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What is Mendix?
Mendix is recognized as a leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrants and two Forrester Waves, and selected by both IBM and SAP as the standard for high-productivity development for their respective clouds. It is used by 3,400 organizations worldwide, across dozens of verticals. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
Mendix Features
- Supported: Open Platform Model API and Platform SDK
- Supported: Offline Mobile Support for Any Device
- Supported: Responsive UI Framework
- Supported: Agile Project Management
- Supported: Visual Application Development
- Supported: App Store
- Supported: Quality Assurance
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- CloudFoundry
- Amazon Web Services
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Oracle
- Pivotal
- Excel
- IBM
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- Quickbase
- Heroku Platform
- Salesforce
Mendix Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 60% |
Mendix Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
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- Development is Mendix is generally quick going. The time from whiteboard to deployed application can be a matter of days. The business side loves this and allows for continuous enhancements and modifications.
- We heavily use the feedback loop built within the application. This is used for our internal QA processes as well as for customers to submit ideas, bugs, etc. This has become a valuable asset to our team.
- The business logic capabilities are quite comprehensive and allows going back to review "code" relatively painless
- The documentation and user community could be stronger. With any other (well established) software, a quick Google of a problem will yield hundreds of results, solutions, blogs. That's not always the case with Mendix. This has improved, however, in the few years our organization has been using Mendix.
- Styling pages, forms, etc., within Mendix is a bit tedious. Without a solid foundation of css, forget about making your app look anything like you would want, aside from the out-of-the-box styling packages/templates Mendix offers.
- The Helpdesk Support is sub-par. Often times a few days will pass and a "try this... no no, try this. I meant try that..." idea(s) are thrown back. The true understanding and knowledge seems to lie with only a few individuals. Although, this too has improved in the years of using the software.
Great Mendix
- User experience
- Microflow
- Business check
- New bootstrap version
Mendix review
- Rapid application development
- Bridging the gap between IT and Business
- Overall integrator
- Mindfulness of performance
- Scalability in containers
- Development is thought of as very easy
- Data management system.
- Front-end for any back-end.
- State machines.
- Flexible implementation and change.
- Fast development (minimal time-to-market).
- The platform supports the Scrum process.
- Better support of the dev team (more detail in the changes made by each developer)
- More reliable upgrading and merging of branches.
- For-loops would be nice.
- More "what you see is what you get" (commits to the DB, refresh of pages, showing and closing pages is usually happening at the end of a transaction, instead of the moment the developer has modeled it to happen).
My thoughts about Mendix
- Rapid development; Mendix is low-code and this way offers a faster approach to software development.
- Easy to learn; Mendix can be learned by doing and is supported by good tutorials and a well supported community of developers.
- Keeping up with their own position; I believe Mendix does a good job trying to stay on top of the low code platforms.
- Mendix is becoming better in the mobile domain. There is still some work [needed] but they made great improvements since Mendix 7.
- Personally I think Mendix is somewhat expensive; I believe their pricing model could be improved for medium-sized enterprises.
Great RAD tool and easy to learn!
- Mendix is very easy to learn and free to try! The online learning paths are great and range from beginner to advanced. New learning paths are added frequently and the others are regularly maintained.
- Customising the desktop modeler works fine (placing toolbars where you want etc.) but there is no customizing the theme (yet). For instance, a dark theme would be a great addition!
Quick, Easy, robust and fast.
- Scalable
- Fast and flexible development
- No coding needed
- Secure
- Expensive
- SAP on premise v.s. SAP Cloud connectors
My Mendix experience
- Provides a great user experience
- Provides valuable insights into business processes by exposing bottlenecks with the visual style of modeling
- Is very adaptable to change
- Development time is very fast
- Pricing is quite steep
If we develop web applications or mobile applications for consumer end-users, we often use Mendix as a backend that exposes APIs for websites or mobile applications.
Alternatively, when Mendix is used internally in companies, we use the Mendix front-end framework to build a web-based application.
- Speed of development
- Deployment options
- Technical support
- Memory management
- Flexibility to improve application performance through query optimization
- Apply custom monitoring tool (only beta available)
Mendix is Fast And Secure
- Visual coding makes it easy to read code and work together with the business
- Fast application development and deployments
- Certain areas are outdated due to rapid growth
- Mobile app
Mendix has lots to offer!
- Visual coding makes it easy to read code and work together with the business
- Fast application development and deployments
- Business oriented
- No need for IT experience to get started (affinity is a must though)
- Limitations of the platform
Applying Mendix in logistics & supply chain
- Citizen development
- Integrating lifecycle management
- Creating a global community
- Local modeling
Mendix: The way to buid apps!
- Fast development (Short time-to-market)
- Scalability
- Large Appstore
- Easy to integrate with other systems
- The Mendix Sprintr environment has room for improvement
- Licenses can be quite expensive
Mendix is great for Rapid Application Development with Business People for Business People
- One click deployment
- Visual representation of data flows and database
- Easy mobile access
- 100% cloud based development
- Expensive licenses so inaccessible for smaller businesses
Mendix House
- Low-Code development = easier and much faster than coding
- Mendix comes with a full package out of the box = It is possible to integrate Mendix fully into a SCRUM lifecycle (modeler, sprintr, ATS, APM...)
- IT and business are able to communicate better via Mendix, especially due to the Web modeler.
- There are many developers who do not use the integrated sprintr of Mendix for bigger projects. Maybe it's worth finding out why exactly and improve the Mendix sprintr.
Honest trailer - Mendix
- Business-2-employee web based apps is where the true strength of Mendix is. Medium sized and large businesses that want to digitize some of their processes can do so with amazing development speed. The pricing model also encourages large companies to separate their workflow across multiple apps, keeping the apps small and easily maintainable.
- Integration with other web services, especially SOAP based, but also other RESTful services, is extremely streamlined. Data structures and web service calls are auto-generated, and sending of files via different protocols is supported without any extra effort.
- It enables developers and non-developers to quickly and easily build responsive apps.
- The App Store is critical to meeting customer expectation, because it features hundreds of ready-to-use components. The problem is that some of the components are not-updated regularly by their owners, and since Mendix is not the owner, support for these components is hard to come by.
- Offline mode has been a thing in Mendix for a few years now, and it has recently been improved to offer conflict management and other perks. However there are still unnecessary limitation to what an offline app is able to do.
- The Desktop IDE (so called Modeler) is not open for citizen developers. I think Mendix has something to learn from Eclipse and Atom to name a few, where plugins built by citizen developers greatly expand the value of the IDEs.
Mendix review for version 4.4 to version 7.8
- Using Mendix you can build an application in a week compared to building the same application in Java in 1 month.
- You can simultaneously build applications for all kinds of devices (Desktop, Mobile and tablets).
- All in one tool, in Mendix Modeler you can manage databases, webservices, Mendix code , Java code, etc.
- Tool is very rigid, it should be bit more flexible, by giving more control to the developer.
- As the scale of application increases, the performance decreases.
Very good product, seems simple but still needs training, discipline and effort for best results
- Very flexible, made for bi-modal.
- Very good for digital business, can deliver application at the speed of business.
- Platform-as-a-service allows for simplified support, no delays, possibility to go straight to coding.
- Very good for mobile application development.
- Start small, get experience, ramp up to complex application.
- It seems very easy when Mendix people do it. It takes serious practice to achieve the same level. Better to have an expert to help while learning to be on your own.
- Relatively small company, eager to help but sometimes too stretched.
- Plan accordingly, implementation takes longer than anticipated especially on first projects.
A development environment that is a pleasure to use!
- Prototyping
- Speed of conversion form Prototype to production ready
- Team development features
- Different versions can be confusing
- Understanding the reason for the Web Modeller
- Pricing is not obvious - Hope we wont be disappointed
Fast and scalable software development
- Easily scalable
- Custom designed
- Fast and flexible development
- No coding needed
- Quite expensive
Mendix - Anyone can do it!
- Quick
- Easy to learn
- One Click Deployment
- Vibrant community
- Quick release schedule
- Certain areas are outdated due to rapid growth
- Support can be improved
- Updates can be more focussed on feedback by developers
A great rapid app development platform
- Rapid App Development - from thought/paper to MVP without lengthy development time required.
- Great innovation over the last few years that I have been using Mendix - meaning there are no worries related to vendor lock-in and Mendix keeps up its potential with every new release.
- Customer support specifically related to resolving bugs in the platform can take considerable time (in some case more than a year). Communication about priorities leaves room for improvement.
- My experience with release schedules related to new feature releases often get delayed.
Mendix- Ease to build your application
- It takes less time for the development.
- Ease in UI design.
- Security can be provided easily.
- Changes to the application can be done easily based on the client requirement.
- We need to customize it for applying additional features by writing our own custom widgets.
- At times it is bit complex when using the App store widgets.
We have been using the Mendix platform for delivering RAD applications for the last 3+ years. We use it to rapidly develop Mode 2 Bi-modal consumer grade applications on desktop, tablet and mobile in various companies and industries. Due to the rapid development nature of Mendix, it shines where business requirements are unclear as you can develop ideas quickly and change direction when you realise your idea is not fit for purpose.
The platform is built based on the Agile Software delivery model. The platform offers segregated areas for managing the Collaboration, Development, Deployment and Operational aspects of your project. This means that you don’t need to invest in other Agile platforms if your company has not done so already. You are good to go with your Agile projects from the get go. The development modeller integrates with the platform to make deployment just a few clicks away. Issue identification is easy as the feedback mechanism in the application enables users to show exactly where in the application the problem happens and under what circumstances.
It compliments ERP solutions very well thanks to the ease of integration through direct database connections, REST and SOAP.
Mendix offers pre-built connectors for Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, Predictive Analytics and others making the build of context sensitive smart apps a lot easier. It also allows you to connect to other systems through REST/SOAP or any third party database through the Database Connector.
There are a large number of deployment options available - from on-premise, private cloud and public cloud options through its membership of the Cloud Foundry initiative.
- Speed of delivery
- Integrated platform
- Various deployment options (on-premise vs various cloud platforms)
- One click cloud deployments
- User story management may seem light for expert Agile users.
- Complex widget development compared to the rest of the low code application development cycle.
Model driven development done right
Use cases include a user-centric application that predicts and allocates elevator maintenance resources based on live data from IoT sensors inside the elevators and an application that initiates, guides, controls and secures the entire Eurasia financial controlling process for all locations of an international manufacturing company, streamlining the process and creating actionable real-time management information.
- Modeling instead of coding: instead of lines of code, create UML-like schedules and flows that a business can relate to.
- Real-time model checking: In every step of the process, the platform checks if what you add or edit results in valid code, instantly giving you feedback (and suggestions) when this is not the case.
- Visual debugging: easily step through models, with list of objects and variables available, to effectively pinpoint issues and correct them as you progress.
- Better business model for small companies who want a single app.
- Developer community size (and quality) keeping up with rising (international) Mendix adoption.
- Improve included Scrum environment (Sprintr) functionality to better manage work over multiple applications.