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Herausforderung:

NBS System benötigte eine zuverlässige Plattform, die den Prozess des Hostings standardisieren sollte, unabhängig von Versionen oder Entwicklungen, die verschiedene Einzelpersonen oder kleine Unternehmen beisteuerten.

Lösung:

NBS System arbeitete mit Zend zusammen, um Zend Cloud zu bauen, einem maßgeschneiderten und kompletten Hosting-Angebot für e-Commerce-Kunden.

Herausforderung:

Die Automatisierung der Administrationssysteme des Unternehmens. Dies würde den Ersatz paralleler Steuerungen bedeuten - geschäftskritische Software, die die Tabellen, Formulare und manuellen Kontrollen automatisiert, die die Kernprozesse des Unternehmens ausmachen — mit zuverlässigen, hochverfügbaren, intern entwickelten PHP-Applikationen.

Lösung:

Marilan baute ein Administrationssystem interner Kontrollen (SACI), mit dem die Unternehmensplattform zur Ressourcenplanung (ERP) unterstützt wird, die maßgeschneiderte Applikationen für Abteilungen im gesamten Unternehmen integriert. Das Unternehmen implementierte die Zend Studio IDE, um Applikationen in der Produktion zu erstellen. Zusätzlich nutzt Marilan Zend Server sowohl in der Entwicklung und in der Produktivumgebung, wo das Unternehmen Applikationen verwaltet, überwacht und skaliert.

Herausforderung:

CONFTEC benötigte eine unternehmensfähige Applikationsplattform, um benutzerdefinierte Applikationen für den Einzelhandel und eine benutzerspezifische ERP-Applikation von Grund auf neu zu entwickeln. Die Lösung musste CONFTEC eine maßgeschneiderte Online-Plattform für den Einzelhandel zur Verfügung stellen, die eine schnelle Entwicklung und kontinuierliche Innovation ermöglicht.

Lösung:

Nach dem Vergleich von Sprachen und Lösungen, einschließlich Java, Perl und ASP, entschloss sich CONFTEC, sein System mit PHP und Zend aufzubauen. Das Unternehmen verwendet Zend Studio, um seine umfangreiche Codebasis zu erstellen und zu pflegen, und Zend Server, um seine Applikationen zu verwalten und zu überwachen.

Herausforderung:

UBM Tech benötigte eine neue, agilere, zukunftfähigere und kosteneffizientere Herangehensweise für die Erstellung und Verwaltung von großangelegten und kundenspezifischen Websites, um die sich ändernden Anforderungen des Digital Media Publishings gerecht zu werden.

Lösung:

UBM Tech definierte seine Strategie zur Webapplikationsentwicklung neu, indem man die Zend PHP Webapplikationsplattform adaptierte, einschließlich Zend Server, Zend Studio und Zend Framework, für die umfassende Umgestaltung seiner Webanlagen.

Herausforderung:

Die Beschleunigung der Entwicklung und Auslieferung von hochperformanten Webanwendungen, die Mitarbeiter dabei helfen, sich zu vernetzen und zu informieren sowie herausragende Dienstleistungen für die Kunden anzubieten.

Lösung:

BNP Paribas setzt auf Zend Server, Zend Studio und Zend Framework sowie andere PHP-kompatible Technologien.

Herausforderung:

GroupMT benötigte eine schnelle Plattform für die Anwendungsentwicklung, um die Modernisierung seines veralteten ERP-Systems auf IBM i in Bezug auf ein verbessertes Dokumentenmanagement, Fertigungsausführung und weiterer wichtiger Funktionen für seine 50 Fertigungsstandorte voranzutreiben.

Lösung:

GroupMT setzt die Zend-Entwicklungsplattform für PHP-Anwendungen für IBM i ein, einschließlich der Zend Studio IDE, dem Webanwendungsserver Zend Server und Zend Framework, einem Open-Source-Anwendungsframework.

Herausforderung:

  • Bewältigung von Web-Workloads auf einem einzigen zugeordneten Server
  • Fehlen der Echtzeit-Visibilität in den Zustand von geschäftskrititschen Webapplikationen und aussagefähigen Analysen zur Kampagnen-Performance
  • Traffic-Spitzen, die in schleppende Reaktionszeiten resultieren
  • Steigende Notwendigkeit, neue Dienste schneller hinzuzufügen und zu starten

    Lösung:

    Mediaspike wählte das RightScale Zend PHP HA Solution Pack, um dabei zu helfen, das Deployment zu vereinfachen und zu beschleunigen, die Skalierung zu automatisieren und eine hohe Verfügbarkeit von zuverlässigen, hochperformanten Applikationen in der Cloud zu erreichen.

    Herausforderung:

    Cisco wollte mehr WebEx-Geschäft durch seine Partner betreiben, mit Angeboten kostenloser Testversionen als Auslöser zur Lead-Generierung. Das bisherige System für kostenlose Testversionen wurde über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg entwickelt, mit kurzfristigen Lösungs-Updates, die eine Wartung schwierig machten. Cisco WebEx benötigte eine automatisierte Test-Plattform mit einem hohen Maß an Effizienz, Zuverlässigkeit und Skalierbarkeit, um seine wachsende Partner-Gemeinschaft und die wachsende Nachfrage an Online-Konferenzen vollständig zu unterstützen.

    Lösung:

    Cisco deployte Zend Studio IDE, Zend Server und Zend Framework. Mit dem Zend PHP-Stack erstellte Cisco eine neue Plattform für Testangebote, eine mobile Website und eine interne Projektmanagement-Applikation, und man überarbeitete die Webinar-Marketingplattform. Zend’s Monitoring-, Code Tracing-, Job Queue- und Optimierungs-Fähigkeiten halfen der Organisation, die Endbenutzer-Erfahrung bei Testangeboten um 68% zu verbessern (basierend auf der besten Zeit für die Vervollständigung einer Testregistrierung), sowie eine Code-Wiederverwendung von 20-30% zu erreichen, um Entwicklungaufwand einzusparen und die Produkteinführungszeit um durchschnittlich 1,5 Monate für jedes Projekt zu beschleunigen.

    Herausforderung:

    NYSE Euronext versuchten ihre bestehenden Websites zu ersetzen und abzuschalten, um mehr Geschäfte online tätigen zu können. Eine neue Entwicklungsplattform und -Prozesse für Webapplikationen wurden benötigt, um schnelle Webentwicklung und -Deployment, effizientes Hochskalieren und Verwaltung sowie Hochverfügbarkeit zu ermöglichen. Strikte Richtlinien erforderten eine verbesserte Produktivität und eine Reduzierung der Infrastruktur sowie der Ausfallzeiten.

    Lösung:

    NYSE Euronext wählten Zend PHP Applikationsentwicklungs-Lösungen sowie Drupal. Zend Studio IDE wird zur Applikationsentwicklung, zum Debugging und Profiling eingesetzt. Zend Server betreibt die Websites, überwacht proaktiv und automatisiert Troubleshooting und Optimierung. Zend Server Cluster Manager unterstützt einfache Skalierbarkeit in Multi-Server Umgebungen.

    Challenge:

    To maintain lean, efficient central operations while providing fast and impeccable service to a 3,000-member dealer network with a worldwide customer base; driving more processes online to provide a superior business experience for both dealers and customers.

    Solution:

    Zend PHP solutions helped Corvette America’s IT group extend the capabilities of its
    e-commerce application, quickly and cost-effectively, on IBM i.

    Challenge:

    With business growth, the limitations of Bell Helicopter’s enterprise reporting system to provide business intelligence on demand led to temporary loss of its Earned Value Management (EVM) certification and more than $40M in withholds on government contracts. The company needed to revamp its reporting system for improved automation and performance while keeping costs under control.

    Solution:

    Bell Helicopter chose Zend Server and Infobright’s analytic database software for the development and deployment of Premier, a scalable enterprise reporting application that now delivers vital business intelligence from more than 40 data sources in a high availability multi-server environment. Premier was strategic to the company’s ability to regain EVM certification and resume large-scale government contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.

    Challenge:

    A decade of strong business growth and expansion of product lines and geographical markets demanded an e-commerce infrastructure with real flexibility and cost-savings while delivering a superior online shopping experience for an international customer base.

    Solution:

    Zend’s complete PHP application development solution: Zend Server Web application server; Zend Studio, the leading PHP IDE; and Zend Framework, an award-winning lightweight open-source application framework. Using Zend, Netretail Holding launched multiple e-commerce sites in record time, reducing development and testing time by an average of 50% and achieving a 50% improvement in site performance to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty through repeat business.
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    Villeroy & Boch

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    Herausforderung:

    Villeroy & Boch benötigte eine dynamische Technologieplattform, mit der man schnell und kosteneffektiv neue eCommerce Applikationen entwickeln und managen konnte, um die globalen Vertrieb- und Marketing-Aktivitäten zu unterstützen.

    Lösung:

    Villeroy & Boch wählte PHP als Webentwicklungs-Plattform. Zend PHP Lösungen wurden eingesetzt, um eine Magento eCommerce-Applikation anzupassen, zu deployen und zu managen, die auf Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Servern läuft und auf SAP ERP sowie MySQL Back-End Datenbanken zugreift.

    Herausforderung:

    Allied Beverage wollte mittels Technologie seine Branchenführung durch erstklassigen Kundenservice ausbauen. Ziel des Unternehmens war die Errichtung von branchenführenden Ressourcen für e-Commerce- und Mobil-Applikationen, jedoch benötigte man eine umfassendere und in sich geschlossenere Applikations-Entwicklungsumgebung dazu.

    Lösung:

    Mit der Zend PHP Software auf IBM i war Allied Beverage in der Lage, eBiz zu entwickeln, zu deployen und zu verwalten – eine hochperformante Applikation, die e-Commerce in der Branche revolutioniert hat. Vom Konzept bis zum Roll-Out wurde die Arbeit schneller und zu niedrigeren Kosten abgeschlossen, als es anders möglich gewesen wäre. Mit Zend Server und Zend Framework verdoppelte Allied Beverage die Geschwindigkeit von eBiz und implementierte wesentliche Web 2.0 Funktionalitäten. Als eBiz gelauncht wurde, wurden mehr als 130 Einzelhändler zu registrierten Nutzern und die Site gewann den 2009 IBM COMMON Innovation Award für die beste Web Lösung.

    Challenge

    Enrise needed a capable Web application framework and tools to build an e-commerce front-end for Autotrack.nl, the leading online car brokerage in the Netherlands. Enrise wanted to improve usability and performance for Autotrack.nl’s popular site, which averages more than 550,000 unique visitors and millions of page views per month. They also planned to develop a flexible, templated solution for content management so Autotrack.nl personnel could update content on-demand, without having to touch the underlying application.

    Solution

    Enrise chose the PHP dynamic open-source language for their project, and Zend for its integrated Web application platform and PHP expertise. Zend Framework provided a proven open-source framework and reusable PHP code, and Zend Studio IDE was used to tailor the Autotrack.nl site with advanced features such as faceted browsing. Zend Server provided monitoring, debugging and optimization to help Enrise deploy and manage the Web front-end for optimal availability and performance in Autotrack.nl’s high-volume, multi-server environment.

    Challenge

    • Support a high volume of complex custom orders
    • Ensure an intuitive online ordering experience
    • Provide a professional B2B solution for affiliated retailers
    • Deliver availability and performance to meet SLAs

    Solution

    Levolor chose Zend PHP solutions for the development and management of a userfriendly,highly interactive and reliable e-commerce application for Levolor’s affiliated retailers and consumers. Using Zend Server application monitoring and management capabilities, Levolor has established a robust, scalable multi-server environment with improved availability and performance to meet SLAs consistently. In addition, the brand’s E-Business team is more responsive to changing business requirements while accelerating time-to-market with e-commerce updates. As a result, customers can expect snappy responses when shopping and ordering Levolor products, which come in more than 100 billion different combinations; and retailers can stay informed of promotions and conduct business efficiently through the Levolor dealer portal.

    Challenge

    Shaklee’s largely Java-based development environment lacked the flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency required to sustain profitable business growth in rapidly changing global markets. The IT department sought an open-source technology platform robust enough to support its developer community and thousands of distributor web stores it manages across multiple languages and geographies. To be successful, the company’s ecommerce systems also needed to stand up to heavy online traffic during mass market promotions and media exposure. At the same time, IT faced tough goals to reduce development costs and accelerate time-to-market with ongoing enhancements to its ecommerce systems.

    Solution

    Shaklee adopted PHP for all of its web assets, choosing Zend Framework and Zend Studio for its development environment, and Zend Server for its enterprise production environment. The IT department migrated the Shaklee.com corporate website, the Shaklee.net member portal and distributor’s web stores to PHP and turned off their legacy Java application servers.
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    Value Drug Mart Associates, Ltd.
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    Challenge

    Value Drug Mart anticipated that growth of its associated network of stores would soon outpace its distribution center’s ability to support those stores unless it could standardize and automate certain B2B processes on the Web.

    Solution

    The IT group at Value Drug Mart chose PHP for its superiority and ubiquity as a Web application development platform, and Zend because of its technology and commitment as the leading PHP solution provider. By implementing Zend Server for IBM i, Value Drug Mart automated the monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization of its Web-based B2B applications to quickly scale up and effectively support more than 300 pharmacies and convenience stores.

    Challenge

    Basic Research wanted to transform its Web assets to build brand awareness, educate consumers, and drive sales online and into major retail outlets. The IT organization adopted PHP-based Magento for e-commerce, and wanted to standardize on a platform for PHP Web application development that would support customization, optimization and scale-up of Magento across their various Web sites.

    Solution

    Basic Research chose Zend PHP for its flexibility and completeness as a Web application platform from pilot through production. The company adopted Zend’s integrated solution, Zend Studio IDE and Zend Server, for development, monitoring, optimization, scale-up and troubleshooting. With Zend, Basic Research improved its Magento-based e-commerce systems.

    Challenge

    Deliver thousands of online offers from leading brands, requiring that products be categorized, verified, rated and updated daily. Enable customers to personalize their shopping to watch specific offers, categories and stores, and receive updates when offers are added or changed. Create a true Web 2.0 environment that requires reliable high-performance technology and solid IT best practices to support this level of customization, collaboration and interactivity.

    Solution

    Offers.com chose Zend Framework, the Zend Studio IDE and the Zend Server Web Application Server for a complete, tested PHP stack to support the full application life cycle for its e-commerce Web assets.
    Zend was chosen for its ability to streamline application development and management, reduce time to market and meet business objectives for availability and performance.
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    HRsmart, Inc.

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    Challenge

    • Improve page loads and other performance metrics for large customers
    • Offload burden of maintaining legacy Perl code
    • Migrate to professional-grade object-oriented language (PHP 5)
    • Support global business growth with localization
    • Boost application availability through proactive monitoring and diagnostics

    Solution

    Zend Studio PHP IDE and Zend Server Web Application Server
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    MCS Real Estate & Facility Management
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    Challenge

    • Ensure consistent application availability and performance
    • Improve time-to-market
    • Meet SLAs consistently
    • Increase productivity in application development and deployment

    Solution

    MCS implemented the full Zend PHP stack, using Zend Framework to provide central application components, and the Zend Studio integrated development environment(IDE) for feature development. The company chose Zend Server Web Application Server for faster and smoother installations of its software technology stack and to achieve more reliability and robustness in daily operations.

    Zend Server helped MCS reduce time-to-market, meet SLAs consistently, and resolve or eliminate performance issues more efficiently. MCS also embedded Zend Server in its new myMCS WebPortal Server to extend key performance advantages to customers.
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    Varien and the Magento eCommerce Platform
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    Challenge

    Magento™, is an open-source eCommerce platform developed using PHP 5. Created by Varien™, Magento has been adopted by thousands of users and is implemented by Websites processing over 10,000 orders/day using multiple servers and cluster architectures.

    Originally, Varien used their own homegrown framework. Although workable, this solution presented inherent challenges:

    • Training new developers in their in-house framework proved costly and time-consuming.
    • Supporting an in-house framework without the wisdom of an open-source community was difficult.
    • Hiring talent to use in-house framework was challenging - not a ‘career-builder’.

    Solution

    The Magento project chose the industry standard Zend Framework to provide them with a simple, object-oriented, and flexible solution that encompasses best practices and agile & testing methodologies resulting in rapid development of enterprise-grade Web applications.

    Widespread community support for Zend Framework gives Magento contributors and users an open source framework with a wealth of documentation and momentum behind it.

    Zend Framework licensing protects the entire ecosystem of products built on the Magento code base, allowing end-user clients and customers to build, extend, and deploy unlimited applications without concern for intellectual property issues.

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    Carlo Gavazzi Automation

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    Challenge

    Carlo Gavazzi Automation (“Gavazzi”) is a global electronics group focused on the design, manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment for industrial automation and information processing. Gavazzi relies on a centralized IT department, the heart of which is based on IBM Power Systems running the i operating system. Growing business requirements that demand a Web infrastructure have led Gavazzi to search for a solution that will help them Web-enable their existing enterprise 5250 applications while continuing to enjoy the application's code as the backbone of business methodology.

    Solution

    Gavazzi chose PHP to modernize their existing 5250 applications. Implementing PHP to Web-enable these applications improves both their response time and information consistency. Zend Solutions for IBM i offer Gavazzi reliable and readily-available PHP tools to integrate seamlessly with the many i applications that underpin their business operations. By integrating PHP and Zend Solutions for IBM i, Gavazzi Automation is able to leverage existing i application business methodologies, while reducing application development time and offering a user-friendly modernized Web interface.
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    Fox Interactive Media - IGN Entertainment division
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    Challenge

    IGN Entertainment is a leading media company and division of Fox Interactive Media. IGN Entertainment's team at IGN community sites manages over 50 different community-based sites and has built an entirely new platform based on Zend Framework.Build a long-term platform using best practices and design patterns to enhance applications & performance for the IGN community sites network.

    Solution

    The IGN community sites team chose Zend Framework mainly for its modern, pick-and-choose style. They have built extensively upon it, extending and leveraging the work accomplished in the open-source Zend Framework community and they now plan on leveraging their new platform to build and manage a large number of new community-based sites for IGN Entertainment.
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    IBM Research & Development Labs

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    Challenge

    When deciding to build QEDWiki IBM had a few key requirements.  They wanted the PHP components they built to be widely reused at IBM, they wanted to support multiple databases easily, it was quite important to build on a clean & reliable community-supported framework, and perhaps most importantly they did not want to reinvent the wheel by creating a new framework.

    Solution

    After looking at a number of other possible solutions, IBM opted for Zend Framework as a key component to build QEDWiki on.  Stewart Nickolas, Lead Architect at IBM comments: “Our team saved much time and effort by using Zend Framework’s building blocks on our project. With so many Zend Framework community developers in so many different environments, the code is much cleaner and more reliable, with fewer bugs or defects.”

    Challenge

    In 2005 Right Media launched The Right Media Exchange, in which advertisers and publishers buy and sell online ad placements in real time through auctions.  Right Media’s 19,000 customers needed a convenient and secure application to interact with the exchange to post ads, create inventory, bid and sell via auction, track results, and so forth. At first Right Media provided their customers a Windows-based desktop application to perform these tasks, but that solution turned out to be unworkable.

    Solution

    Using Zend Framework and PHP helped Right Media develop an easy to use, rich web application that solved these problems and could be used by all their customers.

    Challenge

    Varien, in business since 2001, has been building e-commerce solutions for major clients for over half the lifetime of e-commerce on the web. Varien had their own homegrown, in-house framework and found themselves with a workable, but not optimal solution. Says Yoav Kutner, CTO at Varien, “We were happy with our framework, but the costs associated with training new developers were not worth it. We needed a professional framework which had support, would continue to evolve outside of our company, and had a strong community of developers already versed in the code.”

    Solution

    Varien chose to go with industry standard PHP 5 and the new open source Zend Framework to provide them with an extremely simple, object-oriented, and flexible solution that encapsulates best practices, agile & testing methodologies, and that would result in very rapid development of enterprise-grade web applications.

    Challenge

    The Foundstone division of McAfee in Southern California focuses on vulnerability management for networks using PHP. For such a complex system in which PHP plays a critical role, it is absolutely necessary for McAfee to have excellent PHP developers. When recruiting PHP programmers for his own team, Plush, the Senior PHP Developer at Foundstone.McAfee found technical skills to often be lacking. Plush and his team needed someone who could “do it now.”

    Solution

    Zend Certified Engineers. Plush sees that with a Zend Certification diploma, the developer has committed himself to PHP. "When I see someone has Zend Certification, I know right away this person is serious. With Zend Certification, it proves that someone else has verified your PHP skills, and we can move on to other questions.”

    Challenge

    Ibuildings is a provider of content management systems (CMS), back-office integration, and Web applications and is based in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. Software development in PHP is one of Ibuildings' key areas of expertise. Qualified employees with PHP expertise are extremely important.

    Solution

    Ibuildings' employers insist on Zend PHP Certification for all its PHP developers. During the recruiting process, Zend PHP Certification is the best tool for identifying PHP experts. Ibuildings views Zend PHP Certification as an important step toward positioning PHP as a serious development platform. In order to meet the strong demand for qualified PHP developers, Zend brought together a group of recognized PHP experts in collaboration with the PHP Education Advisory Board in Fall 2004 to establish the Certification Program.