New category of integrations helps to remove friction and enable
positive community engagement with socially conscious apps
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 3, 2019--
Okta,
Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for
the enterprise, today announced at Oktane19
a new category of apps within the Okta Integration Network (OIN), Apps
for Good, to enable workforces to quickly engage with social impact
applications including Benevity, Bright Funds, CareerVillage.org, Kiva,
VolunteerMatch, and YourCause. As part of Okta’s commitment to
strengthening the connections between people, technology, and community,
the Apps for Good ecosystem includes apps that focus on charitable
donation processing, volunteer management, digital volunteering, and
platforms for giving.
“At Okta, we’ve always been committed to giving back to the communities
in which we live and work, and we consider it our role to enable the
millions of people who use our products to do the same,” said Frederic
Kerrest, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Okta. “Whether it’s
by donating money, volunteering, or connecting with causes they care
about, we want to remove friction for organizations and their employees
to do good, enabling them to leverage the power of the Okta Integration
Network to direct more resources to communities around the world.”
Apps for Good gives Okta customers the opportunity to seamlessly bring
community engagement and social impact applications to their employees
and partners, opening Okta’s millions of daily users to opportunities to
engage with and take part in their communities. Okta also enables a
simple process for social impact applications to join Apps for Good
through its Integration
Accelerator Program, which provides enhanced assistance to quickly
introduce integrations.
The launch of Apps for Good will raise awareness of the new ecosystem to
Okta’s 6,100 enterprise customers across the globe who can now
seamlessly deploy these tools to their workforces. Okta has already
garnered interest in many of the current and future Apps for Good
ecosystem apps throughout its customer base, including commitments from
Box, Docusign, Eventbrite, GitHub, GoDaddy, Groupon, Splunk Inc., and
Twilio. Collectively, Apps for Good will result in over 27,000 expected
engagements with the social impact apps within Apps for Good.
Apps for Good is part of Okta’s larger community engagement and social
impact commitments through Okta for Good. Okta for Good’s mission is to
strengthen the connections between people, technology, and community by
donating Okta products, volunteering with local nonprofits, and
committing funds to organizations and strategic efforts. Earlier this
year, Oktacommitted
$500,000 over the next four years to address homelessness and
poverty in the Bay Area. Okta for Good is also investing in ecosystems
that drive technology innovation in the social sector — supporting
organizations like NetHope and FastForward.
Quotes from Apps for Good Partners
“Kiva has long recognized the value of a powerful network, having been
able to leverage crowdfunding to deploy over $1.2 million to support
entrepreneurs around the world,” said Pam Yanchik Connealy, Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Kiva. “Being able to
partner with Okta allows Kiva to make lending within companies a
seamless and easy experience, enabling more loans that can make a real
difference in someone’s life.”
“VolunteerMatch believes in building better ways for good people and
good causes to connect to make a difference,” said Greg Baldwin, Chief
Executive Officer of VolunteerMatch. “Being part of Apps for Good opens
our platform up to millions of daily active users, and we’re excited to
see what kind of impact we can drive.”
“We hear all the time from large enterprises trying to mobilize their
most valuable resource — their people — for good. Okta’s Apps for Good
initiative could be a game-changer for them,” said Jared Chung,
Executive Director of CareerVillage.org. “Apps for Good gives
enterprises a first-class home in their tech stack for community service
and social impact apps. And for us, that means a dramatic increase in
the number of people we can mobilize to give career advice to the
millions of underserved youth on CareerVillage.org.”
Availability
Apps for Good is available starting today. For more information, visit: https://www.okta.com/programs/apps-for-good/
For more information on the Integration Accelerator Program, visit: https://www.okta.com/partners/accelerator/
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise.
The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the
right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over
6,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure
providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best
technologies for their business. Over 6,100 organizations, including
20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and
Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces
and customers.
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Source: Okta, Inc.
Jenna Kozel King
press@okta.com
