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Case Study: Box saves thousands of hours by automating identity with Okta

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Box
Industry
Cloud content management software
Challenge
A fast-growing business needed secure, scalable access across many applications.
Headline result
Thousands of hours saved through identity automation

Key results

1,000s
Hours saved via automation
Password resets & IT tickets, Okta Workflows
15–20 min
To integrate a new application
Previously took days
150+
Applications integrated
Okta Workforce Identity

The challenge

Box serves 115,000 companies, including 67% of the Fortune 500, and needed access that stays secure across every application while scaling with a fast-growing business. Manual password resets and account-related IT support tickets consumed team time, and adding new applications was slow.

The solution

Box uses Okta Workforce Identity, with Universal Directory as a single source of truth for identity and Okta Workflows, a no-code automation tool, to automate password resets and account-related support tasks. More than 150 applications are integrated through Okta.

As we add more employees to the organization, the time and money we're saving through automation only increases.

MS
Mark Schooley
Senior Director of IT Operations and Engineering, Box

The results, in context

Box reported saving thousands of hours by automating password resets and account-related IT support tickets with Okta Workflows, and it can now make new applications available to employees in under 20 minutes, integrating a new application in 15 to 20 minutes rather than the days it used to take. More than 150 applications are integrated through Okta Workforce Identity.

Products used

Okta Okta Workforce IdentityOkta Okta WorkflowsOkta Universal Directory