Mendix

Mendix

Type	Private
Industry	Computer Software Digital transformation Platform as a service Cloud computing Agile Software Development Enterprise Software
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts
Key people	Derek Roos, CEO Marcel Karssen, CFO Johan den Haan, CTO
Products	Mendix platform
Number of employees	Approximately 300 (2017)
Website	www.mendix.com

This article reads like an advertisement and should be deleted. Mendix is a low-code, high-productivity platform that enables enterprises to transform how their organizations innovate and compete with applications. Building apps on Mendix is easy, fast and intuitive with the use of visual models, enabling a wide continuum of people, from developers to business analysts, to build robust applications without the need for code. With model-driven development, business leaders and IT can have a shared language in which to innovate rapidly. Unlike other platforms that only aim to speed up the application development process, Mendix focuses on providing a comprehensive set of tools and best practices for the entire application lifecycle, from building, testing, deploying and iterating. With Mendix’s cloud native architecture, enterprises can deploy applications on any cloud or on premise with one click. Mendix is a platform to create and continuously improve multi-channel applications at scale.

History

The company was founded in the Netherlands in 2005^[1] and moved its headquarters to the United States in early 2012.^[2]

In October 2011, Mendix raised $13 million with its first round of venture capital funding. The funding was led by Prime Ventures, with additional participation from HENQ Invest, which provided an unnamed sum in 2006.^[3]

In January 2014, Mendix closed a $25 million Series B, led by Battery Ventures. According to company officials, the new funding will be used for continued global expansion, product development and sales efforts. The company also reported triple-digit growth for the fifth consecutive year.^[4]

In 2014, Mendix accelerated plans associated with its partner ecosystem. The company announced 20 new partners worldwide, including Bodhtree, UST Global, Pegamento and Pariveda Solutions. This list complements the company’s existing partner network, including Accenture, Capgemini, and others.^[5] Subsequent partner additions included Mphasis,^[6] Blue Box,^[7] Sogeti,^[8] HP^[9] and most recently, Pivotal.^[10]

The Pivotal partnership is part of the company’s strategy around Cloud Foundry. Mendix has also announced its membership in the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The company plans to help evolve the open source standard as well as integrate Cloud Foundry’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework with its rapid app platform-as-a-service (aPaaS).^[11]

Already established within the market, Mendix has received a number of mentions, most recently from Forbes – listing Mendix as one of the top ten companies disrupting industries through technology^[12] – and from Always On Network – including Mendix within the top 100 OnMobile Private Companies.^[13]

Mendix customers include The Boston Globe,^[14] Dun & Bradstreet,^[15] KPN,^[16] Liverpool Victoria,^[17] NLE,^[18] and The University of Pennsylvania.^[19]

Product

The Mendix application platform is based on visual, model-driven software development.

The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tool for rapid application development prioritizes speed and agility and utilizes a “no code” principle. The use of visual models in Platforms-as-a-service tools simplify app creation and migration, and allows business users to more directly participate in the development of applications. The result is a significant reduction in time to market, allowing IT teams and business leaders to collaborate on building effective applications.^[20]

At the request of Mendix,^[21] QSM Research made an independent benchmark of the product as compared with the average of software projects in the QSM industry database. According to this report, Mendix required smaller teams and shorter projects, and reduced development effort with respect to the average.^[22][21]

Starting with version 4 of their platform (which was released in the Spring of 2012), Mendix included features for project management through integrated social collaboration.^[23]

The company offers a free software community edition of the Mendix application development tools. The company simultaneously announced their new cloud ecosystem for teams, business analysts and other partners.^[24]

Most recently, Mendix announced enhancements to the Mendix platform for multi-channel app development and mobile application development. Features of the new mobile release include pre-defined Layouts for smartphone, tablet and desktop user interfaces.^[25]

The Mendix App Store also offers new widgets to access native device functions, such as contacts, camera, geolocation and bar code scanner for use even by staffers "with no technical knowledge." The company also released the Mendix Developer App to test mobile apps. With it, developers can scan a QR code to pair their target devices with their development environments to test native device functionality.^[26]

In December 2014, Mendix was cited as a “Leader” in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms for Rapid Developers, Q4 2014 report.^[27] Gartner also listed Mendix as a Visionary within its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platforms as a Service.^[28]

References

29. Glassdoor, "Working at Mendix", Glassdoor, July 2017