Mendix Platform

For the past four months, I have been using Mendix  low-code platform, and my main use case involves building standardized business applications.

My experience has been very positive. Mendix  stands out for its speed and efficiency, especially for standardized business applications, and its integration with Java and JavaScript allows extending functionality beyond typical low-code limitations.

One of its biggest strengths is strong security, which gives confidence when working on enterprise solutions. For repetitive processes or common business needs, Mendix speeds up delivery without sacrificing reliability.

Customization is limited compared to traditional coding, and UI adjustments can feel restrictive. Native development is not very strong, and some developer tools are missing, such as shortcuts to edit multiple variables. This can make long processes slower and more complex.

I have been using Mendix low-code platform for the past four months.

My name is Gabriel and I work as a freelancer. Mendix does its main job effectively, enabling fast and secure enterprise application development. There is room for improvement in customization and developer tools, but the platform has strong value and growth potential.

I can provide a specific example of a project I have built using Mendix that highlights how it helped me with speed or integration.

My main use case for Mendix  is to automate processes for bigger and slightly smaller companies.

A specific example of a process I've automated with Mendix  is mostly Excel processes, such as the integration of systems to expand a process.

Mendix has positively impacted our organization as we've specifically decided to be a Mendix-first consultancy firm, providing services to other companies to build with Mendix, making it essential for us to have a great experience with Mendix as it's at our core.

We can do more digital transformation processes for more customers due to using Mendix compared to my previous experience in high-code, where we would have needed more people to achieve the same goals, but I don't have any hard, objective numbers for that.

Mendix helps with those integrations by making it really easy with its tooling to integrate between different systems and have Mendix be the middleman where users input and go through a workflow by easily creating the domain model, pages, the integrations based on open API, and Swagger documentation, and also with the recent developments, generate bits and pieces with AI.

As an expert Mendix partner, we provide expert services for mostly companies that are either starting with Mendix or are servicing their end customers with Mendix, enabling them to be proper Mendix developers, delivering software with a certain level of quality, which can be done really well with the governance options that Mendix provides.

The best features that Mendix offers are proper guardrails that prevent starting from scratch, ensuring a certain level of security, user experience, and standardization for implementing workflows, API integrations, and how you set up your domain model. It's more strict, but it also has the ability to extend the platform where it prevents you from doing or achieving the goals that you want.

The guardrails and standardization in Mendix help especially with junior developers to avoid making certain mistakes you would when you're high coding, and they also help with setting a fair standard of quality.

Mendix isn't just an IDE  or a coding language; it's a whole platform where you don't have to worry about hosting or monitoring your application, tracking project progress or user stories, as everything is essentially provided by the platform, and it has a very active community helping you out if you have any questions at all.

In recent years, the IDE  has been more buggy and slower, and although there have been more features added, I would like to see more stability, as some areas that used to work for a fairly long time are now slower in my development, which feels like a step back.

I choose a seven mainly due to the issues we've faced with slowdowns and bugs during development, while runtime has been very stable, and the overall output on Mendix platform is still good; there is definitely some room for improvement, and I would probably have given it an eight or even a nine if those issues weren't hurting my developer output for the past few years.

Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.

I have been working in my current field for over 14 years.

I have also been using Mendix for over 14 years.

Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.

The scalability of Mendix depends on what you want; I've seen solutions that are rather small, with one or two forms and a couple of pages and logic, and also solutions processing data at scale, talking about one million packages a day, so I would say it's fairly scalable.

The customer support varies; if it's about upgrading your license, it's really good, but if it's about having an issue that I can't solve despite being a Mendix expert and having tried every single bit and piece, support can feel like a stone wall, asking questions I've already gone through and not really taking me seriously from the start, which has been an issue since I started with Mendix.

For the customer support, I would rate it around a six at the moment.

Positive

Fourteen years ago, I was a high-coder, using Java, ColdFusion, and all kinds of web-based technologies. I primarily switched because of changing employers but stayed with Mendix because I saw the value of development being far faster and more focused on adding value to the business of my clients compared to being busy with repetitive work in high-coding that I didn't want to worry about.

We purchased Mendix directly with Mendix, not through the AWS Marketplace .

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is reasonable; we've used a lot of basic nodes as well, which had some issues in the recent past due to the payment provider going bankrupt, but overall, the onboarding process is fairly easy with no real trouble.

We use the platform that Mendix provides themselves, which is run ultimately on AWS , for our public cloud deployments.

We serviced a recent customer who essentially said that if they digitize this process, they can save one person who is now full-time doing this particular process, and now we're automating it, so they don't really need them to do this anymore, and we hear these kinds of stories fairly often. It's not that they're really firing that personnel, but they can often focus on the core that really matters instead of repetitive processes in Excel forms and all of the overhead and human error that comes with that.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is reasonable; we've used a lot of basic nodes as well, which had some issues in the recent past due to the payment provider going bankrupt, but overall, the onboarding process is fairly easy with no real trouble.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Mendix; however, I have since looked into OutSystems , Betty Blocks , VisionX, and a couple of other low-code offerings or no-code, but I've stuck with Mendix given that they found a fairly okay balance between releasing new features and keeping the platform stable, although the stability of at least the IDE has degraded in the last couple of years, but they've been working on improving that.

My advice to others looking into using Mendix is that if you are completely fresh to software development, find a partner, preferably an expert partner, to do your first project and train your personnel; if you're not looking to manage your Mendix environments yourself eventually, find a partner that can also provide long-term support.

I think Mendix is the best platform for at least business-to-business or business internal processes; if you try to build something for business-to-consumer outside of administration-like processes, such as making a very fancy website, I would probably choose something else, but for all those other use cases, it's a perfect choice and a very good return on investment.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Mendix a seven.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

It is very helpful to develope application in short time with low code functinality. Also it has ability to deploy on mendix cloud which make integration easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

The external api implemataion and using is complicated as i feel.else i dont feel any bad qualities are present as of now.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in very ways like reducing the time in development.also reduces the effort for overall management for development.

What do you like best about the product?

Mendix helps us to develop the apps much faster than expected. Essentially, it is straightforward to understand and implement. It allows us to integrate various services into the Mendix application. It also allows the developer to implement the custom code into the Mendix app via custom widgets, modules, Java actions, and JavaScript actions.

What do you dislike about the product?

Mendix seems to be good, and I have nothing to say for now

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being a developer or consultant, I feel Mendix helps to develop & deliver the apps much faster. Mendix supports various kinds of integration through custom modules or connectors, which are available in Mendix Marketplace. Also, Mendix offers the user to publish or consume the data via the REST API and OData API. Its built-in Drag & drop feature helps the developer to complete the development sooner, and also the different types of modes, structure & design modes. These two modes help a lot while we design the user interfaces.

What do you like best about the product?

The idea of Mendix looks pleasant to us as an organization as it is understood to help us with speed of integration and develop different apps in a very short time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Need to decustomize our current instance of Teamcenter for us to reach full operabiliity.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can see it helping us in making fast modification and deploying apps within a short time.