TrustRadius Insights for Mendix are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Business Process Flows: Users have consistently praised the platform for its capability to allow business users to actively participate in creating intricate business process flows, effectively converting requirements. This feature has been highlighted as a significant strength of the tool, enabling smoother collaboration and streamlined processes.
Customized Views: The ability to create highly tailored and personalized views based on specific user needs has been valued by numerous reviewers. By developing customized views for different user roles such as production managers and line managers, the platform significantly enhances usability and efficiency.
Integration Capabilities: Many users find the integration capabilities of the platform extremely beneficial, especially when integrating with enterprise core applications and hyperscalers for cloudification of application customizations. This functionality not only enhances collaboration but also accelerates workflows, contributing to overall productivity and effectiveness.
To connect and operate PLM teamcenter activities. hence to solve the general problems also optimize the routine activities. Mutli purpose solutions, solve the hr related time consuming activities
Pros
plm Integration
business process problem solving
workflow automation
Cons
costing! user based license
cloud and on premises both provision
entraid Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
good and quick app development platform
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Mendix functions as a Rapid Application Development/Low-Code Development Platform within our organization, primarily addressing our Web and Mobile App development needs. The platform has been instrumental in creating various applications, including digitizing the time capture process for plant employees, streamlining the workflow for our Request for Payment process, and facilitating other Supplier integration scenarios.
Pros
Low-Code Development
Citizen Developer
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Cons
Offline Capabilities
Mobile app development
Code Extension
Likelihood to Recommend
Mendix excels in scenarios involving Business Process Automation, making it a strong choice for applications requiring workflow automation, including processes like request approvals, document management, and other business workflows.Conversely, Mendix may be less suitable for projects that demand highly customized solutions with extensive custom coding. Its primary focus on low-code development may not align well with the requirements of projects that heavily rely on intricate and specialized coding.
We're using Mendix Optimize My Plant application to help provide our customers' users in the shop access to plant simulation resources and data and to be able to tailor experiences to each different individual user type within our customer's organization.
Pros
We're able to really easily develop different views that are very specific to a customer's needs or customer's different types of user needs. So for example, the production managers can have a certain view that's relevant to them and then certain line managers can have views that are specific to them that allow them to run different scenarios which they define. So it allows us to easily build customized apps for each different type of user.
Cons
I think there always could be easier ways to build apps with Mendix, and I think they tend to be doing a very good job. I haven't seen the new Mendix 10 yet, but I've heard some about it and they've implemented a lot of improvements, AI features, and other things. So we look forward to using those features as we get more experience with Mendix 10.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's well suited if you have data available and you want to create customized solutions for different types of users. Mendix is very good at doing that. It allows you to do it very easily. So those are good use cases.
We use the product to help business users develop front-end business logic around some of our core systems, such as SAP, so that we don't have to adjust or customize SAP core modules. Instead, we use Mendix as a low-code fast development platform to develop add-ons and customizations.
Pros
It allows business users to participate more readily in converting requirements into business process flows. I think that's what it does really well, as well as integration with hyperscalers for cloudification of application customizations.
Cons
I would say making sure that it has full integration across all the hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google. That would be a key area for me.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say if it's being used in conjunction with the application modernization programs and customers moving some of the applications to a SaaS model, then I think Mendix works particularly well in that area, as well as improving the cycle time for developing applications and bringing them into production through the low-code platform. In terms of where it's less suited, probably less suited in more specialist engineering applications.
We consult, develop and rollout custom applications and dashboarding as well as integrating OT to IT systems. We build prototypes with the customer, PoCs and prepare the Customer for further scaling of the solutions. We also perform data analysis and system integration between high level it systems and low level Shopfloor systems.
We are just at the start of our Mendix Journey. We have commissioned an app to show top level plant kpis to quarry owners of our machinery globally.
Pros
Easy to log in for non IT users
Quick versatile build
Easy to use app
Cons
Ensure Bio metrics can we easily set up and used
Not sure what the training is like yet, hopefully this will assist non IT users to build apps easily once set up
Likelihood to Recommend
Due to the cost per application, the only there needs to be clear ROI for the Application per year. We implemented PowerBI and now have over 160 dashboard, Mendix has the ability to be the same if it wasn't for the cost per application. Maybe larger organisations can make this make sense easier, but for smaller SME's, this could be restrictive.
Majorly process digitalzation and automation, frontend design, process support, SAP endpoint creation
Pros
share from low/code to high code
amount of modules and possibilities out of the box
constant enhancement
Cons
clarity on use/cases easily integratable without a big effort
more automated and AI driven dev support
none
Likelihood to Recommend
Mendix is industry leading in the field of connectivity and manufacturing use/cases as well as complex process digitalization, when wanting to design enterprise scale digital solutions.
Clients prefer other, more `easier` lowcode or even nocode platforms when it comes to the first level of digitalization of simple workflows, because those platforms are more specifically designed towards that usecase, which does not reduce the value of Mendix for us and our clients.