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
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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
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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
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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% |
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Reviews and Ratings
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(1-5 of 5)How I created $2M in annual revenue in the first year with Mendix
- 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.
- Amazing solution for internal custom app development to solve a business workflow problem (automation, data collection/storage/retrieval) where little to no budget exists and few technology resources exist, as long as the business problem is well-defined from an engineering and workflow standpoint.
- Beware of commercializing your custom application as a SaaS offering. In doing so, you will need to upgrade to a commercial license and have a sound plan and business model to cover the costs. They are dramatically different.
- Our application has been in use for 4 years and we have only run into a handful of instances where Mendix has been a limitation in moving forward. Not enough for us to have any remorse about choosing the platform and not insurmountable in fixing. In other words, the pros have greatly outweighed the cons.
- In the case of Kermit, Mendix allowed us to use subject matter experts to document the workflow and rapidly get our MVP out to market to establish a flag in the ground that Kermit is the first and best solution for the problem we solve. Spending our financial resources in the area of building a sound solution rather than acquiring, configuring, managing technology and a raft of developers was key for us as an investor-backed startup.
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 and developing customizations or entirely new features moves more quickly. The Mx App Store features hundreds of widgets developed by others that can be downloaded and bolted into your application. This can make adding functionality such as graphs, email workflows and many other features much easier and faster to develop.
Our current lead developer of Mendix had no exposure to the platform and about 10 years of experience developing one custom application from the ground up. He was able to come up to speed quickly on the platform through online training. We have also hired support staff and mobile development staff to further extend and support Mx with a lower skill set.
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- Feedback Loop directly from customers that then can be turned directly into a Story for improvement.
- Flexibility as a front end for many different data sources. This allows us to change data source vendors without disrupting the customer front end.
- Easy to use modeler makes it easy to see and create workflows.
- Styling of the pages could be easier.
- Changes to one page require a full build.
- One button deploy is actually multiple steps. Not difficult but not one button.
- The use of lower skill resources to produce quality work.
- It also reduced the amount of time from idea conception to delivery.
If you want digital innovation in your org, the Mendix team will deliver on their promise. No question about it.
- No re-building of plumbing
- Exceptionally quick to develop and deploy
- Built in platform for managing user stories and backlog
- Limited pool of developers/engineers trained on Mendix
- Some things aren't as intuitive to accomplish
- Any application with user interaction on the web would be a perfect application for Mendix.
- Simple workflows
- data aggregation, reporting, analytics
Getting up to speed on developing in the platform is also a much shorter learning curve than traditional development, though it does help to have someone on your team who is well versed in the principles of computer science to help guide when appropriate.
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Mendix makes a difference!
- Mendix has an excellent graphical interface that makes it simple to develop complex concepts.
- The Mendix store has many helpful apps created by users and verified by Mendix.
- Mendix customer service is excellent.
- Mendix could make publishing the applications simpler.
Why Mendix enables me to do more with less
- The first obvious benefit of working with Mendix is the speed at which you are able to develop applications compared to traditional application development. The app deployment cycle is streamlined and exceptionally fast, which is a must-have for growing companies where the business rules are constantly changing.
- Along with the speed, comes the reduced man power required to develop an app and ultimately a reduced cost. Our ERP was developed by 2 people where normally it would have been done by a team of developers for a significantly larger cost to complete in the same timeline.
- Security is handled by Mendix if I choose to host on their servers which is a nice convenience. I have the ability to host my apps on my own servers but letting Mendix manage that is often preferred and less headache for me.
- The ecosystem needs growing. It would been nice to see more Mendix developers creating things on the app store.
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