For companies engaging in electronic software delivery (ESD), download completion rate serves as the key performance indicator for their ESD implementation. This quantifiable metric is tied directly to important business benefits: Companies with high download completion rates are able to maximize the returns they see from their ESD implementation, while companies with low completion rates may suffer lost sales and lost customers as well as increased infrastructure and physical fulfillment costs.

The Akamai Electronic Software Delivery solution enables software vendors to drastically improve their download completion rates by offering superior user download experience through increased...