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Our organization currently serves multiple pharmaceutical clients, and we design scalable and efficient end-to-end products and services based on web applications using Mendix, a low-code platform tool.

We have created multiple web applications for our pharmaceutical clients, including applications that help patients submit enrollment forms to enter their information and prescription details for ordering glucose monitoring devices or checking their insurance eligibility. We have also built different portals for tender solutions and systems for checking benefits verifications via web applications, including a channel management system and a revenue management system, among others.

Mendix is quite comfortable for the team to use, particularly for developers who have worked with low-code platform tools in their past experiences, as it enables integration with many components, including external and internal APIs, PDF generation, Twilio component, and AWS integration. This is one of the key selling points for Mendix, and if developers are seasoned in CSS and UI, they can create a lucrative and user-friendly interface.

The best features Mendix offers in my experience include its readiness to go to market, which reduces the effort and time consumed in developing an application end-to-end. If you have hands-on developers, you can easily have your application ready for business and end users within weeks or months, instead of the typical five to six months that other applications usually take.

In every area of technology, there is always room for improvement, and Mendix is no exception. I would highlight some areas for potential improvement, such as the ability to integrate more easily with external databases, which takes a considerable amount of time in Mendix compared to my past experiences. Integration with external databases can be slow, and it burdens queries when trying to pull large datasets, thus slowing down page execution.

Additionally, there are issues with constant values during deployments, where Mendix overwrites values without prior notification, which could result in unwanted changes if post-deployment activities are not monitored. The user interface documentation is clear and easy to understand if developers are skilled enough to handle CSS and configuration, but there are definitely a few enhancements that could be made, such as directly importing CSS files or improving the integration of tools like Cognito forms. The areas I have mentioned regarding external database integration, constant values during deployment, and some aspects of CSS and UI, as well as internal coding, cover my main concerns regarding where Mendix could be improved.

I have eight plus years of experience, and I am currently associated with more than six years at Eversana.

Before Mendix, we were using another low-code platform tool, and our organization decided to shift to Mendix. During this transition, our capable developers were able to adapt to Mendix easily, and we successfully delivered all of our projects within the defined timeframe, which made clients and stakeholders happy with the timeline and efficiency we achieved during this shift.

For any organization looking to adopt Mendix, I would advise ensuring that their developers are skilled with low-code platform tools, as Mendix is a great platform that allows for the easy creation of high-quality, scalable, reliable, and durable web and mobile applications. It is essential to face challenges in adopting new technologies and conduct out-of-the-box research and development. Mendix is one of the platforms that the industry currently looks to for improvement and efficiency for end users and clients in the future. I would rate this product an eight overall.

My main use case for Mendix is to create smart applications in a fast way, applications that have integrations, use of AI, custom widgets, and so on. A quick, specific example of an application I've built with Mendix is an application with video calls, which stands out for me, and it's an application that I am really proud about. In this application, we have like two people talking in a video call and then the agent on the other side can take pictures from the user's phone, because the user's used his or her phone to join the call via a Mendix application, and then they talk to each other with a video call, pictures, drawing pictures, that kind of stuff.

The best features Mendix offers are easy deployment, fast application creation, easy to build logic, and lots of marketplace modules and components to use in your applications, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. If you need to eventually customize code, you can do it by using JavaScript and Java, which just make things faster.

Mendix has positively impacted my organization, especially for clients, who are getting lots of benefits, particularly speeding up changes, because they eventually need to change business rules, or they need to change how their business works. Mendix makes sure that happens fast, and about the video call application I created, they now speed up their customer service by having that video call feature, meaning they don't really need to send engineers physically to the client's location to see what's going on. All they need to do is do a video call, take a few pictures remotely, and that's it. No need to drive, no need to spend fuel, money with the engineers' location relocation; saving money is the most valuable thing.

After implementing Mendix, they reduced by 98% the engineers' relocation, as 98% of the cases are now being done by video calls instead of in-person appointments, which says a lot, even though the company didn't provide any numbers on how much is saved.

It would be great for AI in Mendix to read my whole project and understand the whole business, so all I need to do is ask, hey, what does this button do, and why is that button there? AI could answer me why we have that button, and what that button does. I know that this is something in progress by Mendix; eventually, we will get that feature, but this is something that we definitely need because new developers that join a project might struggle to understand the whole business, especially in complex applications. I chose eight instead of a higher or lower number because Mendix would be a 10 if we have the feature that I just mentioned, like asking why that button is there and getting a clear answer about its business purpose. It would also be a 10 if we have a faster Studio Pro, like not taking too much time to process things, especially when projects are too large; those two aspects would make it a 10 for me.

I have been using Mendix for the last eight years.

Mendix is stable.

You can scale Mendix using a private cloud, but if you want to scale it to a bigger instance, you have to contact a Mendix partner or the same Mendix partner that sold you the license.

Customer support for Mendix is very good; we open a ticket, and they answer, of course depending on your plan, but it's very useful. I would rate customer support a nine.

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Before Mendix, I used to be a high-code developer, so I didn't really use a platform or solution; I coded with React, Node.js, MongoDB, which aren't actually platforms but open-source solutions.

In the project that I'm working with, we are using the Mendix Cloud and with just a few clicks, we can deploy the application acceptance or production, which has made my work easier and more efficient because I don't really need to understand how DevOps works. I don't need to understand Kubernetes or Docker. All I need to do is to build my app and deploy it by just doing a few clicks. About the speed of development of app creation, I think it's just a matter of open Studio Pro, create the app, do all the pages logic we need, and then push to the point. So that's pretty much it.

My company has a business relationship with Mendix as a partner, specifically an official partner.

Not much about pricing, as it's something that you have to reach a Mendix vendor to see what the possibilities are. From the pricing shown on the Mendix webpage, we have a basic package where you pay 60 Euros a month for five users and 10 Euros per additional user. This is all I know about pricing, but for a different size of Mendix Cloud, you have to consult an official Mendix vendor or partner.

I evaluated OutSystems before choosing Mendix.

Right now, I'm working with AI, which is pretty new to me, but I'm learning a lot and Mendix makes sure we can use AI in a very smart and fast way by using the platform. My advice for others looking into using Mendix is to start with the basics; don't get rushed. Things will come up eventually and always ask for help. There are forums and lots of communities; you're not alone. It's a great platform to learn a lot and make a lot of money with it, so keep it going. The review rating for Mendix is 8.

My main use case with Mendix is building enterprise applications that automate and standardize business processes, with a focus on speed, reliability, and secure delivery.

I built an internal management app using Mendix where employees could register tasks, track approvals, and generate status reports.

Besides workflow and task management apps, I've also used Mendix for reporting dashboards and process automation tools.

The best features Mendix offers in my experience are fast development speed and strong security for enterprise apps.

The development speed of Mendix stands out mainly because of the visual modeling tools and reusable components, which reduce repetitive work and accelerate delivery. For security, I value the built-in authentication, role-based access control, and data protection features, which make enterprise apps safer without needing heavy custom setup.

I'd highlight Mendix's integration options, which make it easy to connect with APIs and external systems. Also, the mobile capabilities are helpful for quick cross-platform delivery, even though native customization has some limits.

Mendix has sped up delivery for my clients, especially for repetitive or standardized business processes. It also improved reliability and security, reduced manual errors, and enabled faster deployment of internal tools and dashboards.

On a recent project, using Mendix cut development time by about 40-50% compared to traditional coding for a workflow app.

Mendix could improve in customization and UI, UX flexibility, native mobile development, and agile tooling for developers.

I've noticed that longer processes can be hard to read and maintain, and some UI, UX adjustments are restrictive.

I have been using Mendix for four months.

Mendix has been stable in my experience, with reliable performance for enterprise applications and minimal downtime or critical issues.

Mendix scales well for enterprise applications.

I have interacted with Mendix support when I needed help.

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I previously used traditional coding with JavaScript and Java for enterprise apps. I switched to Mendix for faster development, standardized processes, and easier integration in business applications.

I see a fair return on investment using Mendix.

I believe it's an average return. It's worth it for the agility and the patricity, but nothing that's very different from any other low-code platform, in my opinion.

I evaluated OutSystems and Microsoft Power Apps before choosing Mendix, mainly comparing speed, integration capabilities, and suitability for enterprise applications.

I would advise others to use Mendix for standardized business applications where speed and security are priorities, but be aware of its limitations in UI/UX customization and native development.

Mendix is excellent for rapid, secure enterprise app development, but improving UI/UX flexibility, native integration, and developer tooling would make it even stronger.

My overall rating for Mendix is 5 out of 10.

My main use case for Mendix is to automate processes for bigger and slightly smaller companies.

A specific example of a process I've automated with Mendix is mostly Excel processes, such as the integration of systems to expand a process.

Mendix has positively impacted our organization as we've specifically decided to be a Mendix-first consultancy firm, providing services to other companies to build with Mendix, making it essential for us to have a great experience with Mendix as it's at our core.

We can do more digital transformation processes for more customers due to using Mendix compared to my previous experience in high-code, where we would have needed more people to achieve the same goals, but I don't have any hard, objective numbers for that.

Mendix helps with those integrations by making it really easy with its tooling to integrate between different systems and have Mendix be the middleman where users input and go through a workflow by easily creating the domain model, pages, the integrations based on open API, and Swagger documentation, and also with the recent developments, generate bits and pieces with AI.

As an expert Mendix partner, we provide expert services for mostly companies that are either starting with Mendix or are servicing their end customers with Mendix, enabling them to be proper Mendix developers, delivering software with a certain level of quality, which can be done really well with the governance options that Mendix provides.

The best features that Mendix offers are proper guardrails that prevent starting from scratch, ensuring a certain level of security, user experience, and standardization for implementing workflows, API integrations, and how you set up your domain model. It's more strict, but it also has the ability to extend the platform where it prevents you from doing or achieving the goals that you want.

The guardrails and standardization in Mendix help especially with junior developers to avoid making certain mistakes you would when you're high coding, and they also help with setting a fair standard of quality.

Mendix isn't just an IDE or a coding language; it's a whole platform where you don't have to worry about hosting or monitoring your application, tracking project progress or user stories, as everything is essentially provided by the platform, and it has a very active community helping you out if you have any questions at all.

In recent years, the IDE has been more buggy and slower, and although there have been more features added, I would like to see more stability, as some areas that used to work for a fairly long time are now slower in my development, which feels like a step back.

I choose a seven mainly due to the issues we've faced with slowdowns and bugs during development, while runtime has been very stable, and the overall output on Mendix platform is still good; there is definitely some room for improvement, and I would probably have given it an eight or even a nine if those issues weren't hurting my developer output for the past few years.

Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.

I have been working in my current field for over 14 years.

I have also been using Mendix for over 14 years.

Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.

The scalability of Mendix depends on what you want; I've seen solutions that are rather small, with one or two forms and a couple of pages and logic, and also solutions processing data at scale, talking about one million packages a day, so I would say it's fairly scalable.

The customer support varies; if it's about upgrading your license, it's really good, but if it's about having an issue that I can't solve despite being a Mendix expert and having tried every single bit and piece, support can feel like a stone wall, asking questions I've already gone through and not really taking me seriously from the start, which has been an issue since I started with Mendix.

For the customer support, I would rate it around a six at the moment.

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Fourteen years ago, I was a high-coder, using Java, ColdFusion, and all kinds of web-based technologies. I primarily switched because of changing employers but stayed with Mendix because I saw the value of development being far faster and more focused on adding value to the business of my clients compared to being busy with repetitive work in high-coding that I didn't want to worry about.

We purchased Mendix directly with Mendix, not through the AWS Marketplace.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is reasonable; we've used a lot of basic nodes as well, which had some issues in the recent past due to the payment provider going bankrupt, but overall, the onboarding process is fairly easy with no real trouble.

We use the platform that Mendix provides themselves, which is run ultimately on AWS, for our public cloud deployments.

We serviced a recent customer who essentially said that if they digitize this process, they can save one person who is now full-time doing this particular process, and now we're automating it, so they don't really need them to do this anymore, and we hear these kinds of stories fairly often. It's not that they're really firing that personnel, but they can often focus on the core that really matters instead of repetitive processes in Excel forms and all of the overhead and human error that comes with that.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is reasonable; we've used a lot of basic nodes as well, which had some issues in the recent past due to the payment provider going bankrupt, but overall, the onboarding process is fairly easy with no real trouble.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Mendix; however, I have since looked into OutSystems, Betty Blocks, VisionX, and a couple of other low-code offerings or no-code, but I've stuck with Mendix given that they found a fairly okay balance between releasing new features and keeping the platform stable, although the stability of at least the IDE has degraded in the last couple of years, but they've been working on improving that.

My advice to others looking into using Mendix is that if you are completely fresh to software development, find a partner, preferably an expert partner, to do your first project and train your personnel; if you're not looking to manage your Mendix environments yourself eventually, find a partner that can also provide long-term support.

I think Mendix is the best platform for at least business-to-business or business internal processes; if you try to build something for business-to-consumer outside of administration-like processes, such as making a very fancy website, I would probably choose something else, but for all those other use cases, it's a perfect choice and a very good return on investment.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Mendix a seven.

We automate a lot of processes with Mendix, primarily focusing on automation and robotic process automation.

The domain model of Mendix is highly valuable as it allows quick setup and public deployment. The framework structure, with its code and building blocks, makes it easy to build logic by dropping elements into place. Mendix's integration capabilities are impressive, allowing for rapid and on-the-fly integration of almost anything imaginable.

Access to the database is limited in Mendix's public cloud, preventing direct database interaction or inspection. Improvements in data grid, particularly for a global search capability when searching through associations, are necessary due to existing limitations.

I have been working with Mendix for two to three years.

I would rate Mendix's stability as a seven. I recently encountered an issue with deploying applications on the Mendix sandbox, which took a week to resolve. Aside from this, we typically do not face significant issues with stability.

We are about to enter the scalability phase, but previously we did not face any scalability issues as our projects did not require scaling. With upcoming projects, scalability will be tested.

The technical support from Mendix is very good. I would rate it as nine.

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The setup process for Mendix is straightforward and user-friendly. I can quickly create an app and start development.

Mendix is quite expensive, and its pricing model makes it inaccessible for startups. The app license costs between $13,000 to $14,000, which is prohibitive for startups. Mendix should consider adjusting its pricing strategy to penetrate the startup market. Startups are deterred by the high costs despite their interest in the capabilities of Mendix.

I also have experience with AWS and find it preferable in terms of data provisioning, which is not available in Mendix's public cloud. AWS is a more transparent option without the black-box nature of Mendix's public cloud.

Mendix faces existential threats from advancements in AI that can create full-stack applications at a lower cost. This needs addressing to remain competitive. I would rate the overall solution a seven.

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