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."