/graphics/site/page_header/pressrelease_header.png)
Saatchi & Saatchi Deploys Akamai EdgeSuite for Enhanced Corporate Communications and Rich Content Exchange
One of the world's leading creative organizations with more than 7,000 employees in 82 countries and more than 1,000 clients, Saatchi & Saatchi required a flexible Web infrastructure solution that could seamlessly address its growing global enterprise communications needs across its corporate extranet. In addition, it required a secure, scalable, and globally distributed platform from which to off-load the delivery of its offices' rich-media content, including corporate documents as well as multimedia content, such as television and radio commercials, print advertisements, and interactive media.
"With a geographically dispersed network of offices and clients, EdgeSuite dramatically improves agency communications and collaboration through increased performance, scalability, and reliability of our Internet operations," said Laura Limbach, worldwide CIO, Saatchi & Saatchi. "Akamai, an important partner to Saatchi & Saatchi's evolving enterprise communications strategy, provides us with a unified platform for all of our enterprise content delivery needs, resulting in dramatically enhanced content exchange among our partners, clients, and employees."
Since using EdgeSuite, Saatchi & Saatchi has realized immediate benefits; in particular, end-user access to larger files, such as television commercials, has improved through EdgeSuite's distributed data delivery process. For an advertising network, this translates into increased productivity and less reliance on more traditional delivery methods. In addition, Saatchi & Saatchi has avoided costly international build-out of its existing Internet infrastructure by taking advantage of Akamai's massively distributed, in-place platform for its corporate communications needs.
"Akamai believes that enterprises will increasingly expand internal and external Web-based communications capabilities to meet the needs of their employees, customers, and business partners," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "Saatchi & Saatchi's use of EdgeSuite for corporate communications as well as for collaboration among its global users is testament to this growth, and we look forward to working with them on their innovative Web efforts."
About Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi's global marketing and creative communications network includes 138 offices in 82 countries and annual billings of more than $7 billion. It believes in world-changing creative ideas that transform its clients' businesses, brands and reputations. Among the agency's list of multinational clients are Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Eastman Kodak and Dupont.
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, potential difficulties that Akamai may encounter in attempting to expand its business into international markets, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, Akamai's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
| Contacts: |
||
| Caryn Brownell Media Relations Akamai Technologies, Inc. (617) 444-4661 cbrownell@akamai.com |
--or-- | J.C. Raby Investor Relations Akamai Technologies, Inc. (877) 567-7167 jraby@akamai.com |
Leading global advertising agency leverages world's largest distributed IP network to communicate with staff and clients in highly secure, interactive fashion
Cambridge, MA - March 20, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, today announced Saatchi & Saatchi has implemented Akamai EdgeSuiteSM to facilitate global communications and collaboration among its staff, partners, and customers from more than 138 offices, enabling increased security, reliability, and performance in the delivery of business-critical content.One of the world's leading creative organizations with more than 7,000 employees in 82 countries and more than 1,000 clients, Saatchi & Saatchi required a flexible Web infrastructure solution that could seamlessly address its growing global enterprise communications needs across its corporate extranet. In addition, it required a secure, scalable, and globally distributed platform from which to off-load the delivery of its offices' rich-media content, including corporate documents as well as multimedia content, such as television and radio commercials, print advertisements, and interactive media.
"With a geographically dispersed network of offices and clients, EdgeSuite dramatically improves agency communications and collaboration through increased performance, scalability, and reliability of our Internet operations," said Laura Limbach, worldwide CIO, Saatchi & Saatchi. "Akamai, an important partner to Saatchi & Saatchi's evolving enterprise communications strategy, provides us with a unified platform for all of our enterprise content delivery needs, resulting in dramatically enhanced content exchange among our partners, clients, and employees."
Since using EdgeSuite, Saatchi & Saatchi has realized immediate benefits; in particular, end-user access to larger files, such as television commercials, has improved through EdgeSuite's distributed data delivery process. For an advertising network, this translates into increased productivity and less reliance on more traditional delivery methods. In addition, Saatchi & Saatchi has avoided costly international build-out of its existing Internet infrastructure by taking advantage of Akamai's massively distributed, in-place platform for its corporate communications needs.
"Akamai believes that enterprises will increasingly expand internal and external Web-based communications capabilities to meet the needs of their employees, customers, and business partners," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "Saatchi & Saatchi's use of EdgeSuite for corporate communications as well as for collaboration among its global users is testament to this growth, and we look forward to working with them on their innovative Web efforts."
About Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi's global marketing and creative communications network includes 138 offices in 82 countries and annual billings of more than $7 billion. It believes in world-changing creative ideas that transform its clients' businesses, brands and reputations. Among the agency's list of multinational clients are Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Eastman Kodak and Dupont.
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, potential difficulties that Akamai may encounter in attempting to expand its business into international markets, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, Akamai's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
