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Mendix pros and cons

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PROS

Mendix enables seamless integration with various platforms and provides a cloud-enabled environment with one-click deployment.
Rapid application development is facilitated through Mendix's visual coding logic, allowing for quick iterations and updates.
Mendix offers a full continuous integration environment and robust security features, saving time and enhancing collaboration.
The platform excels in drag-and-drop functionality, data entities, and domain models, essential for accelerating development lifecycles.
Mendix is praised for its strong business process management capabilities and low-code adaptability, making it ideal for dynamic development requirements.

CONS

Mendix lacks a comprehensive widget creation studio in its IDE and struggles with public-facing interfaces requiring improvements for better scalability and integration with external systems.
Model versioning control needs enhancement, including better SCRUM board functionality and model changes overview through Sprintr, as well as variety in versioning control systems.
Documentation is insufficient, lacking how-to guides and creating challenges in learning and development, exacerbated by a scarcity of experienced developers and a limited knowledge base.
Integration with enterprise ecosystems and engineering applications needs improvement, especially in user authentication and third-party service integration, making system connections cumbersome.
Mendix's pricing model is prohibitive for startups, described as steep, making it expensive and inaccessible for smaller companies or emerging markets.
 

Mendix Pros review quotes

MT
Jun 24, 2018
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.
Somnath-Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
May 29, 2022
What I found most valuable in Mendix is that it's very much suitable for mobile apps such as native Android or IOS supported mobile apps. The multiple features of the platform are very, very attractive and very popular. Mendix has technical features such as microflows and nanoflows. You can also access data models in the platform. These are the features that are very, very strong in Mendix. I got my hands dirty on other low-code platforms, but I have not seen such strong features in them compared to the microflows, nanoflows, and data model access that are in Mendix, including creating and integration. The platform has out-of-the-box adapters or out-of-the-box-connectors that you can integrate with different interface applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, etc.
Sameer Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2022
They are leading in the smart manufacturing, and connectivity space.
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RB
Mar 3, 2021
There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution.
Hardy-Jonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 27, 2021
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.
JK
Feb 19, 2021
We find it intuitive and easy to use.
Bondoc-Popescu Marcian-Petrut - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 30, 2022
You can scale the solution.
DhanasekarMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 4, 2024
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.
Marjolein Pordon - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2022
The initial setup is easy.
MS
May 19, 2021
The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization.
 

Mendix Cons review quotes

MT
Jun 24, 2018
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.
Somnath-Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
May 29, 2022
The platform still has many areas for improvement. If I compare apples to apples, the PWA features of Mendix could be improved, for example, I wouldn't recommend creating a B2C or B2B marketplace or web portals on Mendix, but there's a tendency for people to still do it through the systems provided by my company, particularly implement B2B or B2C marketplace, versus using eBay or Shopify. On the web portal front, Mendix still needs to improve.
Sameer Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 16, 2022
There is always a layer of custom code required.
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RB
Mar 3, 2021
There's no direct tech support.
Hardy-Jonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 27, 2021
An improvement I would like to see is the ability to version manage independent modules. Their version management for software repositories must be better. It's good and you can do it, but it needs work.
JK
Feb 19, 2021
There are not enough developers who are using Mendix. The knowledge base available online and in the market is not as rich as other competitors.
Bondoc-Popescu Marcian-Petrut - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 30, 2022
In the beginning, it is difficult to learn and work with.
DhanasekarMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 4, 2024
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.
Marjolein Pordon - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 11, 2022
Mendix needs to think about itself offering machine learning and artificial intelligence.
MS
May 19, 2021
There needs to be an increase in the number of the UI components.