Secure, Scale, and Observe From a Single Source
Managing large PHP deployments, whether public-facing or internal web apps and APIs, comes with a long list of constantly changing challenges. From firefighting production issues to protecting sensitive data from attack, ongoing problems or unforeseen issues drain resources, especially when juggling multiple tools across platforms.
The Zend Enterprise Web Platform delivers the simplicity of PaaS — secure runtimes, autoscaling, and advanced observability — and gathers everything on one endlessly customizable dashboard:
- Unified Monitoring with integrated telemetry, including metrics, logging, and tracing, via templated or tailored visualizations
- Optimized Performance via separate web and queue worker pools
- Real-Time App Insights and Tracing to minimize time-to-resolution
- Hardened Images that meet CIS Docker Benchmarks
- Expert-Led Onboarding and Ongoing Support from a global team of proven PHP professionals
Move from reactive fixes to proactive PHP management while reducing operational complexity — with zero operational overhead. Schedule your custom demo today.
Zend Handles the Heavy Lifting
Platform migrations are rarely straightforward. But, with the Zend Enterprise Web Platform, you can rest easy with full support and guidance from our Professional Services team. We help you from start to finish through:
- Simplified Production Deployments – Gain expert assistance as you build your PHP application containers and drop them into the platform.
- On-Call Support and Expertise – Count on us as you get to know your new platform and identify the metrics that interest you, create visualizations for them, and highlight them via dashboards.
- Proactive Issue Mitigation – Receive help as you use traces to isolate root causes, including application bugs and performance bottlenecks.
Unlock a predictable, managed experience while preserving full control of your environment, all with hands-on guidance from the engineers who built the platform.
Zend Enterprise Web Platform: Features and Functionalities
Security, Speed, and Strategic Visibility – All from One Custom-Configured Dashboard
Powered by Kubernetes or Docker Compose, the Enterprise Web Platform consolidates ZendPHP, ZendHQ, and Zend Professional Services into a single stack:
- Security – Use OpenTelemetry data to reduce attack surfaces and streamline threat response.
- Scalability – Meet demand and optimize performance via declarative deployments, asynchronous processing, and shared session states
- Observability – Access real-time insights into application health for proactive issue resolution
End-to-End Security for Enterprise PHP Applications
Web application security breaches happen fast, from site defacement to ransomware and beyond. Add in meeting compliance requirements in an increasingly complex internet ecosystem, and your team can fall behind fast, leaving critical apps vulnerable to attack.
The Enterprise Web Platform delivers full protection against the latest threats:
- Leverage logs and OpenTelemetry metrics to understand when your applications display signs of potential security issues
- Utilize Zend PHP Long Term Support to extend the lifespan of EOL PHP
- Build in-depth security within deployment environments via CIS Benchmarked Docker Images
- Mitigate risk with compliance-out-of-the-box
Real-Time PHP Application Monitoring and Code Tracing
The Enterprise Web Platform makes it easy to identify and resolve issues before they impact your business, saving you from costly firefighting down the road. It unifies your applications to provide deep PHP visibility through:
- Uninterrupted performance monitoring
- Full integration with existing APMs and tooling
- Easy-to-use dashboards and custom visualizations
- Root-cause analysis to reduce downtime
- Real-time code tracing (requires PHP 8.0 or newer)
- Curated PHP alerts to flag high-priority issues
Automated Scaling to Meet New Demand
Scaling to meet changing user demands is critical for achieving business goals. Here’s how the Enterprise Web Platform helps you reduce complexity and consolidate tool sprawl while scaling your PHP apps:
- Manage shared session state when scaling horizontally
- Implement asynchronous processing to decrease or offload resource usage
- Autoscale web workers, key value storage, and the attached relational database cluster
- Optimize PHP workloads to perform at scale
Why Partner with Zend?
For more than twenty years, Zend has set the standard for enterprise PHP support. Fortune 100 companies around the world depend on us to manage and modernize mission-critical PHP.
Zend Enterprise Web Platform: FAQ
The Zend Enterprise Web Platform is built on Kubernetes and Docker Compose. We have plans to extend to VM orchestrations in the future.
It requires ZendPHP and ZendHQ licenses. You can learn more about each, and try them for free, via the links below.
To take full advantage of the Enterprise Web Platform’s code tracing abilities, you must deploy PHP 8.0 or newer. Upgrade and modernization services are available to ease your transition.
While ZendPHP and ZendHQ provide runtime security and monitoring, the Enterprise Web Platform adds comprehensive orchestration, integrated telemetry, turnkey configuration, and unified dashboards. These elements are all combined into a single observability stack. Think of it like a PHP command center. It builds on the features and functionalities you know and love, but expands them further.
Zend Server reaches end of life in December, 2027, and it is important to make your migration plan as soon as possible.
The Enterprise Web Platform is an ideal solution for current Zend Server users. It combines features you love now (such as intuitive dashboards, queueing, and monitoring) with new tools to enjoy (including enhanced observability and a shift to a declarative deployment model). Click this link to view a full Zend Server and Enterprise Web Platform feature comparison.
Access all the benefits of Platform as a Service without the constraints. To learn more about how the Enterprise Web Platform fits within your infrastructure, you can contact your account representative or fill out the form at the top of this page.
The Enterprise Web Platform can provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution for applications, or be deployed to take advantage of existing infrastructure as needed. In particular, because the platform implements OpenTelemetry, all metrics, traces, and logs can be forwarded to existing OTel services, including commercial platforms compatible with OTel.
When it comes to security, the Enterprise Web Platform helps your team to mitigate risk by providing continuously up-to-date containers with applied CIS Benchmarks, reducing your team's efforts in tracking and mitigating security vulnerabilities.
The Zend Enterprise Web Platform comes with a one-time setup cost. This includes support from proven PHP professionals in establishing your dashboards, configuring your application, and addressing any custom configuration needs within your stack. It involves no deployment learning curves. Simply drop in and deploy where you want via Docker or Kubernetes. After that, simply connect to different applications to ensure that they are viewable within the platform.
We also offer additional support and training for complex or highly customized configurations. Contact us to learn more.
The Enterprise Web Platform enables modernization via full visibility into PHP application performance. Using the provided data, you can optimize performance, modernize apps, and mitigate risks.
Additionally, with our PHP services, you can make the Zend PHP experts your experts during your modernization project. We can help make the journey from legacy to modern PHP manageable, secure, and as stress free as possible.
Yes, the Enterprise Web Platform can help your team meet compliance requirements. It uses images that are compliant with CIS Docker Benchmarks. Additionally, using comprehensive logging, continuous monitoring, and Zend PHP LTS, it can help meet PCI-DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and other compliance standards.
Yes. The Enterprise Web Platform provides detailed resource utilization insights, enables efficient horizontal scaling, and offers performance optimization recommendations that help reduce unnecessary cloud spending while maintaining application performance.
The Enterprise Web Platform strengthens PHP application security by identifying performance anomalies so your team can diagnose security events. Additionally, comprehensive logging provides the necessary data for thorough analysis, which is critical for incident investigation and ensures seamless compliance reporting to meet most requirements.
Learn more about using PHP performance metrics to improve security here.
By providing proactive PHP application monitoring and comprehensive root-cause analysis tools, the Enterprise Web Platform allows your team to identify and resolve issues before they become critical problems, reducing emergency response situations. This will help you minimize reactive tasks and reallocate resources toward future strategic planning.
Training can be provided through OpenLogic to bring teams up to speed or by filling out the form at the top of this page.
Mission-Critical PHP Made Possible
With the Enterprise Web Platform, every incident becomes an insight, every dashboard a decision, and every deployment a moment of calm confidence. See how it can improve your applications and PHP management today.