http://www.okta.com/blog Tue, 07 May 2013 16:25:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OktaBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Energy management is a hot topic (sometimes literally.) One of our customers, EnerNOC, is playing an industry-changing role in the energy management space by offering technology-enabled solutions to commercial, institutional and industrial organizations. In addition to providing demand response solutions, &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/enernoc-transforming-the-energy-industry-with-okta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/iGvr-0mjmhk" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/iGvr-0mjmhk/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/enernoc-transforming-the-energy-industry-with-okta/ Looks cool, right? Well, it was no easy task. A lot went into building Okta Mobile for iOS. I’d have to write a multi-page article to cover all of the aspects involved in building a mobile app, so let’s instead &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/building-okta-mobile-for-ios/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/dNxryBydnFM" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/dNxryBydnFM/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/building-okta-mobile-for-ios/ Today we announced that Okta’s on fire. Well, not exactly, but we did announce a more than 500 percent year-over-year increase to our customer count and significant adoption of our free Okta Cloud Connect product (formerly called Okta Directory Integration &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/300-strong-okta%e2%80%99s-customers-keep-getting-hotter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/G4hTCj3O7Zo" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/G4hTCj3O7Zo/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/05/300-strong-okta%e2%80%99s-customers-keep-getting-hotter/ Lithium Technologies provides and enables some of the world’s leading brands with social customer experience. Misha Logvinov, Lithium’s chief customer officer, recently spoke with us on what drove Lithium to invest in an identity and access management solution, and more &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/lithium-giving-people-the-power-with-okta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/X9GjrfDuIOQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/X9GjrfDuIOQ/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/lithium-giving-people-the-power-with-okta/ We recently hosted a CIO panel with four IT leaders to discuss the evolving role of IT amid the pressures of mobile and cloud adoption in business today. Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis), Evan Trent (SVP, School &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/re-inventing-the-roles-of-it-and-technology-in-the-enterprise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/TIHAMLjs4q8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/TIHAMLjs4q8/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/re-inventing-the-roles-of-it-and-technology-in-the-enterprise/ You might not know this, but we’ve got some pretty fascinating people working behind the scenes at Okta. We sat down with one of them – senior UX designer Brian Hansen – to discover what’s in the company’s special sauce, &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-brian-hansen-wonderfully-designing-okta%e2%80%99s-user-experience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/Fz7ZwmLp7FA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/Fz7ZwmLp7FA/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-brian-hansen-wonderfully-designing-okta%e2%80%99s-user-experience/ We recently had the pleasure of catching up with Welles Hatch, City Year’s CIO, to learn what Okta’s doing to help this not-for-profit organization challenge the educational status quo. If you’re not familiar, City Year provides AmeriCorps corps members on &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/city-year-improving-mobility-with-okta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/tLSX5vR3b8k" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/tLSX5vR3b8k/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/city-year-improving-mobility-with-okta/ In a recent article in AllThingsD, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon, explains why the pace of change is so often misunderstood in enterprise software &#8212; and the implications that has for CEOs setting company strategy and VCs investing in new technologies. &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/misunderstanding-the-pace-of-change-in-enterprise-software/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/N78V64JfbfY" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/N78V64JfbfY/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/misunderstanding-the-pace-of-change-in-enterprise-software/ Guest post by Nathan McBride, vice president, IT at AMAG Pharmaceuticals It’s funny to think that just three years ago I gave a presentation to a large consulting firm on what they might encounter in enterprise IT in the next &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/from-what-is-cloud-to-real-world-applications-amag-pharmaceuticals-at-bio-it-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/yzq-zS9WYNQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/yzq-zS9WYNQ/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/from-what-is-cloud-to-real-world-applications-amag-pharmaceuticals-at-bio-it-world/ Big changes are affecting the enterprise as increased cloud and mobile adoption pushes businesses further beyond the firewall — and IT is right in the middle. That’s why we’ve gathered senior IT leaders from Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Carl Eberling &#8230; <a href="http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/join-us-on-monday-at-okta-hq-%e2%80%98exploring-cloud-strategies-for-the-modern-enterprise%e2%80%99/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OktaBlog/~4/MC9GIy9_6XU" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OktaBlog/~3/MC9GIy9_6XU/ http://www.okta.com/blog/2013/04/join-us-on-monday-at-okta-hq-%e2%80%98exploring-cloud-strategies-for-the-modern-enterprise%e2%80%99/