Bitium was a developer of the cloud service Bitium, which provided single sign-on and identity management for

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is con ...

(SaaS) cloud-based applications before its merger into

Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform offers numerous integrated cloud-computing services, including compute, network, and storage. Products Past and present products under the Google Cloud platform include: Current * Google Cloud Datastore, a NoSQL databa ...

. 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 Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced ''SAM-el'', ) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider. SAML is an XML-based m ...

for enhanced security. Bitium also allowed companies to extend their existing directory structured to cloud apps. Bitium could integrate with

Active Directory Active Directory (AD) is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services. Initially, Active Directory was used only for centralize ...

, LDAP, HRIS, Google Apps and other on-premises directories to allow for centralized user access and control. Bitium was backed by venture capital firm

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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.

Acquisition

On September 26, 2017,

announced that it acquired Bitium, 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. At the end of September 2018 Bitium announced that it would close down all accounts for customers outside the United States, Canada or Mexico at the end of 2018. Bitium was fully merged with Google Cloud and ceased to exist in 2019. However some of its technology is still used by Google.

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Acquisition

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