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Ensure a Secure, Always-Available Online Business Channel

"The architectural foundation to support FSPs is critical if enterprises are to improve operational efficiency, develop deeper customer relationships, produce faster and more accurate decisions, and exploit market opportunities."
- Gartner, September 2003
 
The Internet represents a critical channel for financial services providers — as important as branch locations, ATMs, and call centers for conducting business with customers and partners.
 
It is also one of the most effective channels for promoting new services, marketing, and enabling revenue-generating programs. However, to realize the potential of the online channel, financial services companies must overcome security, performance, and control challenges.

To compensate, they can choose to build out IT infrastructure. But build-outs often result in over-provisioningwith equipment that is managerially complex, mostly underutilized, and what only partially solves the underlying problems.

Akamai solutions provide a predictable, scalable, and secure platform for conducting profitable e-business, without the cost of building out infrastructure.
 
Specifically, Akamai solutions enable on demand application delivery, advanced content delivery, and tools and services that make distribution and management of Internet applications and content easier and more cost-effective - providing unprecedented insight and control over global Web operations.
 
For financial service providers, this translates into guaranteed e-business availability regardless of Internet conditions, a corporate infrastructure that is shielded against attacks, and greater insight into online initiatives.

Benefits to Financial Service Providers:
  • Guaranteed availability of content and applications, through use of the always-on, globally distributed Akamai EdgePlatform
  • Protection against fraud and attacks via secure delivery, monitoring/reporting and access control functionality
  • Unprecedented insight and control of Web operations, through Akamai EdgeControl with real-time alerts, customizeable reports, and proactive control tools
  • Reduced infrastructure costs and complexity by scaling on demand, using as much or as little capacity of Akamai's EdgePlatform as you require .

Akamai enables e-business initiatives leading financial services companies and organizations such as Morgan Stanley, HSBC, E*TRADE Financial, Charles Schwab, and others.
 
Almost half of the top ten financial service providers on Gomez's Banking scorecard rely on Akamai solutions to ensure excellent performance, and several on Keynote's E-Banking index use Akamai for both performance and availability improvements.

One of the leading financial services companies, with over $1 trillion in assets, uses Akamai to monitor against advanced exploits that could threaten customer and consumer information integrity.
 
Other Akamai customers enable e-learning, ensure continual service to global customers, and protect against security threats with Akamai solutions.