Mendix Reviews

Most valuable is the fact that the Mendix platform provides all the tools for creating and deploying business applications in one complete package. You do not have to understand all the "nitty-gritty" technical details that lie underneath.

This allows for a developer like me, who is most interested in designing the process, to realize the technical solution from start to finish.

Since Mendix requires less deep technical knowledge, it allows more business and process minded developers to become really successful Mendix developers/consultants.

This allows for a different way of working in my organization, where there is no longer a gap between the business and technical oriented professionals.

Pricing: Development is free, but deploying applications in production requires a monthly fee, based on the amount of users.

This makes Mendix unfit for small businesses, since they can rarely afford high monthly costs. Also, Mendix cloud charges ridiculous monthly fees for data storage.

We have used this solution for four and a half years.

When the design of a solution is sub-optimal, the service can get very slow or crash because of too many database calls, or too big Java heap sizes.

There have been scalability issues. Think about scalability early on, so you don't have to refactor your design when you are already in production.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10. Support is usually quite fast and bug fixes are quickly realized for paying customers.

We did not use anything previously.

The setup is very straightforward. Download the right modeler and start building apps!

Think about the amount of simultaneously used logged-in users the app should support. The more business apps you decide to realize in Mendix, the cheaper it gets.

Also, think about where you want to host your app (Mendix cloud or on-premise) and compare prices, especially if you want to store a lot of data.

We didn't look at other solutions.

Make sure you have capable people working on your product who understand your needs and have enough experience.

It is a tool that, when used correctly, can make app development very easy.

However, it is still important to make the right design decisions in order to get a stable, performing app that is maintainable and knowledge transferable.

The best feature is that you can create applications real fast. Forget large software teams. Alone or with small teams one can accomplice products in days that would take other software development teams months. Key features are that the product is flexible can connect with other applications using standards like SOAP, REST or OData.

We use Mendix as our software platform for building our HR solution. For each client of ours we buy a Mendix license so our clients can use our HR solution. Our product runs in the Mendix cloud.

Clients are at first amazed that product feedback gets realized in days while other with other software vendors, things only get realized after months or never at all. Bugs are solved most of the time the next day.

Creating better document templates would be nice. You can achieve what you want but not a speedy as you can do everything else.

Since 2010

Deploying to the Mendix cloud are painless. And there are a lot of new option if you want to host your model in a different environment like Clound Foundry etc.

It is stil software that as all software can still have bugs. But Mendix responds very well in that area. They have a stable release management so bugs get solved quickly.

We have had no issues scaling it to our needs. You can either scale by using multi tenancy or as we did use the same model for multple customers.

The customer support is awesome. Of course they need to be able to reproduce the bug, but they are very helpful.

The best part of Mendix is the user forum. There you get answers in hours. Only in the rare case that no answer will be given you need to contact the support desk, but most of the time Mendix will answer the question in the forum. The developers are also there to provide knowledge. Even with the most difficult technological questions they will give their view on how to solve your problem.

The Cordis platform was used before we got to know Mendix. Cordis was just a failure that did cost us a lot of money with no result.

Even if you do not know the platform at all you can learn to build Mendix applications in hours even with no program experience. It is better to have a good knowledge of your business processes than knowing how to program. That last part is easier learned than the other way around.

If you use the cloud setup implementation is a breeze. All our clients use the cloud based solution. We can bring a client live in a day if we want to.

Since the developer version is free you do not need to invest to start working with the modeler. You can even deploy to a free slot where you can demo to a client the sollution you made. So you only start paying after you closed your first deal with a customer.

For small companies the pricing can be a bit steep. The gap between the free version and a paid version is to big in my opinion.

In the university world model driven development has been talked about a lot but never realized its potential. Mendix is, in my opinion, the first product that realized the potential of model driven development. More products are are coming but for me Mendix still has the edge in this field.

Just download Mendix and start playing with it. If you run in to trouble post your question in the forum and just check the product yourself if it is something for you.

Rapid development

Prototyping

The ability to deploy functionality daily, weekly, or monthly has greatly increased our competitive advantage in the market.

More than 3 years

No

No

No

Enterprise level customer support, with strong user community

Good

Yes, traditional development methodologies were found to be too slow and cumbersome

No, there is alot of support for getting started, from videos to tutorials.

in-house

Mendix has a unique place in the market and is a great tool. Ensure that you are using it for the correct product/project -- one size doesn't fit all.

Mendix provides the big-picture to the detail and the detail to the big-picture and they do that well. The tool chain allows one to model the business in the easy-to-use Business Modeller, then to deploy the app server with the model, deploy the DB schema to the database and have it running with : One click. They wrap all of this detail, in a big picture platform by integrating everything into the software development life cycle that provides the techies with the detail of what to do next and the business owner with where things are and how long they will take. The most valuable feature is being fast without painting yourself into a corner.

Mendix has helped to dissolve the divide between “business” and “IT”, between business speak and technical jargon, between classical project management and disciplined agile delivery. It reduces friction to deliver projects iteratively and reduce time to market and helps change the organisational culture, if the culture is open to this. In short, Mendix has improved our ability to delight our customers.

We need better support for master data management, consuming corporate dictionaries and exporting the models to others. We also need better reporting and visualisation as this is a critical part of each app and currently the reporting side has to rely on external BI tools. Additionally, we need better support for quickly integrating with external data sources without writing code or reliance on ETL tools. A Mendix profiler will also help and lastly, a multi window business Modeller so that one can use the Modeller more productively on two monitors.

We've used it for six years, since 2010.

There are very rarely issues with the deployment.

We have had Mendix apps that were not maintained properly and left to tick over that were difficult to keep stable and upgrade due to large databases and insufficient resources : This is more due to a lack of engineering than anything related to Mendix. But because Mendix makes things easy, clients often feel like it does not require the same engineering disciplines and this sets up a client for deployment, stability and scalability issues.

Generally there have been no issues scaling. Keep in mind that Mendix runs on a RDBMS as its main persistent store and as such will scale with the data base. We find that the Mendix App server is only the bottle neck on tight loops over LOTS of data and when using dynamically calculated values. However, this is not typical use cases for Mendix and can be avoided by using microservices that do tight loop/ETL, simulation etc. work loads and leave complex business processes to Mendix.

At times when we hit a serious bug, Mendix has always been quick to respond and fix the issue. The user forums are active and Mendix staff is encouraged to provide answers. In general, quite good. Can always be better but in comparison to other large tech companies, they like to please and help.

We evaluated a number of tools that claimed to offer productivity platforms and model driven development. The success of Mendix is of course using it where it is strong. Mendix is not an BI or ETL tool and we rather use Mendix in collaboration with a number of tools like Blaze, Talend, YellowFin etc. Why Mendix? Its model driven approach is superior rather than a code generator as used by many other productivity platforms. This keeps you fast rather than being fast in the start of the project. A model driven approach makes it possible to focus on solving the problem at hand rather than tinkering with code that has to be maintained in three months.

Mendix is not a "RAD" tool and there really is nothing like it, similar tools have started appearing and the approach is catching on. Model Driven tools differ in philosophy and implementation and needs a different mind set to leverage optimally.

Mendix presents a deceptively simple environment that seems too shallow for many techies, but is not. It does present a completely different paradigm and team culture and to leverage Mendix a change in corporate culture might be required. From us and them, to a integrated innovative whole where technologists can focus on delivering value to the rhythm of business demands. Convincing classical techies might be a challenge and this often limits the success of implementations.

We started off by seeding our team culture the Mendix culture by working with them on a number of projects. Since then we have grown a number of teams for ourselves and our clients. Advice: Get a Mendix Engineer to seed the different culture and flourish from there, it will put your investment on a faster benefit-track. However, this is not required and growing organically might work depending on your lead Mendix engineers’ propensity to innovate, integrate and deliver business value.

ROI is dependent on the importance of a “fast time to market”. If a fast time to market is not a determinant, then write assembly or C, else Mendix might have a part to play.

Mendix can be expensive if you stare at the bottom line and compare it to traditional tech - which is flawed. Think big picture and time to market with a few bright resources rather than micromanagement and a army of developers and it might lead one to realise that saving a number of salaries, training, career building and hand holding might be a bigger saving than your average capex/opex watching manager can see. Mendix is negotiable on licensing and will try to make the project where possible.

We had a look at OutSystems, some open source initiatives and BPM tools.

Mendix requires adoption from the top and support for the teams that implement it to not be ham strung by IT. Do not approach Mendix like a “traditional” IT shop will : It requires a close integration with business, driven by Business for Business by IT rather than by IT for for business. It requires a model driven approach to solving problems that provides speed gains when describing solutions in its language rather than designing everything from scratch, think different, leverage models, accelerate delivery, speak business.

They have good attention to detail and keep things simple and clean.

• Excel Importer : seamless to map data from a raw excel sheet into a structured database
• Community common library : Useful java method to add powerfull functionality to your application with just a few clicks
• Excel Exporter : Exporting data to Excel is a breeze
• AvayaDialer: Integrating your application with avaya telephony suite is power and extremely useful especially for call center applications
• Rest Service : Integration to rest services is now quick and easy with Mendix ( can take some time to configure but once you done it, it’s so simple)
• FusionCharts : Reporting in ,Mendix is awesome and extremely useful with fusion charts module. Very powerful indeed

In the next version I would like the Rest Service Module to be incorporated into Mendix, similar to the way web services work.

Over the last four and half years I've used versions 3.2.1, 4.8.10, 5.13, and 5.14.1.

We had no issues with the deployment.

We have had no stability issues.

With v3.2.1 we had some scalability issues which we resolved by upgrading to a later. This upgrade made our application a lot more scalable.

10/10

10/10

Expect to half your delivery time for new products/services to business. Mendix beats any other technology out there.

• Micro flows, because of the ease of use for complex development structures
• Wide variety of in app store Widgets such as Deep Link, Active Directory integration, graphs (bar/spider charts), and geo location functionality
• Ability to customize the style sheets 
• Mobile development framework
• Java integration with Mendix
• Remote debugging
• The ease of use for complex development structures
• SAP integration 

We developed a tool/product called Survey Quest. The tool enable the user to do perform surveys and  improveme them as well as its functionality.

The out of the box crud screens can be made more user friendly, but then again it is a business application tool to quickly generate crud screens for enterprise application, not focused on public facing/entertainment values.

I've used it for two years.

There were no deployment issues.

The system was performing not as quick/fast as it should have.  

There were memory leaks after a week of it being live. We need to clear the memory once a week.

It was straightforward.

We developed a solution in house.

ROIs at this stage is not good because of the high license fees.

We also looked at Microsoft/Java options. We initially thought the license fees and speed of development was too slow.

I was involved developing a solution.  We also did a site for skillsmap in mendix that was live for one and a half years. 

Mendix is an excellent tool to put the business in charge again for realizing IT projects. In the pension project we worked in sprints of two weeks in which we created functionality which was going to be tested by the business instantly. In this way the business stayed connected with the IT solution and was in charge of the project. Mendix is an excellent tool to execute the scrum way of working in a successful way.

Often the business comes to the conclusion that it is not working as they had thought it would after they have seen a first version. In Mendix it is really easy to show this first version and to change it according to the business needs.

After two weeks the business will be able to  see what they had in mind and will be able to validate whether the IT people have understood what they meant but also whether the solution is going to work as they had in mind.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

We haven't had any issues with stability.

We haven't had any issues with scalability.

The most valuable features of Mendix includes the most vital logic building component called the microflows which cuts down the need to write code and instead using logic blocks to interpret the way the function should work. As part of microflows, there are ways which gives the developer flexibility by writing code using Java actions. There also other vital features like the ability to easily use web services and export and import files of different kinds.

The main way in which this product has improved my organisations functions is the ability to promote agile methodology and rapid development. It also allows users see what has been developed quicker than writing physical code. This means it allows us to test out different scenarios with ease and also changing entities and attributes are easier than ever. Another way this system has helped is the ease of releasing the product we are developing on different platforms whether it be desktops, tablets or phones. Being built using bootstrap also helps with the responsiveness of the system.

The area of this product that needs improving is the templates in which the user uses to create documents. As it stands it is not very intuitive and not pleasing to the eye.

I have been using Mendix as a system for almost nine months.

There have been no issues with the deployment.

There are a few bugs when new versions are released which sometimes affects the program when it is run.

I have had no issues scaling it for my needs.

7/10 - I haven't needed to ask them for much but the Mendix community which also includes some developers in Mendix help to solve issues in less than 24 hours which I was impressed with.

The Mendix developers and community continues to add useful features and add ons to the system which makes it better in every iteration.