Mendix Reviews

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.

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.

Developing applications that focus on the business instead of just focusing on the technology. And by doing to achieving a short time to market and quick ROI.

It gave the organizations I worked for the ability to create far more complex applications with a smaller team and in a shorter time frame. When we brought in external auditors they even confirmed the fact that what we build would take at least 50% more resources to develop in for example Java or .Net. Also, the fact that we don't have to take care of the basics during development, means we can focus on the actual business process and how to make the product work for the business.

• The speed and agility with which you can develop solutions with the Mendix platform
• It is possible to create the same applications that more traditional platforms offer in a fraction of the time
• You don't need to worry about the basics surrounding security, CRUD actions, integration, UX and many other things you need to create the same basics for when developing with traditional platforms

The document templates definitely need some love, they have been around for a while but no actual improvement have been done since they were released. At least not in terms of additional options like the web counterparts of the elements you have available have. Also, Mendix is even easy for non-developers to start developing apps with, however when the applications grows and gets more complex these type of users are not fully guided in making it as secure and performance as it should.

It would be great if the modeler could also start pointing in the right direction when it comes to that. Although Mendix did introduce the Mendix Application Quality Monitor which could help with this issue.

In the past, I encountered scalability issues that caused stability issues. Mendix can scale to multiple application servers but at the time it could not scale to more database servers, the only solution was, to add more resources to the single available database server.

I do believe that Mendix is trying to solve this with HP Helion and Cloud Foundry solutions which are horizontal and vertical scalable. I however haven't had any experience with these platforms in combination with Mendix yet.

In the past, I encountered scalability issues that caused stability issues. Mendix can scale to multiple application servers but at the time it could not scale to more database servers, the only solution was, to add more resources to the single available database server.

I do believe that Mendix is trying to solve this with HP Helion and Cloud Foundry solutions which are horizontal and vertical scalable. I however haven't had any experience with these platforms in combination with Mendix yet.

The level of direct customer service and technical support is great when you are a paying customer or a Mendix partner, if you are not the support is limited to the forum which is mostly run by community members, however even Mendix personnel will answer your questions.

So I would say it is alright. They have improved it a lot the last couple of years, and they continue to improve as their user base grows.

I've developed applications with numerous products combined or stand alone: PHP, ColdFusion, Java, JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype, Vanilla), CSS2/3 and HTML4/5.

However not a specific platform like Mendix, the major difference is as I mentioned before the fact that you can fully focus on business process development instead of all the basic stuff like login, CRUD, etc. That's why my primary platform to develop with is currently Mendix.

The initial setup is really easy all you need to do is create a Mendix account, create a project, fill in some basics for the project like the name, choose a base theme and then you are good to go. You will automatically get a sandbox environment connected to it, which is basically a free node in the cloud environment from Mendix to test and share your application with others. Using the Mendix Sprint environment you can also easily share the Mendix model with others to either develop or just review the application.

I've worked at employers that where both the vendor partner team and client which used a vendor partner, currently I'm working on a project in which I'm the third party expert hired to implement the solution. My advice would be to always hire a Mendix partner or freelancer with a couple of years experience before you take over development. Starting the project is easy but it still takes some experience to really set a solid foundry if you look at the architecture of your application. This is something that Mendix Customer Satisfaction Managers can guide any new client with.

The fact that your development resources can be greatly reduced compared to those platforms will give you a better ROI.

I have personally not been directly involved with pricing/licensing for any of the projects I worked on. However, judging based on experience, I can say that Mendix is not more expensive than any serious competitor solution.

Contact a Mendix partner or Mendix for an initial POC this can usually be done within a couple of days to see the power of the rapid development with the Mendix platform. If you are still not convinced or are a developer yourself check out the developer.mendix.com community and training options that are freely available to anyone that registers for free.

We use Mendix for client projects in the retail, e-commerce, and banking industry.

My team has ten developers, and for one solution, we require three to five developers.

Mendix is useful for various industries, such as retail, e-commerce, and banking. For example, we're currently using the solution for a payment app for retail. It can also be used to create a mobile banking app.

Mendix is a low-code platform, which means that it allows us to build applications quickly and with less coding. It also has various pre-built components and integrations, which can speed up the development process.

Furthermore, one of my team members has Mendix certification and uses it for marketing and sales purposes. The team is learning about how Mendix can be used for queries, which are currently at an intermediate level. Additionally, I have completed 55 queries in Mendix.

I find the fast development speed and low cost to be very valuable features of Mendix. It's a smart solution for busy developers when we need to apply new changes or fixes quickly. Mendix helps to save time and meet project deadlines faster.

One thing I would like to improve is the support system offered by Mendix. It can sometimes take a while to get the help I need when I'm using Mendix.

I've been working with Mendix for a bit more than one year. We're using Mendix Eco System version.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

I am satisfied with Mendix customer service and support. Although, sometimes, it takes a long time to respond.

Positive

We had Mendix support, with a cycle of five deployments per night. Setting up the infrastructure took us about a week the first time, but it became easier and quicker afterwards. When we deploy for the second time, it only takes a fraction of the time compared to the initial deployment.

We did not need any consistent support in deployment.

I would definitely recommend it to others who are looking to start using it. Mendix is a great platform to use. The calls in Mendix are currently of high quality, and there are even some free apps available. I have used it in my previous projects, and it has been a reliable tool for development.

Overall, I would rate it a nine 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.

We do not use the solution, but manage Mendix's process. We are partnered with Mendix and implement it within the organization, something practiced with prevalence in the UAE. Those making use of the solution are happy with it. 

The Ministry of Digital Economy in Jordan, which is responsible for managing the service portfolio of the Jordanian government, is wholly based on our Mendix application.

I can tell you how Mendix has improved my organization by discussing the projects with which I am already working. The old service portfolio is based on a Mendix workflow and system.

The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization.

While it is difficult for me to address which areas of the solution are in need of improvement, as I manage Mendix projects, but do not utilize them, I would point out the transformation of the BPM and the process with other applications. This is because the applications are conceptually what we need, as they concern the RPA Automation Anywhere and UiPath.

Mendix has the potential to redesign its process engine for compatibility with a BPMN tool without any further action being required, enabling seamless integration between the business processes design applications.

As mentioned, there needs to be an increase in the number of the UI components so that other platforms will not be used in place of the UI interface of Mendix, such as Angular.

Improvements should be made to the functionality to increase the number of UI components in the actual software. As such, we occasionally go outside the system to develop certain pages in React, Angular or Vue JS, which we then import to Mendix. This we do because of the limitation in the UI design, but it is not on par with what's happening, for example, with OutSystems or other tools.

The solution is stable. The most important entities utilize it, such as the Dubai Municipality in the United Arab Emirates and the Ministry of Digital Economy in Jordan. This has more than 5,000 services deployed in the system, around 2,000 of which utilize Mendix and OutSystems. We have had no complaints about stability, only of ordinary issues involving use of the system that entail errors or call for troubleshooting. 

The Dubai Municipality makes use of Mendix, as well as five out of 40 ministries. They have transferred their core applications to Mendix in their entirety. The remainder are in a transitional phase and this should be completed throughout the entire government of Jordan within five to six years. 

The maintenance contract between the entity and Mendix provides for multiple levels of support, similar to the circumstances existing with ARIS. As mentioned, I rate Mendix as an eight out of ten, because there occasionally occur delays in its adherence to the SLA. However, the solution's tech support tries to be helpful and responsive and to do so in a comparable manner. 

Installing the solution took from five to 10 days to ensure proper integration with, say, the active directory and other tools for data migration.

We handled the deployment.

Licensing costs are similar to those for all other IT technology, but they vary by region. As such, the United States, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan all have disparate licensing costs, even when it comes to the partners involved. We, for example, are entitled to a 50 to 60 percent  discount on licensing costs, whereas Jordan may be entitled to one of 90 percent. This makes it challenging to properly appraise the cost. ARIS is similar. The average price varies according to region, Jordan being entitled to a 50 percent discount over that of the UAE.

Mendix's support is far superior to that of OutSystems and more competitively priced.

While I can't say exactly which version of Mendix we are using, I can state that it is the latest one. 

The business analyst has a more important role than that of the developer in a Mendix project. He needs a proper understanding of how to design the Mendix process so it may be automatable and executable. The business analyst must be able to use a Mendix platform.

As Mendix needs to improve its product and support, I rate it as an eight out of ten.

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.