Key Impacts
- Balanced application performance improvements with cost objectives
- Accelerated on demand software for globally distributed customers
Taleo, based in Dublin, CA, delivers on demand talent management software solutions to companies worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company now serves more than 600 corporate customers and 750,000 registered users, who use Taleo's services to fill positions around the world. Every month, the company serves thousands of gigabytes of data and supports millions of transactions for users operating in 100 countries. While Taleo's solutions are designed from the ground up to address customers' global operating requirements, rising Internet traffic and rapid development of new global markets were creating new challenges to delivering applications globally.
Taleo approached Akamai with a threefold goal: Increasing global adoption of its service, enhancing performance for current and new users, and ensuring global availability and performance regardless of Internet or site traffic. Deploying Akamai's Web Application Accelerator and EdgeSuite solutions accomplished these goals, while delivering another significant benefit: substantial cost savings over building out the global physical infrastructure to accommodate current traffic loads. The result? Within weeks Taleo was running faster and more reliably to employers and job seekers the world over—thanks to Akamai.
"As a provider of 100% on demand solutions, we appreciate the benefits of Akamai's Web Application Accelerator and EdgeSuite solutions. We implemented the Akamai solution within weeks with no additional capital expenditures."
—Martin Morel, Vice President of Production & IT Services
