Key Impacts
- Supports 150% increase in site traffic without expanding infrastructure
- Minimizes infrastructure burden and related expenses
- Ensures consistent user experience in all global markets
- Provides confidence in sites that support strategic growth objectives
- Delivers advanced technologies that differentiate the company from the competition
Started in 1996 to provide online marketing and e-business software for the heavy equipment industry, Point2 Technologies—based in Saskatoon, Canada—quickly became a market leader, building on its success to expand into the real estate industry in 2003. Two of its solutions—Point2 Agent and Point2 Homes—offer a unique way to market homes over the Internet. Now serving more than 78,000 subscribers in 77 countries, Point2 Agent and Point2 Homes have faced a common challenge among Web-based business serving a growing global audience: how to ensure delivery excellence even in geographic areas where Internet infrastructure isn’t sufficient to support the delivery of bandwidth-intensive content. In Point2’s case, this was particularly a factor in Asia and Europe.
Point2 called on Akamai to help increase the quality and reliability of its site performance across multiple global markets, leveraging EdgeSuite and a variety of other Akamai services to provide for faster, more dependable performance immediately while also creating scalability on demand for future growth. Going far beyond a caching solution, Akamai’s hosed computing services enable Point2 to move applications to the edge and ensure great performance regardless of cache performance of localization of content—especially critical as Point2 has integrated both Google Maps and Google Earth into the Point2 Homes site. Hosting these feature-rich applications with Akamai has minimized the stress on Point2’s origin infrastructure—while maximizing performance globally. The result? A world of possibilities for one of the world’s leading real estate portals.
"The impact of the Akamai solution runs deeper than simply minimizing the stress on Point2’s origin infrastructure—it has infused our development culture. We want our developers to internalize that this is the era of ‘edge computing’ and that Akamai represents the future of online business."
—Eron Wright, Chief Architect, Point2 Technologies
