It Is Possible To Create The Same Applications That More Traditional Platforms Offer In A Fraction Of The Time.
October 11, 2016
It Is Possible To Create The Same Applications That More Traditional Platforms Offer In A Fraction Of The Time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Mendix App Platform
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.
- It gives any customer the capability to reduce the ROI significantly because of the faster time to market.
- Also the fact that you can develop an app with a much smaller team helps smaller startups to start developing their own apps with Mendix.