Increasingly, enterprises are deploying portals to communicate with employees, business partners, and consumers. But as users move further from the application – whether across the country or to the other side of the world – performance gets worse. That's because numerous unpredictable Internet conditions impact the user experience. As a result, users are not as productive as they could be – and portals are not adopted as readily as companies would like.

Akamai can help you increase utilization of your portal. That's because Akamai Performance Solutions for extranet portals address the Internet performance and reliability issues in ways that hardware appliances cannot. By applying application acceleration technology, Akamai can accelerate the delivery and improve the responsiveness of any portal – whether off-the-shelf or custom-developed. In addition to addressing bottlenecks at the first mile, the solution is able to address middle-mile performance and reliability bottlenecks such as Internet congestion, service provider peering issues and inefficiencies in communication protocols. The result? Improved end-to-end application performance along with superior availability of your portal.

In addition to accelerating your Web-based application, Akamai Application Performance Solutions offer you the scalability, reliability and cost benefits associated with a managed service. That means your portal can support almost any amount of traffic – and you can avoid building out additional infrastructure.