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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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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Enabling Mendix rapid development
- 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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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
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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
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
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- 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
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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
(1-25 of 43)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.
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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- 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.
- 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.
Quick, Easy, robust and fast.
- Scalable
- Fast and flexible development
- No coding needed
- Secure
- Expensive
- SAP on premise v.s. SAP Cloud connectors
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
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.
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
- 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
- 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.