Mendix Review
November 29, 2021
Mendix is being used as our enterprise web platform for several customer facing portals. These applications solve a number of business …
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What is Mendix?
Mendix is a Low Code platform built for both speed and control, that places collaboration at the heart of the application development process. Mendix provides an integrated, comprehensive set of tools and platform services for the entire app lifecycle, from ideation and development, through deployment and operation. According to the vendor, customers see the benefit of applications that are created 10x faster with 70% fewer resources.
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 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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- Quickbase
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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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What is Mendix?
Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
What are Mendix's top competitors?
Quickbase and Heroku Platform are common alternatives for Mendix.
What is Mendix's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.
Who uses Mendix?
The most common users of Mendix are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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November 29, 2021
Mendix Review
Mendix is being used as our enterprise web platform for several customer facing portals. These applications solve a number of business needs, including: prescription engine, reporting tool, order interface, program enrollment, and much more. These applications are heavily integrated with our CRM, Salesforce.com.
- 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.
September 06, 2018
Great Mendix
Great application and I recommended. We were using Siebel Application and it was causing us a lot of problems, especially with user experience and design. It was so hard to add links or new files or widgets, but we now just use Mendix and all problems are solved easily.
- User experience
- Microflow
- Business check
- New bootstrap version
August 28, 2018
Mendix review
Mendix is being used by our customers to excel in their digital transformation. Mendix creates applications in such a fast way that customers can really make the difference in their industry with it. It can be used for creating business logic and with the complete cloud picture that Mendix offers it really makes a difference!
- 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
Mendix is the best solution for B2B applications of processing simple data that need to be built fast, that are built and maintained in environments that requirements change often, so applications that need to be maintainable and easy to change.
- 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).
June 06, 2018
My thoughts about Mendix
As a consultant at Bizzomate I primarily use Mendix as an advanced tool to help our customers to address their business needs. Currently I work on an app that aims to streamline document processing for my client. Within this organization Mendix is also used for several other use-cases, ranging from internal auditing to client dashboard applications.
- 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.
April 30, 2018
Great RAD tool and easy to learn!
We can develop applications really quick (couple of days) and our customers are always amazed by the speed with which we can show them new features in the application.
- 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!
April 24, 2018
Quick, Easy, robust and fast.
Our organization uses Mendix as a pillar of development. We are a Mendix premium partner and focus on making Mendix the world's leading low-code platform. Mendix is used throughout the whole organization. We use Mendix to solve business specific problems and use it for Agile RAD development.
- Scalable
- Fast and flexible development
- No coding needed
- Secure
- Expensive
- SAP on premise v.s. SAP Cloud connectors
April 23, 2018
My Mendix experience
Mendix is being used at the core of our organization. It allows vital business processes to be managed fluently.
- 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
In general, we apply Mendix when time-to-market for software development is short (for instance during product innovations) and requirements for flexibility are high.
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.
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)
March 23, 2018
Mendix is Fast And Secure
We use Mendix to solve client problems and help them innovate their business. Because of its versatility, it can be used to address any problem we encounter. Mendix is very business oriented. Mendix enables us to work closely with the business and rapidly build apps.
- 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
February 23, 2018
Mendix has lots to offer!
We use Mendix to solve client problems and help them innovate their business. Because of its versatility it can be used to address any problem we encounter. Mendix is very business oriented because of, a.o., its visual logic. This enables us to work closely with the business and rapidly build apps, try out innovative ideas and generate ROI.
- 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
February 19, 2018
Applying Mendix in logistics & supply chain
I consult Mendix to companies active in logistics and supply to create transparency in their value chains and digitize processes. The Mendix platform delivers instant value and is capable of supporting business processes on a global scale.
- Citizen development
- Integrating lifecycle management
- Creating a global community
- Local modeling
February 08, 2018
Mendix: The way to buid apps!
We use Mendix as a platform to build and maintain applications for several clients. Because Mendix is a RAD platform it's possible to build apps in a very short time period and solve business problems quickly.
- 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
December 04, 2017
Mendix is great for Rapid Application Development with Business People for Business People
Our company would not exist without Mendix. Mendix makes it possible for me (a consultant that graduated in Strategic Marketing) to build applications for businesses. Every single project we do is with Mendix and it allows me as a ''business person'' to connect with other users from the business and build the best possible application for them without using any parties in between. Business talks to business rather than business talks to IT talks to business.
- One click deployment
- Visual representation of data flows and database
- Easy mobile access
- 100% cloud based development
- Expensive licenses so inaccessible for smaller businesses
December 01, 2017
Mendix House
We are a reseller and a partner of Mendix and build Mendix applications for customers.
- 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.
November 14, 2017
Honest trailer - Mendix
Our company uses Mendix to empower customers to digitilize their business model and innovate in the digital realm by providing new, unique and competitive features. So far I have participated in three projects for three separate customers. For all of them, we have been able to deliver beautiful and functioning apps in record times, reducing the time from idea to production ready application to just a few months.
- 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.
November 10, 2017
Mendix review for version 4.4 to version 7.8
Mendix is used by a particular department which builds Mobile inventory management tool for KPN. Initially Mendix was a boon for development. The application was building at light speed. But as the scale of the application increased after Mendix 5.x the performance degraded.
- 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.
October 22, 2017
Very good product, seems simple but still needs training, discipline and effort for best results
Mendix is used to develop a core lending application for our company. It is also used in a bi-modal structure for small initiatives requiring fast development for quick business benefits realization. Using the same team of programmers it addresses a large spectrum of business problems from complex enterprise-wide to departmental niche solutions.
- 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.
October 17, 2017
A development environment that is a pleasure to use!
Mendix has been chosen as our strategic platform for cross application development. We are SAP System Integrator and when we found that Mendix has been included within the SAP Cloud Platform we recognised that the product had to be right for us.
Added to this, the speed of development and the ease of deployment to multiple platforms (especially as a PaaS/SaaS product), was especially important to Business on Demand.
The ability to deploy mobile apps without replication or online data access across both major mobile platforms without deep technical knowledge of the developer tools is vital to us.
- 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
October 06, 2017
Fast and scalable software development
We advise and develop Mendix Platform based software solutions.
- Easily scalable
- Custom designed
- Fast and flexible development
- No coding needed
- Quite expensive
September 21, 2017
Mendix - Anyone can do it!
We use Mendix as a platform. [We are] Implementing new business applications built using the Mendix Platform. Its rapid development character makes it great for quick and innovative apps.
- 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
August 17, 2017
A great rapid app development platform
Mendix is used as our main application development platform to develop our trade manager product. The trade manager system is specifically built for fund managers in emerging and frontier markets.
- 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.
August 11, 2017
Mendix- Ease to build your application
We are using Mendix for the development of client applications and also contributing to the Mendix forum by creating sample widget apps, custom widgets and answering questions in the forum. We have a Mendix department separately in our organization.
- 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.
July 24, 2017
Model driven development done right
As a Mendix partner, my employer employs multiple Mendix developers and is engaged in projects in a wide variety of industries. It provided the winning team for the Mendix World Hackathon 2016 and of our consultants two are Mendix MVP.
Though having originated in the energy sector, our company currently has consultants working and experienced in working with Mendix in the finance, utilities, manufacturing industry and much more. The technology is used to complement big ERP systems, as well as to create entirely new applications: small, medium and big processes, across all channels (mobile, tablet and desktop).
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.