Every business today faces plenty of uncertainty. Macro headwinds such as a tight labor market, high inflation, and rising interest rates abound, making it an undeniably challenging time to run and grow a business.
To thrive in a climate like this, organizations have to be focused and strategic. They need to double down on workforce efficiency,…
Since March of 2020, organizations worldwide have turned to technology to stay afloat during the interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies rushed to support remote working, enabling new online experiences to stay connected to employees and to transact with customers.
Cutting-edge tech solutions, once considered only by “early…
“Best-of-breed technology” refers to the leading applications, systems, or software in a niche or category.
When organizations take a best-of-breed (or “best-in-breed technology”) approach to building their technology stack, it involves selecting various tools that serve specific purposes. Put another way, instead of purchasing a product suite…
According to our Businesses @ Work Reports, Microsoft’s Office 365 has ranked as the #1 most popular application within the Okta integration network for the last few years — both by number of customers and by number of monthly active users.
Top apps by number of customers - Businesses @ Work 2020
Top apps by number of monthly unique active…
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for organizations around the world, especially within industries like Healthcare, Finance, and Government. In addition to being customer-centric, Okta is also a company built on partners. Many of our Solution Provider partners, especially, are working closely with our joint customers to…
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and global shelter-in-place orders have created unprecedented challenges for businesses. Suddenly, remote work became a requirement for many businesses (and a luxury others, unfortunately, couldn’t afford), and we had to quickly figure out the best ways to stay productive, connected, and secure from our homes for…
By now you’ve likely heard the debate about the growth and adoption of Microsoft Teams vs. Slack. We wanted to bring a different perspective to this conversation based on the trends we're seeing across our network of thousands of companies, applications, and technology integrations, and millions of daily authentications and verifications.
As the…
At Okta we believe a neutral, modern identity platform is essential to unleashing employee productivity by ensuring workers have secure access to the best business applications for completing their work. Deploying Okta unleashes IT to deliver the best applications quickly and securely. In fact, in our 2019 Businesses@Work report we shared that…
For years, the business world has awaited the public market debut of the most talked about companies in tech. Enterprise and consumer heavyweights like Zoom, Lyft and Pinterest have already gone public this year, and more are expected to file in the coming months.
At Okta, we connect our customers to the apps many of these newly- or soon-to-be…
The rise of new workplace technologies over the past decade has given way to a connected, digitally-savvy modern worker. And these new tools have completely shifted how those employees work — video conferencing makes remote days feasible, communication apps allow for 24/7 conversation with colleagues, and security solutions enable employees to…