Consultants first, developers second.
Since 2004, the roots of Z9 Digital are in building and managing custom enterprise web applications. Over the years we have specialized in e-commerce sites, company brand stores, content management system sites, multi-channel order fulfillment, online training, and event management systems.
We start with the business
We work closely with our clients to figure out the right thing to build, not just to write code against a spec.
Solutions, not products
Our mission is to help companies leverage web technology to their advantage, with software shaped around how they actually work.
We host and run it
We do not hand off and walk away. We keep what we build live in production, with hosting, backups, monitoring, and security handled, so you never need an in-house server team.
Senior people, start to finish.
A small senior team with roots in custom enterprise web applications. You work directly with the people building your software.
Allan Vest
- Computer Engineering degree from Michigan State University.
- 7 years as a technical team leader and project manager for web development agencies.
- Started a web development company specializing in e-commerce in 2004.
Zeeshan Elahi
- Computer Science degree.
- 17 years of experience.
- Lead developer at Z9 Digital since 2016.
- Handles development, system management, and support.
Twenty years of building and running software.
Resource Solutions Network
Built a system for a print company that spun up an individually branded online catalog site for each of their customers.
Sprocket Express
Built a multi-channel order-management system for an e-commerce fulfillment company. It harvested orders from hundreds of stores every hour and synced inventory and shipment status back several times a day.
WIT
Partnered with WIT on a project that builds and maintains a training-compliance platform for a Detroit-area mental-health authority. It has since supported 79,000+ staff across 171 organizations through 3.6M required compliance trainings.
Z9 Platform
Built FastPitch, a tool to quickly set up and manage client web servers. It was the seed of what is now Z9 Platform.
Released Server Automation Manager (SAM) as a licensed product. Internally, SAM is the heart of our managed hosting service that is now Z9 Platform.
Z9 Promo
Launched our first company brand store for a promotional-product distributor.
Began the process of automating how we stand up new instances of company brand stores.
Incorporated everything we had learned about standing up brand stores and decided to build a new system from scratch to specifically meet the unique requirements of the promo industry. Set a goal to be able to run hundreds of company brand stores on one instance of the system.
First pilot of what is now Z9 Promo. The system included one place to see all orders across all brand stores.
Z9 Promo now supports fully automated do-it-yourself site setup along with automated product pricing and availability updates.
Released support for pop-up shops to handle employee-reward sites into Z9 Promo.
A major Z9 Promo milestone: released what is now the internal version of Z9 Promo that supports multiple dealers on one platform.
I started Z9 in 2004 to build software that fits the business it is built for, and to still be running it years later. That has not changed. When you work with us, you work directly with the small senior team that writes the code, me included. If you have a client project that needs engineering you can put your name on, I would like to hear about it.