Mendix Reviews

We are using Mendix as a low code or no code solution for creating POC origins for clients.

The most valuable features of Mendix are the drag and drop functions, the data entities, domain models, and all the related features.

Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++.

In a feature release of Mendix, they should add 3D augmentations or other 3D visualizations, such as images. Additionally, more customizations would be a benefit.

I have been using Mendix for a couple of years.

Mendix is stable and is very good. I have used multiple no code/no code platforms and Mendix is one of the best platforms I have used.

The scalability of Mendix is good. However, whenever we deploy the application, it's heavily weighted on the server. It is not a light solution.

We have approximately 100 people using this solution in my organization.

I have not used the support from Mendix.

The initial setup of Mendix is straightforward.

There is a license required to use Mendix. The solution's price is high, but it is best suited for enterprise companies that have the budget. It is not for small or medium-sized businesses.

There are not any hidden fees but there is a cost for every user that uses the solution. The pricing model can be confusing whether it is user or application based.

Mendix provides an academic course, which is free and I would advise people to take the course. If they take it, then it will be easy for new users to run through the Mendix development.

I rate Mendix an eight out of ten.

I did the certification in Mendix and it was nice and easy to learn first.  Everybody can learn it easily with available resources. Everything is documented properly, from version to version, and is easy to learn. My area of expertise is with enterprise and I sell to clients which are enterprise companies.  

I recommend this solution to others.

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. 

I built prototypes with it.

We did not really deploy anything for real clients. We only build prototypes in our local environment, and so far, we do not have any engagements with this platform. It was only for proof of concept projects, and we are still trying to gather engagements to work on if there are existing clients that would provide us with something to use.

The ability to model data and relationships between entities is easy, and the ability to write microflows and nanoflows is great. By that, I mean flows, in general, that achieve something which will function. Those are things I really like. On top of that, they are fast to learn and put into practice after a bit of experience. 

Overall the platform is really good. I like it. I wish I was better at it, as there are plenty of things to learn, especially on the front-end side. I like the fact that you can integrate react widgets. It's really cool. The integration is really good.

The debugger is perfect. It's the best I've ever seen. 

Technical support is great.

You can scale the solution.

It's easy to maintain. 

In the beginning, it is difficult to learn and work with. I have to say it was difficult in the beginning to understand best practices.

Once I got the best practices for the back end part, for manipulating data, it was easier to use. For the front end, it was a bit more difficult. For the front end part, I don't like that it's not fully drag and drop there, and I have to know a bit of CSS, which I don't really know.

It would be cool if it could be completely drag and drop, and you could do it like other products, like PowerApps. With PowerApps, you can move it pixel by pixel. It's like PowerPoint.

I've experienced a few bugs. Sometimes it was really tiny things - not something big. There are issues with the versioning systems, et cetera.

It had errors deploying in the public cloud to publish a solution just for the sake of testing it. 

I had an issue with a message definition. When you create a message definition and save it, and then close the project and open it again, the message definition did not save. I had to do it again. This has happened a lot.

I've used the solution for one year. I used it until last week. 

The solution is stable. 

If you establish best practices at the beginning, it's good. There were some bugs here and there I had to deal with. However, they were small. 

It's a scalable product.

I didn't really build something big by myself on it. I've seen with some applications if you respect good practices, if you don't overwhelm, if you put 100 entities in a module or something, and if you separate things properly, you can scale.

Technical support is great. They are very helpful and responsive. 

Positive

I did previously use the Microsoft Power Apps Platform. That's more like a system of services. It's not an on-in-one product.

The initial setup is more complex. I've also noticed that people that have a first-time interaction with it find it more difficult to grasp. It is very difficult to do in the beginning. You need three to six months to start building something which is not breaking.

Of course, that's way better than trying to program, since that's even more difficult.

My previous experience with some automotive company. They had real-world projects that they were using, and they were deploying to the cloud. I don't know exactly how long it took to set up for them. I remember that the deployment was really fast, like a few minutes. They had a medium type of setup. 

Maintenance and bug fixing is really easy. One person can handle it.

I am able to deploy the solution myself. I did not use any consultants or integrators. 

I'm not in charge of licensing costs. 

That said, my understanding is the product is very expensive, and Microsoft's offering is much cheaper. 

We build solutions and sell them to clients. We are intermediaries. We use this tool to deliver products. 

I only use it for web applications and very rarely for the hybrid web. I never use it for the hybrid web. Mostly, I use it only on desktop web.

I would recommend this solution and encourage people to learn it. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It's very top-notch as a product. It's one of the best.

My company is a service consulting company that works for different customers across the globe. When my company proposes Mendix for a low-code/no-code platform to any customer, or if the customer chooses Mendix, the license will be procured by the customer, and my company will take care of service implementation.

I use Mendix as a solution architect. I'm a low-code/no-code platform solution architect. Whenever a requirement comes to me, particularly one which demands low-code/no-code platform implementation, I use Mendix. For any B2C or B2B mobile app, or B2B or B2C web portal, any sort of headless commerce integration, or any cloud modernization, or SAP ecosystem within a customer, and the customer would like to implement a B2C mobile app, Mendix is an automatic choice because Mendix and Siemens have a very good tie-up or partnership, and it's not only from a business perspective but a technical perspective. Mendix is very much compatible with SAP. When my company sees that there is an opportunity to implement low-code/no-code, it proposes Mendix over other low-code platforms.

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.

Another valuable feature of Mendix is that if you want to connect with any legacy applications, you can write custom Java code because Mendix supports Java, the universal language. My company can write custom code and connect to any legacy or home grown applications for any enterprise ecosystem or IT ecosystem. 

These are the strong benefits I see in Mendix.

I found some issues in Mendix. 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.

Additional features I'd like to see in the next release of Mendix are better BPM modeling and workflow modeling, because their competitor Appian is very, very strong in workflow modeling. Workflow features could still be improved.

RPA features or automation features also need to be added to Mendix. Process Mining and AI email are also additional features that would make the platform better. All these features are offered by Appian, which is a complete package, low-code tool that's a competitor of Mendix. Adding all these features to Mendix would make it more competitive, not just over Appian, but over other similar tools as well.

I have been using Mendix for the last three years.

Mendix is a stable platform. In terms of stability, I'm rating it eight out of ten.

Mendix is a scalable platform. You can scale it up anytime. The platform provides you with much flexibility, and my rating for it in terms of scalability is nine out of ten.

As a premium partner of Mendix, my company is constantly in touch with technical support, plus the Alliance team of Mendix. I am very well connected with the Mendix Alliance team. I find the technical support for Mendix very, very helpful and supportive. Whenever I reach out to the different Alliance people from any geography, I get prompt responses and I find the team very, very helpful.

We are working with different low-code/no-code products, not just Mendix. We have in our practice multiple low-code platforms. We are not only working with Mendix. We are working with our systems such as Hancock and Appian.

The initial setup for Mendix was straightforward. You just have to download Mendix Studio Pro if you are using a desktop computer, and you can create your app very easily. If you are using the cloud version, for example, Mendix cloud or any other cloud, especially as any other cloud is hosting Mendix, it's really easy to access the developer. All partners develop the portal access where Studio and Studio Pro are enabled for my company, so my team can work on any cloud-based application. Setting up Mendix was very easy.

The deployment of Mendix was done in-house. Deployment was not complicated compared to any other local platform. Deployment was very easy. Mendix has cloud architecture for different clouds such as  GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and even SAP Cloud. You just need to follow and you can deploy your Mendix components on cloud-native architecture.

Mendix is not open source, but its license cost is cheap, particularly when compared to the Appian license. The license model would depend on how many users you have and how many applications you are creating. If you are creating a single app, you just need to have a single app license, so it's free. If you want a multiple app license to cover two thousand or three thousand users, for example, internal users or external users, then you need to pay for the license. There's also a license model for above three thousand or four thousand, or five thousand internal and external users. Internal users are the developers who will create different applications using Mendix, while external users are the customers.

Currently, I'm using Mendix. I'm heading the factories of my company low-code/no-code, and my company has Mendix as a local platform in the portfolio, apart from other platforms such as Appian, Hancock, etc. I'm using the latest version of Mendix, but I started with the basic version of Mendix when the platform was newly rolled out, particularly when it was just being offered to partners.

My company has a premier partnership with Mendix, so it has access to the Mendix private cloud. The solution is deployed on a private cloud.

My company has two hundred low-code practitioners using Mendix.

Before advising other people looking into using Mendix, I would check first if he or she is a single developer or a pro developer. A single developer is a business user. Mendix as a tool is very, very suitable for a single developer, for business users who have very little knowledge of programming language, so a single developer can create a quick app out of Mendix.

For a pro developer, or someone already hands-on in terms of different programming languages such as Java, .NET, etc., Mendix could be a piece of cake. For a small shop that needs a small application, the business user or single developer can create small applications, but for a midsize organization or a large enterprise organization, you need pro developers who are hands-on with different programming languages, so a single developer cannot build the app for an enterprise or a midsize organization.

If it's a first-timer pro developer using Mendix, it's a low-code/no-code tool, so he or she doesn't have to bother about the programming language. Mendix provides a visual ID or a visual model, so the pro-developer can just drag and drop based on the programming concept. Through Mendix, the pro developer can also work on the front end, UI forms, and also configure the microflows and nanoflows, and also configure out-of-the-box connectors to connect with different enterprise applications. Mendix is a very easy platform for pro developers.

My rating for Mendix is nine out of ten. It's a pure-play low-code platform, so ideally a low-code platform has some fundamental features, and Mendix has that. It's very much suitable for creating a mobile app, for example, a B2B or B2C mobile app. I recommend it to any customer for their B2C or B2B mobile applications. Any enterprise customer that has a SAP India ecosystem and seeking low-code/no-code platform implementation should go for Mendix.

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.

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.