www.altova.com

solutions:

• Electronic Software Delivery

• Improved download speeds by 66%
• Effortlessly supported 100% increase in traffic
• Offloaded traffic to its origin by almost 88% during peak periods
• Reduced number of support requests
• Saves on bandwidth costs
• Simplifies download distribution
• Frees IT and Web development resources
• Avoided infrastructure buildout

Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including 91 percent of the Fortune 500. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria.

"It used to be a nightmare to maintain independent versions of our Web servers. Besides that, we were not necessarily directing site visitors to the server closest to them. With Akamai, it's easy to manage and scale our distribution. And we can choose from multiple service offerings as our needs change. With Akamai in place, download speeds have increased significantly, as much as 66% for extremely large files. We would not be able to provide such a positive download experience to our customers without Akamai. Without a doubt, Akamai was the best option. With its global reach and ability to ensure higher performance, it helped us avoid infrastructure build-out and improve the process of managing and delivering downloads. In addition, it has freed up our IT and Web development resources-we no longer have to plan for bandwidth capacity or manage multiple hosting sites. But best of all, the Akamai solution has enhanced the overall user experience," says Falk. By helping Altova improve the download experience, Akamai has enabled the company to pursue its strategy with confidence.