CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced a partnership with Scaleflex, the first visual experience platform to join Akamai Qualified Computing Partner Program.
Scaleflex and Akamai are collaborating to help online brands deliver an end-to-end digital asset management solution powered by Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform that brings applications and experiences closer to users and keeps threats away. The partnership aims to help users turn billions of visual assets into countless user experiences.
Leveraging the capabilities of Akamai Connected Cloud, including Akamai’s cloud computing and content delivery services, Scaleflex focuses on providing a visual experience platform that combines the power of AI-driven digital asset management and dynamic media optimization to deliver high-performance images and videos for users around the world.
“We are thrilled to partner with Akamai and offer our customers a best-in-class solution to optimize the management and delivery of their digital content,” said Scaleflex CEO and Co-Founder, Emil Novakov. “By leveraging Akamai’s global network, we can help businesses manage and organize their digital assets, plus help them reach their customers at lightning speed to ensure a seamless and enjoyable experience.”
Scaleflex’s AI-powered digital asset management system — listed in the Forrester Digital Asset Management Landscape, Q4 2023 — helps solve problems associated with transferring, organizing and optimizing products and brand assets at scale. Marketing and technical teams can easily manipulate digital assets, including back-end environments (such as CMS, PIM and store), increasing team productivity and speeding content strategy to market for new campaigns or product catalogs. Flexible and cost-effective, MACH-certified technologies (Micro-services, API first, Cloud-based, Headless) have won the trust of leading brands in online retail, travel, real estate and online news.
“Akamai is pleased to make Scaleflex available to mutual customers through our Qualified Computing Partner Program,” he said Matt Berk, senior vice president of sales at Akamai. “Customers can benefit from Scaleflex’s simple ecosystem of solutions that run on Akamai Cloud Computing and are tightly integrated with our delivery services.”
The Akamai Qualified Computing Partner Program is designed to make solution-based services that are interoperable with Akamai cloud computing services readily available to Akamai customers. These services are provided by Akamai’s technology partners who complete a rigorous qualification process to ensure they are readily available for deployment and scaling in the globally distributed Akamai Connected Cloud.
To learn more about the Akamai Qualified Computing Partner program or to join the leading technology companies partnering with Akamai, visit Akamai Technology Partner Program page.
Additional information about Akamai Cloud Computing is available at akamai.com.
About Scaleflex
Scaleflex is a business, software-as-a-service company whose mission is to simplify the transfer, organization and optimization of all brand assets. Its MACH-certified technologies (Micro-service, API, Cloud-based, Headless) enable marketing and technical teams to easily manipulate media from any office (CMS, PIM), accelerating content-to-market strategy. Learn more at scaleflex.com and LinkedIn.
About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies around the world choose Akamai to build, deliver and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, brings applications and experiences closer to users and keeps threats away. Learn more about Akamai’s cloud computing, security and content delivery solutions at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog or follow Akamai Technologies at xformerly known as Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Contacts:
Laura Berger
Director of GTM and the alliance
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Jean-François Lecas
Chief Experience Officer
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Chris Nicholson
Akamai Media Relations
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Tom Barth
Akamai Investor Relations
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SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc.
