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Challenge:
Cisco wanted to drive more WebEx business through its partners using free trial offers as a catalyst oflead generation. The legacy free-trial system had been developed over a long period, with short-term
solution updates that made it hard to maintain. Cisco WebEx needed an automated trial platform with a
high degree of efficiency, reliability, and scalabilit to fully support its growing partner community and
increasing demand for online conferencing.
Solution:
Cisco deployed Zend Studio IDE, Zend Server and Zend Framework. Using the Zend PHP stack, Ciscobuilt a new trial-offer platform, a mobile website, and an internal project management application,
and it redeveloped its webinar marketing platform.Zend’s monitoring, code tracing, job queuing, and
optimization capabilities helped the organization improve end-user experience of trial offers by 68%
(based on best time to complete trial signup), and achieve 20-30% code reuse to save development
effort and accelerate time to market by an average of 1.5 months for each project.
Challenge:
NYSE Euronext sought to replace and sunset its existing Web sites with new sites supporting its goals to drive business value online. A new Web application development platform and processes were needed for rapid Web development and deployment, efficient scale up and management, and high availability. Tough guidelines demanded improved productivity, and reduced infrastructure and downtime costs.Solution:
NYSE Euronext chose Zend PHP application development solutions and Drupal. Zend Studio IDE is used for application development, debugging and profiling. Zend Server runs the Web sites, performs proactive monitoring and automates troubleshooting and optimization. Zend Server Cluster Manager supports easy scalability in multiserver environments.
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 itse-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.
Challenge:
Villeroy & Boch needed a dynamic technology platform with which it could quickly and cost-effectively develop and manage new e-commerce applications to support its global sales and marketing initiatives.Solution:
Villeroy & Boch chose PHP as its Web development platform. Zend PHP solutions were adopted to customize, deploy and manage its Magento e-commerce application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers and accessing SAP ERP and MySQL back-end databases.
Challenge:
Allied Beverage wanted to leverage technology to increase its industry leadership through superior customer service. The company wanted to establish industry-leading e-Commerce and mobile applications capabilities but required a more comprehensive and cohesive application development environment to meet this goal.Solution:
By choosing Zend PHP software on IBM i, Allied Beverage was able to develop, deploy and manage eBiz, a high-performance application that revolutionized e-commerce in its industry. From concept to roll-out, work was completed faster and at a lower cost than would otherwise have been possible. Using Zend Server and Zend Framework, Allied Beverage doubled the speed of eBiz and implemented key Web 2.0 functionality. When eBiz was launched more than 130 retailers became registered members, and the site won the 2009 IBM COMMON Innovation Award for Best Web Solution.”
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.
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.
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
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.
Challenge
Biggest hurdles were the ability to deliver a web application with the speed that an on-premises system could deliver. Doctors are known for being impatient and the fast moving environment of a medical office will not wait for a slow response from their information systems. Lengthy development cycles at WRS were problematic because they led to:- Long periods of time between releases of product.
- Lengthy pre-release testing cycles to ensure that the months of development effort were as error-free as possible.
- Lack of timely customer input and subsequent lack of responsiveness to customer’s (doctor’s) needs in product.
Solution
To enable affordable scalability and connectivity with other health information systems, the software architects at Waiting Room Solutions used open source technologies. This has positioned WRS as one of the only web-based solutions with a high performance and adaptable infrastructure that can also be affordably deployed.Waiting Room Solutions adopted Zend’s web application server to meet their high-performance needs. Using the advanced application monitoring tools, Waiting Room Solutions optimized its queries so that none were running slower than 50ms (1/20th of a second). The Zend load-balancing tools enabled a multi-server web server layer that provides quick response to end-users and has scaled as WRS has grown.
Challenge
Slow execution resulting in slow loading pages and bugs that couldn’t be found once the application was deployed in production were some of the issues that Gesca Digital faced with their Cyberpresse.ca site. Additional challenges were low staff productivity and low site quality due to the following:- Bugs hard to pinpoint which resulted in loss of engineering time for debugging
- Performance bottlenecks that resulted in slow loading pages and consequent loss of readership
- Errors in production code could not be found which resulted in lower-quality experience for readers
Solution
Running the Cyberpresse.ca site on top of Zend’s web application server allowed Gesca Digital’s engineers to rapidly monitor and pinpoint issues as they arose during run-time production. Using root-cause analysis saved them many hours of coding.Code was debugged in half or less the time it used to take them. Session clustering in Zend’s production solution facilitated additional features they could only accomplish in a load balanced environment. All this enabled Gesca to dramatically improve staff productivity and PHP web application performance, providing them with high value and a rapid ROI.
Challenge
The Montréal Exchange (MX) manages 13 Websites and Web applications, all of which are developed in PHP. Coding and implementation techniques differ for each of these sites.
In July 2007 MX approached Bell Canada for production and development support. They also decided to migrate to a more robust architecture because:
- Non-uniform fragments of legacy code make maintenance difficult.
- Code duplication means error-fixing in multiple locations.
- Separation of design and programming work is tedious & error-prone as database queries, presentation and business logic of each Web page are in one monolithic block.
- Due to a high level of coupling in their components, bug-repair in one area of an application affects other areas of the site — as such, more time is spent on bug-fixes.
Solution
In choosing PHP, Bell Canada and MX confirm their commitment to open-source. Zend's Web Application server and environment (Zend Platform combined with Zend Core) and Zend solutions provide them with commercial products that offer manageability, monitoring, and performance improvement of their PHP solution.
Bell Canada decided to customize MX development methods by basing them on Zend Framework (Zend Framework and Template Lite). Pre-built, tested, and open-source components save time, shorten QA cycles and deliver higher quality results to end-users.
Best practices in Zend Framework are key in training new developers and keeping implementation professional, object-oriented, and maintainable—while still delivering applications in less time.
Challenge
The company Engineering was instrumental in the reorganization of services at the Ministry of Employment. They had to establish a system for facilitating the paperwork and for the complete digitization of information. As this is public money, everything has to be handled with complete transparency, fairness and optimization.Solution
Engineering focused on PHP for its rapid development, efficiency, scalability and its appropriate use of resources. The decision to use a PHP development environment as advanced as Zend Studio together with the Zend Framework was a functional decision because of the excellent integration of these two products. The resulting solutions provided not only the management of a back end, but also of a front end for the applications which citizens and businesses can use for exchanging information via web services with social funding agencies.
Challenge
FidoGroup’s technological skill supports very large web events such as MTV Storytellers, the signature of the European Constitution and the Superbike World Championship. These events generate enormous interest, and there is now a critical mass of broadband users who are prepared to broadcast content directly via the web rather than by television.Solution
PHP is crucial for the management of critical events; obviously a web failure would mean a colossal loss of image. That is why, in addition to adopting a reliable and avant-garde technology such as PHP, the FidoGroup’s PHP developers rely on flexible, powerful and tested tools such as Zend Core and Zend Studio.
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.
Challenge
Zero9 Group works in a growing market segment where competitiveness is a key element: Web and mobile content and services providers in B2B and in B2C.In order to maintain their great results and to face the new challenges of their dynamic market, Zero9 needed technological solutions and collaboration that could assure innovation, flexible localization and quick time to market. This could only be achieved with cutting edge architectures and technologies. This is why Zero9 decided to update their existing infrastructure and to focus on and invest in its value.Solution
Zero9 chose to use PHP because it’s an easy to learn but robust and flexible language that can totally support enterprise business critical applications.The database, MySQL, was totally redesigned, standardised and optimized. The asynchronous processing, developed for messaging in the different communication channels (SMS, MMS, WAP, WEB, IVR), was managed with Zend Platform’s Job Queue feature. This allowed centralised administration of all processes which meant optimised resources, better performance and easy management.
Challenge
Flight Systems Industrial Products (FSIP) specializing in the remanufacture of electronic controls for battery operated and electric vehicles. The Service Center was tasked to develop an application to track parts usage, reduce costs and improve response times.Solution
Wilson Business System Consulting’s wireless bar code scanning solution utilizes PHP on both the hand-held scanner and the System i. The application affords FSIP to track inventory in real-time, reduce service center costs, and dramatically improve customer service levels.
Challenge
Barona’s existing green screen payroll programs were neither easily accessible nor intuitive for the majority of service-based employees. This structure prevented many staff members from monitoring their earnings and vacation accrual information.Solution
Olen Business Consulting developed a PHP front-end to leveraging the RPG business logic enabling employees to access the payroll application via kiosks located around the resort. This ultimately saved Barona an estimated $50,000 annually in postage, printing and assorted other mailing costs associated with the paycheck stubs for direct deposit.
Challenge
Although Aarrowcast is considered one of the most modern foundries in the world their business processes in dealing with outside vendors and suppliers were less than leading edge. The blizzard of procurement paperwork, lack of centralization, and limited vendor performance processes creates inefficiencies throughout the business. The challenge was to build a browser-based portal that would connect into the MRP system and permit vendors to access RFQ information automatically, without purchasing having to send out for bids.
Solution
Aarrowcast enlisted the services of NSC to develop what would become the Supplier Portal. NSC was up for the task, knowing that PHP products from Zend would be key to developing the most elegant, cost-effective solution in the shortest timeframe. The Zend-based portal now automates the entire RFQ, quote, purchase order, receiving, inventory management and payment process.
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.
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.
Challenge
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a LAMP stack shop, using exclusively open-source based code, but also making use of key enabling tools from Zend, including Zend Studio for Eclipse and the web application server Zend Platform. Indianapolis Motor Speedway wanted faster performance of the sites they manage, and found other libraries too difficult to install, develop with, extend, & deploy.Solution
Intitially Zend Framework was implemented on their Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix siteand the IMS team found that ZF gave them:
• Easy to modify, extend, and update object-oriented PHP 5 code
• A set of best design pattern practices for building their application
• An education (truly) on how to architect a best-of-breed PHP application
• Best of all, due to removal of a great deal of legacy and unnecessary code lead to page load times that increased over 20%!
