ForgeRock Announces New OEM Agreement to Deliver Salesforce Identity Connect

Technology partnership enables enterprises to seamlessly integrate with existing on-premise identity directories using Salesforce Identity

SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 15, 2013 – ForgeRock Inc., the leading open platform provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, today announced a new OEM agreement with salesforce.com to deliver Salesforce Identity Connect, a solution that enables enterprises to seamlessly integrate with existing on-premise identity directories using Salesforce Identity.

ForgeRock is redefining IAM for the modern web through its Open Identity Stack, providing high-scale identity and security to consumer scale business and externally-facing cloud applications. This agreement between ForgeRock and salesforce.com reinforces ForgeRock’s position as a leading provider of IAM solutions.

“We are delivering Salesforce Identity Connect to create a bridge between existing on-premise directory solutions and Salesforce,” said Chuck Mortimore, vice president of product management, Salesforce Identity, salesforce.com. “Salesforce selected ForgeRock because of their leadership in delivering an agile, highly scalable, easy-to-customize set of identity services for extending user identities beyond the traditional firewall and into the cloud, providing a clear path for CIOs to embrace the cloud as the identity platform of the future.”

Built on ForgeRock’s Open Identity Stack and leveraging years of identity integration best practices, Salesforce Identity Connect reduces IT friction when transitioning identity management to the cloud, making it simple for companies to securely manage, provision, federate and reconcile user identities in real-time between on-premise enterprise applications and the Salesforce Platform.

“ForgeRock is extremely proud to work with salesforce.com to provide next generation technology that makes it simple for businesses to centrally manage existing on-premise directories using Salesforce Identity,” said Mike Ellis, CEO at ForgeRock. “Through our collaboration, the ForgeRock solution embedded within Salesforce Identity Connect will provide high business value and empower the CIO/CTO to extend identity data management to the cloud.”

Salesforce Identity Connect is generally available through salesforce.com. Visit forgerock.com/salesforce for more information on the OEM Agreement.

About ForgeRock

ForgeRock is redefining identity and access management for the modern web including public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, social, mobile and enterprise environments. ForgeRock products support mission-critical operations with a fully open source platform. ForgeRock’s Open Identity Stack powers solutions for many of the world’s largest companies and government organizations. For more information and free downloads, visit www.forgerock.com or follow ForgeRock on Twitter at www.twitter.com/forgerock.