Centrify Achieves Another Year of Record Sales and Accelerated Expansion; Announces Headquarters Office Move to Accommodate Rapid Growth
Company Adds Significantly to Its Market-Share Leading Customer Installed Base; Moving to New 36,000 Square-foot Facility in Nearby Santa Clara to Fulfill Expanded Space Needs
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Centrify Corporation, the leader in Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile, today announced that the company posted record total sales in calendar year 2013 and more than 40 percent growth over the prior calendar year. With this growth, Centrify continued to grow its customer installed base, the largest share in its segment within the security market, while maintaining in excess of 97 percent customer retention rate. The company's employee base also grew by approximately 30 percent over 2012, with total headcount now more than 400 personnel.
"Centrify continued to expand its solution set to comprehensively address identity needs for both on-premise and cloud environments while also taking a decidedly mobile-centric approach to identity that is critical given mobile devices are the growing method for accessing apps," said Centrify CEO Tom Kemp. "Posting yet another record year for sales validates the differentiated approach Centrify offers that centralizes identities for improved security and management across data center, cloud and mobile. The company continues to expand globally through headcount and important partnerships, including here in the U.S. where we have moved to larger headquarters facilities to meet our continued rapid growth."
In addition to reaching significant records on sales, new customer and growth fronts, Centrify also achieved the following milestones during 2013:
Introduced new solutions to address the changing economies of enterprise IT and shift to “the Internet of things.”  Solution introductions in 2013 included Centrify User Suite, SaaS Edition, the industry's first Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution to provide robust Active Directory and/or cloud-based Single Sign-on (SSO), access management, application management and mobile management across any cloud, mobile or on-premise application. Centrify also launched Centrify User Suite, Mac Edition, the industry's first solution to provide robust Active Directory-based authentication, policy management, SSO and user self-service for connected and remote Mac OS X systems. The company also introduced Centrify for Office 365, the industry's most comprehensive solution for Active Directory-based SSO, user provisioning and mobile management for Office 365
On the mobile side, Centrify partnered with Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., to provide key enabling technology for Samsung's KNOX mobile solution for the Android platform which delivers unparalleled Active Directory integration, mobile application Zero Sign-on, and KNOX container and device management capabilities, including for the latest Samsung KNOX-enabled GALAXY S4, Note 3 and Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) devices.
Centrify also launched Centrify Suite 2013, delivering new advanced privileged user management and auditing for Windows systems, as well as new “sudo” migration tools for Linux so organizations can quickly and effectively meet compliance requirements, mitigate risks from internal threats, and reduce operational costs across the broadest set of cross-platform systems deployed on-premise and in the cloud.
Achieved a 97 percent retention rate of customers over the past four years.
Established key industry partner integrations and platform support, including for Zoom, Alfresco, Marketo, Huddle, Dropbox for Business, Red Hat Storage, and NetSuite; and Day One support for the Apple iOS 7 operating system for iPhones and iPads, and the Apple OS X 10.9 Mavericks operating system for Macs.
Earned important industry certifications, including Common Criteria Certification for the Centrify Server Suite, passing the service organization control (SOC) examination of its internal controls without exception, and earning the TRUSTe Certified Privacy Seal signifying that its privacy statement and associated practices to protect customer data are compliant with the TRUSTe program requirements. Centrify also launched the Centrify Alliance Partner Program (CAPP), for developers, cloud and mobile ISVs to jointly develop integrated solutions leveraging Centrify's leading Unified Identity Services for secure access to cloud and mobile apps.
Earned numerous awards and industry distinctions, including five 2013 Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards, a finalist award for Best Identity Management Solution by SC Magazine, and a 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award by Cloud Computing Magazine. Centrify was also named one of Silicon Valley Business JournalÆs Fastest Growing Private Companies for 2013.
New Headquarters Location
With more than 125 personnel now at Centrify headquarters, the company has moved to a larger facility of approximately 36,000 square feet to accommodate current and future growth. The company's new headquarters address is 3393 Octavius Drive, Suite 100, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. To contact the company, please use the new headquarters number (669) 444-5200.
About Centrify
Centrify provides Unified Identity Services across the data center, cloud and mobile that results in one single login for users and one unified identity infrastructure for IT. Centrify's solutions reduce costs and increase agility and security by leveraging an organization's existing identity infrastructure to enable centralized authentication, access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and compliance. Centrify customers typically reduce their costs associated with identity lifecycle management and compliance by more than 50 percent. With more than 5,000 customers worldwide, including approximately half of the Fortune 50 and more than 60 Federal agencies, Centrify is deployed on more than one million server, application and mobile device resources on-premise and in the cloud. For more information about Centrify and its solutions, call (669) 444-5200, or visit http://www.centrify.com/.
