Mendix - a promising low code platform
What do you like best about the product?
It is really easy to create a full stack application without having a lot of experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform needs more crucial marketplace modules. And the ones that are there at the moment, some of them need updates. The maintenace of this modules can be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has every instrument to streamline the bussiness processes.
Bussiness people can join the development process at the top of the surface - working with Mendix is simple.
It makes the life of the developer easier.
The LowCode Platform that delivers
What do you like best about the product?
With Mendix, application development is fast due to the low-code nature and fully support an agile way of working. You can truely focus on delivering business needs instead of focussing on frameworks and low level coding, whether it is for responsive web apps or native apps. The marketplace contains a lot of free to use connectors and has a great community. Roadmaps are shared and Mendix is able to make new technologies easy to consume. I like it!
What do you dislike about the product?
It might be hard to find expert developers in all parts of the world.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building custom solutions for all our departments internally, but also to build customer facing applications that needs to be specifically tailored to the user requirements.
Mendix - A Great Low Code Solution for your digital transformation
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix comes with lots of widgets and modules , which provides out of the box solution to meet all your requirements and makes developer life super easy.
It has come a long way in area of Trending Tech like Gen AI & cloud solutions.
Having Mendix is a subscription to Innovation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. It is Continuously evolving and catering to all our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has drastically reduced development time. It has taken care of versioning mechanism, it has builtin Git version control inside studio pro. It has custom extension by which you can extend your studio pro IDE.
It provides you almost every module ,widgets which covers all our requirements.
It has very good customer support and amazing community
All-in-one Low Code Application Platform on our own Private Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Only LCAP that supports a wide range of deployment options.
What do you dislike about the product?
No fine-grained Identity & Access management for their Cloud services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mendix offers a mode of software development that is faster and requires less resources compared to tradional software development. It focus on reusable building blocks greatly helps in scaling the platform will still keeping it maintainable.
Innovative no code way to built application with mendix !
What do you like best about the product?
From my expeirence , it has been the fastest turnaround in any application development.Its user interface is very user friendly and productive. We have used its full stack method and find that it has automatic deployement and database creation which is super amazing in any low code platform. We have also integrated it with other applications as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It meets our requrements but for suggestion its deployement time can be improved for better experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mendix has been doing wonders for our company in developing and deploying applications for our clients need for marketing purpose. The low code method is a great innovation in solving problems of data structure and data flow into simpler method. And that too with very good user interface and no major lags or buggy experience.
Provides an integrated approach to monolithic and microservices
What is our primary use case?
We built a SaaS product for our own customers and are developing internal applications for most of the MDM using Mendix. Additionally, we handle small to medium-complexity workflow management systems, whether process-related or complete system automation, using Mendix Workflow.
Some customers prefer building their products rather than buying them. For instance, they wanted a simplified version instead of purchasing a product management system, so we developed it. We built a couple of external-facing, consumer-facing applications, although the consumer base for these is small.
What is most valuable?
When I often want to pitch Mendix, if there is something out of the box that is not available, I can always extend Mendix. Whether it's the front end or the back end, It can be extended with Java. I've also built many widgets using Mendix.
What needs improvement?
We are all moving away from a monolithic product model to microservices. We are building an F2DUI application to decouple the front and back end. Mendix provides an integrated approach for both. Ideally, we should have a way to separate the front end and back end to scale them independently.
While Mendix does offer different ways to achieve this, I sometimes prefer having the front end separate. I don't want the back end to be tightly coupled with the front end all the time.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Mendix for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Mendix is quite stable. However, some customers do not always use the stable versions provided by Mendix, which include both LTS and MTS versions. If a customer chooses a version other than these two options, it may lead to stability issues. Therefore, we always recommend that customers choose the appropriate development version to ensure their applications' stability. Mendix offers stable versions, but customers must be educated about using them correctly.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability has an issue. When you buy a license for a private cloud, you can scale as much as you can afford in your private cloud. However, buying a public cloud with a t-shirt sizing model has limitations. You are limited to the one instance you can get whenever you want to upgrade. There is always a limit to whether they provide 30 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of RAM. For the public cloud, its scalability is limited, so I'm rating it seven. The rating is nine for a private cloud or on-premise because you can scale however you want.
Most of the time, it is for enterprise customers because of the licensing and the user-based cost.
How are customer service and support?
Since we are an official partner of Mendix, we receive priority on requests. Based on my interactions, responses are generally quicker, but the quality of resolution varies. There are two levels of resolution: one is through the documentation and technical support they provide, and the other involves their expert services, which may incur charges. While technical difficulties can be resolved with their assistance, charges may apply. It's important to note that Mendix does offer expert services that can help solve any problem.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. You can get started right away.
What other advice do I have?
Integrating with Mendix is generally easy. It is integrated with most modern frameworks, such as REST and Kafka. We've even integrated it with external workflow orchestration tools like JPM or Camunda. However, I have encountered some issues with Mendix regarding SDK-based integrations. While it is possible to perform these integrations, there is no direct way to do it, making the process more complex. For example, if Salesforce provides an SDK instead of a REST API, integrating with the SDK is more complicated than a straightforward REST API integration.
I would not recommend Mendix because it is very expensive for external users and can also be expensive for internal users. If your internal workforce is less than 10,000, I recommend Mendix because you can achieve a faster ROI. However, if you have an internal customer base of 30,000- 40,000, I would not recommend Mendix.
In version 10.12, released a week ago, Mendix introduced some new features I had requested multiple times. They now have an in-app help feature within the Mendix IDE to speed development. Specifically, they have enabled a chatbot within the Mendix IDE, which helps streamline development.
Additionally, Mendix should support modularity in each functionality. For example, the workflow engine should operate separately from the main application, allowing for independent deployment. This means I should be able to deploy the workflow engine, microservices, or UI components separately. If Mendix provides this option, it will be a game changer. This way, I can scale the workflow for workflow-intensive applications, scale the backend for high-throughput scenarios, and scale the content to accommodate many visitors.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Rapid high quality software development
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to quickly develop solid software while keeping focus on the problem being solved. Many repetitive tasks are automated. Mendix specifically is flexible in deployment options and extensibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
In my honest opinion, they lack solid governance capabilities. You could question whether they should be part of the platform or not, but they only recently started with SBOM and CICD tools in the platform and still lack solid policies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We always have more opportunities than time to develop solutions. With Mendix we can adres opportunities faster than with traditional coding and it simplifies life cycle management and governance.
The transition from ideation to development is fast in Mendix
What do you like best about the product?
The no-code functionality that Mendix allows for its users to actively ideate on their projects and simultaneously converts that ideation to a fully-functional application is great.
Cloudification of applications and related customizations, along with active scaling and prototyping features, makes is easy to implement in any organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Large amount of data management within its dashboard might make navigation cumbersome at times.
Integration with cloud services like AWS, Azure has room for development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mendix helps in active development and deployment of applications through almost no requirement of requisite programming languages, making it simplified for individuals such as myself who are not so familiar with technicalities to develop and scale applications quickly. So it has done a great job in keeping its end user aligned and keen, when it comes to application development. Mendix has benefitted in terms of simplifying technical app development, scale the developed application, and customize it simultaneously. So overall, good ROI for us in terms of building low cost applications, rather than spending amount on training and collection of resources for a team to build applications.
Mendix offers opportunities for DIY enhancements
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix offers opportunities for us, as a client, to go in with little knowledge on coding and make changes or enhancements to the software. This will in turn help with the adoption of OpCenter X on the shopfloor, meeting the needs of our users faster and hopefully cheaper. We're excited to try it!
What do you dislike about the product?
We'll need to try it first to see what we dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We would like to use it to improve our user experience and fill the gaps they would experience today
Very promising product
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix makes a unique combination of features:
- it has low code/no code capabilities unlocking value for many more (small applications)
- it has upgradeability/customisations built in
- it can be pushed to edge devices and brings automation and data availability on the shop floor to the next level
What do you dislike about the product?
Sales people didn't tell us about it yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We plan to use it for the customisation of features and the user interface of Opcenter X
