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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. Ultimately, Mendix helps customers benefit from applications that are created faster, with fewer resources.
Mendix boasts users among 3,400 organizations worldwide, across dozens of verticals. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
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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| 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 |
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Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
Quickbase and Heroku Platform are common alternatives for Mendix.
Reviewers rate Platform Security highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Mendix are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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Mendix functions as a Rapid Application Development/Low-Code Development Platform within our organization, primarily addressing our Web and Mobile App development needs. The platform has been instrumental in creating various applications, including digitizing the time capture process for plant employees, streamlining the workflow for our Request for Payment process, and facilitating other Supplier integration scenarios.
- Low-Code Development
- Citizen Developer
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Offline Capabilities
- Mobile app development
- Code Extension
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.
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.
July 21, 2017
Delivering fast with Mendix
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
As a partner of Mendix we build applications (rapidly) on the platform for several of our customers. Mendix enabled us to speed up our delivery time significantly and also helped us involving the business more with possibilities to make adjustments to the apps with just a few clicks and showing the results immediately to the persons sitting at your desk. As a consultant it's a great tool to work with, I can just focus on delivering functionality as fast as possible without being troubled with all kinds of set-ups, large amounts of coding for small functional entities and other stuff which slows you down on delivering. And the fun part is that through the speed of delivery you’re involved in lots of new opportunities and different kinds of functionality. Besides this, customers really appreciate the speed of delivering and are often surprised by this which makes it great to demo your results.
- 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
July 18, 2017
Mendix platform, my thoughts.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mendix is used throughout the whole organization and it is used mostly as case handler software for insurance cases. People go out to visit customers or work from behind their desk on various departments related to all kinds of insurances. The data they gather and generate is being processed mainly in Mendix. BI, document generation, and storage are being handled by other applications in an enterprise-style IT landscape and Mendix is very much able to handle being in the centre of it all. It addresses efficiency in where the company used to have five different applications or portals it now has one.
- Fast
- Easy
- Visual
- Testing
- Scrum integration
- Test scripting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a Mendix partner, we also use Mendix to support internal business processes. The first internal app we built with Mendix was a support portal in which our customers can register support calls and follow their progress. The second app we built was an expenses app that is available on both desktop and mobile. The big advantage to creating Mendix apps is that you can build exactly what you want. You don't need to change your business processes because your "standard" software cannot support them.
- 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.
May 05, 2017
Just do it. Mendix.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As consultancy company we develop applications for customers. With the Mendix platform we are able to develop solutions in full freedom. The low code platform ensures that our customers can actively follow up each sprint. The agile function on the Mendix platform is also very interesting for our customers, because they can follow each job and what has been done easily.
- 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.
March 28, 2017
Review from a partner and user of the Mendix platform
As a Mendix partner, we also use Mendix to support internal business processes. The first internal app we built with Mendix was a support portal in which our customers can register support calls and follow their progress. The second app we built was an expenses app that is available on both desktop and mobile. The big advantage to creating Mendix apps is that you can build exactly what you want. You don't need to change your business processes because your "standard" software cannot support them.
- 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.
December 20, 2016
On Mendix and the Abstraction Distraction
- We are using Mendix to build our Research Animal Health Survey and Reporting application.
- The application will enable use of Android tablets in the field and include barcode data capture capabilities.
- A browser based GUI will be used for processing and reporting health case follow-up after submission.
- Application has data integration points with existing facility management software.
- Modeler and Hosting environment are well built and intuitive to use
- Agile and Scum project management
- Extensive widget library
- Improve Professional Services delivery
- Improve Project Management collaboration with clients
December 06, 2016
Mendix as a front-end to document-centric processes
We use Mendix as a front-end development environment for accessing the functionality of the Exari DocGen product. We completely replace the Exari UI with Mendix pages.
- Firstly it's good for rapidly developing and extending a prototype than can progress into an operational system; aka non-disposable prototyping.
- Secondly it's good for developing, communicating and adapting business logic.
- Thirdly it's good for being a front-end to legacy systems, databases and remote web services.
- Fourthly its good for supporting team-working, agile projects, sharing and the modularisation/re-use of core functionality.
- I'd like to see binary data stored in non-persistable entities.
- I'd like full WYSIWYG UI development environment (and I know it's on the way).
- I'd like to see Mendix integrate machine-learning into the development process and so be able to make recommendations to (particularly new) developers when it detects the development of "anti-patterns" and dead-ends: real-time QA and best practice feedback.
November 04, 2016
How I created $2M in annual revenue in the first year with Mendix
Kermit is a SaaS solution for hospitals to manage their knee, hip, spine and cardio implant spend built on Mendix. Kermit is the second business where I've used Mendix; the first was for custom application development of a customer billing application in the logistics industry. Our current Mendix application supports our hospital customers by analyzing vendor invoices being created by implant utilization in the operating room, but prior to their arrival in purchasing for payment. Kermit informs hospital supply chain and purchasing about the accuracy of invoices through price audit and contract compliance business and clinical rules. Kermit also categorizes all implants used and we feed the audited and categorized data set to another third party business intelligence tool to create data visualizations and analytic views. We commercialize the Mendix app by charging a subscription fee to our customers for access.
- Mendix is a good solution for those that have a business process and distinct workflow that can be replicated by custom application development, especially for those building a startup business or just getting started with application development for internal solutions because of its "low code" environment.
- You will find that developing on Mendix will cost between 40% to 60% less than traditional development because the environment doesn't require highly specialized technology experts to code the application.
- Mendix lends itself well to an Agile development methodology and SCRUM. The platform allows for iterative, rapid development. With Kermit, we release updates weekly and can rapidly prototype, test and deploy anything from bug fixes to new features.
- Because Mendix is a platform as a service, your team can concentrate on your niche and business expertise rather than adding a group of IT staff to manage hardware and software infrastructure
- Mendix would be well-served to build a roadmap for the traditional developer to move from hand-coding to the Mendix app platform and their Developer app environment. When we had to replace a lead developer, we had some hiring challenges looking within the traditional custom app development skill set for new people. Hard core developers typically see platforms like this as a "less-than" solution and not a true development environment.
- Mendix is somewhat mature in Europe, but in its infancy in the US. As such, it can be very difficult to find experienced Mendix developers in the US. A number of the experienced developers are managing their own consultancies rather than being available for full time employment (probably because it is far more lucrative for them). We had some success in hiring someone with basic custom app dev skills and training them on Mendix (4 months), but have also had some failures in this area.
- Upgrading to new full release versions of Mendix has been an issue for us because we have developed a number of detailed workflows and customizations to other developers' widgets from the Mendix App Store. At each major release, we need to carefully think about and test for issues prior to and after migration.
October 11, 2016
It Is Possible To Create The Same Applications That More Traditional Platforms Offer In A Fraction Of The Time.
We use the Mendix App Platform to provide innovative solutions for our customers. These customers have a variety of requests and are always heavily involved in the agile approach of realizing these requests. While writing this review I am working on an enterprise solution for a major player in the real estate business. They adopted Mendix because it gave them the capability to grow their software landscape at the same pace of their growing business.
- You don't need to worry about the basics surrounding security, CRUD actions, integration, UX and many other things you need to create the same basics when developing with traditional platforms.
- It is possible to create the same applications that more traditional platforms offer in a fraction of the time.
- It gave the organizations I worked for the ability to create far more complex applications with a smaller team and in a shorter time frame. When we brought in external auditors they even confirmed the fact that what we build would take at least 50% more resources to develop in for example Java or .Net. Also, the fact that we don't have to take care of the basics during development, means we can focus on the actual business process and how to make the product work for the business.
- The fact that your development resources can be greatly reduced compared to those platforms will give you a better ROI.
- The document templates definitely need some love, they have been around for a while but no actual improvements have been done since they were released. At least not in terms of additional options like the web counterparts of the elements you have available have.
- Also, Mendix is even easy for non-developers to start developing apps with, however when the application grows and gets more complex these type of users are not fully guided in making it as secure and perform as it should. It would be great if the modeler could also start pointing in the right direction when it comes to that. Although Mendix did introduce the Mendix Application Quality Monitor which could help with this issue.
- In the past, I encountered scalability issues that caused stability issues. Mendix can scale to multiple application servers but at the time it could not scale to more database servers, the only solution was, to add more resources to the single available database server.
- I do believe that Mendix is trying to solve this with HP Helion and Cloud Foundry solutions which are horizontally and vertically scalable. I however haven't had any experience with these platforms in combination with Mendix yet.
- Support seems to be overwhelmed by requests, which results in an almost complete lack of proper support for issues that you as a developer can't resolve. The community is a great help though.
September 27, 2016
Creation at the speed of ideas
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At Mansystems we use Mendix as the platform of choice to deliver solutions to our customers. Six years ago, a team of three people including myself rebuilt our service management solution, ExpertDesk completely in Mendix. In three months we had the basics and in nine months we were ready to go to market. After this period we sold and implemented ExpertDesk a lot. To support ExpertDesk better we developed tooling for the Mendix platform. Using our experience we also started doing Mendix projects other than ExpertDesk.
At this point in time Mendix is selling our automated testing solution (ATS) and our application performance monitor and we are developing those tools further together with Mendix.
And we have a healthy professional services business around Mendix.
At this point in time Mendix is selling our automated testing solution (ATS) and our application performance monitor and we are developing those tools further together with Mendix.
And we have a healthy professional services business around Mendix.
- Mendix takes care of everything from creation to delivery and support. A full loop. Not many people comprehend the impact of using a platform that covers model driven design, single click deployment, browser, tablet and mobile, scrum support, automated testing, monitoring and feedback loop.
- Mendix helps creating applications in all kinds of manners. From templates, an AppStore, standard integration points to demanding consistency with the error checker that with a double click brings you to the place of the error
- Mendix is open. That means you can extend the platform in all layers. For the client you can develop widgets and leverage the full potential of the browser or mobile device. On the server you can write java or use web services, rest services or even built in AppServices to design a Mendix component based ecosystem. The is also a model SDK to write tooling and automate anything you can model by hand.
- Mendix is easy to use. It uses visual models for data (domain models), logic (flows) and screens. Mendix has extended documentation, a very active community with a forum and a developer portal, a large set of blogs, video's to support new users, a training program.
- With creation and automated testing covered, I recommend them addressing documentation ease. They could design a hyperlink based system into versions of the model, so you could use a kind of CMS to manage business app documentation and present it in a structured way.
- The sprintr (agile/scrum) solution could be enhanced to better support assigning tasks to users and manage per user stuff like capacity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At Daywize we use Mendix as our development platform to build our HR solution. We first used the Cordys platform before that but that was no success. The Mendix platform is ideal to develop quickly. This way we can build a standard solution, but still are able to adjust our product to our specific client needs. This way 80% of a certain module is the same for all our customers but we always change that last 20% to accommodate specific client needs.
Mendix helps us also to connect to other systems to get data in or out. SOAP, Rest webservices or OData services are built easily and importing or exporting from or to Excel is a breeze. The openness of the Mendix system is a real bonus. And because you develop in a graphic environment you can make a business process visible so you can discuss the result with the business owner. You can truly develop in days instead of weeks or months.
- Fast. Build solutions in days instead of weeks. Mendix is an ideal tool for really making SCRUM work. Iterate fast and develop features fast. And if it does not work as intended you can adapt quickly.
- Open. The customer is the owner of the data so it should be easy to get data in or out. Mendix shines in this area. You can use Mendix to become the oil between the other information systems. Extract from one system, enrich the data and export it to another system.
- Mobile. Making the product available on a phone or tablet is a must these days. With Mendix you can do this.
- Document templates. These are a weak point. Creating them takes too much time compared to how fast you can build other stuff in Mendix. You can achieve your goals but it will take you some time.
- The Mendix license cost is something to be considered. For small companies the license cost can be steep if the free version is too limited for your goal. The step from the free version to the paid version is too steep in my opinion.