Case Study: Informatica achieves 205% faster global portal performance and up to $1M annual savings with Akamai Technologies

Informatica Improves Worldwide Portal Performance By 205% And Expects To Save Up To $1 Million Annually By Reliably Delivering Software Downloads

Informatica, a leading provider of data-integration software used by dozens of Fortune 100 companies, relied on a single data center in California to serve its corporate site, portal and download site. As the company expanded internationally, users experienced slow access and support costs rose because customers and partners could not reliably use the portal or obtain software downloads. Informatica’s goals were to improve global web performance and drive adoption of self-service to lower operating costs.

By deploying Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator and CDN, Informatica achieved a 205% improvement in worldwide portal performance (116% in Asia Pacific), reduced portal home-page log-in time by 66%, and offloaded origin traffic by 92%. Downloads doubled while delivery became verifiable for revenue recognition, enabling a shift from physical media to electronic distribution and projected savings of up to $1 million annually, alongside near-100% availability of its corporate site.

Informatica

Lisa Moorhead

Manager of IT Web Applications , Informatica