Mendix is a cloud-based app development platform designed to help users build apps easily via a SAP cloud platform. It has key features that include visual development, multi-channel apps, proactive and context-aware app management, development and operations (DevOps), multi-cloud deployment, security, open and extensible integrations, AI-assisted development, and more. It also allows users to empower real-time collaboration and develop applications with experimentation, iteration, and collaboration of different units.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
Easy to understand Frequently updated Online community
Not easy to merge updates/commits from teamserver.
Making application with a link to another system.
I like being able to easily reuse code and be able to work together with business to quickly develop applications that do exactly what the business needs.
Mendix does not support a dark theme, yet :-). Mendix has some trouble with handeling and generating reports and or documents. This however can be solved with integrations or custom widgets / modules.
Creating business value for different customers. Being able to quickly make changes and push them to the cloud with only a few buttons. Mendix allows us to develop software in a fraction of the time that it would take for traditional methods to develop the same.
- Ease of Use - Also capable of building complex applications
- High license costs - For deep changes on UX/UI (HTML/CSS) additional software is required
- Building fast PoCs for customers - Developing complex applications Benefits: - Easy to start with - Business near development
I like how little effort is needed for seeing your first results. You can have a working application with a data view and some buttons within minutes - much less time-consuming than writing from scratch!
Because of the nature of a platform like this, the software sometimes pushes you in a certain direction. Sometimes I wish for more flexibility.
Lower cost for developing, quicker stakeholder reviews
The Mendix platform enables me to quickly and efficiently provide solutions to business requirements in an agile way.
Some functionality is still lacking. With some of the more complex issues you'll need to know about the 'quirks' of Mendix to work around them.
The power of Mendix is not just faster development. But the fact that it enables a fully agile way of working together with the business. The Sprintr environment and the up and coming webmodeler functionality add ways of cooperation between the business and the developers. And the powerful desktop modeler enables me to quickly work through requirements and deploy them to the cloud of my choice.
I like the speed of the whole system. With Mendix, you are able to deliver prototypes in a very short time. I also like the integration of webservices like soap and rest. Data modeling is well structured in Mendix. Last but not least, I like the online tutorials, webinars, forum,...
Sometimes, Ui development is not as intuitive as it seems at first sight. Especially if you are a backend developer that is not very familiar with frontend web development. Sometimes.
Mendix is great to build a custom application that just fits the business needs. Instead of paying for standard software and changing your business to work with the software you build your application to work with/for your business. Also, the software is growing with your business and can be constantly changing to always fit your requirements. The users can (and should be) involved in the development process.
The effiicacity by developpong a product or just ameloriate it!
The older version of the mendix platfform are really slow !
The time to release!
Mendix is a brand-new world. The low code concept must be the trend. I used Blue Prism before so I can easily catch these similar ideas.
The web modeler can't do some complicate activities so I had to switch to desktop modelers. But sometimes the web modeler is much easier to do some UI work. It was slow and not easy to make sure both modelers sync very well.
Mendix apps replace the legacy application in a much better new level. The back-end data will be changed to Big Data so the front-end legacy apps can't work anymore.
Once you get the hang of it you can quickly build applications and keep them working while further developing them. Everything is moldable to how you want it.
Not as easy to understand as I'd hoped - coming from a totally different background I still have to learn a lot. I can see why it's called low code but it's definitely different from no code! Extra skills such as Java, JavaScript and CSS are more than recommended to optimally use Mendix.
Quick solutions for in-house applications.
I like it that i am able to create basic apps allready with only a couple of days of practice.
It actually takes a while to figure out the extra options with using code.
At the moment we are not solving any problems yet. Just gathering some experience first.
I like it because it is very easy to learn and you can manage to create medium complexity apps very quickly.
There isn't much that I do not like, I would prefer if we could have more performance and quality monitoring tools available as free modules
Mainly I managed to automate some processes which were previously done in Excel
Mendix is the fastest and easiest platform to build and continuously improve mobile and web development applications at scale!
There's not anything I dislike about this platform! We help customers digitally transform their organization and industries by building, managing, and improving apps at unprecedented speed and scale!
Ability to combine agile Rapid Application Development platforms and our own Big Data / Internet of Things/ Artificial Intelligence platform to offer smart apps that are connected, content-driven, context-aware, and proactive.
The ease and speed with which you can write applications.
The support services aren't always helpful.
The fast development cycle allows to quickly adjust to requirements set by the business.
With Mendix you build apps fast en show it to the customer directly
I haven't found anything yet that I dislike
Customers having insight in data within SAP via a customer portal
Great way to build business logic fast with enterprise grade security
pricing is a little high, but on par with competitors
optimisation of business processes adding value very quickly
I very like modeling the logic of a business process in Microflows and associations.
That you can not open two Microflows at the same time.
I am solving issues of Material Compliance.
The platform has given us the power to win the UWV/ SVB of oktober 2017 with Mendix. Within 24 hours we wore able to build the 1st solution. With its great standard features, and powerful extension capabilities in the form of building custom widgets we have made a single page app that was connected to Microsoft Face recognition, Google Speech to text and many more external services.
You need to be a fullstack programmer to truly capture and also understands its power. Its not for the business user, but for the professional who wants to develop at lightning speed.
Mendix allowed us to make an MVP (a Proof of Concept) in less then 24 hours. That is architectural designed with security first in mind. Capable to be used in a high demanding and high available IT environment.
It doesn't require tons of programming knowledge to build an application. Despite the default professional-looking styling, it's really handy to edit the styling as well!
Some documentations could be added and the idea forums could be used as a reference more often.
Data integration.
ease of use, easy to leran, build high scale application in a small time manner.
not yet, i didnt find any issue through development phase.
eServices. CRM.
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.
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.
Our company uses Mendix to empower customers to digitilize their business model and innovate in the digital realm by providing new, unique and competitive features. So far I have participated in three projects for three separate customers. For all of them, we have been able to deliver beautiful and functioning apps in record times, reducing the time from idea to production ready application to just a few months.