Mendix Valuable Features

Sameer Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Deloitte

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.

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Somnath-Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect and LowCode Practice Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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JK
Industrial Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Dashboards are valuable. It is easier to visualize data.

It is low code, where the developers can still develop in Java. That to us is very appealing.

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Hardy-Jonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at AgileWorks Information Systems

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.

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Eugene Lam - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

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.

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Siti Rochimah - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lecturer at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

There is a free version of the solution you can use. 

Mostly, the students are very excited about the product due to the fact that they can make applications without coding.

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Bondoc-Popescu Marcian-Petrut - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Automation (Mendix) Engineer at Emergn

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. 

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JK
Senior Product Manager at Deutsche Börse

We like Mendix a lot. In terms of technology, it is really good. 

We find it intuitive and easy to use. 

We are quite happy with the solution and look forward to moving to the cloud. We have it hosted in the Docker systems on-prem. When we move to the cloud, we can see that it will be simple. 

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CA
Device Manager at Nippurtech

The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers.

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PS
Principle Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The user experience is great. Creating the user experience is fast and the development speed is excellent.

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EM
Project Leader / IT Architect at Hamburg Port Authority

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.

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Mahmmoud Mutawe - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at RealSoft

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. 

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RB
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is just very quick and responsive. 

The initial setup is very straightforward, and those implementing the product do not have to be very technologically advanced in order to manage the process.

Their app store has been revamped in the last year, and it allows basically anybody who creates a widget or a module inside of it, to share it with the whole community. It's got a very, very robust shared community, which is amazing.

There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution.

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Dhanasekar Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Indium Software

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

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Ahmed Labib - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Malomatia

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. 

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KM
System Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

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. 

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Hardy-Jonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at AgileWorks Information Systems

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. 

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MS
Principal Consultant at Palmira

The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization.

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Marjolein Pordon - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Test Analyst at Squerist

The one feature that I like best yet, which also makes it complicated, is the microservices. They are really what sets Mendix apart from other platforms.

Since my company also works with Menditect, which makes a test automation tool for Mendix, we are quite involved. My coworkers also leverage Mendix. We really like that it's usable for test automation since not all platforms can due to no unique IDs and things like that. With Mendix, we can use the platform very easily for test automation.

The initial setup is easy.

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TW
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

The features that I have found most valuable with Mendix are its business process management and its minimal low code, both from an interface perspective and from a process perspective. With Camunda, we were looking at it from our business process standpoint. Appian and Mendix were one size fits all.

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MT
Business Development Manager & Project manager at EGALiT
  1. The complete stack: You have a complete cloud operations, and everything is included. For every customer, wherever we go, we can provide a solution within a few days with a complete data environment in a very stable, high performance cloud. 
  2. The development environment is model-driven. We really like this because we can use the information from this for our business engineers to make the information models, and they can also execute the model.
  3. We do not need programmers anymore, so it is a small team of business engineers who design and build the application without us needing to program. That makes our teams four to six times more productive, but also a lot smaller with no overhead and very flexible. It is something, and not every Mendix partner does this. A lot of them have still use analysts and programmers in different roles, but we do not do this. I like that we use the platform on this level. We stick within the core of the platform, so we don't do anything with custom Java or custom JavaScript. 
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MinhTran2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Kyanon Digital

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.

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MM
CEO / Owner at Aelion - Netherlands
  • 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
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it_user414093 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  1. The fact that my customer/client can actually understand my ‘code’ – it makes it very easy to discuss and improve newly built software
  2. The online collaboration environment included in the platform, which massively improves the client/software integrator partnership
  3. The speed it gives us when doing a project. It massively speeds up IT projects in comparison to more traditional approaches
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it_user422997 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features of Mendix includes the most vital logic building component called the microflows which cuts down the need to write code and instead using logic blocks to interpret the way the function should work. As part of microflows, there are ways which gives the developer flexibility by writing code using Java actions. There also other vital features like the ability to easily use web services and export and import files of different kinds.

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RS
Chief Innovation Officer & Board member at TimeSeries
  • Integrates - Suite allows you to easily and smoothly integrate with pretty much anything.
  • Cloud-enabled - It provides a full Cloud Foundry-driven cloud environment with one-click deployment.
  • Digital execution - Mendix provides a complementary program to drive digital execution, so you not only get a platform but also instruction on how to leverage it best.
  • Super fast - I can develop full apps in weeks instead of years.
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it_user768162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Architect at a tech services company

There is not one feature that is better than the others. All are good because it is a platform and the features work well together.

The power is in the entire solution provided. You have one answer for:

  • MDD - Model Driven Development
  • DTAP - Develop Test Acceptance Production environments
  • Visual web app editor
  • Visual database editor
  • Mobile and web app development
  • The ability to deploy to any major cloud hosting system, like AWS, Azure, and now SAP cloud.
  • Integrated support for Agile software development and the SCRUM working method.
  • Strong front-end development options out-of-the-box, easy to extend new features, and isolating front-end functionality, yet giving the possibility to integrate with the platform.
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it_user421554 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The single most beneficial feature is the rapid development and prototyping of the product. I was able to construct real demoable software in a very short time and show the client. The technology is a no-brainer and allows me to focus on the business of the client over mastering or wrestling with the software. Not only do I create workable software, but due to the high-level nature of how logic is written (using Microflows akin to Business Processing Models), a business person can clearly understand the code itself.

Their attention to detail and resistance to feature bloat to maintain the platform’s elegance and simplicity drives the platform’s success in integrating business an IT. They have implemented the right features, like easy integration mechanisms, robust configurable security, database and client device portability, a project and team work portal and much more to deliver valuable solutions, fast.

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it_user421617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business and Solutions Architect at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Mendix provides the big-picture to the detail and the detail to the big-picture and they do that well. The tool chain allows one to model the business in the easy-to-use Business Modeller, then to deploy the app server with the model, deploy the DB schema to the database and have it running with : One click. They wrap all of this detail, in a big picture platform by integrating everything into the software development life cycle that provides the techies with the detail of what to do next and the business owner with where things are and how long they will take. The most valuable feature is being fast without painting yourself into a corner.

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JM
Software Developer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
  • The ability to rapidly build applications.
  • Built-in management tool called Sprinter gives everyone involved in the development of the application an overview of the current state and progress of the application being built.
  • Supports collaborative development which minimizes the risk of having multiple developers working on a single piece of code.
  • Easy to integrate with both RESTful and SOAP web services. This is helpful because a lot of applications are dependent on others for data. For example, if you were to develop an app that does a background check on employees, you would integrate to systems like TransUnion to feed data to your application.
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it_user715149 - PeerSpot reviewer
CISSP at a retailer

Built-in security, easy of use, support and available examples of how to use it.

The built-in security makes security-by-design from the start possible. The local modeler is easy to use. For the few occasions that I need support, after a beginner's fault, it's available, as is the cloud solution. The many available Mendix software examples make it possible to develop using of existing solutions.

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it_user414237 - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Module Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Being a device agnostic solution and responsive design support are most valuable.

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SB
Industry Expert and Advisor at a financial services firm

The workflow and automation features are quite good and valuable.

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it_user112353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

Most valuable is the fact that the Mendix platform provides all the tools for creating and deploying business applications in one complete package. You do not have to understand all the "nitty-gritty" technical details that lie underneath.

This allows for a developer like me, who is most interested in designing the process, to realize the technical solution from start to finish.

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it_user406875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Engineer / Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees

The best feature is that you can create applications real fast. Forget large software teams. Alone or with small teams one can accomplice products in days that would take other software development teams months. Key features are that the product is flexible can connect with other applications using standards like SOAP, REST or OData.

We use Mendix as our software platform for building our HR solution. For each client of ours we buy a Mendix license so our clients can use our HR solution. Our product runs in the Mendix cloud.

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PV
Software Business Engineer at Intonovi

Mendix has made a great deal of effort to provide its developers a healthy, modern environment for developing. First of all, it adopts Agile methodology by creating a SCRUM-based app where you can handle your user stories. Next comes version control, which really allows multiple team members to collaborate quite easily. And last but not least, Mendix modeler, which is your IDE for developing Mendix apps. Speed and rapid software development within Mendix is a breeze. We at Intonovi absolutely love it.

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it_user413343 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate(Java Developer) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It as an integrated server with one-click deployment. The deployment of Eclipse to analyse a code-based environment with XML to domain mapping by having just the XSD. Visual Programming is fairly intuitive and intricacies of code syntaxes are abstracted so we could focus solely on logic building.

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it_user413280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mendix Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
  • Its graphic interface, which allows you to develop rapidly and in a structured way.
  • The fact that it is an all-in-one solution, producing a system that is ready to run immediately
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BK
Software Developer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

I like how Mendix is aimed at collaboration as well as Agile development. Overall, it makes it extremely easy to pick up and create a prototype.

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it_user427236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Micro flows, because of the ease of use for complex development structures
  • Wide variety of in app store Widgets such as Deep Link, Active Directory integration, graphs (bar/spider charts), and geo location functionality
  • Ability to customize the style sheets 
  • Mobile development framework
  • Java integration with Mendix
  • Remote debugging
  • The ease of use for complex development structures
  • SAP integration 
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it_user421884 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mendix is an excellent tool to put the business in charge again for realizing IT projects. In the pension project we worked in sprints of two weeks in which we created functionality which was going to be tested by the business instantly. In this way the business stayed connected with the IT solution and was in charge of the project. Mendix is an excellent tool to execute the scrum way of working in a successful way.

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Hardy-Jonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at AgileWorks Information Systems

It is a fast and agile solution. 

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it_user868635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at Exp Realty
  • 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.
  • It is easy to create prototype pages without a lot of development, once the Entity (table) is created.
  • You can generate a page with a few clicks, using the default features after proof of concept, then develop the logic behind the page. 
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it_user421557 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Mendix developer / Lead Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Modeling application and generating code in stead of manual coding.

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it_user430896 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Excel Importer : seamless to map data from a raw excel sheet into a structured database
  • Community common library : Useful java method to add powerfull functionality to your application with just a few clicks
  • Excel Exporter : Exporting data to Excel is a breeze
  • AvayaDialer: Integrating your application with avaya telephony suite is power and extremely useful especially for call center applications
  • Rest Service : Integration to rest services is now quick and easy with Mendix ( can take some time to configure but once you done it, it’s so simple)
  • FusionCharts : Reporting in ,Mendix is awesome and extremely useful with fusion charts module. Very powerful indeed
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it_user407652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Rapid development

Prototyping

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Buyer's Guide
Mendix
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Mendix. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.