THE GYM GROUP
2008
Year founded
2,000
Employees
“Our business model lends itself particularly well to modern data methods , because we generate a lot of high quality data .”
JASPER MCINTOSH CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER , THE GYM GROUP
being used across the organisation . This growth brings new challenges around coordination , synchronisation of user accounts , and the need to continually raise the bar with regards to data security .
" We ' re bringing Okta in to replace our active directory and other authentication products . It
Health & Fitness
£ 153mn Revenue ( FY ending 2019 )
enables us to centralise these critical activities in a way that it makes it much easier for us to manage our people and our systems , and it provides a much higher standard of overall identity management and security . The initial implementation has seen us launch Okta across the business for our priority systems . Over time , in a series of phases , we will implement more of the features of the product to provide granular multi-factor access , implement tighter controls around international access into systems , and provide new security features and services for our staff ."
Looking ahead , McIntosh says there is still huge opportunity for growth , despite the uncertainty presented by Covid . " We continue to see exponential growth in fitness and fitness technology , whether that ' s products like Peloton , innovation from big players like Apple
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