Case Study: bitExpert achieves faster development and simpler debugging with JetBrains PhpStorm

bitExpert - Customer Case Study

bitExpert is a 24‑employee technology firm in Mannheim that builds custom web and mobile applications for clients from startups to BASF, Bosch and SAP. As the team standardized on PSR for PHP and frequently took over large, diverse customer codebases across PHP, Java and JavaScript stacks, they needed a fast, standards‑friendly IDE with easy debugging and strong code navigation.

Since 2014 the team adopted PhpStorm, whose speed, powerful navigation, extensible plugin ecosystem (e.g., Grunt support) and simple debugger made it easier to enforce PSR standards, work efficiently on large legacy projects and encourage daily debugging—boosting developer productivity and reducing onboarding friction.

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bitExpert

Stephan Hochdörfer

Head of Technology