Any Experience. Every User. One Platform.
Our Commitment
No matter where you began your journey, with Ping or ForgeRock, the investments you have made are safe. We are building a roadmap to the future where we are leveraging the strengths of both companies to deliver more value to our customers and we are very excited about that future.
No matter where you began your journey, with Ping or ForgeRock, the investments you have made are safe. We are building a roadmap to the future where we are leveraging the strengths of both companies to deliver more value to our customers and we are very excited about that future.
Where Vision Meets Value
Ping Identity and ForgeRock Join Forces
The combination of Ping Identity and ForgeRock is ushering in a very exciting time in the identity market. Together, our market-leading identity services will deliver more choice, unparalleled expertise, and a more complete identity solution for our customers and partners. We’re incredibly excited to welcome you all to the future of identity.
Better Identity. Seamless Experience.
We remain committed to executing our vision while fulfilling customer commitments, and partnering with customers to deliver secure, seamless user experiences. Whether it’s software on premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment, we have you covered.
Critical areas such as access management, identity management and orchestration will undergo continuous improvements and enhancements. Other components like directory services, gateway and mobile apps will be gradually unified taking into account our customers' usage patterns and upgrade cycles.
| Orchestration | NO CHANGE |
| SSO & Authentication | NO CHANGE |
| Directory | LONG-TERM UNIFICATION |
| MFA | NO CHANGE |
| Mobile App | UNIFICATION |
| Risk & Fraud | UNIFICATION |
| IDM | NO CHANGE |
| PingAccess / | LONG-TERM UNIFICATION |
Building a Best-in-Class Identity Solution
Over the years, Ping and ForgeRock each built unique benefits, including innovative capabilities in CIAM and Workforce identity such as fraud and risk protection, identity verification, decentralized identity, fine-grained authorization, lifecycle management and identity governance and administration (IGA). As a single organization, we are now poised to accelerate our roadmap and deliver enhanced products and services that leverage the strengths of both companies. Two great companies, combined to make an extraordinary one.
A Winning Combination for Customers
Best-in-class solutions bring benefits for both Ping and ForgeRock customers:
One Trusted Vendor
Unparalleled identity expertise, services, and governance for all identity types from a single market-leading vendor.
Unmatched Flexibility
Extraordinary experiences using your full stack of identity services and environments, delivered how you want it.
Identity Innovation
We're shaping the identity landscape with forward-thinking innovations that let you stay ahead of the curve.
Global Reach, Local Care
Leverage global resources and services that meet your localized compliance and privacy needs.
What Enhancements are Coming?
We have defined our North Star goals and we are all excited to deliver them. Some things you can expect to see from us over the next year include:
PingOne Services Available to ForgeRock
Customers of the ForgeRock Identity Cloud (now being renamed to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud) and the ForgeRock Identity Platform Software are able to consume PingOne services, including DaVinci, Protect, Verify, Credentials, and Authorize to name a few. See the release notes here for the latest.Identity Lifecycle Management Available to Ping ForgeRock’s identity lifecycle management capabilities will be available to Ping customers, allowing them to manage the lifecycle for employees and contractors alike.
Identity Governance Available to Ping
Ping customers will be able to add ForgeRock’s cloud-native identity governance solution to provide enterprise-grade security and compliance backed by powerful AI and machine learning.Unified Cloud Administration
A unified cloud admin experience for both platforms.
These are just the tip of the iceberg. We look forward to sharing more in the future.
Frequently Asked Questions
Both companies have unique strengths that when brought together create a complementary combination that establishes a stronger, more complete identity solution provider for our customers. Two great companies, combined to make an extraordinary one.
Together, we can better serve customers with a more complete and differentiated product portfolio and broader geographic support, with the ability to accelerate innovation and our roadmap.
As one company, we can also offer more choice and flexibility to address identity use cases to meet the specific and varied needs of our customers worldwide.
Our combined company will enable faster innovation and provide more choice and flexibility to our customers to meet their specific identity needs.
Ping Identity and ForgeRock each have unique strengths across Workforce and Customer Identity solutions, which will make for a more comprehensive offering to customers and present strong cross-selling opportunities in the future.
Together, we will be able to offer a unified enterprise identity platform for all use cases and identity types. This will allow customers to benefit from a more complete and differentiated product portfolio with broader geographic support and improved innovation.
Our commitments to our customers have not changed. As the combined company integration continues, our customers should be positively impacted through the combination of our solutions, people and coverage of their use cases.
There are a number of changes coming to each platform that will benefit customers, regardless of what platform they started with, including:
Unified admin experience
Consolidating services across platforms
Offering new services on existing platforms
The combined company will enable faster innovation and provide more choice and flexibility to our customers to meet their specific identity needs.
Ping Identity and ForgeRock each have unique strengths across Workforce and Customer Identity solutions, which will make for a more comprehensive offering to customers and present strong cross-selling opportunities in the future. The combined company will be able to offer a unified enterprise identity platform for all use cases and identity types. This will allow customers to benefit from a more complete and differentiated product portfolio with broader geographic support and improved innovation.
For now, partners are instructed to purchase Ping products from Ping, and ForgeRock products from ForgeRock until further guidance is provided.
The combination of Ping and ForgeRock brings together two important players with strong product offerings and reputations, that as one company, provides an opportunity for a truly differentiated, unique comprehensive offering for customers.
The Identity market is large and has many competitors. As a combined company, we will be better positioned to compete with the larger players in the market and enable us to continue to invest in new products and services for our customers.
The joint leadership team is in place and is already executing on a roadmap to unify the two companies from a technical perspective. Some of the first goals include making identity lifecycle management and identity governance available to Ping Identity customers, a unified admin console, and providing the option for ForgeRock Identity Cloud (now being renamed to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud) and Identity Platform Software customers to consume PingOne services, including DaVinci, Protect, Verify, Credentials, and Authorize to name a few.
No. As we work through the benefits and opportunities that the synergy and innovation presents for our customers, it is very important to note that our strategy is to support, develop, and invest in all core Ping Identity and ForgeRock platforms and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Supporting the best interests of the thousands of enterprises on both platforms is central to every decision we make. Our strategy is to harness the collective power of both companies to benefit our customers.
Our Commitment to You
You can count on our continued support and regular communication as we bring our companies and technologies together. We understand our platform is critical to your success and are committed to keeping you informed of our roadmap.
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