Mendix Reviews

We are using Mendix as a low code or no code solution for creating POC origins for clients.

The most valuable features of Mendix are the drag and drop functions, the data entities, domain models, and all the related features.

Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++.

In a feature release of Mendix, they should add 3D augmentations or other 3D visualizations, such as images. Additionally, more customizations would be a benefit.

I have been using Mendix for a couple of years.

Mendix is stable and is very good. I have used multiple no code/no code platforms and Mendix is one of the best platforms I have used.

The scalability of Mendix is good. However, whenever we deploy the application, it's heavily weighted on the server. It is not a light solution.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my organization.

I have not used the support from Mendix.

The initial setup of Mendix is straightforward.

There is a license required to use Mendix. The solution's price is high, but it is best suited for enterprise companies that have the budget. It is not for small or medium-sized businesses.

There are not any hidden fees but there is a cost for every user that uses the solution. The pricing model can be confusing whether it is user or application based.

Mendix provides an academic course, which is free and I would advise people to take the course. If they take it, then it will be easy for new users to run through the Mendix development.

I rate Mendix an eight out of ten.

I did the certification in Mendix and it was nice and easy to learn first.  Everybody can learn it easily with available resources. Everything is documented properly, from version to version, and is easy to learn. My area of expertise is with enterprise and I sell to clients which are enterprise companies.  

I recommend this solution to others.

We use this solution for e-services and for some of the critical applications like enterprise applications for safety department permit applications.

It is a development platform which assists in accelerating your developmental lifecycle. This is one of its most valuable features. This solution also offers a good set of components that are readily available. 

A constraint of Mendix is that you have to look for the required plugins which takes up development time. There are a limited number of Mendix experts in the market. 

We have been using this solution for one year. 

This is a stable solution.

We use Kubernetes environment and the scalability of Mendix depends on this environment. 

The customer support for this solution is good. 

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. The time it takes to complete the setup depends on an organization's internal requirements. The maintenance of Mendix is also straightforward butI would recommend using experienced resources to know Mendix. 

This solution was implemented by an external consultant. 

Our team compared OutSystems with Mendix and confirmed that Mendix was the best solution for our business. 

My recommendation would be if you are looking for a small e-services kind of applications and you need quick delivery, I would recommend Mendix or OutSystems rapid applications. If you have a complex business, I would recommend other programming platforms including Java, GT or .NET.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

The one big use case for one of the clients was to do a legacy organization. If they were on Java, we were trying to move to Mendix.

Use cases for PO approval, invoice approval, creating a better user experience for the user, or digital decoupling would be covered. Where you try to keep your core systems like SAP or PDM, PLM system as the core, you don't want to bring too much change in those for the use cases. 

The user experience is great. Creating the user experience is fast and the development speed is excellent.

I struggle with solutions like Mendix in terms of creating enterprise solutions. When I say enterprise solutions I mean enterprise-grade solutions. Let's say if I create an application on Mendix and I want to roll it out to multiple countries, that kind of thing I can do with Mendix. I'll have to copy it. That's hard to do at an enterprise level which can be quite sizeable. I'm not sure how well it scales. 

The setup itself can be complex and difficult. 

The UX capacity is lacking.

I'm not sure how well the workflow capabilities will hold up. 

I've used the solution for probably about a year. 

I have not had that kind of experience where I can make a statement on the stability of the platform. I don't know whether it is stable or not, as I did not work very deep on the platform in a live setting.

Looking at the architecture, scalability is going to be a challenge. I was part of the program, which I could not finish as I left the company. Yeah. Scalability-wise, I do see the technical approach that platform offers. Scalability will always be a question mark for me. I don't have data to prove whether it is not scalable. However, I am aware that it will be a challenge to scale. 

There are two types of scalability we're talking about. One is putting more and more and more and more processes on top of Mendix. That should not be a challenge. However, taking one process, taking one application, and scaling it to multiple countries, is where I see this platform struggling. However, with the cloud version, scaling may be simpler. 

I have no experience with the technical support I cannot speak to how helpful they would be. 

My portfolio had Mendix, OutSystems, Pega, Appian, Bizagi, and on the RPA side, UiPath, Blue Prism, and Automation Anywhere, and all the cognitive technologies like AI and ML. My responsibility was to create solutions and take them to the client. And then, the team will take care of technical design and implementation.

The solution can be complex to set up. Design-wise, I wouldn't say it is hard. However, you do have a lot of work to do. When you create a solution that needs to be rolled out to many countries, it gets complex. 

I have no visibility in terms of the cost of the solution. 

We are at the initial stages of setting up a partnership with Mendix. 

I was not involved in the technical part. I was leading as a principal architect. My responsibility was to come up with a strategic technical design, and we handed it over to the team, depending on which platform a customer would take. 

I'd advise potential new users to look at the UX capability. They promise too much. Therefore, be careful with the UX capability, as generally, all these platforms struggle in that area. Look at what they offer and what you need. 

Be careful with the workflow capability, as it's new, so it will have its own challenges, and look out for the scalability of the platform.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I am currently evaluating the product.

I enjoy the low-code nature of the product.

It's user-friendly and very easy to handle.

The product was easy to set up.

It is stable.

The stability is good.

I'm still in the evaluation phase. I have not fully vetted the entire product yet.

It is expensive.

I've been evaluating the solution for three months. Before I evaluated Mendix, I evaluated OutSystems for six months.

The stability has been good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. it's reliable. 

The product can scale and expand if you need it to.

We're planning to use it for 100 people.

At the moment, I can't communicate with technical support. It's expensive. I've never dealt with them directly.

I have using the OutSystems and now use Mendix.

It's an easy, straightforward setup. It's not overly complex or difficult at all. Setting it up shouldn't be an issue. 

The solution has been very expensive overall. It was not cheap.

At the moment, I'm looking for a solution for low code, so I am evaluating any product or solution with low code as an option. We already tried OutSystems. Microsoft Power Apps is another solution that may be an option.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I can recommend it as a scalable option. It is easy to use and the evaluation is not expensive. The support is for the moment is good but expensive. 

I'm just a partner and an end-user.

I'm using the solution for assignments with my students. I give little projects to my students and I want them to use the free version of Mendix to solve the problem.

Usually, my class is around 30 students and we separate into ten groups. Each is comproised of three students and we give each group the task of building some small application using a local platform. 

There is a free version of the solution you can use. 

Mostly, the students are very excited about the product due to the fact that they can make applications without coding.

Students do have some difficulties translating the hard code. They are usually using code from a previous course.

My understanding is that, if you are not using the free version, it is very expensive. 

We'd like more support and more publication of use cases and examples so that students can more easily study the product and better understand how it works and its applications. 

I've used the solution for two or three years. 

The solution has been stable. We haven't had issues with it having bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good. 

The free version has some restricted functions. It doesn't give you access to the full solution. 

The only technical support is from the documentation and website, no more. If a customer has difficulty figuring out how to use it, they can start with the documentation and learn how to use it, how to set it up, et cetera. They can learn to build an application with restricted functionality from the free version and go from there. 

We use usually two platforms - Mendix and OutSystems. So we freely let the students make the choice as to whether they use Mendix or OutSystems and usually 50% use OutSystems and 50% use Mendix.

We take advantage of the free version of the product. 

Once you move away from the free version, it can get pricey.

We're just end-users. 

My students use it. I just view and am not involved intensively in using Mendix.

Coming from a developing country, Indonesia, we hope that Mendix continues to offer a free solution.

It's a very good solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten.

We are building our custom solutions based on Mendix for our clients. Most cases are e-services for the government sector.

It is really a rapid platform where you can minimize the time-to-market, where you can also engage the customer from business perspectives throughout the entire cycle of the development. It is providing really the acceleration to adopt an agility approach.

You can really minimize the time-to-market, which is great.

It is easy to set up.

You can scale the solution.

It's stable. 

The cost of total ownership needs to be better. The licenses are very expensive. If you compare it with, let's say, a kind of BPM, or CRM solutions, the cost is very, very big. 

While the community is great, they need to work on making their direct technical support services better.

I've used the solution for a while.

The product is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. 

The scalability potential is very good. If you want to expand it, you can. 

There is a weakness in the support. That said, the community is good. You can post your question. You can get support from the community and the answers are quite effective.

They have an amazing academy. They have amazing content for self-learning. Maybe due to that, they don't have that much direct support. They instead seemed to have built a very amazing knowledge base where you can really develop your skills without any direct support and help. Most of our engineers could make the full cycle of e-learning without any class-based training. They also could acquire the certifications without any support. So, even without direct technical support on offer, they have a good online academy.

It's a pretty straightforward setup. It's not overly complex or difficult. It's easy. One DevOps engineer can handle all this stuff for many solutions for many clients. It doesn't require that many resources.

We're a Mendix partner. We have maybe 20 engineers. Most of them are certified. We have Rapid certification and intermediate and advanced certificates. 

We are not a user. We're not a consumer. We are the provider building custom solutions based on Mendix for different clients and different customers in different domains.

I'd advise potential users that the principle of having a citizen developer and a business developer is a good idea. You can engage with the business people from day one with the entire cycle of development. This is maybe the key to having such a platform.

Overall, I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

We have very broad use cases for Mendix. We use it for internal applications and writing customer applications. We create advanced omnichannel telephony and CRM apps and even have Mendix apps that will be considered big-data apps, like our IoT solution in Agriculture. 

We use Mendix to solve classical business problems, Risk solutions in fintech, Call Center apps, data processing, and used it to solve product development challenges that work well with rapid application processing for new product development. We do both new product development and also full largescale production systems on Mendix. We have solutions deployed on the cloud and on-premises.

We respond much quicker to challenges, our clients are more profitable and our staff love the opportunity to model and not write boring repetitive code.

One of the most valuable features in Mendix is its declarative model-driven development capabilities. Declarative development is important for the future of business software development; it allows us to rapidly model solutions without having to tell the computer how to do the basics. It allows us to focus on rich business logic rather than spending time managing boring technical details as is required with classical imperative development.  

Mendix helps reduce the total cost of ownership: It validates workflows and system flows and this saves significant time when developing and maintaining apps. Refactoring is much easier in Mendix and done with more confidence. 

Mendix apps are relatively quick to develop because it is a low-code platform. It's very robust, flexible, open, and scalable. It's for a low-code savvy customer. The tooling is also really good and it has good mobile app development capabilities with a platform suited to integration and publishing app services. 

So in a nutshell, valuable features: Mendix declarative modelling, finely-grained security model, easy data modelling, easy app integration, tooling, validation, mobile development features, ease of debugging, extensibility and attention to detail of the Mendix core team. 

We would like to see is the ability to version manage modules and not just the app. We need finer-grained version management for software repositories. Version management is good but it needs more work.

Also, because of the licensing model, Mendix apps are too monolithic. It would be great to have a microservices licensing model that works well for microservices especially designed to work with Kafka, Google Pub/Sub and streaming technologies. 

We need much better code refactoring tools, like IntelliJ but for Mendix. For example, if I wanted to maintain all projects and refactor Domain model fields in bulk, it would be good to have intelligent renaming across the whole model with regular expression syntax. The modeller is too clickety-click.

The most important feature I'd like to see is support for is first-rate JSON Schema support and first-rate GraphQL support. Of course, the Modeller must run on Mac, not Windows. 

Lastly, the licensing model does not scale well with many users. This is a huge problem as apps that have many users become very expensive and can kill the business case. Mendix is reasonably negotiable but it's a pain to deal with the licensing for each new project.

I have been working with Mendix for 10+ years.

The stability is very good. This is low hassle, low maintenance technology. We write systems for clients on Mendix and the few support issues we've gotten have been quick to fix. The performance is excellent. 

This product is scalable and it's relatively easy to scale. Because of its architecture, it can't scale like microservices that are designed for scaling across the globe, but Mendix has some horizontal and vertical scaling built in. It's not on the same level that you would get with a native cloud first node app. It's a little bit more limited, but there are still scaling options. 

I would say they're good, but I've never encountered a software vendor with excellent support. 

We tried others and settled on Mendix.

The initial setup was simple. It's not difficult to do yourself. 

We implemented through an in-house team. There are six people in my company working with Mendix. 

High, we do more with highly skilled engineers and love the speed of app development, especially the lower cost of maintaining apps over longer periods.

Mendix seems expensive. But with Mendix, one needs fewer developers to achieve high velocity, and if your environment can achieve that, then the total cost of ownership is fine. It's not cheap, though and not all projects will benefit unless one has a bulk licensing agreement. 

This product is licensed per application, per user. Mendix has other features you can access with a separate license, like Data Hub, but the base license has more than most people need. 

Mendix needs much better React component/widget writing compatibility. it is still more difficult than it should be to add your own components.

Lastly, Low Code Tools are weak at developing multi-tenant apps. One quickly loses the speed advantage and running many apps gets too expensive and a maintenance hassle as these apps tend to be monolithic, partly due to licensing.

Yes, Outsystems but we much preferred Mendix's non-code generating style.  Model Driven Development needs to run a model. We also did not like the licensing model of Outsystems.

I rate this product a nine out of ten. If you consider adopting Mendix, rather build a new culture and a new team. Do not just try and use legacy software developers who are passionate about older technologies. Use Mendix adoption as an opportunity to integrate business and IT; build new teams that are supported by first-rate software engineers AND new business engineers who can focus on understanding both business and IT. This allows one to model the business, understand the business, and develop the right software. 

Mendix is excellent for innovation. Whenever one has an opportunity for new product development, it's an excellent choice.

In our biggest project to date, we replicated with somebody else. It took three years to do uncompleted, and we replicated it in about six months, to build an end-to-end application for customer use.

Traditionally, it's basically used for anything where there's not an out-of-the-box solution available. We don't recommend people use it for out-of-box solutions, as you're typically going to get better support and value by using something else. This, on the other hand, is something you can customize as you desire. 

The solution is just very quick and responsive. 

The initial setup is very straightforward, and those implementing the product do not have to be very technologically advanced in order to manage the process.

Their app store has been revamped in the last year, and it allows basically anybody who creates a widget or a module inside of it, to share it with the whole community. It's got a very, very robust shared community, which is amazing.

There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution.

There's a new update coming soon, and that will be full of great items.

It's not so much that there's room for improvement on the product. They're creating some custom or some out-of-the-box modules that are going to be a part of it. In particular, they've got a workflow module that we could replicate-build ourselves, so to speak. It's probably a module that would take a couple of months, and then you can tweak it. To have that out-of-the-box potential for certain aspects is going to be really good. Having all that workflow prebuilt will be amazing.

There's no direct tech support. However, it's not the type of product you really would get tech support on. 

I've been dealing with the solution for two years at this point.

We haven't had any issues with it. Internally, we support a very large infrastructure and haven't headed any issues, and our three larger clients haven't had any issues at this point. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

It's only scalable vertically until you get to an enterprise license. Then, you have horizontal and vertical scalability. I'd recommend in general that people get an enterprise license.

We use it internally for maybe 400 of our employees, however, depending on what its use case is, it could be everybody. My largest one has 4,000 people they supply using it.

The solution doesn't offer technical support at all. There is a community around it, however, and it is quite robust. That's where we do most of our learning. 

The solution is very straightforward, due to the fact that it's all cloud-based infrastructure, and there's low-end stuff that a citizen developer could do pretty easily. For our onboarding, if we have new developers, people who were actually back with their schooling, compared to some other products, and typically they're on their own doing development within one month of starting training. This is compared to some of our more complex solutions. They may be shadowing and have oversight for six to seven months. The onboarding process to learn it is very, very quick. Therefore, a company shouldn't have any issues with the initial setup.

In terms of maintenance, we have a person on the team that creates a backlog of small work to do once a month, and that's it. There are no updates, or new deploying, or anything like that that is necessary.

In terms of ROI, the results totally depend on the client. With one particular client, it was much more about time. They had 4,000 people that have to submit documents, and they were submitting them in PDF, and having people transcribe them. They had no digital, and so they're changing everything. One of our other big ones, which is a public use case on Mendix's site, called Zmac, was shown last year, while the trucking industry was in decline, to have experienced over 20% growth. They had ROI in year one, for five years worth of costs.

Their licensing costs are on their website. It's easy to find out the overall costs. That being said, I'm under the impression they're getting ready to have a massive overhaul to that, which is going to be a really good thing for the customers. 

From what I understand, they're getting ready to move to a lower platform cost, and it's going to be more focused on the users in terms of how the cost is. That should offer a lower entry threshold than it is currently. It may be as much as 50% lower, and the user base is what their charge will be based on.

I work post-sales doing basically project management and solution design before it hits my developers.

We use a variety of different versions of the solution which we use. Mostly, it's version 8.3 on. That being said, if it's a new customer, they're going to have the most recent. If it's not, we update them as appropriate depending on how it's going to affect the existing environment. We're looking forward to 9.0, coming out this month actually. They're discussing a lot of good, new features we're excited about.

I'd recommend those considering the solution to take the classes, as they're worth it to make sure you understand the solution. It is all online learning. The other program we use with it has been extremely effective for us. There's a program called Datadog and it helps us monitor any kind of error logging at a much more granular level, which has been helpful in pinpointing anything that potentially comes up.

In general, on the platform overall, I would rate the solution at a ten out of ten, and on the pricing model, as it is now, at an eight out of ten. In general, for me, it falls currently at a nine out of ten. That may change once the pricing is adjusted in the near future.