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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New Mendix user
GO make it
- Booking desk reservations
- Energy Usage
The glue between enterprise core apps
Using Mendix in HE
Looking forward to a new product offering
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Full-force on Mendix
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Great Mendix
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Flexible and fast way to produce maintainable business apps
How Mendix Differs From Its Competitors
Enabling Mendix rapid development
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- Mobile applications for our client-facing account managers. Developers without specific mobile expertise were able to leverage native device functionality, fully responsive design and offline mobile using a model-driven development approach.
- Web-based forms for loan applications.
- Replacement of off …
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Enabling Mendix rapid development
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Enabling Mendix rapid development
- Providing information to call center to handle calls adequately.
- Service management system implementations for service companies, Telco, IT, etc.
- Order picking and service application including warehousing.
- Financial checkout application for private lease contracts.
- IoT integrations
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Order picking and service application including warehousing
Financial check out application for private lease contracts
IoT integrations
and many more.
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Enabling Mendix rapid development
EnablingMendix best practices
Enabling Mendix rapid development
EnablingMendix best practices
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- Plan user stories, create sprints and track process
- Allow users to send feedback directly from the application
- Convert feedback to user stories and keep the user informed
Enabling Mendix rapid development
EnablingMendix best practices
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Enabling Mendix rapid development
- Medical Research Support application
- Regulatory Compliance support app
- Internal business process application
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Bar Coding - health surveillance, health reporting, census, billing
Inventory - pharmacy, equipment
Contact lists
Integration with other programs
Breeding records
Purchasing/Transfers
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Problems Solved by RAD
Responsiveness to Needs of IT
Mendix delivers on the promise of custom application development with less resources, lower time to development and lower costs than traditional development. The Mx environment uses distinct microflows to build core functionality and features in your app. Because of this, debugging is a bit easier …
Problems Solved by RAD
Responsiveness to Needs of IT
- The use of lower skill resources to produce quality work.
- It also reduced the amount of time from idea conception to delivery.
Problems Solved by RAD
Responsiveness to Needs of IT
Problems Solved by RAD
Responsiveness to Needs of IT
Problems Solved by RAD
Responsiveness to Needs of IT
Awards
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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
Video Reviews
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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
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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% |
Comparisons
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews
(1-25 of 66)ideation to realization through Mendix
- plm Integration
- business process problem solving
- workflow automation
- costing! user based license
- cloud and on premises both provision
- entraid Integration
- Low-Code Development
- Citizen Developer
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Offline Capabilities
- Mobile app development
- Code Extension
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- 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.
- I think there always could be easier ways to build apps with Mendix, and I think they tend to be doing a very good job. I haven't seen the new Mendix 10 yet, but I've heard some about it and they've implemented a lot of improvements, AI features, and other things. So we look forward to using those features as we get more experience with Mendix 10.
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- It allows business users to participate more readily in converting requirements into business process flows. I think that's what it does really well, as well as integration with hyperscalers for cloudification of application customizations.
- I would say making sure that it has full integration across all the hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google. That would be a key area for me.
New Mendix user
- Rapid development
- Prototyping
- Scaling
- Flexibility
- Difficult custom software integration
- Mock-ups
- Large data management in development
GO make it
- Booking desk reservations
- Energy Usage
- integration
- collaboration
- speed
- Games
- UX
- IoT
The glue between enterprise core apps
- Integrate with enterprise core applications
- Make developers more effective
- Takes advantage of pre-built blocks
- Better integration with hyperscalers such AWS, MS Azure, GCO
Using Mendix in HE
- Easy to link to mindsphere
- Easy to create dashboards
- Change management on updates could be better.
Looking forward to a new product offering
- Easy to log in for non IT users
- Quick versatile build
- Easy to use app
- Ensure Bio metrics can we easily set up and used
- Not sure what the training is like yet, hopefully this will assist non IT users to build apps easily once set up
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- Low code no code platform
- Self learning
- Easy to learn
- Integration side
Full-force on Mendix
- share from low/code to high code
- amount of modules and possibilities out of the box
- constant enhancement
- clarity on use/cases easily integratable without a big effort
- more automated and AI driven dev support
- none
Clients prefer other, more `easier` lowcode or even nocode platforms when it comes to the first level of digitalization of simple workflows, because those platforms are more specifically designed towards that usecase, which does not reduce the value of Mendix for us and our clients.
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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
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- 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.
In the same vain I believe Mendix to be less appropriate for organizations that lack the above vision.
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)
When application performance (high traffic and/or low latency) becomes very important, consider custom development or apply other services to handle the load, for instance, other AWS services.
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
- Continuous improvement/development
- Short time to market
- Multi-platform (desktop - mobile)
- When scope is not completely clear yet
Less suited:
- High volume data apps
- Rebuild existing packaged software
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 is less suited for large, static trajectories for which there are already available products (WMS systems, CMS systems etc.)