Case Study: evolver group achieves higher developer productivity and streamlined web development with JetBrains PhpStorm

evolver group - Customer Case Study

evolver group is a Chemnitz-based software company (founded 1999, 50+ employees) that builds products and IT solutions for the media industry, serving clients like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Axel Springer. Faced with a heterogeneous stack—PHP backends (Zend, Symfony, Doctrine), JavaScript/Node toolchains, various VCS and testing tools—the development team had evaluated multiple IDEs and needed a single fast, well-integrated environment to support their complex workflows.

The team standardized on PhpStorm in late 2013, using it for both backend and frontend work. Built-in features (code completion, debugger, linters, DB/SQL integration, terminal, remote interpreters) plus plugins for Composer, PHPUnit, Grunt, Angular, Git/Subversion and more replaced many third-party tools, streamlined workflows and boosted developer productivity—so much so that the entire team now uses PhpStorm across projects.

evolver group

Daniel Schröder

Development lead