Enterprise PHP Center

Zend is the PHP Company

Businesses utilizing PHP know Zend as the place to go for PHP expertise and sound technology solutions. Zend’s founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski are key contributors to PHP and the creators of the core PHP scripting engine, the Zend Engine. Because of their internationally recognized expertise, the company continues to provide important leadership for PHP and other open source communities, and plays a central role in the explosive growth of PHP.

Zend and PHP: An Overview

PHP is the language of choice for building dynamic web applications. It is used by more than a third of all websites and has been adopted by corporate IT for running business-critical applications. PHP is simple, scalable and robust. It is supported by a large, vibrant community and embraced by a multitude of vendors who have formed a comprehensive ecosystem around it.

Originally developed in 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP was re-written in 1997 by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans. Their efforts to make the language more powerful for e-commerce applications resulted in PHP 3.0, which provided strong extensibility features that made it very easy to write additions and extensions for the language.

In 1999, Suraski and Gutmans founded Zend Technologies, the PHP Company. Zend is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. Zend products and services support the entire lifecycle of PHP web applications and are deployed by more than 27,000 companies worldwide.

Increasing the Maturity of the PHP Application Lifecycle

From development to production, Zend products help you increase the maturity of your PHP application lifecycle. This process is accomplished through a combination of popular open source projects, enterprise-grade products, and comprehensive service and support.

Develop & Test
Release better code sooner, increase developer productivity

If you’re a professional PHP developer or a development manager, you’re probably under pressure to write more code, produce fewer defects, and meet delivery deadlines. Zend helps by arming you with professional-grade tools – Zend Studio and Zend Server – as well as support and consulting services that will help you make every project a success.

Zend Studio’s powerful code editing capabilities combined with the open source Zend Framework enable PHP teams to jump start development projects and rapidly deliver good quality code.

Zend Studio and Zend Server minimize the number of defects when an application is deployed to production while still enhancing overall development productivity.

Zend provides comprehensive technical support for its commercial products. Zend also offers a variety of developer certifications, training courses, and design and code audits that enable companies to build and maintain a high level of technical expertise.

Deploy & Manage
Ensure successful application deployments, high availability & enhanced performance

Running a business-critical application in production involves stringent requirements for optimal performance, availability and security. To meet these requirements, you will need a combination of enterprise-ready software products and top services and support. Zend helps thousands of customers successfully run and manage
their applications in production.

Zend Server and Zend Platform provide a robust, scalable runtime environment that is used throughout the application lifecycle to ensure consistency and reduce the number of configuration problems.

Through multiple caching and acceleration technologies, Zend Server and Zend Platform optimize application performance. Built-in application monitoring alerts to slowdowns or errors in applications and captures the information required for isolation and root cause analysis. Integration with Zend Studio ensures developers can easily reproduce any problem in the development lab, thereby expediting the support process and enabling quick response to issues in production.