Overview
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.
A perspective from someone who has been using Mendix for 4 years.
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The glue between enterprise core apps
Using Mendix in HE
Looking forward to a new product offering
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Great Mendix
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Flexible and fast way to produce maintainable business apps
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Popular Features
- Platform Security (9)8.888%
- Platform User Management (9)8.686%
- Drag-and-drop Interfaces (9)8.686%
- Visual Modeling (9)8.282%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
Free Edition
$0
Pro Edition
1,250
Pro Edition
1,250
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Mendix for University Demo
Become A Mendix Developer - Demo
Expert Webinar Series | Automated Testing of Your Mendix App Demo
Setting up a demo Mendix App
Demo on Mendix 9: Workflow - Employee Onboarding
Build A Connector in Mendix
Features
Low-Code Development
Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.
- 8.2Visual Modeling(9) Ratings
Visual modeling tooling allows business users to design processes visually.
- 8.6Drag-and-drop Interfaces(9) Ratings
Drag-and-drop interface for building applications
- 8.8Platform Security(9) Ratings
Security guardrails in place to help prevent malware, data breaches etc.
- 8.6Platform User Management(9) Ratings
Tools enabling admins to control user access and on-board and off-board users
- 8.2Reusability(9) Ratings
An internal repository where assets, modules, and even entire applications can be reused
- 8.3Platform Scalability(9) Ratings
Apps developed by low-code platform must be scalable and capable of supporting large numbers of users
Product Details
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What is Mendix?
Mendix boasts users among 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
Mendix Screenshots
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Mendix Integrations
- CloudFoundry
- Amazon Web Services
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Oracle
- Pivotal
- Excel
- IBM
Mendix Competitors
- Quickbase
- Heroku Platform
- Salesforce
Mendix Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Frequently Asked Questions
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% |
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews
(26-50 of 66)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.
1) Scale of application is small,
2) The time to deliver is less, like you need to build application rapidly.
3) You want to build applications for multiple environments like desktop, mobile and tablets; Mendix works very well in such cases, as using Mendix you can build applications for multiple environments simultaneously.
Mendix is less appropriate when:
1) You have more time and less money, in such cases you can use freely available technology to build application.
2) You need more flexibility in code, like if you want to modify each and every element of code.
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.
Very effective for getting apps to market very quickly but also for relatively complex enterprise-grade software using one developer.
Easy to explain to both IT and business users.
Very appropriate for bi-modal work.
It's not magic, it still takes proper analysis, training, and support.
Great for some mobile applications, still lacking in some areas such as offline support.
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
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.
Delivering fast with Mendix
- Rapid delivery
- Ease of Use
- Collaboration
- Responsiveness
- With more and more options available it gets to easy to create performance problems
- Ease of use of output documents
Mendix platform, my thoughts.
- Fast
- Easy
- Visual
- Testing
- Scrum integration
- Test scripting
- Rapid Development
- Visually appealing
- Use custom themes and design quickly
- More cloud providers would be great
- Business restricts the use of new Mendix versions
- Some security settings have to be set manually
Awesome Platform
- Fast Coding
- Scalable
- Maintainable
- Support more open source framework integration
- Support more CSS frameworks
- There is an active community of Mendix developers/users who can provide answers to your questions in a very short timeframe.
- Very fast (RAD) and Model driven (MDD) development.
- LEGO-like building of your apps due to use of standard building blocks.
- Document templates compared to the rest of the model are very time consuming to create and maintain.
- The fast development pace of Mendix sometimes means new versions have to be treated with caution, they might contain (small) bugs in functionality that worked properly in earlier versions.
The learning curve is steep, but most things worth working hard for have a having take work and have a learning curve. The fact that we are in control of the creative side of modelling and that we can edit/change those parts of the app we are not satisfied with are, amongst others, the things I like alot.
- Speed
- Quality
- Collaboration
- Good UX/UI
- Easy to learn
- Hard to master
- If you don't check the quality performance can be a problem
Just do it. Mendix.
- Low code platform: it is easy to understand, easy to develop. The ease of Mendix is a super con.
- Active (forum) community, helping each other with all kind of questions.
- Theming code according to CSS Bootstrap.
- Innovation can be developed faster.
- Haven't created easy connectivity with for instance Dropbox and other Microsoft related tools.
- Document templates compared to the rest of the model are cumbersome.
- Allowing personal email registration would be more helpful for people without business yet.
Mendix, the agile way!
- Interfacing with other systems to support decision making by employees.
- Fast development of applications in close cooperation with the 'business'.
- Active community of Mendix developers/users.
- More flexibility in reporting.
- When several developers work on the same project the ease of handling conflicts could be improved.
- Regression testing of applications, luckily ATS is now available.
Mendix - Much more than a development platform
- Very easy to integrate with existing systems.
- Fast development (RAD) and Model driven (MDD).
- Theming according bootstrap CSS.
- Appstore widgets to reuse already existing code.
- Reporting possibilities in the platform are limited
- They might want to support more cloud platforms (this is becoming better with Mendix 7)
Mendix: the best RAD platform currently available
- Ease and speed of use.
- Standard building blocks.
- Large community of people that contribute to improving the platform and add ons.
- 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.
I wouldn't select the Mendix platform for CMS implementations. I am in doubt for applications that are pretty static, because they don't make use of the full scale of capabilities of the platform.
MendixMania
- It's a rapid development tool through which web development is made faster than ever.
- The tool itself has all kind of artifacts to manage an agile project.
- Also supports devops, so [projects] can be developed quickly and deployed instantly. Has cloud support.
- Lack of documentation/online help.
- Widget development is complex.
Review from a partner and user of the Mendix platform
- Speed. Mendix is really fast when it comes to developing. Especially for prototyping.
- Easy. The hurdle to start developing with Mendix is low. Everyone who is computer savvy and knows his way around complex Excel formulas should be able to learn Mendix.
- Integrations. The way Mendix has incorporated both SOAP and REST in the platform is very good and easy.
- The online platform where you work together with your team and your customer could use a bit more custom functionality.
- Document templates compared to the rest of the model are cumbersome. It is still fast to create nice documents but it could be a lot faster if all functionality of the page builder is also incorporated in the document builder.
As Mendix is a platform to build software with, you should not build software that is already available from the shelf. Building a CRM in Mendix would be not very wise as CRM's are already widely available as SAAS solutions.
It's day 1 and I already love it!
- Easy to learn.
- Easy to use.
- Saves time and effort.
- Large interactive community.
- Motivating environment.
- It doesn't allow registration using personal email, which means that one has to be already employed to get access.
Mendix | A great platform to work with
- Quick to Develop
- Easy Deployment
- Database Interaction
- Reporting
- Direct support to write codes in Java directly from Modeler
Mendix, streamlining agile development
- Mendix is a great tool to support agile scrum working. It allows client and developer to work closely together, quickly creating iterations of functionality to support the business case.
- Mendix is a motivating tool to work with for developers. Most of the tedious repetitive programming work is taken away, allowing developers to quickly put together functionality and only diving into code when it gets interesting.
- Mendix's visual domain models are extremely strong. It makes it easy to see what's happening and the benefits from a good domain model are always clear later on in the project.
- Mendix can be easily enriched both front-end and back-end by using the widget (Javascript) and Java actions framework.
- Mendix is only quick when the use case fits. It's possible to deviate from the Mendix way by enriching the software and customizing everything, but many of its upsides (clear, maintainable code and quick development) will then soon disappear.
- The fast development pace of Mendix sometimes means new versions have to be treated with caution. As existing functionality might no longer work as expected.
It starts to become less suited when your software requirements get very specific and deviate from the Mendix design. Mendix is very adaptable, but the upsides disappear when you start making everything custom.