Case Studies

Since it was first released in late ’05, ZK^® has garnered 1,500,000 downloads and a user base from all over the world. With an easy to implement markup language and high profile integration into other systems, ZK^® is deployed in many fields including Student Record Systems, Blood Flow Analysis systems and Mission Critical Business Systems.

These case studies describe how ZK^® can help your company and organization! After reading these articles you will understand why the respective companies chose ZK^® as the best RIA solution and how they used ZK^® to improve performance and productivity.

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	ZK helps University of Oxford tackles the challenge of large amounts of data within the system with a satisfying performance ZK + Excel-based Administration System MSDLT, University of Oxford is responsible for the development of e-learning, research and admin systems in University of Oxford. None of other systems in the marketwere able to provide these features. With ZK, we are able to develop web-base rich client system without any investment on training and staff development.
	SEB Estonia utilises ZK for developing their teller front application modernising existing teller front to help serve customers more efficiently ZK + SPRING + HIBERNATE SEB is the second largest commercial bank in Estonia, offering a complete range of services for private individuals, companies and institutions. one of the strongest sides of ZK is its efficiency in using server-side resources and fine granulated communication between the browser and server. Server-centric architecture allows fast development.
	Easit overcame the shortcomings of the web interface and sped up the application with Spring and Hibernate ZK + SPRING + HIBERNATE Easit develops software for people and organizations who deliver support and customer service. For us ZK was felt like the correct choice and after over one year of developing, we know we made the right choice! GWT was really nice but none of the developers liked it as much as ZK.
	A Developer’s Diary by Ron Grimes - Part 1 A Developer’s Diary by Ron Grimes - Part 2 Sinclair is a software company supporting multi-industry enterprises with IT responsibilities to an oil & gas company, hotels, ski resorts and a large cattle ranching operation Doing as much with as little as possible is our de facto motto. And, ZK has become a critical centrepiece of that strategy”
	Thinking Nerworks leverages ZK to build TN Plannning, a suite for intricate and challenging planning tasks with rich configuration options & extensibility to adapt to the most specialized needs & requirements in areas of planning, simulation, cost allocation, and legal consolidation. Thinking Networks AG is among the leading companies operating in the German software market. ZK gives us the option to seamlessly integrate parts written in dynamic languages in order to retain TN Planning’s extensibility through user defined macros
	Effective Intelligence leveraged the power of ZK to deliver Basil - bringing large scale standardization to companies & facilitate better project management processes, reporting, resource management & client invoicing. ZK + Java EE + Glassfish + Hibernate EI offers a broad range of consumer information management services including solutions for targeted prospecting, intelligent enhancement of customer contact data as well as the technology for managing it and online verification services. ZK gives the developer freedom to extend and thereby create custom company widgets without losing any of the power of ZK
	Dingen leverages ZK to build SAyGes, a system used to automate administrative processes with the facilities that propose the development of desktop applications. ZK + Spring + BONITA +MySQL Dingen provides technology solutions that streamline and transparent administrative procedures, developing and implementing high quality software based on open source technology of lastest generation. easy to development,seamless integration with Java, efficient MVC model view controller, complete documentation & shallow learning curve.
	STE Energy leveraged the power of ZK to deliver a desktop-llike application with less work than developing a real desktop application ZK + Spring + Hibernate +MySQL STE Energy develops, designs, builds and manages energy production plants especially in hydropower, electrical and thermo-technical systems. Simplicity, component quality, community
	Holland developer Abdullahi Egal works with HIRDA and leverages ZK Java Web Framework to create an education administration management system to promote unity of educational organizations, give transparency to school activities, and provide educational opportunities for school children in Africa. ZK + Spring + Hibernate +MySQL ZK boosted my productivity, and made it possible to create a full school management system within a short period of time
	Taiwan Futures Exchange (TaiFEX) makes major productivity gains with ZK Developed a Web Transaction Monitoring System using ZK Taiwan Futures Exchange (TaiFEX), top 18 futures exchange in the world, launched WTMS in 2008 to monitor 40,000 transactions per second. Without ZK, it’ll be very difficult for us to develop such a dynamic Web application!
	ZK utilised for Cloud Based Medical Solution integrating Spring and Hibernate, increasing diabetes patients' QOL and health care. ZK + SPRING + HIBERNATE Institute for Information Industry, the largest information and communicaton technology development organisation in Taiwan. ZK is currently the most intact Ajax web application framework available in the industry, providing high level integratioin and support. ZK effectively redues development time by 1/2.
	Pennant Technoligies is leveraging ZK framework for all future applications With its head office & global development centre in India, Pennant Technologies fortes in enterprise application integration, custom application development & consulting services. Leveraging on ZK framework and using it as a base for all future applications marks a new beginning for Pennant. ZK brings the unparalleled benefit of developer-centric approach to all projects of Pennant.
	ZK based web application forms the heart of RWorks' management system Cloud Based Workforce Management System RWorks is an Irish company producing software solutions for the management of dispersed teams. we needed to be productive fast ... only ZK provided that level of business agility. The values in ZK which we recognized the most are good documentation, very easy to start with - the fact that you can have a moveable window in a web page in a few lines is incredible.
	doubleSlash fulfills the requirements of their customers with ZK's flexibility in customizing and ability to fast prototype Web based tool for secure file transfer and marketing planner doubleSlash offers a wide range of IT-services including consulting, conceptual design, IT-architecture, programming, support and service. New forms can be created in just a few minutes and easily be connected to entities using data binding, ZK was just the best choice! They were easy to implement and, more importantly, to customize... With ZK, it was all possible!
	ZK evidently reduced development time for DIMOCO’s Administration GUIs WEB Administration GUIs DIMOCO is an international mobile messaging & payment provider in the business-to-business sector. The simplicity to add UI components programmatically and the handsomeness of the components as a whole convinced the evaluation team. ZK evidently reduced development time for DIMOCO’s Administration GUIs. Comparing to their existing STRUTS framework, the time factor is obvious...
	Our project was completed with success and ZK helped to speed up development cycle ZK Spring + MySQL + JPA Hibernate + Tomcat PMQ is an IT company located in Czech Republic specialising in educational softwares and apps for web and mobiles, and has been working with ZK since 2011. Another candidate was GWT, but it did not have as many controls as it is included in ZK
	ZK effectively reduces development time and effort for BrightSide Workbench and achieving limitless designs with non-intrusive components ZK + Hibernate + Apache Commons + Elephant Libraries BrightSide Workbench is part of Turro.Org foundation offering users from application framework, contacts, Attachments, Dossiers, Publications, Acceptances and eventually to an ERP system. I was fully convinced after some lines of code: I had the right choice for desktop-like web applications.
	River Software Technologies created a riverPortals solution to achieve better web portal deployments for small to medium entrepreneurs Fully based on ZK River Software Technologies creates softwares for any type of industry with special focus on Telecommunications and Government in LATAM, Spain & Europe. When I came across ZK I thought I’ve found the ‘Holy Grail’, because it has all the benefits of powerful end user features, plus the power of solid Java server side logic. Whatever it takes 50 lines in GWT and several files, it only takes a few lines of code and two files to do the same with ZK.
	PrimeScale improved IT operational efficiency with ZK ZK + JasperReports + Quartz Enterprise Scheduler PrimeScale AG is a German consulting company experienced in business reorganization & service-orientation consulting. After we decided to use ZK and a half year of migration, we speeded up our development 4 times faster than before and this is real! ZK is very well designed and an active product. This framework is what we expected from Sun, but they missed the train.
	Omnisys maximizes development resources with ZK + Hibernate ZK + Java + Hibernate Omnisys is a free, agent-less systems monitoring and management platform, utilizing most major protocols and platforms to provide a completely customized monitoring solution. None of this would have been possible, or look nearly as good without the ZK framework. This is a shining example of what an open-source project should be. I can be confident that my application will always look fantastic and work seamlessly, when the only effort required on my end is updating a few libraries.
	MedVoxel saved not only their release cycle but decreased the maintenance time and cost with the aid of ZK Ajax technology Developed an automatic medical imaging Web app MedVoxel develops leading applications for medical imaging. Due to the server-centric approach, programmers don’t even think of the “Web”.
	Spidex and their customers are extremely impressed with the ability to rapidly develop prototypes ZK + Spring (with Acegi) + iBatis Spidex Software Limited is UK and Irish distributor of the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) System, Mainsaver. ZK provides a means of supplying a rich user interface with minimum complexity. The ability to use ZUL to prototype a screen with user feedback is extremely useful! The prototype can then be developed into the actual interface, reducing initial development time!
	ZK made it possible to achieve the desired result with a very short development period and very high satisfaction ZK+ JavaBean + Hibernate Ideaaa provides Web applications and services to Custom Brokers of Mexico City International Airport, Latin America's largest and busiest airport. In the test, we developed an User Interface with validations in few minutes, while in traditional JSP with JavaScript it could be hours. It was awesome to see the power of Ajax without using JavaScript and it was really easy to integrate ZK with other frameworks!
	Marque Já! meets the needs of larger clients with the architecture of ZK + SPRING + HIBERNATE ZK + SPRING + HIBERNATE Marque Já! offers another channel for users wanting to schedule their appointments online. Initially the idea was to migrate to Struts GWT, but when I experienced the ease of ZK, I had no more doubts. Luckily I took the right decision. This high productivity, combination of ZK + AndroMDA, impressed us very much !
	Mecatena meets growing customer demand with ZK ZK + Spring + Hibernate, ZK + Liferay + Alfresco Mecatena is dedicated to full office solutions, specializes in open source based systems integration and J2EE development. From continuing tests and works, we keep getting back to the same final truth: NO technology delivers yet as well and as easy Ajax as ZK does. What ZK keeps offering to our customers is the fastest way of getting interfaces that fits their look and needs, with Ajax powered, and with a very small and smooth knowledge curve!
	DBL has effectively reduced development time with ZKs’ extensibility and ability to rapidly prototype ZK + Spring DBL offers customized Apache OFBiz installations for enterprises. They started using ZK for all new web-development in early 2007, and these systems are now in use by clients in various private sector firms. All of our developers who have changed to ZK have enjoyed it and none want to go back.

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Case Studies