Okta a rising star in on-demand identity and access management service has announced strong growth in the first and second quarters of 2012. The SSO company has brought on a slew of new customners from the Enterprise SaaS space including companies: Bazaarvoice, DocuSign, Eloqua, Host Analytics, Jive, Lithium, SuccessFactors and Taleo.

Starting today DreamSimplicity and Ping Identity have kicked off a campaign focused on determining whether SaaS companies should Buy V.S. Build a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution. Together with Montclair Advisors, Ping Identity has developed a TCO Analysis that finds that a cloud-based SSO solution delivers an average cost savings of almost 70% over 5 years and dramatically lower COGS versus building and maintaining your own. Read the full report.

A list of the top Identity Management Companies providing Single-Sign-On and Federation in the cloud.