Informatica, a leading provider of data integration software and services, provides solutions that enable companies to easily move data between systems and get more value from their information assets. The company's solutions are used by 83 of the Fortune 100 companies and by a large percentage of the top companies in a range of industries, including telecom, financial services, and healthcare, to name a few. Informatica receives over 100,000 visits per month to its corporate Web site, download site, and portal. In 2006, the company served over 2,750 customers around the globe and generated $325 million in revenues.

"Going with Akamai Web Application Accelerator was a good bet, since Akamai had proven the value of the solution in a proof of concept.The great results made it easy to justify our decision and show our marketing group what would be possible with Akamai in place, says Moorehead". Since implementing the Akamai Web Application Accelerator solution, Informatica has been able to improve worldwide performance by 24% and performance in Asia Pacific by 31% for delivery of its marketing application through the portal. In addition, it has been able to offload its origin site by 92%.