Technology - USA (2021-03)

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THE GYM GROUP

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

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

2008

Year founded

2,000

Employees

Health &

Fitness

£153mln

Revenue

(FY ending 2019)

“ 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