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

Business services organizations - whether delivering business process outsourcing, information services, consulting, staffing, or marketing services - recognize the Internet as a key tool for empowering customers and employees. Customers are demanding 24/7 access to services through secure, reliable Internet portals. Plus, employees working around the country or around the world - often at client sites - rely on online portals for fast, convenient access to critical applications. In fact, portals boost employee productivity by providing remote access to collaboration applications including Microsoft® SharePoint® and Jive SBS.

Poor site performance leads to customer dissatisfaction
Even the most full-featured and easy-to-use portals are effective only if users can access the applications behind the log-in. Unfortunately, ensuring fast, reliable access to portals and applications is no small task - especially when Internet issues such as congestion and service provider peering are beyond your control.

Akamai helps ensure high performance and availability
Akamai's managed services make it possible to deliver applications quickly and reliably, so you can satisfy end-user expectations and increase adoption rates - without building out costly data centers. Our managed services address core weaknesses of the public Internet, using the Akamai platform - 95,000 servers across 71 countries - to detect and avoid problem spots. The result is better end-to-end performance and availability for applications delivered via online portals.

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