We performed a comparison between Mendix and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."Mendix code and coding logic are very visual. It looks like a flow chart rather than lines of code. Rapid development is what drew us to Mendix."
"You can scale the solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is a free version of the solution you can use."
"The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization."
"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"The most valuable features are the interface and customizability."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"It is quick and easy to deploy. It is flexible, and we can deploy a resource anytime. We like and prefer the pay-as-you-go model."
"One area for improvement is its integration capabilities. Creating a pluggable widget or integrating it with other systems is challenging. In terms of features, it would be great to see advancements such as AI services and the integration of third-party services. Additionally, connecting external devices to the application requires multiple steps. Improving this will make it easier for the developers."
"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."
"Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep."
"We'd like to be able to write in C Sharp to develop code for Mendix."
"There needs to be an increase in the number of the UI components."
"I would like to see more documentation as well as how-to documents."
"Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++."
"There's no direct tech support."
"One area where Microsoft Azure could improve is in offering a broader range of pre-built plugins and tools compared to AWS."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"The solution is too expensive."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The license price could be lower."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
Mendix is ranked 2nd in Mobile Development Platforms with 48 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Appian, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Zoho Creator, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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