As a leading content delivery network, Akamai helps Internet companies deliver content website for end users with fewer delays and lower costs. Describes the strategic management tasks facing Akamai in early 2004.
The company is ready to offer the next generation of services for corporate customers, which will allow them to run Internet applications ("Web Services") - on demand, with minimal investment of capital - from the Akamai network of 15,000 servers located in ISP services on the "edge" of the Internet - close to the end users. Many large enterprise software companies have developed their own platform for creating and managing Web services. Akamai must decide which of these programs will be attractive partners, and whether it should remain uncommitted on the platform, as it helps customers to deploy Web services. Rewritten version of the previous case. "Hide
by Benjamin Edelman, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Eric J. Van den Steen Source: Harvard Business School 20 pages. Publication Date: Mar 08, 2004. Prod. #: 804158-PDF-ENG
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