Akamai Teams with AGENCY.COM and Fort Point Partners in New Alliance Program
The new Akamai Alliance program targets two classes of companies: Web integrators and application vendors. Web integrators such as AGENCY.COM and Fort Point Partners, Akamai's first two partners in the alliance, will offer their online strategy and systems integration services with Akamai's Internet content delivery service, FreeFlowSM. As a result, joint customers will benefit from richer, more engaging Web sites while ensuring high reliability and performance in the delivery of Web content.
The second group of companies to be served by the program include application vendors that provide tools and software for creating and managing Web sites. For example, Vignette, Akamai's first partner in this category, is integrating Akamai's technology into its own product to enhance its customers' Web site speed, performance, personalization and dynamic content.
"By partnering with the industry's leading Web integrators and application providers, Akamai is enabling customers to not only raise the bar for the building, managing, and tracking of Web sites, but also to reach new levels of performance and reliability," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "Our FreeFlow service helps ensure fresh and personalized content. As a result, we are enabling the creation of captivating Web sites that can also be delivered quickly via our network."
Furthermore, Web sites developed by alliance partners will leverage the Akamai FreeFlow service offering including improved content delivery speeds, protection against flash crowds, and guaranteed network uptime. FreeFlow has already served over 40 billion Web site hits this year for Akamai customers, totaling over 200 terabytes of content delivered.
"This partnership offers an incredible opportunity for customers seeking to deliver fresh and unique content to every Web site visitor," said Larry Krakauer, chief technology officer, AGENCY.COM, a full-service interactive relationship management firm. "For our customers, the Web is a key channel for creating personal relationships. With Akamai providing fast and reliable Internet content delivery, AGENCY.COM can focus on building customers' Web site strategy, strengthening online customer relationships, and inventing new ways to conduct business online."
"Fort Point recognizes that customers have control of their shopping experience and that they don't wait for content - waiting is another lost sale and another lost customer. We recommend Akamai to our clients because of its ability to dramatically improve the speed and reliability of content delivery on a global scale," said Kevin Smith, vice president, Fort Point Partners. "World-class technology partners like Akamai are one of the reasons we have been able to deliver the industry's most advanced and profitable eSelling systems."
With the Akamai Alliance Program, partners and customers are supported by a dedicated team of Akamai professionals including account managers, technical and integration consultants, and a 24 x 7 customer support team. Partners will also receive the following support and benefits:
Fort Point Partners builds the industry's most advanced and profitable e-commerce systems using its eSelling business practice. eSelling uses strategy, technology and Internet systems to build valuable customer relationships that drive sales. Fort Point has provided eSelling services to over 40 companies including JCrew, Nike, Intel and E*Trade. Fort Point strives to build lasting relationships with their clients and to have them share in the vision of thriving e-commerce. Reach Fort Point at http://www.fortpoint.com or 415.537-7000.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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Web Integrators and Application Vendors To Join Akamai's Alliance Program
INTERNET WORLD, NEW YORK, NY, October 6, 1999 - Akamai Technologies, which operates a global Internet content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, today announced a new partner alliance program designed to complement the needs and services of Web integrators and application vendors. Concurrently, Akamai announced that it has already formed partnerships with leading Web integrators including AGENCY.COM and Fort Point Partners, as well as Web software vendor Vignette (see accompanying release dated today "Akamai and Vignette Form Alliance to Marry Internet Content Delivery and E-Relationship Solutions").The new Akamai Alliance program targets two classes of companies: Web integrators and application vendors. Web integrators such as AGENCY.COM and Fort Point Partners, Akamai's first two partners in the alliance, will offer their online strategy and systems integration services with Akamai's Internet content delivery service, FreeFlowSM. As a result, joint customers will benefit from richer, more engaging Web sites while ensuring high reliability and performance in the delivery of Web content.
The second group of companies to be served by the program include application vendors that provide tools and software for creating and managing Web sites. For example, Vignette, Akamai's first partner in this category, is integrating Akamai's technology into its own product to enhance its customers' Web site speed, performance, personalization and dynamic content.
"By partnering with the industry's leading Web integrators and application providers, Akamai is enabling customers to not only raise the bar for the building, managing, and tracking of Web sites, but also to reach new levels of performance and reliability," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "Our FreeFlow service helps ensure fresh and personalized content. As a result, we are enabling the creation of captivating Web sites that can also be delivered quickly via our network."
Furthermore, Web sites developed by alliance partners will leverage the Akamai FreeFlow service offering including improved content delivery speeds, protection against flash crowds, and guaranteed network uptime. FreeFlow has already served over 40 billion Web site hits this year for Akamai customers, totaling over 200 terabytes of content delivered.
"This partnership offers an incredible opportunity for customers seeking to deliver fresh and unique content to every Web site visitor," said Larry Krakauer, chief technology officer, AGENCY.COM, a full-service interactive relationship management firm. "For our customers, the Web is a key channel for creating personal relationships. With Akamai providing fast and reliable Internet content delivery, AGENCY.COM can focus on building customers' Web site strategy, strengthening online customer relationships, and inventing new ways to conduct business online."
"Fort Point recognizes that customers have control of their shopping experience and that they don't wait for content - waiting is another lost sale and another lost customer. We recommend Akamai to our clients because of its ability to dramatically improve the speed and reliability of content delivery on a global scale," said Kevin Smith, vice president, Fort Point Partners. "World-class technology partners like Akamai are one of the reasons we have been able to deliver the industry's most advanced and profitable eSelling systems."
With the Akamai Alliance Program, partners and customers are supported by a dedicated team of Akamai professionals including account managers, technical and integration consultants, and a 24 x 7 customer support team. Partners will also receive the following support and benefits:
- Co-Marketing: Partners will receive marketing support including visibility on the Akamai Web site and on-line access to Akamai marketing collateral and white papers.
- Joint Sell About Fort Point Partners
Fort Point Partners builds the industry's most advanced and profitable e-commerce systems using its eSelling business practice. eSelling uses strategy, technology and Internet systems to build valuable customer relationships that drive sales. Fort Point has provided eSelling services to over 40 companies including JCrew, Nike, Intel and E*Trade. Fort Point strives to build lasting relationships with their clients and to have them share in the vision of thriving e-commerce. Reach Fort Point at http://www.fortpoint.com or 415.537-7000.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in San Mateo and Cupertino, California, and Europe. Akamai is the leader in distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery, serving over 225 of the Web's most popular properties including over 100 leading e-commerce companies. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 2000 servers in over 40 countries directly connected to more than 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
