CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud
services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and
business applications, today released research that shows companies
are increasingly transitioning to delivering and consuming business
applications via the Internet. Although 50 percent of
respondents report running less than 20 percent of their business
applications over the Internet today, 43 percent expect to deliver
the majority of their applications over the Internet in the next
year.
The "Trends in Application Delivery Strategies" survey, which
was conducted by Gatepoint Research on Akamai's behalf earlier this
year, polled 350 enterprise IT decision makers. A majority (65
percent) of respondents hold high-level management positions in
Fortune 1000 companies and participants hailed from a variety of
industries, including business and financial services,
manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and transportation.
Nearly half (46 percent) of respondents represent global
enterprises, with more than one-fifth of users operating outside of
the U.S.
In addition to providing insight into how quickly enterprises
plan to move applications to the Internet, the survey also
highlights related concerns. For example, security remains the top
concern for respondents (87 percent). Further, 66 percent worry
about performance and 45 percent are concerned about
reliability.
"Trends such as globalization, telecommuting and mobility
continue to drive the shift to Internet-delivered applications, and
enterprises today are working hard to keep up," said Mike Afergan, senior vice president and general
manager, Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai. "These survey
results reinforce the demand for technology that provides greater
security, reliability and speed for their business critical web
applications. And as IT decision makers continue to look for ways
to maximize the benefits of Internet application delivery, they
want access to complementary solutions, such as those delivered by
Akamai, that enable improved, global access to information and,
ultimately, greater productivity."
Additional findings from the "Trends in Application Delivery
Strategies" survey include:
- The most common applications currently running over the
Internet are: websites and web applications (71 percent), email
services (57 percent), content and collaboration sites and portals
(51 percent), mobile or mobile web back-end apps (46 percent), and
e-Learning (47 percent)
- In terms of planned investment, big data is the primary focus
for respondents, with 55 percent saying it's their top area of
investment in 2014
- Other key areas of investment in 2014 for respondents include:
mobile or mobile web back-end apps (39 percent), websites or web
applications (34 percent), content and collaboration sites and
portals (34 percent), disaster recovery and backup services (26
percent), and customer relationship management (CRM) (28
percent)
- Also of note, 96 percent of respondents employ users who access
business applications on a mobile device and 22 percent said more
than half of their users access their business applications on a
mobile device
"Whether it's facilitating global collaboration, making any
number of business critical applications available to employees
independent of location or device, or transmitting big data sets
around the world, enterprises are turning to the Internet to make
it happen," continued Afergan. "Our Web Performance and Web
Security Solutions are being used every day to help enterprises
engage customers and employees with highly performing, personalized
online experiences that are intended to increase productivity, grow
revenue and reduce costs."
For more information on Akamai Web Performance Solutions please
visit
http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/web-performance-solutions.html.
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading provider of cloud services for
delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business
applications. At the core of the Company's solutions is the Akamai
Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with
unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai
removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile
world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to
securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is
accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world,
please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai
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