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Okta CEO: Microsoft’s Identity Business ‘Is Relatively Weak In The Mid-Market’
‘I would call that out as a weakness for Microsoft - the smaller companies and the mid-market. Maybe it‘s because of their channel, maybe it’s I don’t know why, but they’ve tended to not show up very well in that segment,’ says Okta CEO Todd McKinnon. By Michael Novinson May 26, 2021, 07:27 PM EDT
Okta Co-Founder and CEO Todd McKinnon said Microsoft hasn’t shown up very well for smaller and mid-market identity customers due perhaps to their channel.
The San Francisco-based identity security provider said it was scary when Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Microsoft first launched a product in the identity space seven or eight years ago, according to McKinnon. But McKinnon said it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Okta since it validated the idea of identity being a primary system that organizations need to invest in.