Product Overview The best way to understand our product is to see it. We encourage you to get a demo of the product from us or, failing that, visit our marketing website at www.rippling.com, which gives a good high-level overview. RIPPLING IS A HYBRID OF THREE cess — who should have access to what systems and DIFFERENT SOFTWARE CATEGORIES: software within your company? How should those users be con昀椀gured within those systems? What level • An all-in-one payroll, bene昀椀ts, and HRIS system. of permissions should they have? • An “Identity” / SSO / Password manager sys- Those questions are, in turn, really about ‘who are tem, akin to Okta, OneLogin and OnePassword. your employees?’ and ‘what is their role or level or function in your organization, and therefore what type • An endpoint device management system, akin of access do they need to do their job?’ to JAMF and similar systems for Windows PCs. Those questions — questions which underlie a great On the surface, this is a weird combination. It makes deal of the daily administrative work performed by IT sense only because these three systems are each professionals as they set up and con昀椀gure accounts hubs for employee data within a company. and computers and systems — are fundamentally questions about the employee record. HR systems’ connection to employee data is obvious. But it’s not immediately clear how IT systems are tied Stated di昀昀erently, Okta sometimes describes their to the employee record. category as “Employee Identity.” But, we believe this name is, for Okta, aspirational at best. Okta’s actual IT’s connection to the employee record is that IT product is Single-Sign-On and password manage- security is ultimately about controlling systems ac- ment. Any true system of employee identity — going 5 Rippling Memo