Insight for Content Delivery Networks

Until now, content delivery networks have had to build their own analytics & reporting solutions using expensive business intelligence tools. But BI tools are plagued with problems and inadequate for the needs of CDNs.

Skytide Insight for CDNs is a better solution. It's an out-of-the-box application that can process massive amounts of diverse data and turn around reports within an hour.

CDN Reporting Needs	Why BI Tools are Inadequate	Why Skytide is Better
Ability to process massive amounts of data	Can not scale to meet the terabytes of daily data processing	Skytide's patented process is highly scalable and can handle massive volumes of highly diverse data
Timely reports	ETL process used by BI solutions introduces significant delays	Provides reports within an hour of events being logged. See sample reports.
Reliable data	Data warehousing necessary as part of a BI solution can introduce data loss and inaccuracies	Does not require data warehousing
Fast time-to-value	Many BI engagements take months or years to fully implement	Out-of-the-box solution, tailored to CDN best practices, takes just days or weeks to deploy
Low total cost of ownership	Costly upfront costs for software and professional services	Requires minimal configuration; has been pre-integrated with extensive list of CDN log file formats
Provide filtered reports to customers & business partners	Need to connect account & application framework from scratch	Out-of-the-box customer and partner portals