We performed a comparison between Appian and Mendix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is easy."
"The solution has a lot of strong features for the financial industry, it is very easy to use."
"Technical support has been amazing overall."
"Appian's most valuable features are the quick time it takes to develop for the market. It's easy and faster than other BPM solutions."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"The tool is very flexible."
"Mendix has made a great deal of effort to provide its developers a healthy, modern environment for developing. First of all, it adopts Agile methodology by creating a SCRUM-based app where you can handle your user stories. Next comes version control, which really allows multiple team members to collaborate quite easily. And last but not least, Mendix modeler, which is your IDE for developing Mendix apps."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Mendix are its business process management and its minimal low code, both from an interface perspective and from a process perspective."
"The development environment is model-driven. We can use the information from this for our business engineers to make the information models, and they can also execute the model."
"The most valuable features are the decorative style, model-driven development, and the fact that Mendix validates flows. Mendix is quick to develop because it's a low-code platform. It's very robust, flexible, open, and scalable. It's for a low-code customer. The tooling is also really good and it has mobile capabilities."
"Suite allows you to easily and smoothly integrate with pretty much anything. It is also cloud-enabled. It provides a full Cloud Foundry-driven cloud environment with one-click deployment."
"The user experience is great."
"It's amazing that you can build web apps and mobile (hybrid) apps with one code base in a few clicks. It's a full continuous integration environment."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"Appian has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"I would like to see more complete university tools. For example, with UiPath, I have had a good experience related to a free course in order to provide some users some different levels of knowledge. This extra training helps users not only use the solution but to develop further within the tool."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++."
"What is lacking is the support of higher level modeling features, like the modeling you do is relatively low level, yet it is still close to programming. We would like to see a more business-oriented modeling environment, like BPMN."
"We'd like to be able to write in C Sharp to develop code for Mendix."
"Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep."
"Needs multiple database connections so an app can directly read/write data to/from multiple databases. This would enable easy splitting of big applications that have complex entity relationships."
"There's no direct tech support."
"I would like to see more documentation as well as how-to documents."
"There is always a layer of custom code required."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while Mendix is ranked 5th in Rapid Application Development Software with 48 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Mendix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Salesforce Platform, whereas Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow and Salesforce Platform. See our Appian vs. Mendix report.
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