Results rank Okta highest in Current Offering and Strategy, and mark
history of steady industry recognition
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2017--
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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Okta
Jenna Kozel King
press@okta.com
