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with it all the time. It therefore doesn’t impact on what they do and
helps to make their life easier.
This includes organisations that are streamlining their own IT,
which is pretty much every company you talk to, and anybody who’s
involved in growing their businesses, including through acquisition.
They acquire a whole array of new problems when it comes to IT such
as silos of data and identities. Okta has got a very strong business
proposition in helping them harmonise all of that in one platform.
We don’t have any regions that we think are more suited than
others. Any organisation is a potential customer for Okta.
How would you say that Okta integrates with other
technology partners to make your solutions more
powerful and efficient for customers?
The core part of our business is the Okta Integration Network, or OIN,
for short. The OIN is currently around six and a half thousand pre-built
integrations out-of-the-box. If you are a customer, and you’re investing
in Okta technologies, there’s a directory of integrations available.
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If your HR solution is SAP Success Factors, for example, we have a
deep integration with them. If you already have Office 365, we have a
pre-built integration, as well as Box, Palo Alto and many others.
Because Okta is an integration layer, vendors come to us and
work with our OIN team to get technologies embedded within our
environments. We’re vendor agnostic and therefore don’t go into
the customer and tell them that ‘the only way you’re going to get
past this is if you keep that’. We connect people to things and things
to applications.
From that perspective, our integrations are integral to the success
of Okta. In addition to that, the Okta platform, and the Okta service,
have become extremely attractive to other vendors.
We deploy their technology much quicker than they do in many
respects. And we make sure that it’s consumed in a secure and
measured way.
They don’t then have to buy hours and hours of professional
services having custom connectors written which then have to be
updated when someone’s platform changes. It’s win-win all round.
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