Case Study: Siemens AG achieves 50% faster global SharePoint delivery and scalable traffic handling with Akamai Technologies' Web Application Accelerator

Siemens Industry accelerates delivery of SharePoint application worldwide significantly with Akamai Web Application Accelerator

Siemens Industry, the industrial division of Siemens AG with more than 100,000 employees worldwide, needed to roll out a central SharePoint-based web CMS to support pre‑, during‑ and post‑sales globally. The company faced three key challenges: ensure fast, reliable access for users in remote regions, handle rapidly growing traffic from a single German data centre without large infrastructure spend, and overcome China’s firewall delays without deploying a new local data centre.

Siemens deployed Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator to deliver SharePoint from Akamai’s distributed CDN with dynamic caching, routing and connection optimization. The solution provided on‑demand scaling, predictable performance and reduced latency — improving global web application performance by about 50%, supporting 50% annual traffic growth (2.5 TB/month), cutting content delivery times in China by 50%, and avoiding costly infrastructure expansion while enabling future mobile, streaming and e‑commerce initiatives.

Siemens AG

André Graf

Manager , CoC Internet Intranet + Gruppe Online Marketing