Google Search Appliance (discontinued) vs. Mendix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
The Google Search Appliance provided document indexing. The product was discontinued in favor of Google's cloud-based options.N/A
Mendix
Score 7.1 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
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Editions & Modules
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Free Edition
$0
Pro Edition
1,250
per month (billed annually)
Enterprise Edition
1,675
per month (billed annually)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Features
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
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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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User Ratings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(66 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(14 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Mendix
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
The Google Search Appliance is well suited to most site search needs and it is possible to customize the front end seen by website visitors to produce a satisfactory basic interface with basic branding applied to it. However, in some situations it may be necessary to instead make API calls from a web page to retrieve search results and the format in which those results are returned might be a little more difficult to work with.
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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.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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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.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It's my understanding that Google is ending support for the appliance soon. This is obviously an important consideration.
  • The administrator interface is far from easy to use.
  • There is a significant learning curve for new users.
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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
Discontinued Products
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
Discontinued Products
Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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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
Discontinued Products
Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • The GSA was not cheap. At all.
  • There has also been a cost associated with our need to switch to another site search solution in the near future, due to Google ending support for the sppliance.
  • That said, we have so much support content that we owed it to our customers to offer a comprehensive search tool to help them find the most relevant content - and of course Google are the masters of this. However, it's worth noting that the alogorithms used on the GSA are far older than those used on google.com.
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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.
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