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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fulcrum

    Score7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Fulcrum is a hosted mobile forms platform that enables users to build custom apps for capturing information from the field. Users can design forms using the intuitive, web-based drag-and-drop designer and deploy to their mobile workforce for gathering information like Text, Photos, SpatialVideo, SpatialAudio, Signatures, Barcodes, GPS Location, and more.

    $15

    per month per user

    Mendix

    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.

    $0

    Pricing
    FulcrumMendix
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $15
    per month per user
    Professional
    $46
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Free Edition
    $0
    Pro Edition
    1,250
    per month (billed annually)
    Enterprise Edition
    1,675
    per month (billed annually)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FulcrumMendix
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    FulcrumMendix
    Considered Both Products
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    No answer on this topic
    Siemens AG
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    FulcrumMendix
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Fulcrum and Mendix
    Feature
    Fulcrum
    -
    Ratings
    Mendix
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings9.39 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings9.49 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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    FulcrumMendix
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    User Ratings
    FulcrumMendix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (66 ratings)
    Usability
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    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (14 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FulcrumMendix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    We use Fulcrum to record information about vehicles and our product in the field to ensure we have clean and organized records of work completed and issues encountered. This has unlocked immense value for us. It allows managers to review work to maintain high quality. Using Fulcrum has also allowed for large amounts of field data to be gathered and quickly transferred from our field team to our engineering team when necessary.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    • Notation of photographs.
    • Consistency between field staff observations.
    • Reduces report writing time.
    • Near real time sharing of notes between field and office staff.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    • We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    • Advanced features are not extremely intuitive for less technical audience.
    • Must reassign records to a different user to discontinue an account.
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    Siemens AG
    • Earlier versions lacked in UI/Ux. This is still improving.
    • Since everyone and anyone can create custom add ons (widgets), Mendix could improve their quality checks (but not as rigid as eg Apple).
    • Upgradeability used to be somewhat of an issue. Version 7 looks to be handling this better than previous versions.
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    Usability
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Siemens AG
    A 10 would say I have nothing to wish for. A 9 means I haven't seen anything better.This tool really helps you in the whole creation and maintenace cycle, so from requirements to building/modeling to testing to deploying to capturing feedback.
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    Support Rating
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Siemens AG
    Response times are quick and you will get updates regularly about the status of your request. Even with very technical questions they have specialists that can help you with your problems it will give you an answer or help you with a work around.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    No answers on this topic
    Siemens AG
    Mendix would be my preferred system all the way. The system is designed for these kinds of works. I've worked with WP and DNN but they should be used just for websites. To create an app for a business value, I would suggest Mendix. Also, the offline capabilities of Mendix have greatly improved since the deployment of Mendix 7.13.
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    Return on Investment
    Fulcrum (Spatial Networks, Inc)
    • Manual data entry of collected field information is no longer required saving anywhere from 1 to 10 hours of tedious work and eliminating human error.
    • Clients are impressed with our ability to use digital field notes and our ability to communicate in near real time which helps ensure client retention and expanding our envelope of work with them.
    • Instead of spending time trying to find out what, why, where, and when a picture was taken the guess work is removed as photos are georeferenced and can be annotated in the field.
    Incentivized
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    Siemens AG
    • It helps to speed up application development because of its low code by the fact that it's low code. It allows professional developers to focus more on specialized application development rather than the more routine application development that business IT and super users can do for themselves with some coaching from the IT department. So it's just allowing the more specialist professional developers.net, for example, Java in our organization to focus on more complex engineering application developments.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Fulcrum Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create Custom FormsScreenshot of Capture The DetailsScreenshot of Replacing Paper Forms

    Mendix Screenshots

    Screenshot of Agile Project Management: Collaborate. Manage. Iterate.Screenshot of Central App Management: Application Management Made Easy.Screenshot of App Store: Hundreds of building blocks to get you out of the gate.Screenshot of 1-Click Deployment: Efficient DevOps. Enabled.