Mendix Reviews

I have used Mendix for Teamcenter, integrating with Teamcenter using an API. I have created an app in Mendix for showing and mapping the data from Teamcenter and getting the data. I have also created other apps in Mendix, such as creating some data for student enrollment, including a registration form. I have also created many more projects in Mendix that I have already completed.

I have done integration mail projects. I have done other projects, including collecting data and student enrollments. I have also done a project where I created an AI robot that can talk and recognize your face. It will talk to you and answer what you are asking. I created it with the help of Mendix.

Mendix has handy tools, the UI is very good, and the toolset is also very good. There are multiple APIs there to integrate with anything, to other databases, or to connect with Teamcenter and other systems. I am also using Python for my robotics project. Very little coding is required in Mendix.

In my opinion, the best features Mendix offers include being a low-code software. Anyone who doesn't know how to code can definitely do coding and create an app in Mendix.

The low-code feature has helped my team and made my work easier because there are default templates, so we don't need to create or write code. We can just edit and create. There are templates and toolsets available. We don't need to create or write code for any API. There are also some apps that we can just download, connect, and work with.

Mendix has impacted my organization positively because we can work from anywhere. As we were doing in Python itself earlier, now we have created a Mendix app, and we can do our work there. There is no need to create or write Python code. We can do it easily, and anyone can. We just create users, they will log in, and they will write code or something, make changes, and implement it.

Since it's low-code, I would like Mendix to be web-based, so we shouldn't need to install Mendix to create an app.

For the last four years, I have been using Mendix.

Mendix is stable in my experience.

Mendix's scalability is great.

I haven't used customer support.

I don't know about the return on investment with Mendix because I'm a techie. I don't know about the price.

I don't know my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Mendix.

I haven't evaluated any options before choosing Mendix.

As I don't know the price side, I can't advise others to use Mendix because it can be very costly in the current market. In the market for Mendix alternatives, there are other software options that are not like Mendix, but they are low-cost. So I don't know what advice I can give.

I'm not facing any problems with my projects.

I was facing challenges connecting with real-time voice recognition, face recognition, and accessing data from other systems or databases while building that AI robot using Mendix and WebEx. However, Mendix helped me connect with other databases to get the data.

Currently, I have no additional thoughts about the features. It's great.

I have already answered all the questions regarding specific outcomes or metrics, including time saved.

I don't have any additional thoughts about Mendix before we wrap up. I would rate this review a 9 overall.

My main use case for Mendix is software development. I build both web and native applications for many clients using Mendix. I cannot provide any unique details about how I use Mendix for my clients, as that cannot be explained or exposed.

In my opinion, the best features Mendix offers include scalability, development, reducing the development timeline, and it is very fast. Mendix's scalability works for me because it is drag and drop, so we do not spend time coding; we just drag and drop, which is much faster than traditional development. I find enough useful features in Mendix. Mendix has positively impacted my organization because it is a developing stack and is very much faster, making it easier to attract clients.

Improvements for Mendix include that sometimes it gets hung while loading.

I have been using Mendix for 3.5 years.

Mendix is stable.

Mendix's scalability allows us to add a couple of rows or columns; you can add it in the entity, and it will be reflected as a table without needing much architecture changes.

Mendix customer support is very quick, and within a week, I can close a ticket, as they solve it promptly.

Negative

I did not use a different solution before Mendix.

Mendix is deployed in my organization as both private and public cloud. For Mendix, I mostly use AWS. I believe Mendix was purchased from Mendix and AWS from AWS; they are using both to link, but I am not certain, as it is in the DevOps team.

I cannot provide any unique details about how I use Mendix for my clients, as that cannot be explained or exposed.

I have seen a return on investment with Mendix, as in default software development, a team with 10 developers or more is needed, while here we can do it with one or two developers, so it is truly a money saver for the company. Since using Mendix, I can say that mostly the development time would be a year, but we can complete it within three months with Mendix, which is very time-saving; in my career, I have completed around 9 to 10 projects.

Before choosing Mendix, I evaluated other options including React and Node.

My advice to others looking into using Mendix is to learn the marketplace and come to Studio Pro, and you can develop the application. I give Mendix an overall rating of 9.

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.

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.

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.

 I have been using Mendix for five years.

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.

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. 

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.

The initial setup is easy. You can get started right away.

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.

We have clients in petrochemicals, agriculture, financial services, retail, and all sorts of other areas. It is amazing when we use it for what it is designed for. 

The development tools are excellent for building new apps, both mobile and enterprise web. 

We also use Mendix Enterprise Integration for complex business logic. It's a low-code platform, so we run Mendix in the Mendix Cloud.

The code refactoring tools could be better, especially for applications running for years. It's not bad, but it could be smoother.

Also, writing new widgets can be trickier than it should be for some people, but not if you're familiar with Mendix. 

Pricing used to be complex, but Mendix has improved that quite a bit. So, the pricing policy in general. It's not exactly straightforward.

The reporting feature also wasn't great, but Mendix has fixed that in version 10. I still need to test it fully, though. Version 9's reporting could be better.

In future releases, I would like to see more features around report writing. 

Another thing is managing and breaking down monolithic apps into modules, with version control for individual modules, which could be more robust. Sharing individual modules wasn't as strong as it should be. 

However, the biggest improvement still would be better refactoring tools, both for code and models.

I have been using it since 2011. 

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. We've been running large applications on it, and almost never have any issues.

Mendix is easy to scale for typical business applications. It's horizontally and vertically scalable.

It used to be mainly for medium and large companies, but the new pricing makes it much more accessible. Now, it's suitable for the whole spectrum, from small to large.

The customer service and support are not bad. There is definitely room for improvement in response time. And they tend to escalate things quite a bit before acknowledging a problem. So, our experience has been a bit slow but not terrible.

Positive

Mendix competes with Outsystems, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce, and a few local players. 

I'd definitely rate Mendix as the number one low-code, model-driven platform. It's much better than the competition regarding ease of use, pricing, stability, IDE strength, good training materials, and easy staff onboarding and certification. It has made major improvements in those areas.

The initial setup is very simple. It was super quick. 

It supports all deployment models. You can run it in the Mendix cloud with a single button deploy, on your own cloud, or integrate it into your DevOps environment for scripted rollouts. 

It's very flexible, and Mendix has really improved the deployment aspect. So, clients have complete control over deployment.

The pricing is fairly comparable. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. There is room for improvement. 

I have used Mendix to build interfaces for unique use cases where other generic solutions like MS Excel won't fit in. Our organization has used the solution to build small applications on the local cloud that took 72 hours, and these applications were already being worked upon beforehand using Python. 

Excellent support is offered for Mendix. 

The vendor should focus more on the opinion of the users and make improvements to the product accordingly. 

I have been using Mendix for a year. 

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. Throughout my experience of using the solution, it only crashed once, which was fixed upon restarting. 

The product exhibits incredible scalability. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. There are about 3000 Mendix users in our organization. The solution is currently used about once a week in our company. Plans are in place to implement more functions in the product at our company. 

I would rate the tech support an eight out of ten. The support team should be more proactive in providing solutions to specific issues. 

Positive

Previously, I have used Visual Studio, Jupiter, and Graphical User Interfaces. 

In our organization, we almost never needed to integrate Mendix with any other solution. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. Some companies might need assistance with the deployment, but overall, it's straightforward.

At our organization, Mendix is deployed in the cloud and on-prem. The deployment of Mendix took around four weeks in our company. Our organization's team made an application using Mendix that was deployed in ten minutes. 

The deployment was implemented in-house. 

The ROI is not always measured in terms of cost for products like Mendix; it's also measured in terms of the user experience, available information about the product, and the adaptiveness of potential users. 

I would rate the pricing a six out of ten. The solution is a bit expensive compared to others, but in the long term, it is worth it.

For instance, Microsoft Power Apps don't demand a huge investment to get started with because they integrate with the Microsoft Suite if it's already present in the system, but when communications with other systems are required, they need to be custom-built as Microsoft doesn't provide communication setup just out of the box, with Mendix such issues can be effortlessly solved.

The basic version of Mendix is enough to compete with power apps, but it can also be upgraded later.  

Mendix has accelerated the development processes in our organization and the speed to market solutions. There are Epics in Mendix that support agile processes and the development of stories. The paths generated from stories using the solution can be appointed to specific team members.

I would certainly recommend the tool to other users mainly because the graphical possibilities are immense for a beginner in Mendix. I would recommend others to build a suitable team with at least one specialist before adopting Mendix. 

I look forward to the vendor's innovations in the product with Artificial Intelligence; for instance, there can be a connection to ChatGPT. Overall, I would rate Mendix a ten out of ten. 

We build various products or solutions for clients. It's mainly smart manufacturing use cases.

The ability to reduce the code, and the development, has been a very drastic improvement over custom code. The ability to have these vast amounts of connectors, which Mendix provides, especially in the manufacturing space, is great. For example, with OPC UA protocols, I have not seen any other low-code provider. That's very niche to pull machine data. That shows how much R&D investment they have done to build some complex connectors to simplify the user need.

Their native mobile capability is very good. In general, the way they launch the product has been great. Their product launching strategy is far better than any other platform. I work in OutSystems and Mendix. OutSystems is good for legacy mod or transformation end. With this solution, the product launching strategy is very, very agile. I really like when they roll out their updates, which are very, very frequent. 

Mendix is currently leading in the smart manufacturing, and connectivity space. The integration they have built-in is great. No one else has gone that far.

There is always a layer of custom code required. There is a misconception of low-code, or Mendix, or the industry in general. They are perceived as more of a dashboarding tool, and as a visualization platform only, rather than building a complete enterprise solution. That's more of an awareness marketing challenge they have, or the industry has.

In general, AI needs to be better. The team and the company is running ahead with this a bit more. AI area is something which companies have started to pick up on, low-code wise, and they should invest in it more.

I would like to see their data hub module become a little bit more mature.

They need to expand their base as the concept is amazing. We just need to see more use cases and learn more capabilities there, and then definitely they need to fill in the AI piece of it.

I've been using the solution for the last 12 months. 

As a platform, in terms of stability, I like it. It is a very well-architected platform. After the Siemens acquisition, Siemens actually put a lot of money into it, the UI, to improve the solution and filled a lot of gaps. 

Right now, if any company or client asks me for a low-code solution in Industry 4.0 space, I would just say, "You don't have to spend money on doing an assessment. Mendix is your go-to." If a client wants to do financial services, this and that, yeah, we can do assessments. We'll figure it out, whatever they need, however, in the manufacturing space, Mendix has found a niche and no one is beating them in that area yet.

With platforms, you really need to figure out what all the platforms are capable of. They cannot do, for example, in the manufacturing space, machine data. They can show the machine data, however, they cannot store it.

In general, they have capabilities where they limit themselves, intentionally. 

We have internal and external users. On the manufacturing side, Manufacturing companies usually have use cases that will have more internal users versus external, which means they are dealing with factory workers. Per factory, in that case, you may have 50 to 100 people. We've built apps for an average of 100 to 200 users per factory.

We are going full-scale on Mendix right now. The way I've seen the other products, anywhere where we have manufacturing and SAP side of the product coming in, we are proposing Mendix. We are pushing Mendix 100%.

We've dealt with technical support. We have someone in the UK that helps us. We have a US team, too, who works with us, however, they work as one team. They have a global team and we get support anytime we want in terms of troubleshooting, client issues, setup, very complex on-prem IT, OT problems, et cetera. They were able to help us out.

Positive

I have done projects both on Mendix and OutSystems.

I prefer Mendix because of their Manufacturing related product development capabilities, which suites my need better in Smart Manufacturing space. 

Moreover, both platforms are good, it all depends on the use cases.   

The initial setup is very easy. There is nothing to do. The setup in development environment capabilities, they even provide citizen development capability,  which makes them very competitive. 

I'd rate the ease of setup five out of five. However, if you're trying to install this in an on-prem environment, it is a hassle on its own for integration. We are not talking about integration. We are talking about just the initial setup.

The length of deployment depends on the problem the company is solving, the use case, and a bunch of different things around it. It varies.

For one company we work with, we can build our own connectors, private connectors. We did that in hardly three to four weeks, which that company itself could not do on its own. A lot of things are available in the background, however, if we decide we want to do something a certain way, we'll just build it that way.

With a low-code environment, traditionally, you need fewer people to maintain everything. You only need one person to do the external integration, for example. You need one person who can do custom UI development for sure, as for any project you hit, you will have 30% custom development, for sure. 

IF you have a team of five, where three are purely Mendix developers and two are full-stack developers, they can deliver anything. It's not like SAP where you need specifically SAP people to handle everything. 

We are able to handle the implementation process ourselves. We have a consulting in-house development team.

We can show an ROI. We are able to, on the factory floor, go and understand what all the needs of the clients are. We can see the manual operations they do, and try to very quickly convert them into a mobile app or an iPad or some application and give it to them. With the turnaround time very quick here, it helps save costs.

The solution can get expensive. A single simple application can start at $50,000. That's approximately the total cost of ownership. If you just quote on a single app without any support, they can even go as low as $30,000 to $40,000, however, you need a minimum amount of detail including minimum support and packages. This is an annual cost. While the app is free, you end up paying for more resources.

That said, it is pretty competitive. I'd rate it 4.5 out of five. 

We have a cloud version, hosted on AWS, and an on-prem solution as well.

I would advise others to not buy it blindly. Figure out the use case first. Do the cost-benefit analysis as the running cost of a low-code platform is a little bit higher, too.

They support startups, too, however, it might become expensive for them.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

Immediately after my Mendix training, I helped my company develop an online trading platform prototype. The client gave the signal for my colleagues and me to set up the online trading platform, so even if I wasn't the lead programmer and even if I were a citizen programmer or developer, I was able to help the company develop a commercially productive app, which I'm proud of.

The most intensive use case I saw from Mendix was that it was being used to track buses in the Netherlands, which I found impressive. In my company, as I mentioned, Mendix was used to develop an online trading platform. I also heard from a colleague who's now working in another company that his company is using Mendix to track Covid-19 incidents within the company, for example, tracking which staff has Covid-19, how Covid-19 affects productivity, etc.

I love that Mendix is a low-code programming platform, so within two days of completing the training, I could build an application that works. Though the application wasn't commercial, I found it encouraging that I didn't need to put in a single line of TeX coding to get it up and running. Mendix is fantastic.

What I like best about Mendix is that it's leading the way for low-code, no-code platforms compared to other solutions in the market.

I also like that the platform subscribes to the HL methodology and works within the HL workspace. I'm a firm believer in HL.

Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep.

I received my basic certification for Mendix last year, so I have recent experience with the solution.

In terms of stability, Mendix is an eight out of ten.

My colleagues contacted the technical support for Mendix, not me, but I didn't receive any negative feedback from my colleagues, so the support is adequate.

You don't need to do any setup for Mendix because it's on the cloud, but you need to install the studio version, which took only five minutes to get the platform up and running.

Mendix licensing cost is based on the number of apps you have on the server. At the basic level, it is free of charge, so that seems reasonable, but once you go beyond that and when it comes to the number of users on the app, that basic structure doesn't work, and the pricing tends to get a little bit steep in comparison with other low-code, no-code platforms. For example, there's a solution called Joget, which is relatively cheaper for a professional developer to promote or use as a platform for the apps.

I evaluated Joget.

I used version 9.0 of Mendix.

Mendix is suitable for entry-level to enterprise-level companies. I have yet to work with it on the enterprise level. Still, I have seen what the platform can do because, during the training, the Mendix team showed use cases in the Netherlands for tracking the buses, including Mendix integration with ERP products, such as SAP, Oracle, Fusion, and Sage. Mendix was built to manage up to the enterprise level, covering small, medium, and large companies.

More than twenty people use the platform within the company of my customer.

I'd tell anyone looking into implementing Mendix that as a tool, it's easy to learn and use because it's low-code, so a developer could make use of it and deploy the apps much faster.

My rating for Mendix is high. It's a nine out of ten. If it had lower pricing, then I'd give it a ten. I love Mendix, but I haven't worked with any of its top competitors.

My company is a partner and reseller of Mendix.

We're looking at the solution right now. We wanted to use it for mobile apps to implement workflows like e-services requests for users and backend approval for internal entities.

From a technical perspective, I can use Mendix to provide native mobile applications and an external web portal for external users. However, at this point, I haven't touched half the features on it.

It is easy to set up the product.

The solution is stable.

It can scale. 

Mendix Academy is quite helpful. 

The pricing is very clear, with no hidden fees. 

The product needs more connector integration with Microsoft products.

We'd like to be able to write in C Sharp to develop code for Mendix. However, that may be impossible. Still, we'd like to be able to modify the programming language. 

I've been using the solution for one month. I've just started using the product.

It is stable and reliable. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. I'd rate the stability ten out of ten.

It is quite scalable. I'd rate the ability to expand eight out of ten. The connectors can enter various products in Microsoft, especially here in the Gulf.

I've only worked on a small project and therefore haven't had the need to reach out with technical support. 

The product does have Mendix Academy and that can be used to troubleshoot a lot of general issues. 

I'm also familiar with Microsoft. this product has a bit higher pricing in comparison; however, with Microsoft, you need some other components. Mendix is one easy price. 

The solution is very easy to set up the solution. I'd rate the ease of setup nine out of ten. 

It hardly takes a minute to deploy. I can't speak for complicated projects however, since I have yet to be a part of one. As per my current experience, it's very fast and takes minutes or less. 

You only need one person to handle maintenance tasks once it is set up. 

We handled the solution setup in-house. 

The pricing is very clear. It's easy to understand licensing. There are no hidden fees. It might show higher pricing. However, you know exactly what you are getting. 

We likely will become a Mendix partner. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. It seems like a great product, even though I have only worked with it for one month. I'd rate it a nine out of ten in terms of functionality.