Akamas and ALTERSIS Performance Announce New EMEA Partnership

Milan, Italy and Basel, Switzerland – April 27, 2021 – Today, Akamas, maker of the first AI-powered performance optimization solution for enterprise IT stacks, and ALTERSIS Performance, a leading provider and pioneer of IT performance engineering and consulting services, announced a strategic commercial partnership.

ALTERSIS Performance offers IT performance consulting services in the areas of APM, performance testing and quality assurance for a range of corporate customers in key European markets such as Germany, Switzerland, and France. For more than 18 years, ALTERSIS Performance has been assisting customers in designing and implementing performance and APM engineering solutions in test, production and development while leveraging innovative and value-add technologies.

Launched in 2019, Akamas has quickly established itself as a leading AI-powered performance optimization solution. Akamas fundamentally changes how IT users approach the tradeoffs between application performance and costs. Thanks to its technology-agnostic, full-stack approach and its AI’s ability to rapidly converge to optimal IT configurations, Akamas helps organizations meet performance goals at a speed that no manual tuning can achieve.

As part of the partnership, ALTERSIS Performance will promote the Akamas solutions to its customers and support them with its implementation and operation. At the same time, ALTERSIS Performance and Akamas will work together to further develop the Akamas technology to address a growing range of businesses and use cases.

We are very pleased to announce the partnership with ALTERSIS Performance. We know how much their experience in performance tuning and optimization is appreciated by leading European customers. Channel partnerships are a key pillar of our go-to-market strategy and we have great confidence in ALTERSIS Performance.

said Lorena Marturana, Sales Channel Manager at Akamas.

Andreas Leibundgut, Business Unit Director of ALTERSIS Performance Switzerland commented:

Our concept of re-inventing performance engineering for the digital age relies among other things on innovative AI-driven technologies to enable the integration of fully automated continuous performance engineering pipelines into continuous delivery and DevOps tooling chains. We strongly believe that Akamas solutions will be vital, both for our mature performance engineering customers and for those adopting DevOps.

About ALTERSIS Performance

ALTERSIS Performance is the leading IT Performance Consulting company in EMEA created out of Scopteam (founded 2001), Valid’IT (founded 2006) and Sword Performance Solutions (founded in 2002 as adhoc International). ALTERSIS Performance is the preferred supplier for many organizations in the areas of Application Performance Management, Performance Engineering technologies, processes and governance. Driven by the aim to become the EMEA reference in IT Performance Consulting, ALTERSIS Performance has for many years invested a significant portion of revenue in R&D in order to respond quickly to customer needs and challenges and has thus become the partner of choice of the technology leaders and innovators in the area of application lifecycle performance engineering, operations monitoring and APM.

About Akamas

Akamas is the AI-powered autonomous optimization solution that enables enterprises and online businesses to deliver unprecedented levels of service performance and resilience at minimum cost. The complexity of technology stacks has grown beyond the reach of even the most skilled performance experts. Faster release cycles and the adoption of CI/CD pipelines contribute to this challenge. Built by veterans in performance engineering and data science, Akamas exploits advanced machine learning techniques to optimize hundreds of interdependent service configuration parameters while matching both technical and business goals. Akamas customers include leading enterprise organizations in financial and online services. Akamas is a company of Moviri, a global software and professional services group, and counts Dynatrace, Micro Focus, Neotys and Splunk among its partners. Headquartered in Milan, Akamas has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Singapore.