2010 2010 02 headquarters san francisco california united states area served worldwide key people mike ellis ceo 1 john fernandez cfo 2 products forgerock identity platform 3 number of employees 150 2013 4 5 website www.forgerock.com forgerock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in san francisco u.s.a. 4 the company develops open source identity and access management products for cloud social mobile and enterprise environments . 6 mike ellis is the ceo of forgerock . 1 forgerock also has offices in bristol london grenoble vancouver usa oslo d sseldorf paris sydney and singapore . 7 forgerock has raised 52 million in venture funding from accel partners foundation capital and meritech capital partners . 8 when sun microsystems 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 forgerock was founded by a group of ex sun employees in february 2010 to continue to develop sun s open source identity software . 10 11 forgerock provides identity and access management through its primary product the forgerock identity platform . better source needed 12 the product is built on sun s open source identity and access management projects . 13 the forgerock identity platform includes access management built from the openam open source project identity management built from the openidm open source project directory services built from the opendj open source project and identity gateway built from the openig open source project . 14 openam provides access management opendj is an ldap directory service openidm is used for identity management and openig provides an identity gateway for web traffic and application programming interfaces apis . 15 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 provides 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 references edit a b company overview of forgerock as . bloomberg . retrieved august 15 2016 . wells janet june 12 2015 . forgerock executive helps identity management firm build a strong team . san francisco business times . retrieved august 15 2016 . hautala laura january 28 2016 . it s data privacy day . do you know where your data is . cnet . retrieved august 15 2016 . a b forgerock . crunchbase . august 15 2016 . retrieved august 15 2016 . forgerock raises 30m to manage online identities . company overview of forgerock as . bloomberg . august 15 2016 . retrieved august 15 2016 . bristol forgerock staff produce their own special brew in the basement . bristol post . november 12 2014 . retrieved august 15 2016 . butcher mike . forgerock raises 30m for its open source identity platform for enterprise . a b vaughan nichols steven j. may 10 2010 . sun open source reborn in forgerock . computerworld . forgerock aim to bring open source stack concept to iam . 11 december 2012 . a b novet jordan . gigaom forgerock grabs 15m to push access and identity management software . http www.businesswire.com news home 20150121005375 en forgerock fireeye join forces detect cyber attacks . vigschcrt q an update on forgerock this company is quietly transforming the entire stack of enterprise identity management access control and authorization capabilities ctovision.com . 8 january 2014 . open source iam solutions maker forgerock raises 15 million securityweek.com . forgerock raises 30m for open source identity relationship tech . eweek . june 19 2014 . retrieved august 15 2016 . further reading edit startup debuts with cloud based open source identity and access management software . computerworld . november 14 2012 . retrieved august 15 2016 . wolpe toby october 15 2013 . salesforce.com signs up open source forgerock s identity tech . zdnet . retrieved august 15 2016 . forgerock ignites new kantara standard for digital consent privacy and identity . forbes . august 3 2015 . retrieved august 15 2016 . reilly richard byrne june 21 2014 . forgerock takes in 30 million promptly trash talks oracle . venturebeat . retrieved august 15 2016 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title forgerock & oldid 743698566 categories identity managementidentity management systemscompanies based in san franciscocompanies established in 2010hidden categories all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles lacking reliable references from august 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction 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