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Thomson Financial Contracts Akamai's Industry-Leading EdgeSuite Service for Guaranteed Uptime of Web Operations
The Akamai EdgeSuite service is an integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internet infrastructure costs and complexities by extending the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site. The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, the EdgeSuite service allows businesses to cost-effectively extend their critical Web infrastructure across Akamai's global network, while retaining control of the business intelligence necessary to provide the optimal user experience.
"Thomson Financial is consistently striving toward a higher level of performance, reliability, and flexibility when it comes to the information systems and tools which our clients and our client's constituents rely on each and every day," said Dan Vene, Vice President of Thomson Financial's Corporate Group. "Making the decision to contract Akamai is an important step of a three stage plan being implemented this quarter to ensure we have the most reliable IR Webhosting platform in the industry."
"As a leader in serving the financial community, Thomson Financial remains committed to providing the highest quality service and availability for its clients' investor relations sites," said Michael Ruffolo, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "By standardizing these IR sites on the Akamai EdgeSuite service, Thomson Financial is adding another level of value and competitive advantage to their offerings. With the use of EdgeSuite as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure, Thomson Financial can deliver information globally, where it's needed, when it's needed, without worry."
The Thomson Financial IR Web platform is currently available in three main packages - IR Web Standard, Preferred, and Premium as well as a host of individual service offerings.
For additional information please contact us at (866) 242-0705 or visit www.tfprn.com.
About Akamai
Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
About Thomson Financial
Thomson Financial is a US$1.5 billion provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a leading provider of value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation reported 2002 revenues of US$7.8 billion and its common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).
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| Kerri Shepherd Manager, Public Relations Thomson Financial 646-822-2077 kerri.shepherd@tfn.com |
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| Jeff Young Director, Public Relations Akamai Technologies, Inc. 617-444-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
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Thomson Financial Enhances IR Webhosting Platform with Improved Performance and Reliability
New York, NY, April 8, 2003 - Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC), and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, today announced an agreement to implement the Akamai EdgeSuite® service across the Thomson Financial IR Webhosting platform.The Akamai EdgeSuite service is an integrated set of functionalities designed to reduce Internet infrastructure costs and complexities by extending the performance, scalability, and reliability benefits of content delivery across an entire Web site. The Akamai EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and delivered from locations optimized for each end user. Given today's challenged IT budgets, the EdgeSuite service allows businesses to cost-effectively extend their critical Web infrastructure across Akamai's global network, while retaining control of the business intelligence necessary to provide the optimal user experience.
"Thomson Financial is consistently striving toward a higher level of performance, reliability, and flexibility when it comes to the information systems and tools which our clients and our client's constituents rely on each and every day," said Dan Vene, Vice President of Thomson Financial's Corporate Group. "Making the decision to contract Akamai is an important step of a three stage plan being implemented this quarter to ensure we have the most reliable IR Webhosting platform in the industry."
"As a leader in serving the financial community, Thomson Financial remains committed to providing the highest quality service and availability for its clients' investor relations sites," said Michael Ruffolo, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services and Marketing, Akamai. "By standardizing these IR sites on the Akamai EdgeSuite service, Thomson Financial is adding another level of value and competitive advantage to their offerings. With the use of EdgeSuite as a scalable extension to its Web infrastructure, Thomson Financial can deliver information globally, where it's needed, when it's needed, without worry."
The Thomson Financial IR Web platform is currently available in three main packages - IR Web Standard, Preferred, and Premium as well as a host of individual service offerings.
For additional information please contact us at (866) 242-0705 or visit www.tfprn.com.
About Akamai
Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
About Thomson Financial
Thomson Financial is a US$1.5 billion provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a leading provider of value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation reported 2002 revenues of US$7.8 billion and its common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).
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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, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
