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We first started looking into Mendix as a way for us to upgrade our legacy applications within our organization. We vetted out 3 different vendor platforms and decided to go with Mendix. We have found the tool to be very easy to use and has allowed us to increase our time to market greatly. Currently we have software development cycles of 2-3 years. With the mendix platform we were able to get our first product out within a year and we are onto our next 2 products and they should be completed in less than a year. Mendix has always been very good at working with our organization whether it has been for troubleshooting issues or enhancements to the platform. As it currently stands our first product has increased our production by 40% within the first 6 months and we expect the same type of growth with our future releases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The biggest issue we had when first using the platform was tied primarily around some of the UI and services components. After discussions with the Mendix team, and some of their own enhancements, we have found the platform continues to improve and provide us the flexibility and speed we look for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mendix really excels at getting you started, but allows you to really dive in shortly thereafter, even for someone without a development background. It's also nice to not have to worry about setting up a database, and the built-in debugging does a great job of leading you to the root cause, and telling you what must be fixed.
The community has also proven to be a huge boon, and answers to most issues are only a quick forum search or question away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
OOTB, Mendix lacks some functionality, such as email integration and authentication, but this is mitigated by leveraging their great and growing appstore, and some custom Java.
The default UI/UX themes are workable, but a bit stale. Delivering a truly amazing experience requires some knowledge of CSS/SASS styling.
As well, you must carefully evaluate the value in updating projects to newer versions of the Modeler, as some functionality may break when doing so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mendix platform allows me to create web applications very fast by aiming the focus on business rules rather than dealing with plumbing code. This is great when the requirements are not clear from the beginning and the final product is created iteratively. Mendix is great for fast prototyping, which could bring customer ideas into reality without the hassle of writing lots of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is common for frameworks to impose certain ground rules to be followed by developers and Mendix is not the exception. Sometimes you need to do bend those rules and it could be kind of hacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Firstly the culture of the community around the platform. Secondly Mendix's innovative approach to the entire SDLC means that business requirements are developed with the least amount of waist in the process from the capturing of requirements within the functional system all the way to the one click cloud deploys. Lastly the pace of innovation the platform enables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The moddler that is used to develop the solution requires windows, while a web version is on the way it's not clear if that version will support the work flow logic capturing Microflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mendix allows me to turn ideas into functional prototypes with amazing speed. It's a wonderful feeling being able to show business stakeholders functioning prototypes in hours rather than days, in days rather than weeks or months.
Once the application is launched, ,and it comes to maintenance, the model based development makes everyone's "code" readable.
You need more power - Java is just a few clicks away.
Everything can be tweaked, if you take the time and have the knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease with witch a prototype can be created sometimes obfuscates the complexity that comes with implementing new business processes in an already deployed application.
That being said, that's more a Mendix marketing and a stakeholder management issue than a technical issue. Mendix does make refactoring fairly easy, and they will provide advice on how to improve performance for an application that's overgrown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I am very pleased with the ease of use. Mendix allows me to quickly and easily make a GUI for my applications running on the IBM Bluemix platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike that it cannot run on a Mac, forcing me to run a virtual machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Mendix is really easy to get in to, but it does give you the opportunity to really dive in! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some parts of the modeler (the development interface) is a bit outdated because of the rapid growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease with which you can learn to build apps and expand built-in functionality with Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
New Modeler releases sometimes break existing functionality which has been around for years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
