Akamai and NetIQ Expand Partnership to Deliver WebTrends Software and ASP Solutions to Akamai Customers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002 Akamai to Add WebTrends Reporting Center, WebTrends Intelligence Suite and Data Collection Server to its e-Business Infrastructure Extension Services Portfolio Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (Nasdaq:AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, and NetIQ Corporation (Nasdaq:NTIQ), a leading provider of Systems Management, Security Management and Web Analytics solutions, today announced an expanded partnership designed to meet the growing demand for comprehensive, Web analytics software and services. The expanded agreement enables Akamai to broaden its existing SiteWise(SM) Web analysis offering, a hosted service powered by WebTrends Live, by adding WebTrends software products to their portfolio including WebTrends Reporting Center, WebTrends Intelligence Suite and Data Collection Server. As a result, Akamai customers can choose between a hosted service or a software solution, thus enabling the flexibility and control to utilize Akamai as an extension to their Web analysis requirements, or to bring the data analysis in-house, as their business needs change. By taking advantage of WebTrends Web analytics, customers will gain insight into the behavioral patterns of their Web site visitors to drive more intelligent business decisions and ultimately achieve competitive advantage. "Having built our solutions on enabling business professionals to meet in real-time with anyone around the world using only a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and a phone, it has become vital for us to analyze and measure how our tools and services are being used by our clients," said Janice V. Kapner, senior director, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Branding & Demand Generation at PlaceWare. "As a customer of Akamai's, we are benefiting from the selection of the best-of-breed WebTrends software, including Reporting Center, WebTrends Intelligence Suite and Data Collection Server, to enable us to be more proactive in meeting the needs of our prospects and current customers." "Companies need to know more about how their Web site is being utilized in order to establish demonstrable ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). from their online initiatives. We chose to work with NetIQ because of their quality Web analytics products, and their unique position in the market as the only provider of both software and hosted services," said Mark Vargo, vice president, Global Marketing, at Akamai. "The SiteWise service has been a strategic offering that has enabled us to show the value of those solutions core to our business. We can now better meet the unique needs of each of our individual customers by offering these benefits in software solutions as well." As an existing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partner with NetIQ since March 2001, Akamai has successfully delivered SiteWise to leading businesses worldwide, such as Apple, The Bombay Company The Bombay Company is a furniture and home accessories retailer based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. History It was founded in 1978 by Brad Harper in New Orleans as a mail-order company. Harper later opened two retail stores in New Orleans. , Inc., Frederick's of Hollywood Frederick's of Hollywood is a well known retailer of lingerie in the United States, with stores in many modern shopping malls across the USA. The business was started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. , and Logitech. Available independently, or as part of Akamai's flagship EdgeSuite(SM) offering, the success of SiteWise demonstrates Akamai's ability to align with best-of-breed technology providers to effectively serve the enterprise market. The combination of Akamai's globally-distributed platform and WebTrends software products and services enable customers to extend their infrastructure while maintaining control of their Web site through access to the critical data that decision makers need to assess the impact of their online initiatives. "Web-site analysis grew more than 40% last year," IDC Analyst Bob Blumstein states. "WebTrends has ridden that growth by offering a breadth of products from entry level to advanced, including both software and hosted services, that reinforce its brand. This breadth of products will help Akamai to offer more complete Web solutions." "The combined solution of WebTrends and Akamai products and services enables customers to build and control a powerful and robust e-business infrastructure and to regularly analyze and improve Web site performance. We're excited that Akamai continues to select WebTrends products and services as their Web analytics offering," said Dan Meub, senior vice president and general manager of the WebTrends Business Unit at NetIQ. "We look forward to extending and expanding upon Noun 1. expanding upon - adding information or detail expansion step-up, increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" our existing partnership with Akamai." About Akamai Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform See platform. , Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and applications delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com. About NetIQ NetIQ Corp. (Nasdaq:NTIQ) is a leading provider of e-business infrastructure management and intelligence solutions for all the components of an organization's e-business infrastructure -- from back-end servers, networks and directories to front-end web servers and applications. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with development and operational personnel in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the ; Raleigh, N.C.; Bellevue, Wash.; and Portland, Ore. For more information, please visit NetIQ's Web site at www.netiq.com or call 408/856-3000. For more information about WebTrends, the e-business intelligence product line from NetIQ, please visit www.webtrends.com or call 888/WEBTRENDS. 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For a more comprehensive discussion of risks and uncertainties relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc NetIQ's business, please read the discussions of these risks in documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002. NetIQ, WebTrends and WebTrends Reporting Center are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetIQ Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. |
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