endpoints.”
Okta’s placement as a Leader in Forrester’s IDaaS Wave comes
amid continued momentum for the company, including global expansion
with new offices in Toronto and Sydney, a new Chief Security
Officer, a new General Manager of EMEA, and sustained product
updates and innovation. At Oktane17 in August, Okta unveiled
enhancements to its Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication and
Universal Directory offerings, and introduced expanded APIs, new
developer product capabilities and a new Developer Edition for
customer identity.
For a complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave:
Identity-As-A-Service, Q4 2017, please visit:
https://www.okta.com/resources/analyst-research-forrester-wave-leader-identity-as-a-service.
*The Forrester Wave: Identity-As-A-Service, Q4 2017
**Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Access Management,
Worldwide, Gregg Kreizman and Anmol Singh, 7 June 2017, formerly
known as the Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Management as a
Service, Worldwide.***
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About Okta
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the
enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees
of many of the world's largest enterprises. It also securely
connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers and customers.
With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud
enables simple and secure access from any device. Thousands of
customers, including Experian, 20th Century Fox, LinkedIn, Flex,
News Corp, Dish Networks, and Adobe trust Okta to work faster,
boost revenue and stay secure. Okta helps customers fulfill their
missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies
they need to do their most significant work.
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