Mendix, the low-code platform to develop applications for your customers business needs!
January 11, 2017
Mendix, the low-code platform to develop applications for your customers business needs!
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Mendix
We use Mendix across our organization to help customers in their business needs. With the use of Mendix it is possible to make (web) applications in a short time window. Mendix is a low coding platform, a term that is very popular these days. It is possible for anyone, even if they don't have an IT-background, to make apps for your customers. Of course, for the hardcore developers, there are challenges. The good thing about Mendix is that you don't have to keep your customers waiting for a year of development. In a matter of days, you can show your app to your customers!
- Low code, easy to use platform for anyone who wants to build apps.
- Active community with people sharing Mendix functionalities, posting new ideas and sharing cool widgets that you can integrate with your Mendix application.
- Quickly deliver applications to continue your business.
- Integration with a lot of different services.
- A lot of functionalities are not integrated with Mendix, the custom build is the only option (with exception of widgets and modules from the app store).
- There are no easy incremental updates of the Mendix platform. Upgrading to newer versions can go wrong on your build application.
- Licensing costs can be steep for smaller businesses.
The integrated SCRUM appoach to app developing is very helpful in maintaining an overview of your project. It's easy to create user stories and work towards these stories. When you're done with a user story, just check 'done' and it automatically uploads to the team server. Also, it is very easy to merge your work with other developers on the same application. Just merge the changes and then upload to the team server. These functionalities of Mendix are making it easy to collaborate with fellow team members.