Akamai CDN vs. CDC Software

Akamai is a well-established brand name with a great product. It meets and many time exceeds the needs for global content delivery and security management layer at the edge. Fine grain security tuning seems cumbersome as the definition of the app keeps changing. It also requires an investment of time for the setup which doesn't necessarily make sense for smaller scale scenarios. Some products offered by AWS, Azure or the Google Cloud can be more tightly integrated with cloud provider offerings thus easier to configure.

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Easier to integrate Customer Login, either by API or by Screenset, that makes the Integration easier and using that any System in the entire Organization can enable the Customer Login Procedure. Easier to manage the Subscriptions and Consent History and use that to sent the Marketing Mails. So with this it works a Single Source of Customer Entire Data.

• Content offloading - once rules are set up within Akamai you don't need to even think about how many images or large JavaScript or CSS files (for example) are being served from your own estate, Akamai takes care of it all via rules that are quick, easy and flexible.
• Page caching - for pages that don't change very often Akamai allows you to set up rules, quickly and easily, to serve up your page content for you, which takes even more load away from your origin servers.
• Quick rollback - the Akamai system allows easy testing of rules and changes via a staging system, and also offers a quick rollback option, which is perfect for the rare occasions when something has been set up incorrectly.

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• The interface in their control centre could be a bit more user-friendly with some of the settings in places that you wouldn't expect them to be. The search offsets this problem to an extent but it's still sometimes slower than you'd like to find what you are looking for.

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• Logging Feature was not good. for basic it was good but for advanced issue checking and logs access it was not great. In our Product Landscape Picture we are using DataDog for Log Checking and Debugging
• Sometimes, the CDC Software shows DataCenter and Server Generic errors Count were high, No way to see and check the SAP CDC Software System Health Activity
• For Site SSL Expiry, there is no Proper Notification Service. Sometimes we get notification, sometimes we dont get.
• so to tackle we have developed a Custom Solution with SAP CPI. It would be better. if by default it was working well

I give 8 because it was the best tool and make it easier to manage the Customer Authentication, Authorization, Subscription and Consent History. Because of this we can able to enable the Login Feature for any Product in the Organization Landscape. it lose Rating because of lack of Log checking feature. to know what exactly kind of issue for the customer was unable to login. we cant able to know. because as we have enabled a API key through we receive details to validate. it would be even more good. if a dashboard was enabled to see particular user login access and failure -> reason (like lack of data)

Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster.

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We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more likely to suggest CloudFlare (which has a free tier) or an integrated offering from a cloud provider, like Cloudfront.

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• Akamai RoI improved over a period of times since it comes with heavy costs, however global deliveries in over 100 counties and global web platforms usage helps improve RoI
• With the complex UI challenges, ROI could be impacted negatively when you have to invest in operations and time.

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