You've invested in Web and IP-based applications to improve productivity and reduce costs across your global enterprise. But Internet delays hurt performance and reliability—particularly for far-away users. Do-it-yourself and application acceleration appliances add complexity and limit your ability to optimize the Internet itself, while pushing ROI even further out of reach.

Akamai can help. In fact, using our global network and managed service Nike significantly improved the performance of Nike.net, where retailers in Asia and Europe conduct transactions as fast as users close to the data center. We even provide strict SLAs, monitoring and application intelligence.

Get the full scoop from Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi, Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton, and Nike's enterprise architect, Steve Dennis in the on-demand Webinar Application Acceleration: Merits of a Managed Service Approach. Watch it anytime, here.