Aldon Enhances PHP Support within Growing Application Lifecycle Management Offering

Emeryville, CA—September 02, 2008—Aldon today announced enhanced support for the open-source PHP language as part of its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite. By using Aldon ALM to manage PHP, organizations gain processes, predictability and visibility across Web-centric development projects – key benefits rarely associated with that area of development. The enhanced PHP functionality found with Zend, the PHP company, demonstrates Aldon’s commitment in delivering the most complete ALM, crossing both traditional and Web-based development.

PHP is the powerful, open, and easy-to-use Web application language widely used for content management, customer relationship management, blogs, e-commerce, and many other Web-based applications. It is now the most widely used web scripting language, surpassing ASP. In the IBM i (System i, iSeries, AS/400) world, more and more companies are turning to PHP to modernize their applications and create web-based interfaces to RPG programs and DB2 database files.

Zend (www.zend.com), has established itself as the de facto guardian of the PHP language with its Zend Solutions for IBM i. Aldon’s compatibility with the Zend Studio for Eclipse development environment has now brought comprehensive ALM capabilities to the PHP community. It also opens the door for IBM i platform users looking to modernize applications faster with ALM.

Open-source PHP has given developers access to a rich and dynamic object-oriented language while the open-source Zend Framework promotes best practices and provides myriad building-block components to speed up time to production. However managing these fast-moving projects is a big challenge. Strict management of the open-source code behind these applications is vital to maintain established Service Level Agreements and to comply with strict auditing regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley. Aldon’s process-driven ALM is perfectly suited to address these issues. It provides the development flexibility, management and control essential for successful business application development. It can also manage all aspects of PHP development, including testing, deployment, implementation, and reporting.

Jim Dillard, Alliance Manager for Zend Technologies, states, “Zend’s goal is to set the standard for best practices in high-end PHP development across the entire application lifecycle and that can only get better with Aldon in the mix. With Aldon ALM, we anticipate new levels of operational efficiency where projects can be tracked, code easily found, and teams work together on an entirely new level.” Aldon’s integrated inventory management is a key piece to delivering that efficiency, ensuring that all facets of an enterprise-crossing PHP application are fully tracked. This gives PHP adopters the following benefits:

For more information about Aldon ALM please visit  our solutions page. Aldon is exhibiting at ZendCon 2008, Zend’s PHP conference and expo in Santa Clara, California, from September 15-18, 2008 and is co-hosting a webinar with Zend next month.  For more information and to register for ZendCon please visit Zend.

About Aldon

Aldon is the ALM company for IT compliance. For over 25 years, we have been the experts in providing application lifecycle management solutions to ensure that change management, collaboration, and compliance are applied consistently across all areas of IT. Through our user-centric approach to process management, our service, change, and release management products help you focus on what you do best—providing superior services, rapidly developing applications, and efficiently managing your IT operations. Behind the scenes, we help you increase productivity, accelerate time-to-market, fully understand your IT assets, and easily achieve compliance with regulatory standards. A true testament to our products is our customer base with over 1,300 companies worldwide in over 70 of the Fortune 100. These companies rely upon our solutions to manage their global IT business and operations processes including application development, network operations, and services management. We are headquartered in Emeryville, California and have offices around the world serving more than 60 countries.