Build vs. Buy: Is Managing Customer Identity Slowing Your Time to Market?

Every team building a web or mobile app faces the same dilemma with every new piece of functionality: build in-house or use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster. And, more often than not, it starts with the fundamental choice of how to provide for authenticated user access. “Our developers can handle customer identity.” It’s a login box. How hard could it be? But customer identity and access management is so much more than just the login box. As businesses grow and add features, maintaining a robust homegrown solution is a major drain on resources. Developer hours are a precious resource, and time spent on DIY identity, security and privacy compliance is time taken away from core business innovation. Join us at our EspreSSO Shot series for an afternoon cup as we explore how Okta's identity solution is adaptable, continuous, and delivered with as little friction as possible so resources and efforts can be laser focused on driving the company vision and offering the best customer experience. Agenda - Get back to core innovation and accelerate time-to-market - Lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of application development - Reduce the risk of a security and compliance breach - Keep developers motivated and improve engineering efficiency - Deliver high scalability and reliability