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Global life science organizations now have a solution to address strict government reporting guidelines

BOSTON – December 13, 2011 – Mendix, the leading business-driven application development platform, today announced the addition of an Aggregate Spend Portal App in its community driven AppStore. The app is used by global life science organizations under strict, yet unpredictable, government requirements to report aggregate spend on health care professionals (HCPs) as of 2013 per the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

In order to avoid costly fees associated with errors in reporting, life science organizations will have to begin collecting aggregate spend data throughout 2012. These reports require multiple, disparate systems to integrate and validate HCP spend, creating a difficult information technology task for legal counsel and compliance teams not used to dealing with such issues.

“Mendix applications have been shown to quickly extend existing systems with custom top-layer functionality. This template allows life science companies to have a pre-built, customizable solution to address their federal reporting needs in two to four weeks with minimal IT involvement,” said Mendix’s Vincent de la Mar, who works directly with North American life science companies. “Federal reporting guidelines are frequently changing and evolving, making ease of adaptability a key requirement for the Aggregate Spend Portal App.”

Several organizations have already taken advantage of Mendix’s built-to-change applications in order to comply with the Physicians Spend Sunshine Act, finding the platform to be particularly suited for fast and adaptable compliance reporting solutions. While Mendix has predominantly focused on supporting mission critical applications and transactional portals, representatives familiar with the matter are praising the platforms virtually limitless integration possibilities and unrivalled speed as the ‘silver bullet’ to compliance solutions.

Software company to use funds to build out global sales and marketing operations

BOSTON – October 31, 2011 – Mendix (www.mendix.com), a leader in the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) market, today announced the closing of a $13 million Series A round of financing. The round was led by Prime Ventures, with HENQ Invest following on its earlier seed investment. The investment will support the company’s international expansion and fuel its global sales efforts, building upon its fast growing partner network and user community.

Since its product launch in 2007, Mendix has remained profitable experiencing triple digit revenue growth year over year; acquiring and retaining customers such as GE, Genzyme and TNT. In addition to the funding, Prime Ventures’ Roel de Hoop will join the Board of Directors for Mendix and work alongside the company to help accelerate the global expansion.

“Mendix is at the intersection of several IT trends including PaaS, agile development & app stores.  These trends, combined with their innovative technology and collaborative approach to aligning the business and IT sides of an organization, enable them to deliver real business value to their customers,” said Sake Bosch, managing partner at Prime Ventures. “We are living in an app driven world, where time to market and flexibility to change are key competitive advantages. Mendix is leading this trend, and we are very excited to support them with our experience and network to build a global success.”

The company’s core product, the Mendix Agile Business Platform helps companies rapidly develop, deploy and integrate applications at a fraction of the time of existing tools and platforms. Mendix applications can then be deployed in the cloud, on mobile devices or locally at the customer’s site.

“To date we have always organically achieved triple-digit growth on the results of delivering business value and solving real pain-points for our clients,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “Our customers are looking to increase their business agility and turn to Mendix to jump-start their productivity and app deployment. The partnership with Prime comes at the right time for us to accelerate our abilities to meet this demand and act quickly in sales, marketing and product innovation.”

Adam Clay highlights Mendix opportunity in North American enterprise software market

BOSTON – October 19, 2011 – Mendix, the leading agile application platform provider, announced today that Adam Clay has been named Vice President of Sales for North America. Clay joins Mendix after leading Shunra Software to record revenue growth and worldwide expansion.

Clay explains his motivation to join Mendix: “Having worked in technology for 15 years, I’ve observed a fundamentally dysfunctional relationship between business and IT. It’s broken. Everyone’s frustrated – and it starts with the fact that business and IT expectations regarding feasibility and speed are incredibly difficult to align. Unfortunately for most companies, the dysfunction manifests itself in lost revenue, increased cost, and lost productivity. It doesn’t have to be that way, and that’s exactly what Mendix is addressing.”

“It’s a simple, yet revolutionary concept.  The team at Mendix has married the business need for responsiveness and IT’s desire to provide business value quickly into a solution that delivers what is needed most in today’s business climate: agility. And it solves a major problem for businesses today. The Mendix story is one that needs to be told.  My job is to make sure that we are telling that story to everyone.”

“With Adam, we are adding a strong and experienced sales leader to our North American team.” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “I am looking forward to working with Adam and seeing his contribution to our North American growth.”

Analysts reference Mendix in recent reports citing significant productivity gains and fast returns

BOSTON – October 5, 2011 – Mendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, announced today that it has received recognition in three separate Gartner reports. The reports were: 1) IT Market Clock for Application Development, 2011; 2) Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2011; and 3) Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2011.

Published by one of the IT industry’s premier analyst firms, the reports forecast Mendix and similar technologies entering a mainstream adoption phase. Mendix had previously been named a “Gartner Cool Vendor.”

The Mendix Agile Business Platform enables business change by simplifying collaboration between business and IT through the use of application development methods cited in the Gartner reports. The IT Market Clock for Application Development specifically stated that application and development managers should be able to see returns in less than 12 months when using such technologies.  “These findings are consistent with the results our customers have seen, and we are obviously pleased to be placed into high impact categories by such a recognized and respected research firm,” said Paul Campaniello, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Mendix.

Using the Mendix Agile Business Platform, companies can plan, develop and deploy applications that seamlessly integrate with existing systems at approximately half the cost of traditional software development platforms. These applications can then be deployed in the Mendix cloud or locally at the customer’s site.

Telecommunications company signs three year license extension for the Mendix Agile Business Platform

BOSTON – September 20, 2011 – Mendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, today announced that Eurofiber, a top provider of fiber-optic connections, Ethernet and optical transmissions in the Netherlands, has extended its license with Mendix for an additional three years.

The Mendix Agile Business Platform enables Eurofiber to manage and modify its business applications in response to changing market conditions quickly and at low cost. Eurofiber’s self-service portal, a Mendix web app, allows its customers to configure their orders or upgrade their services quickly and easily.

“Deploying Mendix in the cloud was a fast and easy process.  Because of the role we play in the cloud market, it is important for us to enjoy and highlight the benefits of the cloud,” said Wim Turksma, Customer Experience IT manager of Eurofiber.  “Eurofiber is in a dynamic, growing market and we need to be able to respond quickly to changing conditions. Development time with Mendix is three to five times faster than with other platforms and it also allows us to adopt business rules easily. Additionally, the learning curve for developers is significantly shorter.”

Managing over 25% of internet traffic and 50% of all mobile communications traffic throughout the Netherlands, Eurofiber was recently named the “Best Managed Company” by Deloitte, and the company is also on Deloitte’s “Fast 50″ list. The company offers industry-leading network services to organizations, both directly and as a provider of white-label products via Internet and mobile providers.

“As we continue to expand our platform’s capabilities, we are very pleased to extend our partnership with Eurofiber,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “Their renewal is another example of the tangible business benefits experienced by our customers.  It is extremely satisfying to see Mendix enable our customers to quickly respond to business change and achieve success using the Agile Business Platform.”

About Eurofiber

Eurofiber is a specialized provider of Managed Dark Fiber connectivity, Ethernet-services from 10 Mbps and Optical Transmission Services up to 400 Gbps. The Eurofiber network now covers more than 10,000 km and grows continuously. More than 25% of all internet traffic and 50% of all mobile communication traffic in The Netherlands is transported via Eurofiber’s fiber optic network.

Eurofiber stands for freedom to choose and headroom to grow. That gives organizations the freedom to decide for themselves how to use the connections and to choose their own service providers. Our finely meshed network, the broad product range and the possibility to increase the bandwidth at any moment, gives organizations the headroom to grow and benefit from new ways of working. Eurofiber has won the Technology Fast50 Award for fast-growing technology companies and was awarded the title ‘Best Managed Companies’ in an annual competition, organised by Deloitte in co-operation with Nyenrode Business University, the Chamber of Commerce, VNO-NCW and Management Team.

Specialized development firm partners with Mendix to expand and integrate custom applications with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

BOSTON – Aug 23, 2011 – Mendix, , the leading Agile Business Platform as a service (PaaS) provider, today announced a new partnership with Navigator Technologies, a value added reseller specializing in integration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formally Navision). Navigator Technologies will utilize the Mendix Agile Business Platform™ to add new applications to existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations and rapidly develop agile web applications.

To kick off the partnership, Mendix and Navigator Technologies will be holding a webinar for other value added resellers that specialize in Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations. Mendix’s off-the-shelf integration capabilities make it easy to extend highly complex environments, such as Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

The Mendix Agile Business Platform has been used successfully by many Microsoft Dynamics customers to integrate and extend these systems. Extending these applications with Mendix takes very little upfront investments when compared with more drastic measures.

Kirk Goodwin, CEO of Navigator Technologies, explains “The Mendix platform offers the fastest, most efficient way to extend Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners benefit greatly using the platform to extend their customer’s applications. I look forward to showcasing the platform during our webinar, on September 7^th at 11:00am EDT.

“The demand for extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV – and other ERP solutions – is substantial. Customers are looking for their existing systems to adapt to their ever changing business requirements,” said Vincent de la Mar, Partner and Business Development Manager at Mendix. “Mendix enables partners and customers to do exactly that by taking the best of existing systems and easily extending them with custom web apps.”

*Updated: To watch a recording of the Mendix-Navision webinar, click here.

About Navigator Technologies

For the past 20 years, Navigator has been helping companies with their technologies and business processes.  We have helped companies navigate the evolution of DOS to Windows.  We have helped companies navigate from bulletin boards to dial-up internet to broadband.  We have helped companies navigate from the paper ledger to the accounting ledger to the ERP system.  As we enter our third decade, we are now a leader in the navigation from on-premise applications to the cloud.

Protestant Church wins iCMG Architecture Excellence Award for member registration system powered by Mendix

Boston, USA – August 9, 2011 – The Dutch Protestant Church has been awarded the iCMG Architecture Excellence Award in the ‘IS Security Architecture’ category for a member registration system developed by Mendix.

The prize was awarded due to the high security standards and user authorization structures built into the system. Some of the highlighted system requirements included confidential data and a strict separation of the financial administration and member administration. The prestigious, international prize was awarded during the ‘Architecture World 2011’ conference held recently in Bangalore, India.

The solution enables the Protestant Church to manage activities related to its member registration and administration more effectively, including an integrated contribution administration system. Intended to support church and pastoral visit work, the project has resulted in a significant improvement in the quality of member registration for the Protestant Church. To protect members’ privacy, information in the new system is extensively safeguarded by, among other things, role-based data availability.

Agile Development Approach
Mendix, the leading agile application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, began the implementation of the member registration system back in 2009. According to Roald Kruit, Project Leader at Mendix, the agile approach applied to the project enabled the team to build a system that will continuously be able to meet the Protestant Church’s needs.

“Thanks to the agile nature of the platform, we were able to easily cope with changing circumstances and requirements throughout the development process,” said Kruit. “This enabled us to benefit from progressive insights.”

Henry Kieskamp, ICT Manager of the Protestant Church’s service organization, sees the prize as a confirmation of the high-quality system that is currently at his organization’s disposal: “We are hugely satisfied with the system as it is now. The security aspect is very important for us, with a view to ensuring the privacy of our members and preventing abuse. Among other things, we implemented this via internal partitioning or the mutual shielding of data. It is great to win a prize specifically for an aspect that is so important for us. The positive evaluation by this independent jury is a type of quality mark for the security of this member registration system.”

About the Protestant Church
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands has approximately 2.1 million members who are members of one of the over 1,800 local districts. For more information: www.pkn.nl.

Agile PaaS provider experiences successful first-half of the year, continues to show strong growth as a result of international expansion

BOSTON – July 27, 2011 – Mendix, the leading provider of the Agile Business Platform as a service (PaaS), today reported a record 237% growth in the first half of 2011, as compared to the first half of 2010. The company has seen a significant expansion of its global operations in the last six months.

Mendix attributes this extraordinary growth to its international operations, which has seen the addition of 15 new partners, Country Managers in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Benelux regions, and a Vice President of Global Marketing.

“We have seen a fantastic first half of the year,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “We have almost doubled our customer base in only 6-months and are now serving clients in over 10-countries. With the recent launch of version 3.0 of our platform and many great additions to the team, I am very much looking forward to the second half of this year.”

This announcement comes on the heels of Mendix’s recently released Version 3.0 of its Agile Business Platform. Mendix 3.0 represents the first enterprise class Platform as a Service focusing on the agile application lifecycle management process – so users can rapidly build and deploy enterprise quality apps in the cloud.

Additionally, the company simultaneously launched sprintr™, the first social project collaboration site built specifically for agile project teams. In less than 60 days, over 300 organizations joined the site and began connecting their employees and product teams; giving them a simple way to collaborate throughout a project lifecycle. It also gives end-users the ability to provide feedback from directly within their applications.

“As more companies begin to realize that corporate-responsiveness and flexibility are critical to their survival, most also learn that their existing IT systems simply were not built for change,” continued Roos. “By using the Mendix Agile Business Platform on top of their existing systems, our clients have rapidly increased their business responsiveness, as well as the ROI of their existing investments.”

Cloud-based solution that uses social project collaboration to turn business ideas into enterprise applications, increasing long-term business agility

BOSTON – July 19, 2011 – Mendix, the leading provider of enterprise class platform-as-a-service (PaaS), today announced the release of version 3.0 of its Agile Business Platform. The new release simplifies the full agile application lifecycle management process by further enabling rapid development, deployment and management of enterprise applications in the cloud.

With over 20,000 users worldwide, the Mendix Agile Business Platform is a complete solution for developing and deploying enterprise applications.  Mendix customers develop their apps five to ten times faster than traditional development. Mendix bridges the gap between business and IT and decreases time-to-market by enabling users to rapidly develop, deploy and manage applications that smoothly integrate with any existing system.

With Version 3.0, Mendix’s agile solution further delivers on its speed and flexibility by simplifying the deployment and management of multiple Mendix applications. By providing a centralized, cloud-based Management Dashboard to monitor application performance and activity, IT departments now have complete control over their cloud application landscape, regardless of where the application is running.

“Mendix 3.0 allows your business to keep up with the pace that competitive markets demand” said Rob Boomsma, Practice Manager at Capgemini, a Mendix partner. “It is business smart and user centric; delivering speed to market and business-IT collaboration into a powerful package. This, combined with the track record that Mendix has earned over the past six years, makes the version 3.0 release excellent news to Capgemini and our clients.”

The new version also includes a cloud-based Team Server for supporting teams as small as a single developer up to globally distributed teams.  The Team Server will enable development teams to collaborate on the same project and provide them with several new features, including advanced version control and structured release management.

“Version 3.0 of the Mendix platform delivers increased business agility to our customers,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix.  “Mendix is on the leading edge of helping business units and IT departments collaborate effectively and build enterprise-class applications. We’ve simplified the application lifecycle management process, while still providing the infrastructure needed to deliver extremely complex cloud-based applications.”

This announcement closely follows Mendix’s launch of sprintr™, the world’s first social project collaboration site dedicated to simplifying employee communications, across enterprise project teams. Fully integrated with Mendix 3.0, sprintr completes the full application lifecycle management process, with its agile project management functionality, as well as its built-in user feedback module that can be easily embedded in any website or web-based application.

Global business and IT consulting firm to use Mendix Agile Business Platform™ to renew value in its customer’s existing systems

BOSTON & ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – July 6, 2011 – Mendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, today announces a partnership with Westernacher, a global business and IT consulting firm. The global partnership will provide Westernacher with the ability to simplify business-IT collaboration for their diverse client-base.

Westernacher’s vast SAP client-base will benefit from the agile platform’s established SAP certification. Its off-the-shelf SAP integration capabilities make it easy to extend highly complex environments, such as SAP. Westernacher will help Mendix reach these global clients and be able to simplify collaboration between business and IT.

“We have seen many SAP customers in need of extension and customization. Westernacher will be able to quickly and cost effectively add immense value to their SAP customer base with our platform,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix.

Westernacher has broad expertise in several vertical market segments and numerous business applications; and the Mendix Agile Business Platform will be used to extend and renew value in the existing legacy systems for the company’s customers.

“Mendix will allow us to offer our clients a complete solution for agile application lifecycle management in the cloud, said Christian Wagner, CEO of Westernacher USA. “Using their platform we will be able to rapidly develop, deploy and manage applications that smoothly integrate with our customer’s existing legacy systems, especially our SAP clients.”

About Westernacher

Westernacher is an integrated business and IT consulting firm with a strong SAP practice. Our industry experience combined with our expertise in both business and IT allows us to solve complex problems for our customers in an innovative and successful manner. With over 200 professionals worldwide and offices in Europe, USA and Asia, Westernacher has been a trusted service provider since 1969.  For more information please visit, http://www. westernacher.com