The growing adoption of the web has meant that companies worldwide have turned to the Internet for on-demand delivery of various types of content. Enterprise application vendors, software solution providers, consumer electronics companies, anti-virus manufacturers, semiconductor companies and game developers are increasingly distributing content online, employing various download strategies to drive sales and maximize revenue. However there continue to remain challenges associated with user experience, performance and scale that need be addressed to provide a predictable and reliable platform for content delivery. Electronic Software Delivery is Akamai’s next generation software downloads solution that addresses the quality of experience, scale, workflow and analytics requirements of large software vendors for electronic software delivery. The solution provides a predictable, reliable platform to deliver both small and large software downloads effectively to customers and provide the visibility to monitor the entire download process through server and client side reporting.

What's Included

Benefits:

• Superior Download Experience - Increase trial conversions
  • Rich & engaging experience: A fully customizable user interface allows you to deliver a highly engaging download experience, immerse consumer in your brand, and promote additional offerings during the download process.
  • Consumer controls: Empowers the consumer with the ability to pause, stop or resume downloads at their discretion giving them the option to restart a download at a later time and automatically recover from dropped connections or system crashes.
• Better Insight Into Downloads - optimize your downloads strategy
  • Make better decisions: better analytics to understand consumer habits results in better download strategy decisions that impact consumers
  • Contextual reports: presents download analytics in the context of your particular business
  • Flexible: easy to create a custom UI that addresses the needs of business & technical users
• Reduce Complexity - easily manage complex workflows -
  • Streamlines your download workflow - manage workflows where downloads need to occur in a specific order, authentication mechanisms need be applied to multiple files, custom error messages need be delivered, multi-lingual support is necessary or a specific file needs to be called when all files have been successfully downloaded.

Find out how Akamai's Electronic Software Delivery:

• Improves download completion rates through faster performance
• Improves user experience through a fully customizable User Interface
• Delivers large files efficiently, providing superior download experience
• Simplifies user experience for complex software download workflows
• Improves integrity of content downloaded
• Eliminates costly build-out of under-utilized IT infrastructure
• Scales globally on demand, with instant access to a worldwide network and hundreds of Gbps
• Provides powerful download analytics to track key server and client side metrics on software engagement and delivery

Integration and Professional Services

Akamai solutions are supported by an award-winning team that has integrated hundreds of customers through a well-established methodology.

Document Briefcase

• Download the brochures, feature sheets, case studies, whitepapers, and press releases applicable to this solution, all in one simple zip file.

Solution Overview

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