Software-As-A-Service Providers Turn To Akamai For Application Acceleration

Software-As-A-Service Providers Turn To Akamai For Application Acceleration

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, announced today growing adoption of its global application acceleration services from businesses that offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models. Akamai has had more than a five-fold increase in the amount of global application traffic delivered on behalf of SaaS providers from January 2006 to January 2007.

Demand for software-as-a-service is increasing as small and large businesses alike have become more and more frustrated by the lengthy deployment cycles and the costly maintenance of traditional software. For the software-as-a-service model to thrive as a viable alternative to traditional desktop applications, providers must ensure reliable performance and scale of the services model. By using the Akamai Web Application Acceleration solution for secure and reliable application acceleration, SaaS providers can confidently approach any enterprise regardless of their size and geographic distribution while reducing the operating costs associated with IT build-out and performance-related service complaints.

“Autodesk provides on-demand service to 200,000+ users around the world with their industry leading Collaborative Project Management solutions for the building and construction industry,” said Paul Cochrane, systems architect for the Collaborative Project Management team at Autodesk. “Our software is used by our customers to plan, build and operate oil drilling platforms, highway systems and other large public and commercial projects. We rely on Akamai to enable our SaaS solutions to provide the same quality of service no matter where in the world our customers are working. Once we implemented Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator service, we were able to increase the speed of transactions for our application by up to 500 percent, while maintaining consistency of performance in every single one of our markets.”

As companies extend their business models with SaaS offerings, Akamai has seen significant growth in its customer base. Akamai helps customers provide wide-reaching services for a diverse set of B2B applications such as payroll, accounting, sales force automation, customer relationship management, workforce management, human resources, and product lifecycle management, among others.

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