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April 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dropbox Pushes Into the Enterprise – SSO Coming

By Ben Kepes

When I was in San Francisco last week I took the opportunity to swing by the Dropbox office and meet the team responsible for giving Dropbox enterprise credibility. They actually have a pretty interesting job, despite Dropbox being extremely pervasive, both with the consumer space and enterprise, there is a

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December 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

What Will Identity Look Like in the Future?

By Ben Kepes

At the defrag conference recently, I took part in a few sessions that looks at the broader role of identity in a world were more and more people use cloud-based tools. One of the sessions was led by Pat Patterson, Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. In his session, Patterson drew

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October 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search

By Ben Kepes

The announcement by Salesforce a few weeks ago that it was moving into the enterprise Single Sign on (SSO) space was both an excellent validation that sso across cloud and on-premise applications is needed, but also a rude awakening to the existing independent SSO vendors like OneLogin and Okta. While

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September 19, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform

By Ben Kepes

A quick roundup of DreamForce news for today – with the disclosure that Salesforce is covering my T&E to be able to be here at the event. Strong words but, as I predicted, the announcements at this years DreamForce point to Salesforce firmly creating for itself the position of first

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December 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Okta Focuses on Application Discovery and Self-Service

By Ben Kepes

Okta (more coverage here) is this morning announcing a new self-service capability built upon its own Okta Application Network,a pre-integrated package of multiple business and consumer applications in one hit. The idea here is that enterprise IT organizations will be able to publish their own custom application catalog and then

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October 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Builds Native MFA SSO Offering

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a bunch in the past about how single sign on is growing in importance as organizations and the individuals inside them struggle to manage the wealth of different applications they interface with. One of the tools that is able to manage this difficult is Single SIgn On (SSO).

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September 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate GAPE Enterprise Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Identity management is one of the big challenges to be faced in easing the adoption of cloud within enterprise. Okta (more on them here) and Cloud Sherpas (more on them here) have announced a partnership that is squarely aimed at easing the barriers of entry into enterprise for Google Apps.

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August 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Active Directory Integration for Cloud SSO. Okta Latest to Integrate

By Ben Kepes

Okta (previous coverage here) is today joining other cloud-based SSO offerings and releasing an edition designed to integrate single sign on into Active Directory to bridge the authentication gap between on-premise and cloud software. The move is a tacit admission of the fact that, for better or worse, most enterprises

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May 25, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Goes Free Trial for Identity Management

By Ben Kepes

I wrote a little while ago about the “salesforce.com mafia”. One of those I profiled back then was Okta founder Todd McKinnon, I spent some time talking to McKinnon the other day, in advance of the release of Okta’s free trial of its SSO product. The timing for our discussion

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May 17, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

VMware Getting Seriously SaaSy. And PaaSy. And IaaSy. Dang, They Do the Entire Stack Now

By Ben Kepes

The announcements are coming thick and fast for VMware – once pigeonholed as a provider of core infrastructure tools, they’ve rapidly been building a portfolio hat sees them offer tools at all levels of the stack. Let’s recap on the news of late… SaaS is the future – SlideRocket When

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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