Ping Identity
About
Enterprise identity platform providing SSO, adaptive MFA, directory services, and access management for workforce and customer-facing applications — a Thales company since December 2023 while operating under its own brand and website. Gartner MQ Leader for Access Management for the 9th consecutive year in 2025 alongside Okta and Microsoft. Differentiates through federation (PingFederate is the most widely deployed SAML/OAuth federation server in large enterprises), hybrid deployment flexibility,...
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Ideal Customer
- Ping Identity's sweet spot is large enterprise and Fortune 500/Fortune 100 organizations — their Workforce plans require a minimum of 5,000 users and enterprise deals typically run $500,000 to $15 million+ annually.
- Their ideal customers are organizations in highly regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government) with complex hybrid IT environments spanning legacy on-premises systems and modern cloud/SaaS applications that need sophisticated federation, compliance-grade access management, and identity scalability across tens of thousands to millions of identities.
Key Differentiators
- Ping Identity's primary differentiator is its unmatched depth in hybrid and on-premises enterprise deployments — a capability cloud-native competitors like Okta are not architected to replicate — making it the de facto standard for Fortune 500 and government organizations that cannot fully migrate to cloud-only IAM.
- The DaVinci no-code orchestration engine enables complex, multi-step identity journey design without developer resources, while the combined Ping + ForgeRock platform now offers one of the broadest IAM portfolios covering workforce, CIAM, B2B partner, API security, and AI agent identity.
Industries Served
- Ping Identity serves a broad range of regulated and large-scale industries, with financial services as its dominant vertical — specifically serving 13 of the 15 largest U.S. banks and major global insurers.
- Other key verticals include healthcare (7 of the 9 largest global healthcare companies), government and defense (including federal agencies under FedRAMP High authorization), retail, manufacturing, media, automotive, logistics, and telecommunications.
Service Coverage
- Ping Identity operates globally, with offices in North America (Denver HQ, Austin, San Francisco, Vancouver), Europe (London, Bristol, Grenoble), and Asia-Pacific/Middle East (Bangalore, Singapore, Israel).
- The company operates in over 60 countries and its cloud platform offers data residency across multiple regions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Partnerships
- Ping Identity is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner with Security and Financial Services Competencies, and recently announced Runtime Identity integrations with AWS (Bedrock AgentCore), Google Cloud, and Cloudflare for AI agent authorization.
- The company received the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year Award for IAM and two 2025 Google Cloud Partner All-Star Awards.
Company Size & Ownership
- Ping Identity was founded in 2002 by Andre Durand and Bryan Field-Elliot in Denver, Colorado, and currently employs approximately 2,300–2,400 people globally.
- As of late 2024, the company was approaching $800 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), with 31% year-over-year SaaS ARR growth and 33% new bookings growth year-to-date.
Compliance & Certifications
- Ping Identity holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022 (including ISO 27017 and ISO 27018), ISO 22301 for business continuity, CSA STAR Level 2, HIPAA/HITECH, TISAX (for the automotive sector), PCI DSS Level 1, GDPR, CCPA, and FedRAMP High authorization (achieved in October 2023 through UberEther's IAM Advantage).
- The company also supports DoD Impact Level 5 and CMMC Level 2+ requirements for defense contractors.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
3 offeringsPingFederate
On-premises and hybrid federation server — the most widely deployed enterprise SAML/OAuth/OpenID Connect server. Standard in large organizations (Fortune 500, government) that cannot move entirely to cloud-native SSO and need bridge connectivity between legacy and cloud apps.
PingID
MFA solution for workforce authentication — push notifications, biometrics, FIDO2 passkeys, and hardware token support. Often deployed alongside PingFederate in hybrid environments where MFA must cover both cloud and on-premises application access.
PingOne Cloud Platform
Cloud-native identity platform delivering SSO, adaptive MFA, passwordless authentication, and user directory in a single SaaS service. DaVinci orchestration enables no-code/low-code identity flow design across complex multi-step authentication journeys.
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