CUSTOMER STORY|DPG Media Overcomes
SaaS Surge with OneLogin
DPG Media (formerly known as De Persgroep), an international media company headquartered inBelgium, offers broadcast media, covering television and radio, as well as online news portals,
newspapers, magazines and digital publications on a national and regional basis. Established in
1987, the company has seen fast-paced growth in the past ten years, growing from 1,000 to 6,500
employees across the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark due to the acquisition of a number ofregional publications and media houses.

Teams are now upand running in lessthan half an hour

Full managementof user provisioning

CHALLENGE
Like many companies looking to take the task of digital transformation head-on andembrace innovation, DPG Media has a team of 400 IT engineers to create in-housebusiness applications that improve efficiency, productivity and aid employees. However,
the rate at which employees also bring in external Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
applications has become an overwhelming issue over the past few years. This has become
particularly challenging as all apps, no matter whether they were created in-house or
externally, had their own identity management solution.
As DPG Media began the first phase of its cloud migration journey and a third ofcorporate apps were moved into the cloud, identity and access management (IAM)
became even harder to manage. The company tried several providers and accessdirectories. They came across difficulties aligning protocols on-premise and in the cloud;nothing was fully connected. DPG Media wanted a cloud-based provider that would act asa one-stop shop for password management, provisioning and deprovisioning; a provider
that would work inline with the company’s cloud model and fast-paced growth, enabling
all new employees to work seamlessly from their first day onwards. Conversely, when thetime comes to de-provision users, the provider that would ensure all access to sensitive
data is revoked immediately, from the second their employment ends.

Combined
cloud-based andon-premise solutions

INDUSTRY
Print and Digital Media

USERS
10,000 users

INTEGRATIONS
Amazon Web Services,
Salesforce, Qliksense,
Zendesk, Lastpass, Docebo(Learning ManagementSystem), HR Systems(AFAS,DOTS), Envoy,
Cloudcheckr, Gigya,Grafana, Wordpress

SOLUTION
In an effort to combine cloud-based and on-premise solutions and manage user
provisioning, DPG Media reviewed a list of providers and narrowed it down to Google,
Okta and OneLogin. DPG Media ultimately chose to deploy OneLogin, the industry
leader in Unified Access Management. Its Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offering andadaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) stood out by providing intuitive accessmanagement based on the user’s location, device and time of access which determines
whether a second factor of authentication is required. IT staff were also able to directlyaccess the company’s Amazon Web Service (AWS) console via the OneLogin portal.

“Thanks to OneLogin, teams are
now up and running in less thanhalf an hour.”
Wim Plat
Information andCommunication Technologies
Architect, DPG Media

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DPG Media had a long list of potential providers and chose to work with OneLogin, notonly due to the company’s diverse offering, the self-sufficient nature of the product with
its low maintenance requirements and overhead, but mostly because of the OneLoginstaff and their expertise. “OneLogin is a company that we see ourselves having a good
partnership with. The way the company works and the people that we work with directly
felt most like our own DNA, compared to the competitors we were considering,” said Wim
Plat, Information and Communication Technologies Architect at DPG Media.

RESULTS“Thanks to OneLogin, teams are now up and running in less than half an hour,” added
Plat. One of DPG’s biggest challenges for implementation was managing a team of 400
IT engineers who use 40+ AWS accounts in their own environments and seamlessly
migrating the authentication into these accounts to OneLogin, but the transition was asuccess. “Once our cloud migration journey is complete, all of our corporate and SaaS
applications will be completely aligned in one environment and managed through
OneLogin’s portal and one identity, taking the headache out of what was once acomplex environment of applications and conflicting account and password policies,”
stated Wim Plat.

Successful transition andimplementation of all
applications to OneLoginSeamless migration ofauthentication for a team of
400 IT engineers who use
40+ AWS accounts in theirown environments

Scalable and manageable
provisioning anddeprovisioning of users

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