Okta Powers Simpler, More Cost-Efficient IT Strategies for 100+ Nonprofit Organizations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 29, 2015) - Okta today announced that it has grown its nonprofit customer count by more than 100% year-over-year, enabling more than 100 organizations to leverage its identity and mobility management service to increase user access, simplify IT management and reduce technology costs in support of their philanthropic efforts. Nonprofit organizations new to Okta in 2014 include Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), PBS and Girl Scouts of America. The company also announced Okta for Good, an initiative aimed at empowering nonprofits to adopt the technologies they need to succeed in their humanitarian missions.

Many nonprofit organizations, including Rotary International, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, National Geographic, City Year and Girl Scouts of America, rely on Okta to make their IT departments more secure and efficient amid budget and resource restrictions. From connecting people with the applications they need to powering externally-facing user portals, these organizations use Okta to ensure IT can easily manage access to the tools their users need to help their communities -- wherever and whenever they need them.

LLS, for example, works with Okta in support of their mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS has integrated Okta into their IT infrastructure as an integral part of their shift to cloud and mobile services, enabling them to quickly and easily provision the more than 2,000 users that access their cloud-based tools all over the world in a cost-efficient way.

"As the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer, it's critical that we're able to quickly and easily connect not only our core team, but also our seasonal and temporary workers with the tools they need to help fund research and provide care to patients," said Justin Stanford, senior systems infrastructure engineer at LLS. "With so many disparate users, we needed a way to quickly, easily and securely provision and deprovision access to these tools -- especially as we shift to more cloud and mobile applications. We've worked closely with the team at Okta to enable this shift in a cost-efficient way, empowering our IT team to easily connect people with the apps and services they need from whatever device they're using."

Okta has been committed to working closely with nonprofits by making the solution easy to implement and manage, and by offering specialized pricing in order to fit within their often restricted budgets. With Okta, organizations can connect more directly with their constituents, for example leveraging Okta for easier access to patient data, for increased collaboration among volunteers or to enable tutors to access relevant teaching material from their iPads as they work with students. To be eligible for specialized pricing, an organization must be a 501(c)(3) or equivalent designation.

"There are many organizations that use Okta today to make their IT more efficient and nowhere is that more important than in philanthropic efforts, where organizations often lack the budget, resources and expertise to get the most out of their technology," said Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta and vice-chair of the Family House, Inc. executive committee, a San Francisco nonprofit that leverages Okta to support their mission of providing temporary housing for families of children with life-threatening illnesses. "We've seen significant growth in the number of nonprofits leveraging our platform. It enables them to spend less time and resources on IT and more on helping their communities and changing the world -- and we're looking forward to extending that work to even more organizations moving forward."

For more information about how Okta is working with non-profits, visit https://www.okta.com/okta-for-good/.

About Okta

Okta is an integrated identity and mobility management service. Built from the ground up in the cloud, Okta securely and simply connects people to their applications from any device, anywhere, at anytime. Okta integrates with existing directories and identity systems, as well as thousands of on-premises, cloud and mobile applications, and runs on a secure, reliable and extensively audited cloud-based platform.

More than 2,000 customers, including Adobe, Allergan, Chiquita, LinkedIn, MGM Resorts International, Shire Pharmaceuticals and Western Union, use Okta to improve employee productivity, increase supply chain efficiency and revenue and improve compliance. The thousands of enterprises and cloud vendors, as well as the millions of people using Okta, are the foundation of the industry's fastest growing IT network for the cloud and mobile world. Okta is backed by premier venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital. To learn more about Okta, visit: https://www.okta.com.

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