# Aquera

> Aquera sells a cloud integration platform that connects HR systems, identity directories, IT service desks and business applications. It automates employee and contractor access lifecycles, translates provisioning requests, collects access data from disconnected applications and supports workforce analytics and governed AI access.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Reed Henry (Co-founder and CEO), Jerry Waldorf (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Aquera 360 HR & Identity Integration Platform, Employee IT Onboarding / User Import Bridge, File Operations and Compliance, Account Provisioning Gateway, Governance Aggregation Bridge
- **Notable:** Ranked No. 1,256 on the 2025 Inc. 5000., Company reports a catalog covering 80+ HR applications, 20+ identity directories, 10+ ITSMs and 1,000+ business applications., Company reports more than four million joiner, mover and leaver transactions daily.

## Products & services

- **Aquera 360 HR & Identity Integration Platform** — SaaS integration platform linking HR, identity, ITSM and business applications across worker lifecycles.
- **Employee IT Onboarding / User Import Bridge** — Synchronizes worker records into directories and applications; handles joiner, mover and leaver events and creates ITSM tickets for manual tasks.
- **File Operations and Compliance** — Schedules and validates entitlement-file collection for disconnected applications, with reminders, escalations, custody records and access visualization.
- **Account Provisioning Gateway** — Translates SCIM requests into REST, SOAP, SQL, LDAP and other target-system operations; creates, updates, deletes or deactivates accounts.
- **Governance Aggregation Bridge** — Detects account-data changes and sends deltas into identity governance platforms.
- **Contingent Worker Identity** — System of record for non-employees with sponsorship, engagement dates, revalidation and automated offboarding.
- **Agentic AI Bridge** — Connects AI assistants to enterprise records through identity-aware, policy-enforced and audited access; promoted for ADP ecosystems.
- **Data Lake Loader** — Loads ADP workforce data into analytics destinations with incremental synchronization and historical change preservation.

## Achievements

- Ranked No. 1,256 on the 2025 Inc. 5000.
- Company reports a catalog covering 80+ HR applications, 20+ identity directories, 10+ ITSMs and 1,000+ business applications.
- Company reports more than four million joiner, mover and leaver transactions daily.
- Company reports SOC 2 Type II auditing and ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Okta’s June 23 Cross App Access announcement named Aquera among identity infrastructure, gateway and framework participants and described its Agentic AI Bridge and MCP Servers.
- **2025-08** — Aquera placed No. 1,256 on the 2025 Inc. 5000.

## Links

- Website: https://aquera.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aquera

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Last updated: 2026-10-23