Who's using ZK?

With over 500,000 downloads within 2 years, ZK empowers a wide variety of companies and institutions, ranging from small to large in multiple industries. ZK's customers and users include Fortune 500 companies (Barclays, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Re, Alcatel-Lucent, State Grid, China Southern Power Grid), governments (USA, Spain, Japan, New Zealand, China) and tens of thousands of developers in the world.
Here is just a small list of companies, organizations and individuals who are using ZK.

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Barclays Global Investors(BGI) [Fortune Global 500 #83] is the leader in creating investment solutions and also one of the largest asset managers in the world. BGI manages more than $1.8 trillion in assets (December 2006) for institutional and individual investors across the globe. The development teams in Sydney and San Francisco are developing the new Web application with ZK.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. [Fortune 500 # 187] provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor. For the third year in a row, Sun is among the top 10 Fortune 500 companies that lead the country by providing outstanding commuter benefits to a significant portion of its U.S. Sun has chosen ZK as the frontend to refine a Web application serving Sun's customers in the world.
Swiss Re [Fortune Global 500 #206] is the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, offers financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. Swiss Re chooses ZK to build a system for customer use.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is a premier applied science laboratory that is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) within the Department of Energy (DOE). With broadly based capabilities and leadership in mission-focused areas of science and engineering, the Laboratory pursues major research programs in energy and environment, bioscience and biotechnology, and basic science and advanced technology.
The 3D CSI which won the "Creative Use of Java Technology End to End" in 2007 Duke's Choice Awards is a ZK-enabled platform-independent command-and-control software suite for the Department of Energy.
Alcatel-Lucent [Fortune Global 500 #401] provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. Alcatel-Lucent today is one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent is using ZK to rewrite Web applications.
State Grid Corporation of China [Fortune Global 500 #29] is the largest electric utility in China, covering 26 provinces and regions which equals to 88% of the national territory. In 2005, SGCC sold electric power up to 1464.6 TWh and achieved a net profit of RMB14.4 billion yuan profit which ranked the 40th in the Fortune Global 500 in the same year. SGCC uses ZK to build a power-supply management system controlling the electricity network.
Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE) [Fortune Global 500 #450] is Canada's largest communications company, providing the most comprehensive and innovative suite of communication services to residential and business customers in Canada. For 127 years Bell Canada has served Canadians' communication needs. Recently, an advance internal people searching tool has been provided in the company. In this project, ZK is adopted as the front end and a complex conceptual search engine is behind the scene. Architech Solutions and Singens Inc. worked on the project.
Banco Comercial e de Investimentos (BCI Fomento), is one of the largest private financial group in Mozambique. It is contributing for the development of the financial system and the Mozambican economy. ZK is used in the presentation layer of a web application for foreign operations (Payment of Orders, etc.), because the advantage of rich user interface for web applications with little programming.
The University of Oxford is one of the leading universities in the world. The Learning Technologies Group (LTG) in Medical Science Division supports all divisions within the University of Oxford in the development and innovative use of IT in teaching and research by providing e-learning platforms, computer-aided research programs and so on.
Recently LTG is migrating their student record management system from an Excel-based one to an Ajaxified Web system with centralized database. "We adopted Hibernate Spring and of course ZK! It is fantastic when using ZK to deliver Ajax components." View screenshots & details (pdf) now!
Easit AB, founded in Sweden, develops software for people and organizations who deliver support and customer service, covering processes around time reporting, project management, asset management, and CRM. Take a look at the flash demo of their system using ZK and read the case study to know how it is done!
STE energy, established in 1995 in Padua, Italy, is one of the major operators in the field of energy and plant engineering. It develops, designs, builds and manages energy production plants, especially the hydropower type and electrical and thermotechnical systems, as a general contractor. It also builds wind, solar and biomass cogeneration systems all over the world. STE engery uses ZK to build their internal ERP system.
Kinetic Networks is a premier services and products company specializing in innovative information management solutions, including large and complex data warehouses and business intelligence environments. Best known for its data warehousing and business intelligence services, Kinetic Networks offers a full suite of services for the information management lifecycle. ZK is used to implement a sensitive data governance solution.
The National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) is a non-profit foundation established by the government with its organization charter created by an Act of Congress in 1995. Being an autonomous research organization under the supervision of the Department of Health, the NHRI is dedicated to the enhancement of medical research and the improvement of health care in Taiwan.
Spidex Software Limited is the UK and Irish distributor of the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) System Mainsaver. Since its first release, Mainsaver has undergone 22 years of continuous development from some of the industry's finest developers. This has produced an extremely robust and flexible engineering solution, now deployed in more than 3,000 locations worldwide. Read case study.
The Institute for Information Industry (III) was established in 1979 as a non-governmental organization, jointly sponsored by the Taiwan government and prominent private enterprises, for the purpose of strengthening the developments of information industry in Taiwan. With the most advanced technologies, III has reinforced industrial development, and helped promoting full utilization of ICT technologies hence advancing the establishment of modern information society development in Taiwan. Recently, III has launched a care system for hospital use with ZK as front end.
SunoMusic is an entertainment/lifestyle hub for anyone and everyone who loves Bollywood. SunoMusic aims to make South Asian culture more widely dispersed and understood as well as offer a platform for South Asian artists to promote themselves globally. The website of SunoMusic uses ZK right from the Dojo Fisheye navigation to the Annotation Binders to render music content.
Ideaaa is company which provides Web applications and services to Custom and Brokers of Mexico City International Airport. ZK is used to take place of all the old-fashioned Web applications constructed with ASP, PHP and JSP. Project leader: Ing. Daniel Octavio Ruiz Rodriguez.
Kronos, founded in 1977, is a global provider of human capital management solutions which solely focused on delivering an integrated suite of software and services that enables organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and enhance the level of service they provide. Today, Kronos has 3,400+ employees and 60+ offices worldwide.
Bank's soft systems, located in Moscow, is a leading company of automated systems for remote banking. Founded in 1994, BSS offers a comprehensive suite of services for establishing electronic banking for all types of bank customers. Over 50% of the largest Russian banks are running systems developed by BSS. BSS adopts ZK as the Ajax front end.
Da 42 anni BELLUCCI SPA organizza il business dei suoi Clienti. Dall'avvento dell'informatica distribuita, l'integrazione ed il controllo delle attività aziendali sono realta che BELLUCCI realizza, sfruttando la grande competenza ed esperienza acquisita sul campo, nel confronto continuo con le aspettative e le diverse realta di migliaia di Clienti in tutti i settori.(Italian)
Marque JA!! is a tool designed for companies and professionals, offering another channel for scheduling commitments with their customers in a simpler way. Unlike traditional calendars, with Marque JA!! you can fully control and decide the day and time you want. Furthermore, Marque JA!! has a great innovation: it can send SMS to confirm the commitment between each other. Marque JA!!'s GUI is 100% done with ZK. Check out flash demo and case study right now.
China Motion Telecare, a division of China Motion Telecom Group, is a leading company providing inbound/outbound call service, human resource service, consultantion and training service in call center field in China mainland. China Motion Telecare chooses ZK to simplify the development of web-based MIS systems, such as examing application for human resource service, telecom billing query application for financial department, etc.
Singens Inc., based in Toronto, Canada, is not a regular Java shop or any shop for that matter. They develop a range of applications, from simple and small Web/Form development to Enterprise Portal development. Singens is always ready to contribute time and code to Open Source community as they are promoting and using open source developed libraries and tools. Singens is using ZK as the front end for their new projects.
Processwide , located in Zurich, Switzerland, is your one-stop-shop for integrated and innovative Workflow or BPM solutions based on state-of-the-art information technology. The main goal of Processwide is to increase the overall performance of the customers business processes. "The excellent architecture and the rich set of available components make the ZK Framework the optimal choice for our web based workflow solutions."
Beijing Minsheng Management Software is a leading system integrator in China with 380 software developers. ZK has been adopted since early 2006 and become their standard Ajax UI for all of the 11 product lines. Currently, more than 100 developers are using ZK at Minsheng.
Kazeon Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise information access solutions that revolutionize the way companies search, classify and act on information. The Kazeon Information Server IS1200 was awarded the storage management "Product of the Year" by TechTarget's Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com. The colorful management Web interface for the storage devices is done with ZK.
Taiwan Futures Exchange (TaiFEX) provides investors with more efficient and quality services allowing buyers and sellers to arrive at the best prices for a given futures or options on futures contract. In 2006, TaiFEX's global ranking is 6th on stock index options trading volume. The volume of index futures and options traded at TaiFEX is 114.6 million contracts(2006). TaiFEX is migrating her Futures Management System from client/server to Web-based system with ZK. Read case study.
MapInfo Corporation is a worldwide leading provider of location intelligence solutions. MapInfo is named to Forbes' 200 Best Small Companies List in 2006. With ZK, MapInfo created a fabulous real-time web map Evention, which supports drag & drop, zoom, traffic analysis and lots of cool functions. "Credit must go to the amazing ZK team. Our tricked user interface is mostly done using their API. We like what they have built."
Odorfer Eisenhof GmbH, Austria, is a 200 years old company providing over forty-thousand products ranging from tools, machines, building and garden necessities to screws, pins, wires and wire goods. Odorfer Online Katalog-System, an online catalog and shopping system, is developed with ZK.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council (AFFRC) is established under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan. The information center handles and develops the retrieval systems for supply of information concerning research and experiments related to agriculture, forestry and fisheries, both domestic and overseas. AAFRC develops RiceMet System with ZK to display and compare various types of rice-related data including yield, quality, etc. all over Japan.
China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (CSG) [Fortune Global 500 #237], China, provides power to 230,000,000 people and covers five provinces in China with a west-to-east distance of about 2000 km. Some of CSG's web pages, such as the recruiting pages, have been migrated to modern faces with ZK.
Syntricity was founded by semiconductor engineers who understood the power of the Internet in automating processes such as device characterization and yield monitoring. By providing a true Enterprise Yield Management(EYM) solution, the proactive yield management across the entire product lifecycle and throughout the enterprise is delivered. ZK is used to enrich the user interface of the yield management system.
The uniVersa Group is the first private health insurance provider in Germany, offering customized life, health and general insurance solutions. With more than 150 years experience, uniVersa is specialized in households and small and medium-sized companies. ZK is adopted for developing and modernize their Web applications for internal and external use.
Immediate Response Team, Germany, provides ZK-bench , an eclipse-plugin for work with ZK. It's an IDE with features which make the plugin a Next-Generation IDE so that database-based Web-development becomes now easy like a breeze. IR-Team is true for speedy, qualified and fair dealing. She does consulting as well as development for database-based web applications and the development process itself.
Database, Lda, Mozambique, offers customized Apache OFBiz installations for small and medium enterprises. After a six-month evaluation, Database chooses ZK among plenty of Ajax solutions, such as GWT, OpenLaszlo, DOJO. Database is switching all of web-based products (currently 3) to ZK framework.
Sobedi informationsmangement gmbh, Germany, is specialized in professionalizing business project management, knowledge management and procurement. RISK-MAP is Sobedi's risk management solution which provides a web based platform for enterprise wide, international risk management and documentation. Using ZK framework and the proprietary development "Generic Object Framework" (GOF) as the JAVA oriented application development environment, sobedi presents this solution now to international customers.
The Ministry of Justice, New Zealand, delivers a wide variety of services from court services and fines collection to policy advice, negotiation of Treaty of Waitangi claims and running the parliamentary elections. The Ministry administers legislation and provides services to contribute to safer communities and a fairer, more credible and more effective justice system. The Ministry adopts ZK to enrich the interface of her Web applications.
Govern de les Illes Balears is the local government of les Illes Balearschose area in Spain. ZK is used as the Web front end for both citizen users and government's internal use. RFID is one of the official websites with ZK available for public access now.
Noaris Consulting S.L., Spain, is an IT/software company focused on innovational technologies as well as software. Noaris provides a revolutionary view to the software development in order to lead the competitive edge. In the accomplishment of projects, it's crucial important in the phase of selection of technologies. In Noaris, we work with latest technologies in software development. We are expert in consolidated technologies like Java/JavaEE and those emergent ones like Ruby on Rails as well as in frameworks of development based on ZK.
Tsinghua University, consists of 54 departments among 13 colleges, is the best university in China. The School of Economics and Management (SEM), one of the first economics and management schools in China, is now among the premier schools in Asia. Tsinghua SEM uses ZK to develop an Ajaxified Web application for students to use.
University of Vermont, offering 93 bachelor's programs and 70+ master's and doctoral programs, is one of the oldest universities in New England area. By creating an OpenGIS mapping component with OpenLayers, Ecoinformatics lab is using ZK to implement an outdoor travel portal with user generated contents.
Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (BIGC), China, is a general polytechnic university of technology, humanities, arts, and management. BIGC is among the first batch of higher learning institutions which were granted the right to confer bachelor’s degrees in China. At present, BIGC has 7,200 full-time students and more than 330 teachers. Teaching Management System, developed with ZK, is a web-based management system for teachers at BIGC.
Compiere, Inc. delivers the most widely used open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solution with more than 1.2 million software downloads. ZK is used as the rich user interface in the latest 3.0 release of community edition.
ADempiere is a smart professional open source business solution that delivers ERP, CRM, POS, shop floor, supply chain management functionality. Now, ZK has been chosen to Ajaxify ADempiere Posterita, a full web-based highly enhanced Point Of Sale System. Posterita, Mauritius, is the world pioneer in designing, developing and marketing business for web applications based on ADempiere. OpenCms is a professional, easy to use website content management solution. As one of the most popular open source CMS, OpenCms helps worldwide content managers to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently. OpenCms 7 is lanuched in July 2007 after 18 months of development. QuinScape GmbH and Alkacon Software GmbH supported the development of the new version. In order to realize Web inteface up-to-date without complex programming, Quinscape integrate prominent ZK in OpenCms.
LibX is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to your library's resources. LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. Currently, 61 academic and public libraries (Harvard, MIT, New York State Library, etc.) are offering LibX editions to their users, and additional 86 libraries are testing editions. LibX Edition Builder uses ZK as the rich user interface to build and manage LibX editions. LibX is created by Annette Bailey and Godmar Back. LibX Edition Builder is written by Tilottama Gaat and Godmar Back.
XPS Software GmbH is a German software company specialized in data security and encryption technologies. Long term unequaled experience in the IBM mainframe world is complemented by the most modern specialised client/server and security skills. Adrenalin, a workshop application for ServEx, XPS' Web services engine, enables the administration of address data stored in a MySQL database using Web services. Adrenalin uses ZK as the Ajax front end. Download Adrenalin.
Magister Confort S.A. is a Spanish company dedicated to the manufacture and sale of mattresses, divan bases, pillows and headboards. Magister offers a wide range of products capable of satisfying fully the needs of their clients because all their products depart from a careful selection and control of the best materials of the market. Magister uses ZK in the development of their ERP and other corporate applications for internal use.
Aruna is a group of asset management and consulting companies located in Poltava, Ukraine. Aruna's mission is to develop local infrastructure through implementation of venture projects. Backed up by modern technology, Aruna provides high financial returns to the investor. Currently, Aruna operates 8 venture funds, investing energy-saving and construction projects. ZK is used as a primary tool for building Aruna's website.
Aneric Enterprise Pte Ltd, a sales and service organization specialized in Semiconductor services and equipments, is one of the best equipment manufacturers for the wafer fabs. In addition to semiconductor services, Aneric deals with other electronics industries by offering software products. ZK is adopted as the user interface for customer use.
NGASI AppServer Manager automates multiple installations and configurations for Application Servers and the Applications on a single server machine, across multiple VPS, and across multiple servers. For IT Managers, it enables central management of application server assets and resources spread across the enterprise. And for Web Hosts, it enables Private JVM JAVA Hosting. Plus 1 click installation of standard applications via the Application Factory. ZK is used to develop the WEB 2.0 styled web interface of NGASI.
999FANG.COM is a leading real estate searching engine in China. It is established by a group of professors and technical experts who aims to provide the most friendly real estate searching service to local people. Currently, 999FANG.COM covers 10 major cities in China including Peking, Shanghai and Nanking. ZK plays an important role in 999FANG.COM's searching engine by providing the functional searching user interface.
EN-UYGUN.COM is a Turkish price comparision site, which is fully developed on ZK framework. The site has a live searching engine that searches products online. Currently, it looks up for 153 online shops and lists up the best price.
WebAppCabaret is a leading Java EE Web Hosting and Outsourcing Service Provider in California, offering the latest standards based JAVA EE Servlet containers, EJB servers, and JVMs. WebAppCabaret's portal interface, providing various service options such as e-Commerce, EJB 2.x, the latest PHP, Perl and CGI scripting, is constructed with ZK.

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Webapp Generator
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REM - A NetBeans Module for ZK

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ZiNO

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