Bitium

Bitium was a developer of the cloud service Bitium, which provided single sign-on and identity management for software as a service (SaaS) cloud-based applications before its merger into Google Cloud. Bitium allowed end users to access all of their cloud software accounts using a single set of login credentials. The product could integrate with cloud apps using SAML for enhanced security.

Bitium

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Cloud computing
Founded	2012; 13 years ago (2012)
Founders	Erik Gustavson Scott Kriz
Defunct	2019
Successor	Google Cloud
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California
Key people	Scott Kriz, CEO
Products	Bitium single sign-on and identity management
Parent	Google
Website	https://www.bitium.com

Bitium also allowed companies to extend their existing directory structured to cloud apps. Bitium could integrate with Active Directory, LDAP, HRIS, Google Apps^[1] and other on-premises directories to allow for centralized user access and control.

Bitium was founded by Erik Gustavson and Scott Kriz.^[2]

Bitium was backed by venture capital firm Polaris Partners and was an early graduate of the Amplify.LA accelerator. The corporate office was located in a building which was the former studio of artist Richard Diebenkorn. Bitium had been featured at CIO.com.^[3]

Acquisition

On September 26, 2017, Google Cloud announced that it acquired Bitium,^[4] a step towards better management of enterprise-grade cloud customer services across an organization, through integration of features like setting security levels and access policies for applications.^[5][2][6] At the end of September 2018, Bitium announced that it would close down all accounts for customers outside the United States, Canada and Mexico at the end of 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Bitium was fully merged with Google Cloud and ceased to exist in 2019.^{[citation needed]} However, some of its technology is still used by Google.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of single sign-on implementations