Experience with Mendix Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix is a great low-code and no code platform which has the great potential to enable rapid application development model within the business.
The best part what I like about Mendix is TAT(Turn around time) of the project. With help of Mendix, we can easily deliver an application in a span of 3 weeks from scratch right from development to deployment which usually takes months in case of traditional coding.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not having CDN within the Mendix architecture is one of the thing I don't like. It can have enhance the performance and response time of the application having within the application setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables RAD model which gives us an opportunity on building the core application without worrying about the underlying architecture of the application.
Mendix has a powerful offering as PaaS model where one has to be bothered for application and its data management and rather it is maintained by Mendix which helps in achieving less TAT (Turn around time) of the project.
Mendix in a nutshell
What do you like best about the product?
Speed of development is great and having the ability to test quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
It an become very complex, depending on deep you dive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rapid application development
Mendix after almost 4 years of using it
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of menial tasks. The ability to teach it fast to new people and the general versatility of the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that the chatbot and AI assistance is still on a very early stage of development. Would like to have more power there and use it with custom datasources hosted outside of the mendix cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating apps for SCHWARZ Group very fast and efficiently. The apps are very different so I'll not go into details.
The LowCode Platform that delivers
What do you like best about the product?
With Mendix, application development is fast due to the low-code nature and fully support an agile way of working. You can truely focus on delivering business needs instead of focussing on frameworks and low level coding, whether it is for responsive web apps or native apps. The marketplace contains a lot of free to use connectors and has a great community. Roadmaps are shared and Mendix is able to make new technologies easy to consume. I like it!
What do you dislike about the product?
It might be hard to find expert developers in all parts of the world.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building custom solutions for all our departments internally, but also to build customer facing applications that needs to be specifically tailored to the user requirements.
Mendix - A Great Low Code Solution for your digital transformation
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix comes with lots of widgets and modules , which provides out of the box solution to meet all your requirements and makes developer life super easy.
It has come a long way in area of Trending Tech like Gen AI & cloud solutions.
Having Mendix is a subscription to Innovation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. It is Continuously evolving and catering to all our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has drastically reduced development time. It has taken care of versioning mechanism, it has builtin Git version control inside studio pro. It has custom extension by which you can extend your studio pro IDE.
It provides you almost every module ,widgets which covers all our requirements.
It has very good customer support and amazing community
All-in-one Low Code Application Platform on our own Private Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
Only LCAP that supports a wide range of deployment options.
What do you dislike about the product?
No fine-grained Identity & Access management for their Cloud services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mendix offers a mode of software development that is faster and requires less resources compared to tradional software development. It focus on reusable building blocks greatly helps in scaling the platform will still keeping it maintainable.
Innovative no code way to built application with mendix !
What do you like best about the product?
From my expeirence , it has been the fastest turnaround in any application development.Its user interface is very user friendly and productive. We have used its full stack method and find that it has automatic deployement and database creation which is super amazing in any low code platform. We have also integrated it with other applications as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It meets our requrements but for suggestion its deployement time can be improved for better experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mendix has been doing wonders for our company in developing and deploying applications for our clients need for marketing purpose. The low code method is a great innovation in solving problems of data structure and data flow into simpler method. And that too with very good user interface and no major lags or buggy experience.
Provides an integrated approach to monolithic and microservices
What is our primary use case?
We built a SaaS product for our own customers and are developing internal applications for most of the MDM using Mendix. Additionally, we handle small to medium-complexity workflow management systems, whether process-related or complete system automation, using Mendix Workflow.
Some customers prefer building their products rather than buying them. For instance, they wanted a simplified version instead of purchasing a product management system, so we developed it. We built a couple of external-facing, consumer-facing applications, although the consumer base for these is small.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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. Ideally, we should have a way to separate the front end and back end to scale them independently.
While Mendix does offer different ways to achieve this, I sometimes prefer having the front end separate. I don't want the back end to be tightly coupled with the front end all the time.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Mendix for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Mendix is quite stable. However, some customers do not always use the stable versions provided by Mendix, which include both LTS and MTS versions. If a customer chooses a version other than these two options, it may lead to stability issues. Therefore, we always recommend that customers choose the appropriate development version to ensure their applications' stability. Mendix offers stable versions, but customers must be educated about using them correctly.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability has an issue. When you buy a license for a private cloud, you can scale as much as you can afford in your private cloud. However, buying a public cloud with a t-shirt sizing model has limitations. You are limited to the one instance you can get whenever you want to upgrade. There is always a limit to whether they provide 30 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of RAM. For the public cloud, its scalability is limited, so I'm rating it seven. The rating is nine for a private cloud or on-premise because you can scale however you want.
Most of the time, it is for enterprise customers because of the licensing and the user-based cost.
How are customer service and support?
Since we are an official partner of Mendix, we receive priority on requests. Based on my interactions, responses are generally quicker, but the quality of resolution varies. There are two levels of resolution: one is through the documentation and technical support they provide, and the other involves their expert services, which may incur charges. While technical difficulties can be resolved with their assistance, charges may apply. It's important to note that Mendix does offer expert services that can help solve any problem.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. You can get started right away.
What other advice do I have?
Integrating with Mendix is generally easy. It is integrated with most modern frameworks, such as REST and Kafka. We've even integrated it with external workflow orchestration tools like JPM or Camunda. However, I have encountered some issues with Mendix regarding SDK-based integrations. While it is possible to perform these integrations, there is no direct way to do it, making the process more complex. For example, if Salesforce provides an SDK instead of a REST API, integrating with the SDK is more complicated than a straightforward REST API integration.
I would not recommend Mendix because it is very expensive for external users and can also be expensive for internal users. If your internal workforce is less than 10,000, I recommend Mendix because you can achieve a faster ROI. However, if you have an internal customer base of 30,000- 40,000, I would not recommend Mendix.
In version 10.12, released a week ago, Mendix introduced some new features I had requested multiple times. They now have an in-app help feature within the Mendix IDE to speed development. Specifically, they have enabled a chatbot within the Mendix IDE, which helps streamline development.
Additionally, Mendix should support modularity in each functionality. For example, the workflow engine should operate separately from the main application, allowing for independent deployment. This means I should be able to deploy the workflow engine, microservices, or UI components separately. If Mendix provides this option, it will be a game changer. This way, I can scale the workflow for workflow-intensive applications, scale the backend for high-throughput scenarios, and scale the content to accommodate many visitors.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Rapid high quality software development
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to quickly develop solid software while keeping focus on the problem being solved. Many repetitive tasks are automated. Mendix specifically is flexible in deployment options and extensibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
In my honest opinion, they lack solid governance capabilities. You could question whether they should be part of the platform or not, but they only recently started with SBOM and CICD tools in the platform and still lack solid policies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We always have more opportunities than time to develop solutions. With Mendix we can adres opportunities faster than with traditional coding and it simplifies life cycle management and governance.
Very promising product
What do you like best about the product?
Mendix makes a unique combination of features:
- it has low code/no code capabilities unlocking value for many more (small applications)
- it has upgradeability/customisations built in
- it can be pushed to edge devices and brings automation and data availability on the shop floor to the next level
What do you dislike about the product?
Sales people didn't tell us about it yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We plan to use it for the customisation of features and the user interface of Opcenter X
