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Mendix listed as a Cool Vendor in Gartner report

Posted by Derek Roos on April 08, 2009

We are proud! Mendix has just been listed “Cool Vendor” by industry research firm Gartner in the category “Cool Vendors in Application Development, New Tools, 2009″ published on March 30th. We see this as Gartner´s recognition of our vision, innovations and success as a team!

Gartner defines a “Cool Vendor” as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are:

  1. Innovative: enable users to do things they couldn’t do before;
  2. Impactful: have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology);
  3. Intriguing: have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity within approximately the past six months.

The report notes that, “As development projects and processes deal with complex business problems and large quantities of information, the translation of the business need into a tangible design addresses a major source of project failure and are at the root of many development project horror stories.”

According to Gartner, “Development managers and business analysts should develop new methods for successfully deploying applications built with newer, more-complex tools and processes”.

In the report, Gartner selected vendors that have “cool” approaches to application development, and, specifically, the management, specification and quality delivery of complex development projects.

Note: We can’t publish the entire report here, but go the Gartner website to find it (search for ‘mendix’). Analysis was done by research director David Norton.

Disclaimer about Gartner’s Cool Vendor Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

Meet Mendix at the Gartner Portal and Collaboration Summit

Posted by Derek Roos on February 06, 2008

Mendix, the leading provider of enterprise Portals will be participating at the Gartner Portal and Collaboration Summit which will take place on March 26-28, in Baltimore, MD. Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix will be present to meet with US press and comment on the recent expansion into the US market.

Enterprise Portals are transitioning from static, HTML based content delivery frameworks (Portal 1.0) into XML based transaction portals that allow end-uses to fulfill their role in the initiation, management and execution of Business Processes (Portal 2.0).

Derek Roos will provide insight into the development of transaction portals using visual process design, Meta Data modeling and how the generation and consumption of Web Services changes the way organizations collaborate.

To schedule a meeting: please click here

About Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2008:

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2008 will explore new ways to access, search, structure, and manage information, and improve your organization’s productivity and efficiency through collaboration. We’ll bring together a leading-edge group of Gartner analysts, keynote presenters, and industry panelists for more than 40 in-depth sessions focused on the practical uses of recent innovations, new best practices, and the latest independent research.