Curiously Salesforce is an investor in Box and Okta was founded by a Salesforce alum.
Okta has more than 200 customers including new customers like Allergan, BMC Software, Clorox, Groupon and National Geographic.
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Todd McKinnon is CEO and Co-founder of Okta, a cloud application management service set to launch in January.
Using Okta, employees get a single sign-on that clears them to retrieve software from a diverse array of software providers.
He says venture capitalists who previously avoided him are calling frequently to try to invest in his company, Okta Inc.
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For example, the company recently announced a partnership with Okta, which provides for user management and control (such as with Active Directory).
Startups like Okta have stepped up to create a management of all of them, but now there is a much bigger company involved.
At that point, an outfit like Okta is deep inside the business, offering and managing access more software packages than most companies now have, on- or offline.
To this end, Okta has a service that integrates with over 1, 000 cloud apps, such as Box.net, Workday, Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) Apps, Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), NetSuite (NYSE:N) and Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS).
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For example, Okta has customers like newly public Pandora (NYSE:P).
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Okta is seeking to displace older identity management services offered by companies like CA and Oracle, differentiating by building its entire service in the cloud from the start.
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Okta provides an identity management system for large companies.
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McKinnon gave an example of a customer a large pharmaceutical company that used Okta to build a web portal for its employees that also included Salesforce.com, Box and Microsoft Azure integration.
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Seventy-thousand people, scores of expensive exhibits, and most importantly, an intriguing mix of ambitious start-ups (Marketo, Elequo, and the slightly older Box and Okta) with giant corporations such as General Electric and Virgin America.
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