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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai CDN

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.N/A

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    SAP Customer Data Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Customer Data Cloud, based on Gigya (acquired by SAP in 2017) is a product suite that allows users to identify consumers, business customers, or partners across devices and channels to drive registrations and engagement; manage access, permission, and consent; and transform data into unified customer profiles.N/A
    Pricing
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    No answers on this topic
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    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Considered Multiple Products
    Akamai
    Chose Akamai CDN
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    I haven't had much experience with other CDNs and to be honest I haven't heard of many more other than Akamai which just goes to show which one is the most trusted and proves to be the best. There are others out there, such as CloudFlare, that claim to provide a similar service …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    CloudFlare and CloudFront are good for small sites where budgetary costs are the primary concern but Akamai Ion provides a new level of quality and performance.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    CloudFlare is much easier to use. It is much cheaper and from our experience, it works so much better. The support staff at CloudFlare has always been helpful and will get on the phone when we need help. Also, CloudFlare helped us get set up on their platform in about an hour …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai CDN
    I don't have any direct experience with any of the other CDNs, so it's hard to say. Like any solution out there, each service will have its pros and cons. Some will fit your business needs more than others. Akamai is amongst the best and meets our business needs.
    Incentivized
    Cloudflare
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare won in every case, we need to take each product separately in the above mentioned products , wheres in Cloudflare we have one platform covering all the above products mentioned easy for day to day management also and cost effective.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    The decision for Cloudflare was both financial and technical. For our business, Cloudflare is very affordable and offers many reliable features. The security stack is complete; everything you need to protect your web application is available from Cloudflare. Azion, CloudFront, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is on another level compared to any other CDN provider out there.
    One of the reasons is that encompasses all the tools into one big products instead of relying on many different products from many companies - DNS, CDN, WAF are all managed in one place and connected …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare was better, because we do not have to host or purchase any additional hardware. This means reduced costs for us to have to buy the hardware. Then, hire people to run the hardwar, and support the hardware. And, it also means you need SME's for the tool that have used …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is definitely a leader in the CDN space and is fending off well in the security area for web applications even when faced against vendors like Akamai which are more widespread and better known
    If Cloudflare keeps competitive prices and updated technology stack i …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    It's much cheaper even has free version, easy to use and integrate with our current system, it has so many features in the dashboard that I need.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare outperforms in majority of the categories such as Ease of Use, Pricing Transparency, Security & Edge computing capabilities with global network reach. Cloudflare is known for providing a seamless onboarding experience for users of varying technical expertise in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is less expensive and has more features than Akamai. It has many more points of presence and is faster and more robust than Limelight/Edgio. It was the clear winner when we selected them six years ago, and maintains its leadership in this space.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    we are more suited with Cloudflare schemes compared to Akamai, as they are aim for the larger enterprise business. I like that Cloudflare has a much more general and neutral approach, while trying to get closer to us each time. In region like southeast Asia, locality is very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    We Previously used Akamai for Website Security, and the price wise very high we are a startup company for Online business, we can't send that. we tried a similar product for Web security then finally we got the Cloudflare.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Akamai and Edgecast/Verizon are way over-priced, and also require hassling sales people to negotiate prices, and cloudflare just has their prices posted, and don't require a multi-year contract, etc.
    StackPath is a regular CDN provider, and is probably cheaper than Cloudflare …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare is easier to setup with free plans available to get started. Secondly, Cloudflare is a proven and trusted solution used by leading technology organizations around the globe which can also scales better to cater for indefinite workloads. Akamai provides lesser free …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cheaper and easier to manage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    CloudFlare is always innovating fast and adding new interesting solutions to the CDN, DNS, and DDoS problems that keep appearing as the internet grows and matures. Due to network effects, using CloudFlare is easier, faster, and more reliable than the competitors, and their …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudflare
    Cloudflare proved to be the winning choice over its competitors because it was the only solution that's so complete. The other solutions we analyzed were convincing for the caching/CDN aspect but had gaps in other aspects such as security or DDoS protection. Cloudflare also …
    Incentivized
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Akamai CDN and Cloudflare and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Akamai CDN
    -
    Ratings
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability00 Ratings9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA00 Ratings8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities00 Ratings8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting00 Ratings7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering00 Ratings7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection00 Ratings8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence00 Ratings8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting00 Ratings7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Akamai CDN and Cloudflare and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Akamai CDN
    -
    Ratings
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tag library00 Ratings00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Page load times00 Ratings00 Ratings7.925 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging00 Ratings00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings00 Ratings7.623 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Akamai CDN and Cloudflare and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Akamai CDN
    -
    Ratings
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.5
    28 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings00 Ratings4.227 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Akamai CDN and Cloudflare and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Akamai CDN
    -
    Ratings
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    6.4
    29 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Account Scoring00 Ratings00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance00 Ratings00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    Data Connectors00 Ratings00 Ratings4.329 Ratings
    Data Enhancement00 Ratings00 Ratings5.229 Ratings
    Data Ingestion00 Ratings00 Ratings6.129 Ratings
    Data Storage00 Ratings00 Ratings2.429 Ratings
    Data Visibility00 Ratings00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Event Data00 Ratings00 Ratings6.127 Ratings
    Identity Resolution00 Ratings00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Twilio Segment
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Treasure AI
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    -
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    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Akamai CDNCloudflareSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    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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    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    It's best suited for business business to turn digital interaction in to richer and high value and experience that reach across computing platform also it offers a holistic and integrated approach to managing customer data and enhancing and personalized experience.it also draw actionable insights.because it offers wide range of products . perfect customer insight data solutions
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • 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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    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    SAP
    • SAP's Customer Data Solutions provide a comprehensive customer view by collecting detailed data, including age, web activity, and buying history.
    • The software's strong analytics features give valuable information about how customers use content and products, so we can enhance our strategies.
    • SAP Customer Data Solutions offers insights to create specific marketing campaigns that sort audiences by preferences, browsing, and purchase behavior.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • 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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    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    SAP
    • I find the interface a bit complex and challenging to navigate. I remember having difficultly grasping it completely especially when I was new to the system. Simplifying the user experience would make it more accessible for everyone, making tasks quicker and more intuitive.
    • integrating it seamlessly with other software and platforms could enhance its functionality. I would really really love an integration between BenchMark email marketing tool.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    SAP
    On the whole I am really impressed with SAP Customer Data Solutions and would highly recommend that other professionals look at this software to enhance their B2C and B2B sales
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    Usability
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    SAP
    We mostly work with the API which is of very good quality and is well documented.However, some of our success is also due to having very talented developers on staff, and also understanding advanced gamification design. The tool supports a talented team! It won't actually do everything for you automatically.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    SAP
    The platform pulls data from multiple sources, cleaning, and restructuring it allowing us to expand our growth opportunities by providing highly tailored suggestions on each page for our visitors which made it tremendously simple for us to provide rich and customized experiences to our visitors in the best way possible.
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    Performance
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    SAP
    There are some latency issues. The 24 hour caching problem mentioned earlier is a problem. Sometimes the Gigya system makes two calls instead of a single call if we go directly to the social platform. For this reason, it's sometimes more efficient to go direct rather than use Gigya.
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    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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    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    SAP
    We have had multiple instances of help from Gigya to get our custom implementation working, including detailed technical assistance to a third party. We have found Gigya to be thorough and timely in their responses to all queries, which are consistently excellent.
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    In-Person Training
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    because it was made directly in the company
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    Online Training
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    They trained me in a train the trainer model. I then trained the internal team. Total training was about two hours, with an additional two hours for system setup.
    Training was maybe a little thin, but the system was fairly easy to learn and this wasn't really a problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    SAP
    There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, and perhaps we were unclear on some of our requirements. Once they figured out what we wanted though, things went pretty smoothly. Just some minor hiccups in the beginning
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    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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    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    SAP
    Resources and specialized IT personnel is needed for the effective administration and deployment of Informatica Customer 360. This resource-intensive for smaller organizations. Although Informatica has the ability to integrate, the process of setting up and establishing these integrations can be difficult and may call for programming experience.
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    Scalability
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    SAP
    because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • 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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    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    SAP
    • Having a single, stremlined point of entry for the customers improves the overall customer experience
    • By the same reason, maintenance costs are reduced because interventions focus on a single object
    • It's versatile in its integration so there is no need to change the surrounding software ecosystem
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    ScreenShots

    SAP Customer Data Solutions Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customer Login in SAP Enterprise Consent and Preference ManagementScreenshot of User Identities report dashboardScreenshot of Search by Custom Fields windowScreenshot of Customer Data DataflowScreenshot of Account InformationScreenshot of SAP Customer Data Platform