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ForgeRock, Inc. is a multinational
identity and access management software company headquartered in
San Francisco
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, U.S.A. with offices in
Bristol
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,
London
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,
Grenoble
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,
Vancouver
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(USA),
Oslo
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,
Munich
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,
Paris
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,
Sydney
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, and
Singapore
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. The ForgeRock Identity Platform is a full-suite IAM and identity governance and administration (IGA) solution, can be implemented across an organization for all identities (workforce, consumers and things), and offers feature parity across all delivery options, including on-premise, any cloud environment, multi-cloud, hybrid, and as a service (SaaS). Fran Rosch is the CEO of ForgeRock.
ForgeRock has raised $250 million in venture funding from
Accel Partners
Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm. Accel works with startups in seed, early and growth-stage investments. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional ...
,
Foundation Capital
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm was founded in 1995, and in 2012 managed more than $2.4 billion in investment capital.
History
Foundation Capital was founded in 1995.
The firm raised its sevent ...
,
Meritech Capital Partners
Meritech Capital Partners is an American Venture Firm company focused on late-stage venture capital investments in information technology companies with a focus on consumer Internet and media, software and services, enterprise infrastructure, an ...
, Riverwood Capital and
KKR
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.
The company has 1,300 enterprise customers in total, including the
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GEICO
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,
Maersk
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Philips
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,
Standard Chartered
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,
Toyota
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Weight Watchers (WW), and more.
ForgeRock was founded in Norway in February 2010 by a group of former
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...
employees, after
Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation. After the acquisition, the software was scheduled for phase-out in favor of Oracle’s in-house product,
so the founders "started their own company to
fork
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the code and continue developing Sun’s software."
In April 2020, ForgeRock announced that it has raised $93.5 million in funding, a Series E it will use to continue expanding, which "brings the total raised by the company to $230 million."
The company went public in September 2021. It’s listed on the
New York Stock Exchange
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under the ticker symbol FORG.
On October 11, 2022, private equity firm
Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo, LP, is an American private equity and growth capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami. It is known for being particularly active in acquiring software companies and has over $114 billion in assets under manage ...
, agreed to purchase ForgeRock for $2.3 billion in an all-cash deal.
Products
The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes a suite of identity management, access management, intelligent access, identity gateway, directory services, identity governance, autonomous identity, and edge security capabilities to serve enterprise consumer, workforce, and IoT requirements. The platform is consumable as a cloud service through ForgeRock Identity Cloud, or deployable through self-managed options, including public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments.
The ForgeRock Identity Platform includes Access Management (based on the
OpenAM open source project), Identity Management (based on the
OpenIDM open source project), Directory Services (based on the
OpenDJ
OpenDJ is a directory server which implements a wide range of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and related standards, including full compliance with LDAPv3 but also support for Directory Service Markup Language (DSMLv2). Written in Java, Open ...
open source project), and Identity Gateway (based on the OpenIG open source project). ForgeRock Access Management provides
access management
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, ForgeRock Directory Services is an
LDAP
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directory service
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, ForgeRock Identity Management is used for
identity management, and ForgeRock Identity Gateway provides an identity gateway for web traffic and
application programming interface
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s (APIs).
ForgeRock also offers a Profile and Privacy Management Dashboard for compliance with the EU
General Data Protection Regulation
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(GDPR) and provides support for the
User-Managed Access
User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based access management protocol standard. Version 1.0 of the standard was approved by the Kantara Initiative on March 23, 2015.
As described by the charter of the group that developed UMA, the purpose of the ...
(UMA) 2.0 standard.
Originally based on
open source
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software owned by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation), the enterprise version of the ForgeRock Identity Platform can only be accessed by purchasing a commercial license.
The source code of the community version is publicly available under the terms of the
Common Development and Distribution License
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.
References
Further reading
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"Industry Collaboration Will Utilize Digital Patient Identity and Consent to Advance Clinical Care" GlobeNewswire. May 3, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
GlobeNewswire. July 19, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
External links
* {{official website, http://www.forgerock.com
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