ForgeRock

ForgeRock
Private
Industry Enterprise software
Founded February 2010 (2010-02)
Founder Lasse Andresen, Steve Ferris, Jonathan Scudder, Victor Ake, Hermann Svoren [1][2]
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Mike Ellis (CEO)
Lasse Andresen (CTO)
Products ForgeRock Identity Platform, OpenAM, OpenDJ, OpenIDM, OpenIG, OpenUMA
Number of employees
 150+ (2013) [1]
Website www.forgerock.com

ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.[1] The company develops open source identity and access management solutions that extend across cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments.[3] ForgeRock has offices in Singapore, the United States in San Francisco, California and Vancouver, Washington, and in Europe in Oslo, Grenoble, London and Bristol.[4]

ForgeRock has raised $52 million in venture funding from Accel Partners, Foundation Capital, and Meritech Capital Partners.[5][6][7] Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, is an advisor.[8]

History

When Sun was acquired by Oracle in January 2010, Sun’s identity and access management software was scheduled for phase out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product.[9] In response, a group of ex-Sun employees founded ForgeRock in February 2010 to continue to develop Sun’s open source identity software.[10][11] In 2012, Mike Ellis was named CEO of ForgeRock.[12] In 2013, ForgeRock announced the industry's first Identity Relationship Management platform.[13]

Products and Services

ForgeRock offers identity and access management solutions through its primary product, the ForgeRock Identity Platform.[14] Built on Sun’s open source identity and access management projects, the integrated stack provides a customer-focused approach to identity management.[11][15] The Open Identity Stack (OIS) includes OpenAM, OpenIDM, OpenDJ and OpenIG.[5][16] OpenAM provides access management solutions, OpenDJ is a directory service, OpenIDM is used for identity management, and OpenIG provides an identity gateway for web traffic and application programming interfaces (APIs).[17] The ForgeRock Identity Platform is the only open source identity and access management platform on the market.[13]

The source code — which has a Sun Microsystems, ForgeRock or community copyright — is freely available for use, under the terms of the Open Source Common Development and Distribution License. ForgeRock also offers pre-compiled, verified binary files,[11] which are free of charge for use in proof-of-concept and prototype systems, but require a paid ForgeRock subscription for use in a production system.[9] The subscription provides access to major releases, patches, and support.[18] Nightly builds can be used without limitations in production environments but do not receive the same level of quality assurance as released build. ForgeRock also earns revenue from professional services and training.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/forgerock
  2. ↑ http://tropicalpost.com/forgerock-raises-30m-to-manage-online-identities/
  3. 1 2 http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=127091063
  4. ↑ http://forgerock.com
  5. 1 2 http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/01/enterprise-identity-management-platform-forgerock-raises-7-million-from-accel/
  6. ↑ http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/04/09/forgerock-identity-management-solution-secures-15million/
  7. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/forgerock-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-identity-platform-for-enterprise/
  8. ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=188968&privcapId=34903
  9. 1 2 http://blogs.computerworld.com/16083/sun_open_source_reborn_in_forgerock
  10. ↑ http://www.scmagazineuk.com/forgerock-aim-to-bring-open-source-stack-concept-to-iam/article/272199/
  11. 1 2 3 https://gigaom.com/2013/04/08/forgerock-grabs-15m-to-push-access-and-identity-management-software/
  12. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forgerock-appoints-mike-ellis-chief-170000906.html
  13. 1 2 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/forgerock-introduces-the-industrys-first-identity-relationship-management-platform-2013-11-06
  14. ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150121005375/en/ForgeRock-FireEye-Join-Forces-Detect-Cyber-Attacks#.ViGSchCrT_Q
  15. ↑ http://www.ctovision.com/2014/01/update-forgerock-company-quietly-transforming-entire-stack-enterprise-identity-management-access-control-authorization-capabilities/
  16. ↑ http://www.securityweek.com/open-source-iam-solutions-maker-forgerock-raises-15-million
  17. ↑ http://www.eweek.com/security/forgerock-raises-30m-for-open-source-identity-relationship-tech.html
  18. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forgerock-launches-open-identity-stack-140000779.html
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