Key Impacts
- Launched a fully featured ondemand application, on time and without costly costly data center or infrastructure buildout
- Delivered full product functionality at launch, with no performance degradation
- Provided a vastly improved end user experience
- Fast solution implementation-just five days to complete full integration
- Elevated ROI secured through lower operational costs, combined with increased margins post application launch
- Solution has required very little maintenance and proven robust
Ascend is a recognised leader in the aviation information field, providing specialist information and consultancy services to the global air transport industry. Airlines, airports, financiers and aviation suppliers depend on Ascend for reliable, timely information-from industry analysis and data validation through to decision-making support.
"Web Application Accelerator from Akamai provided the ideal and instant solution to our problems," says Tran. Akamai enabled Ascend to launch its new Web based application on time. Removing the need for capital investment in additional licensing or infrastructure also meant Ascend achieved delivery within project budgetary goals. "Akamai did not let us down-it was almost as seamless as a 'plug and play' style implementation, and we saw performance improvement results instantly. Ease and speed of implementation were key issues for us. Akamai's Professional Services team worked alongside us to deliver the new service and it took just five man days to complete the integration and implementation phase. Compared to a full data centre build-out or co-location solution, this low resource investment and time burden represented a noteworthy gain for us," states Tran. In just months, Akamai enabled Ascend to launch a high-quality end user experience with a fast, secure and dynamic application performance. Using Akamai's globally distributed highly scalable platform has also eradicated the operational burden associated with managing and maintaining a complex e-business infrastructure. "We needed a solution, and we needed it fast. Akamai delivered on this critical objective and continues to give us the support we need to refine our product offering, and expand into previously difficult to access markets," he concludes.
"Using Web Application Accelerator we extended our application across
Akamai's EdgePlatform to bring content close to requesting end users, and the results were impressive."
—Duong Tran, Project Manager, Ascend Worldwide
