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How Insurers Can Take Advantage of Robotic Process Automation

RPA can help insurers automate processes and customer interactions that require lots of human involvement, lowering costs while improving the customer experience.

Become a Rapid Developer – Free Online Introductory Course

Learn the basics of developing applications with Mendix and become a certified Rapid Developer with this fully updated (to Mendix 8) free introductory course.

3 Application Governance Tools to Keep You on the Right Development…

Mendix provides three unique application governance tools directly within the platform to constantly shepherd you toward success. In this article, a Mendix Solution Architect will walk you through these tools.

7 Agile Thought Leaders to Follow

Enterprises are turning to agile development to ensure positive app development outcomes. Here is a list of the creators of agile who continue to lead the agile community. Follow them to join the conversation and learn best practices for implementing agile.

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6 Cloud Computing Thought Leaders You Should Be Following

From creators of the cloud to pioneers in cloud technology, here are six cloud thought-leaders who have shaped the way business is done today.

Value Creation Wins Over Competition

Business leaders must focus more on value creation as opposed to competition. In this blog, Ken Polotan outlines four ways to create value for customers.

The Leadership Team is the Company Culture

Company culture is a critical success factor in digital transformation initiatives, and digital transformation impacts three areas of innovation opportunities, in their order of importance: people, process, and technology. Ken Polotan shares how the leadership team can help define and demonstrate a company culture that enables and propels the digital journey.

Are You Ready to Drive Digital Change with Low-Code?

Mendix on Tour is a must-attend event for IT and business leaders who are engaged in digital innovation and looking for a practical interpretation of digital transformation. This event will take place May 29 at the Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Read this article to learn more about our keynote speakers.

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How to Change Your Thinking About Application Portfolio Management

A fellow CIO explains where traditional application portfolio management falls short, and provides a new way to think about managing your app portfolio for success.

Mendix Academy Develops 7 Online Advanced Training Courses

We are happy to announce the release of the first three of a total of seven new online advanced training courses. We have expanded the current online training offering with more advanced topics.

How Mendix is Partnering with Mansystems and Trainee Factory to Help…

In order to accelerate the training of Mendix developers and help our customers and partners close their talent gap, we have partnered with Mansystems and Trainee Factory to offer further hands-on experience beyond our own training.

Mendix on Tour: A Snapshot of Digital Transformation in Toronto

With Mendix enabling hundreds of insurance and financial services organizations to digitally transform and differentiate, we organized our first Mendix On Tour in Downtown Toronto. Read more for the key takeaways.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Bimodal IT According to a Mendix MVP

Director at EPI-USE America, Nolan Ramsey, contributes his advice for how to successfully adopt bimodal IT.

How an IoT Application Helped Raise 4,000 GBP for Action for Children

To give back this holiday season, two developers created an IoT app that allowed users to turn on Christmas lights in the Mendix UK office.

Build Content-Rich Enterprise Apps with Rapid App Development

The Mendix-Box partnership enables organizations to rapidly deliver content-rich applications, while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Mendix Insider: From Intern to Employee

My name is Erik Klein Geltink, a former Erasmus University student and one of the Mendix employees who started with

Advanced Branching and Merging Strategies (Part 2 of 2)

This is a guest blog by David de Groot – Mendix Consultant at Sogeti In the second part of this two-part blog

Advanced Branching and Merging Strategies (Part 1 of 2)

This is a guest blog by David de Groot – Mendix Consultant at Sogeti. Read Part 2 here. In this two-part blog

The new Mendix Forum

If you are a regular Mendix developer, you will probably have stumbled upon the Mendix Forum. This is where our

Don’t Miss the Mendix World Recap Event in London

The buzz surrounding Mendix World 2016 has no indication of quieting down anytime soon. The two-day event, held on June

Announcing Native URLs, Native PIN and more!

Links! A monumental day has come. As of 6.7, we are very proud to announce that you can add links

Mendix Nominated for Software Vendor of the Year in the 2016…

We are excited to share that Mendix has been nominated for Software Vendor of the Year in the 2016 Computable

Check Out Mendix UK’s New Office

Check out photos from Mendix’s new UK office at 20 St Dunstans Hill in Monument, located in the heart of London’s financial district.

TimeSeries Illustrates the Ability to Rapidly Develop Smart Apps

Teams of developers converged at Mendix World last week to build cutting edge Smart Apps in just 24 hours. The

Consume REST Services With Native Microflow Actions

Mendix 6.6 contains a major new feature that will help you with calling REST services and handling data. It was

Mendix World 2016: A detailed view into the Mendix Platform track

As Mendix World 2016 draws nearer, we want to point out some highlights you won’t want to miss on your

Digital Economy Strategy: Develop a Visionary Customer Journey

This article is written by Mendix World 2016 speaker, Kamales Lardi, a Digital Transformation strategist and author. The world we

An Interview with Geoffrey Moore on Disruptive Technologies and…

Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author, consultant, disruptive technologist and this year’s Mendix World keynote speaker, spoke with computerworld.nl about his theories on disruptive

Mendix World 2016 Hackathon: Can You Build a Cutting Edge IoT App in…

Are you a developer who wants to build the next Internet of Things (IoT) app? Then, the Mendix World 2016

New Mendix Customer Support Portal

In this blog post I would like to inform you on our planned release of the new Customer Support Portal.

Mendix World 2016: A Closer Look at the Digital Transformation Track

As Mendix World 2016 gets closer, we want to point out some highlights you won’t want to miss on your

Mendix World 2016: Geoffrey Moore, Simon Wardley and Adrian Cockcroft…

With the race to digitize your business and keep up with changing technology and consumer expectations, collaboration between Business and

Want to Win a Free Trip to Mendix World 2016? Here’s How.

Win a free tip to Mendix World 2016, including flight, hotel and full conference pass. Learn how to enter.

Top 15 in 2015: Our Most-Read Blogs for Rapid Developers

Discover our top 15 posts in 2015 for our global community of rapid developers.

Top 15 in 2015: Our Most-Read Blogs for IT and Business Leaders

Discover the top 15 posts that we published on the Mendix blog in 2015 for IT and business leaders.

Do you feel the need for speed?

Guest blogger Bart Tolen shares why working in Mendix is so fast and what Mansystems has done to make their projects even faster.

Jonathan Payne on balancing developer productivity and control with…

In this rapid developer profile, we highlight Jonathan Payne’s move from DBA to developer and how he balances productivity and control with Mendix.

7 Lightweight Quality Assurance Best Practices

This blog post offers more in-depth information and external references that will help you adopt successful quality assurance practices in your projects.

Accenture Netherlands uses Mendix to build CRM for Innovation Awards

See how two young consultants from Accenture Netherlands took the initiative to quickly build a CRM application to manage the Accenture Innovation Awards.

Imran Kasam on Treating Each Application Like a Design Problem

Hear how Imran has advanced his career by becoming a Mendix developer and how his background in design and system administration helped set him up for success.

2015 Appronto Innovation Awards – The Winners

Mendix customers Tools4Legal and ArboUnie won 2015 Appronto Innovation Awards in the Disruptive Startup and Enterprise categories respectively.

Three tools to test your Mendix application

Testing is a vital component when creating a Mendix application. We get a lot of questions about testing, and that’s why I’m going to show you three tools you can use to test your Mendix applications.

Khalid El-Qasabagli Helps Business Users Build in Mendix

Find out how Khalid made the move from a BPM and SOA specialist to a rapid developer and how he’s working with business users to bring Mendix to the masses.

Where you get the greatest bang for your digital buck

Operational efficiency projects offer the best ROI. See where others have seen the best bang for their digital buck and how you can kick start your program.

Digital disruption – an opportunity or a threat?

Digital disruption is a hot topic, especially as research shows four of today’s top 10 incumbents in each industry will be displaced by digital disruption.

Tiko Schep Unravels Business Processes for Better Development Results

Hear why he likes to focus on understanding the business problem and dissecting the relevant processes before digging into development.

The Digital Storm Heading to the Financial Services Industry

The demand for innovation is increasing at a rapid rate and banks are struggling to keep up. Simply bettering existing systems will not help you get ahead.

From Taxi Driver to Business Driver: Joppe van Gisbergen’s Fast Path…

In this story, you’ll hear how Joppe made the leap from Taxi driver to rapid developer, without any formal background in development.

Charles Schwab’s Digital Goldmine – A Perfect Pitch for…

You have to give customers what they want and you have to stay competitive. Let Charles Schwab inspire you and your team.

5 Takeaways from our UK Insurance and Financial Services Roundtable

Mendix’s UK insurance & financial services roundtable focused on getting the most out of the platform. This post recaps 5 key takeaways from the event.

Mendix Open Day: 4 Things You Should Know

Join us for our first-ever Mendix Open Day in Rotterdam. See the office, meet the team, hear from our customer CED & enjoy a drink on our amazing roof deck!

Your Guide to Digitization and Financial Services Survival

Disruptive forces can take many forms. This post provides a digitization guide for financial services firms who wish to survive and thrive in the market.

Developer Profile: Julio Salazar’s Move from BA to Dev Lead

Find out how Julio Salazar moved from business analyst to development lead.

How a 164-Year-Old Dog is Learning New Tricks: The New York Times is…

Given the choice of engaging their audience digitally, or lining bird cages the world over, this “paper” company is doing an awesome job of demonstrating how defending their market share can spur innovation.

[Research] Financial Sector Success Contingent on Digital Engagement

Forrester Research indicates that successful online engagement drives loyalty, raises net promoter scores, and is cheaper for the business.

How One Entrepreneur Improves Construction Management Insight with…

Hear how Marcus vandeVliet used an application Platform as a Service to rapidly bring a new solution to market and what advice he’d like to share.

Why Insurers Aren’t Capitalizing on Product Innovation Opportunities

The insurance market is ripe for product innovation. Yet, most firms aren’t capitalizing on opportunities due to the rigidity of policy admin systems.

Rapid Developer Profile: Pim van der Noll’s Path from .NET to Mendix

For our most recent rapid developer story, Pim van der Noll at Appronto shares how faster and more transparent development efforts benefit his customer relationships.

Form and Function: 4 Essentials to App Design

This article shares some of the basics related to form and function – as these are the essentials to application design and will help secure user adoption and enable faster ROI once your project has launched.

Big Adaptability: AstraZeneca’s CIO Says ‘We Are a Technology…

The company’s CIO is reversing a longtime strategy of outsourcing their technology: “In the past, we’ve said we’re a drugs company, we’re not an IT company, so let’s give the technology to somebody else,” CIO David Smoley said. “But the reality is we are a technology company.”

Rapid Developer Profile: Michiel Maassen and the Pursuit of Great UX

Michiel Maassen, a consultant at Accenture and Mendix Business Engineer, shares how teaming up with business users makes his apps better.

Fast Track Digitization with a Bimodal IT Strategy

A Bimodal IT strategy creates a ‘fast lane,’ reducing time to market for high priority business apps. Do you know how to fast track digitization?

What Do You Know About Your Business’ Plan to Digitize?

It’s time to take a greater interest in how your business plans to digitize and make sure that your IT initiatives are in line.

[Webinar Preview] Your Blueprint for Rapid App Delivery Success

It’s no longer a question of “if” IT teams will adopt a rapid application delivery approach but how they’ll do it. Find out how you can transform your business into a digital enterprise.

March 2015: What’s New In the Mendix App Store

The March 2015 digest of widgets, themes, and modules that have been published or updated in the Mendix App Store. Find out what’s new and put them to use!

Rapid Developer Profile: Herman Geldenhuys, ProfitScience

In this interview, Herman explains why customer satisfaction is a key driver for his own development efforts and why he’s so excited to participate in the Mendix community.

Insurers key to digitization: a rapid path through bimodal IT

Traditional IT practices are not progressing insurance initiatives. You need a rapid path to innovation, within a broader bimodal IT strategy.

App Styling Basics: Where to Start with Look and Feel

When deploying your first Mendix application, you’ve probably done a whole lot already, including defining domain models, microflows, security, integrations and much more. What hasn’t happened yet, formally, is attending to the look and feel of your application.

Is visual modeling the new creative outlet for full-stack developers?

Visual modeling developers deal in workflows, not code, speeding the development process and leaving more time for creativity and business collaboration.

New GoPro CIO Tackles App Sprawl in Preparation for Move into Big Data

What’s the first thing you do as the inaugural CIO of a $1.4 billion company experiencing profit-tripling growth in Q4

Rapid Developer Profile: Marcel Groeneweg, Synobsys

Hear why Marcel likes to develop in Mendix, and why after just one year in the platform, he’s an active community member, sharing advice and adding to our App Store.

3 priorities critical to the digital insurer

Insurers have work to do before they can boast about being a digital insurer. With only 7% of digital services available today, insurers need to prioritize.

The story of one digital enterprise [infographic]

It’s time to digitize your enterprise at warp speed. Do you know the 3 strategies for successful app delivery?

Synchronizing the Database with Your Domain Model, a Magical Tale

What is the synchronization component? One of the technically interesting features of Mendix is the synchronization component. Once you create

Rapid Developer Profile: Kilian Croese from Capgemini

Today, we’re highlighting Kilian Croese, Certified Mendix Business Engineer & Mendix Trainer at our partner Capgemini.

Creating Custom Widgets for Mendix

In this post, Mendix R&D Developer and Architect Richard Edens, describes his process of setting a standard for Mendix widget creation, and building tools to automate the process.

A Development Framework That Builds Understanding and Collaboration

Build a more effective app development strategy that illustrates the variety of projects/priorities and builds greater understanding between stakeholders.

Why Business Execs Think App Delivery Projects Aren’t Successful

Does IT have an inflated view of their performance? Or is the business a harsher critic? Research shows a discrepancy between IT and business perceptions.

Rapid Application Delivery in the Cloud: Mendix is Leading the Charge

Mendix was named a Leader in the Rapid Developers segment of The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2014.

3 Ways to Familiarize Your Citizen Developers with Mendix

Here are three ways you can familiarize your citizen developers with Mendix and spur broader interest in the rapid application development platform.

What’s Behind IT’s Inability to Deliver? [Research]

IT is suffering partly because the team doesn’t have the appropriate tools. Find out what’s behind IT’s inability to deliver.

A New Year, a New Outlook for App Delivery

Technology is at the heart of innovation, but many still struggle. Find out what thought leaders and practitioners predict for app delivery success in 2015.

Mendix Brings Rapid Application Development to Cloud Foundry Open PaaS

Mendix’s membership in the Cloud Foundry Foundation helps deliver an open, flexible platform that supports multi-cloud deployment.

MxBlue in Action – Our Company Runs on Mendix

Jasper van der Hoek helps others get the most out of Mendix, but still manages to field internal projects, like this vacation management app. Learn how.

Learn from the Pros: Announcing the Expert Webinar Series

These session will feature members from our Expert Services team explaining technical topics like Error Handling, UI design and Performance Optimization. Not only will you get a free training session, but you’ll have the opportunity to get your questions answered right in the webinar.

Rapid Developer Profile: Nolan Ramsey, EPI-USE America

Hear why Nolan Ramsey enjoys building apps in Mendix and how his background in business intelligence gave him a boost in the Mendix App Platform.

Higher Ed IT Needs A Tech Boost To Encourage Innovation

Application demands are high. And with greater expectations from students and staff, pressure to deliver innovative solutions will only continue to rise.

Extending Salesforce with Mendix, an Alternative to Force.com

It’s something all companies are confronted with, and it’s often difficult especially given the existing tools and limitations of a boxed-in app environment. Thousands of people are spending a lot of time and effort making Salesforce fit the unique needs of its users.

Rapid Developer Profile: Andries Smit, Flock of Birds

Our developers come with a wide range of skills and backgrounds. Read this spotlight for more on what drives Andries to share his work with the community.

What’s Stopping IT from Leading Digital Transformation?

In today’s wave of digital transformation, IT has the opportunity to lead innovation but often struggles to keep up with respective app delivery demands. With confidence in IT quickly declining, it’s imperative that department leaders take a harsh look at their agendas.

Why Business Analyst Creativity Aids in Model-Driven Development

Business analysts are expanding their roles, providing innovative ideas and bringing those ideas to fruition through model-driven development. But to make this move, you need to recognize the skills that will help get you there.

Shell shock

In this article I want to spend a few words about the Bash ShellShock Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 that

Rapid Developer Profile: Savan Vyas, LV= Insurance

Our latest developer profile is Savan Vyas, Scrum Master and Mendix Business Engineer at LV= Insurance.

The New Business Analyst: Citizen Developer and Rising Star

BAs are rising stars within the business. They have the information to identify gaps, drive innovation, and through the use of low-code development tools, create the applications that support business change.

Rapid Developer Profile: Javan Berry, Digital Risk

Our new developer profile series takes a look at the app delivery ninjas that make it all possible. We’ll highlight where they come from, what they’re working on and what they enjoy when they’re not delivering projects on time and under budget. Our first profile is Javan Berry, Business Engineer at Digital Risk.

Everyone has APPtitude – who are the new players in enterprise app…

The APPtitude quiz was designed to shed light on the various roles within any application development project. We’ve packaged the results in an eBook that’s as fun as the quiz itself.

Turning a Successful Pilot into a Project, Part 2

This post focuses on key considerations for during the sprint to ensure a successful outcome, and a more scalable app delivery approach.

Turning a Successful Pilot into a Project, Part 1

Mendix developer Savan Vyas shares how to turn a pilot into a full-blown project, outlining key considerations for before and during the sprint.

3 Application Innovations that Could Have Helped My Previous Employer

New Mendix employee Jen Levin outlines 3 application innovations that could have helped her previous employer.

How Finaps Won the “Audience Favorite” Award at the Dutch FinTech…

Han Pieter Duyverman, CIO of Finaps, shares how Finaps brought together the right people, process and technology to win the Dutch FinTech Hackathon.

How LV= Further Accelerated App Delivery with the Enterprise App Store

Mendix developer Mohammed Siddiqui shares how he leveraged Mendix’s Enterprise App Store to publish a starter-kit module that shaves 3-5 days off of each project.

Lotus Notes Migration: 4 Reasons to Migrate Lotus Notes Apps to the…

This post outlines 4 key challenges with regards to Lotus Notes applications, as well as how companies like the Boston Globe are adopting modern cloud platforms.

Create Your First Mendix AppCloud-Powered App

This post shows how to incorporate the AppCloud Services into your existing apps, enabling single sign-on for your users. It is now even possible to deliver a new cloud app with these services in just a few minutes!

Learn Mendix: How to Quickly Get Started, Practice, & Improve

This post outlines the resources available to get started, practice, and improve your Mendix skills, including the Get Started app in the Mendix Launchpad, Mendix Trainings & Certifications, Mendix Expert Workshops and more.

Catch the Vibe of Mendix World 2014

Nearly a week after the close of Mendix World 2014, the energy and buzz from the event is still palpable.

Mendix World 2014: Bringing IT and Business Minds Together

At Mendix World 2014, 1,500 seasoned attendees came together to bridge IT and business rifts that have existed for decades. Bringing these diverse worlds together is the Mendix App Platform that enables business users to build applications within an architectural framework governed by IT.

Mendix World 2014 Hackathon: Winners Illustrate App Dev’s New Level…

At the Mendix World Hackathon, not only did a small professional service organization best much larger rivals. Just as interestingly, students were able to build applications using Mendix that were just as viable as those built by their professional counterparts.

Mendix World 2014: Building Enterprise Applications to Size and Scale

One popular misperception with most application platforms is that they are only well suited for lightweight departmental applications. But at Mendix World 2014, it was apparent that the types of applications built using Mendix App Platform are truly enterprise class.

Mendix World 2014: The Rise of the Citizen Developer

Thanks to platforms that make it quick and easy for business users or “citizen developers” to model their own applications, without writing low-level code, we may finally be approaching a Renaissance period for enterprise application development.

Mendix World 2014: Monetizing Big Data through Apps and Services

While much of the conversation surrounding Big Data today focuses on the collecting of it, the far more interesting Big

Mendix CTO: Time to Take Cloud Apps to Higher Level of Abstraction

At its core, cloud computing is about managing IT at a higher level of abstraction and then automating the management

Mendix World 2014: Agile IT Enables the Agile Business

Agile development may be all the rage in IT circles these days but that’s really only a means to an

Mendix World 2014: CEO Says Every Company Is a Software Company

The historic gap between IT and the rest of the business is no longer a mere source of frustration; it’s

Mendix World 2014 Opens Thursday, Here’s How to Prepare for the…

Mendix World is our biggest gathering of developers, IT leaders and partners from the Mendix Community. Registrations have been off

ExpertDesk as the New Mendix Support Portal for an Enhanced Customer…

The Mendix Support Portal has transitioned to ExpertDesk to provide customers and partners with an enhanced experience.

The PaaS Shakeup and What It Means for OpenStack

Mendix CTO Johan den Haan dissects recent developments in the PaaS market, with an emphasis on OpenStack, its war with Cloud Foundry and the real road to business value (hint: winning the hearts of the business engineers and citizen developers).

[Webinar Recap] Rewriting the App Delivery Playbook for the Age of the…

John Rymer, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, recently presented the webinar: Rewriting the App Delivery Playbook for the Age of the Customer. He outlined how IT teams can meet surging application demands, better serve customers, and propel the business forward.

Care Optimizer: How Capgemini Delivered a Web and Windows 8 App with…

Christiaan Tick, one of the Lead Mendix Consultants in Capgemini’s Productivity Platforms Centre of Excellence, shares his experience using the Mendix App Platform to quickly take Capgemini’s Care Optimizer application from demo to production, including a native Windows 8 app.

Building Your Mendix Team: Q&A with Jeff Ward, Director of IT,…

In this Q&A, Jeff Ward, Director of IT, Solution Delivery at Digital Risk shares his experience with Mendix, offering practical advice for introducing Mendix to a .NET development shop and building a Mendix development team.

[Webinar Recap] Communicating IT’s Value to the Business, ft. Dr.…

Mendix recently welcomed best-selling author and research scientist leading MIT’s Center for Digital Business, Dr. George Westerman, for a webinar on ‘communicating the value of IT to the business’. Read an edited transcript of the Q&A-style event.

Mendix Developers: Have You Checked out Mendix Business Modeler 5?

Many developers may be cranking away with older versions of the Business Modeler, blissfully unaware of the great features in Mendix 5 to help them deliver beautiful multi-device applications faster and more efficiently. Discover the highlights and download the release.

[Webinar Recap] Using Process Automation to Drive Compliance and…

Webinar: Using Process Automation to Drive Compliance and Reduce Cost of Ownership for Clinical Systems Presenter: Duncan Hall, CEO/Founder Triumph

3 Myths about Application-Fueled Enterprise Innovation

The term innovation gets thrown around a lot in business. Whether they’re changing the world, your company, or your team,

From MIT’s Center for Digital Business: Dr. George Westerman on…

Having co-authored multiple best-selling books including “The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value”, “IT Risk: Turning

The Cloud Landscape Described, Categorized, and Compared

Our CTO Johan den Haan wrote an excellent blog post, “The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared,” that’s generating quite

The Mendix Microflow Engine: How Does It Work?

In this blog post, I’d like to explain how the microflow engine does its job of executing complex logic in

7 Principles of Agile Enterprises [SlideShare]

Even the most experienced Agile IT teams have a hard time keeping up with the rising demand for new business

Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland on Innovating with Scrum

Last week we welcomed Dr. Jeff Sutherland, a forefather in modern application development methodology and a true visionary in the

Mendix Partner Profile: Axis Technology Chooses Mendix for Document…

Every so often we hear a great Mendix success story from our partner network that we think you would enjoy.

Mendix Partner Profile: Nobel Builds Claims 2020 App on Mendix to…

The Mendix partner network is responsible for some of the most interesting Mendix applications out there; many of them capture

TTBR: The New Measurement of Application Delivery Success

This post is about the following organizational shift observed in enterprise IT: The technology that drives our companies is getting

6 Good Reasons to Move Your Apps to the Cloud

Many IT managers are not sold on the cloud just yet. But here’s some ammo for making your argument to

Upcoming Webinar Featuring Dr. Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum…

We’re excited to announce our upcoming webinar, featuring none other than the Co-Creator of Scrum himself; Dr. Jeff Sutherland. This

Capgemini Wins Contract for Youth Healthcare Institution with SaaS…

We are excited to hear that our implementation partner Capgemini won a significant contract with the Youth Healthcare Institution of

What Dropbox’s 2 Million Enterprise Accounts Mean for CIOs

Dropbox, like Mendix, bridges IT and business partners by providing the response times and ease-of-use that business people want with

A Legion of Business Engineers is Powering the Enterprise App World

Feel that vibration in your pocket? It’s probably a notification from an app, or an email generated by an app,

Codeless Development is Going Mainstream – and what is getting lost…

It’s great to see the mainstream pick-up of model-driven development in the media. This morning’s article by Paul Krill in

Hitting the Ground Running in Boston’s Enterprise Tech Scene

Following the first day at my new internship, I walk across the Congress Street Bridge and stumble into a group

Software Requirements Versus Product Specifications: Divining the…

It’s surprising how difficult it is for clients and users to simply tell you what they need and to describe the problems that you are qualified to address.

Mendix Business Modeler 4.5.0 has been released

Version 4.5.0 of the Mendix Business Modeler ships with two new features: – Improved error handling in microflows – Improved

The “Little Things” That Hold Back Agile Teams

Being Agile is hip, but not all teams and organizations are equally adaptable. While stodgy cultures and individual attitudes are

3 Ways Capgemini uses the Mendix App Platform to Support its Clients

This week we heard from two application delivery experts from Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of technology consulting.

Your Company Now Has Its Own Enterprise App Store

Mendix 5 has been released! Here is the third post of a series of ‘feature deep dives’ about the latest

All New Platform APIs Connect Mendix to Your Dev Tools

Mendix 5 has been released! Here is the second post of a series of ‘feature deep dives’ about the latest

Mendix 5 Brings High Design to High Speed App Delivery

Mendix 5 has been released! Here is the first of a series of ‘feature deep dives’ about the latest version

Great to Hear from All the Analysts Last Week

It’s truly great to hear from our friends at Gartner and Forrester last week in two separate reports that provide

Telecom Companies Go Lean with their Legacy Systems

It’s no surprise that telecommunications companies face the same challenges that all data- and process-centric industries do: maintaining enormously complex,

How to Make Change a Strategy at Your Organization

Today’s most successful companies are making automation and adaptability a valuable part of their application delivery model – but how

More space, stimulating environment – New Mendix EMEA office…

To kick off its official opening, Mendix CEO Derek Roos was honored to welcome Rotterdam Mayer, Mr. Ahmed Aboutaleb to share the occasion.

Mendix CEO Derek Roos Says “Think Radical” at ABN AMRO’s ICT…

Reminiscent of his signature red watch, Derek’s presentation carried the overarching theme and inspirational request to “think radically”.

Promoting Agile in a Waterfall Culture

It’s all well and good to say that you want to adopt Agile practices. But sometimes, waterfall development processes are

Houston, We Are Ready for Launch: Here’s What You Can Expect in…

We’re just a few weeks away from launching a big release of the Mendix App Platform, and we wanted to

7 Surprising Lessons Learned from the Mobile Cloud

Enough of the marketing spiel already! It’s time to get down to the technical tips, tricks, and lessons learned to

Getting The Momentum Back: How to Revitalize a Stalled Project

Once, this software project was zooming right along. Now, it’s nothing but schedule slippage and heartache. Maybe this advice can

Mendix is at FICO World 2013: Big Data Analytics and the Customer…

Mendix is down in sunny Miami this week, where business and technology professionals are gathering to hear from FICO executives

Gartner Report on Mobile Application Architectures Points to Need for…

Recently Gartner Research published a new report, “Minimizing the Number of Supported Mobile Application Architectures,”* that dissects a common situation

Enabling IT Innovation in the Life Science Arena, with Industry…

Our recent webinar, featuring Life Science IT Innovator Jim Winburn, expounded on a few of the most pressing challenges-to-innovation that

The Planning Fairy Tale

Software project management is full of “Let’s pretend.” Let’s pretend we can write a full schedule before we know the

App Delivery Enables Innovation at Liverpool Victoria Insurance

We have an exciting upcoming webinar with Liverpool Victoria (LV=) Insurance’s Fast Track Innovation Director, Rod Willmott. LV= Insurance is

Mendix App Platform Powers Mobile App for NGO War Child in Uganda

At Mendix, we work in the enterprise software industry. It’s not so often that a use case for the Mendix

Team Building in the Real World: Rescuing the Problem Employee

Not every team member is ideal. For instance, an employee’s technical performance may be acceptable, but he causes other problems.

7 Management Lessons from Downton Abbey

With upwards of 20 regular characters, all working together with a clear staff-management relationship, the TV show Downton Abbey has

Real-time Process Monitoring with Mendix

Sometimes you have an application that just doesn’t seem to be as fast as you want it to be. Or,

How CFOs Categorize IT Spending and Why They’re Leaving Money on…

My Monday morning browse through CIO Journal’s daily newsletter brought my attention to an interesting blurb: CFOs want to see

The Missing Docs: for When You’re Not There

Many IT executives like to imagine that everything in the department is so streamlined that the business can continue indefinitely

Manage Your Apps From Anywhere – Mendix App Platform February…

It is “just” a minor release, but it may have more in store for you than you’d expect. We completely

Keeping Your Enterprise Applications Fresh: 5 Ways PaaS Can Help

Every organization needs to keep its software relevant to users, with up-to-date features and appropriate technology. But budgets and resources

Why You Need to Hack Yourself

You need to do your best to break into your own systems. Here’s the biggest reason: If you don’t, they

Killing Your Company’s Legacy Applications – the Right Way

Businesses want to keep legacy applications working as long as they’re useful, but at some point the applications have to

Keep the Romance Alive: Keeping Support For Your Project

The relationship between a project and its management sponsors is a lot like a romance. It not only takes effort

How to Compromise Getting the Software Done “Right” With Getting…

Yes, yes, in an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to choose between “get it done fast” and “build this software

7 Security Compliance “Gotchas” in Your Mobile App That You…

It’s wonderful that you can easily create mobile apps that extend what your company can offer. Just be sure to

How to Know Your IT Project is Headed for Disaster

Failed IT projects are the stuff of legend. IT projects can derail for so many reasons, it’s a wonder they

The History of Visual Development Environments: Imagine There’s…

There was a time when programs were written in text editors. And when competition between C++ vendors was actually fierce.

The Future of PaaS: What Its Evolution Means for Software Development

The cloud infrastructure of Platform as a Service (PaaS) usually is promoted as a benefit to the datacenter and sysadmin

Why Enterprises Need Their Own App Store

Enterprise app stores became a “thing” last year. Initially it was part of businesses’ struggle to control the mobile app

Making Sense of PaaS

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is only a handful of years old, but in its short life the service platform

3 Misconceptions of Enterprise Mobile App Development

Too many executives are focused on technology debates initiated by consumer-centric mobile application development that are irrelevant in an enterprise setting.

Upcoming Mendix App Platform December Release – New Debugger, Mobile…

Our R&D team keeps cranking away and is just about ready to release another substantial update before the Holidays. Just

New Mendix App Platform Release: Advanced App Administration for the…

One to rule them all – The new Company Dashboard Just a few weeks ago at Mendix World we talked

Mendix App Platform Update Notification: Mendix Business Modeler 4.2.2

We are happy to announce a new release of one component of the Mendix Platform: Mendix Business Modeler 4.2.2 This

Mendix CEO Derek Roos Wins E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award

We are thrilled to see our very own Derek Roos, Mendix co-founder and CEO, win the prestigious Ernst & Young

Latest Mendix App Platform Release – New Features Rolling Out Today

Today we are launching our latest release of the Mendix App Platform, introducing comprehensive project access security, a new sign

Closing in on Mendix World 2012

With only a few weeks until the big event, our Mendix World team has been busy putting the finishing touches

Derek Roos Nominated for E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year!

We are pleased and excited to announce that our CEO, Derek Roos, has been nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the category of Emerging Entrepreneurs. Derek will present to an independent jury and the winner will be chosen on October 6th.

Announcing Mendix World 2012

We are excited to announce the biggest gathering of Mendix experts, customers and parters of the year – Mendix World 2012 will be held on October 4th and 5th at the historic Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

RequestHandlers: at your service!

Sometimes you need a little more than what Mendix gives you. We’re really good at delivering forms, webservices and files

Adaptive Apps: Survival of the Fittest Software

At the intersection of application delivery trends like agile methodology and abstracted development languages, lies an interesting byproduct: adaptive apps.

Use Case Corner: Life Science Compliance

Legal departments quickly realize the ticking time bomb they need to diffuse when millions of dollars are at risk, and regulatory compliance is one area where Mendix can literally save millions and cost next to nothing.

CIO: Chief Innovation Officer or Chief Innovation Obstacle?

The role of the Chief Information Officer has changed dramatically over the last decade. As new technologies permeate large organizations, CIOs amass powerful capabilities to change the value propositions of their companies.

Mendix as an Agile Change Layer for Reinsurance Companies

The reinsurance business involves extremely complex, logic-driven processes that are facilitated mainly by software applications. These applications provide an opportunity

Feedback For All: feedback button works on any website

We’ve been advocating the Mendix feedback loop heavily ever since the release of Mendix 3.0 in 2011.

Mendix 3.1 Released: Your feedback has been accepted.

Mendix 3.1 has been released today.

Fast & Easy Sunshine Act Compliance

Life Science organizations in the United States are facing an interesting problem as a result of the Physician Spend Sunshine Law, which requires them to report spend on Health Care Professionals (HCPs) and start collecting data for these reports by January 1st.

My Employees Want an Enterprise AppStore, Revisited

Fogarty takes an interesting perspective, somewhat inarguably stating that reported statistics about SaaS usage are inaccurate “because they don’t count the business units that are buying cloud services behind IT’s back.”

New in Mendix 3.0: Application performance under a microscope:…

One of the common misconceptions about “going cloud” is that you lose control of your applications. With the launch of the Mendix 3.0 and the Enterprise Cloud Platform, we put to this to a hold with extensive monitoring options, we’ve already showed how you can manage your app jungle in the cloud with our transport worklow. Now it’s time to zoom in on monitoring your app performance in the Mendix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

New in Mendix 3.0: Tight collaboration with cloud-based Team Server

For the last few weeks we’ve been posting Mendix 3.0 feature focused blogs describing ways to enable tight collaboration between business and IT. The Feedback Mechanism and Version Control both facilitate ‘Agile Application Life Cycle Management’ and are tied together with Team Server. It’s now possible to combine requirements, implementation and feedback, all with the Team Server. In other words, each application phase is becoming more and more connected to the next, making planning, developing, deploying, and managing applications a truly seamless process.

New in Mendix 3.0: 7 Steps to Better Feedback, Faster

One of the key elements of business agility and meeting complex business demands is the ability to respond to change. That’s where our new feedback mechanism comes in: collaboration between business and IT. Let’s break it down into 7 steps:

New in Mendix 3.0: Version Control

Version control is one of the more exciting features available in version 3.0 of the Mendix App Platform.

What You Need To Know About Mendix 3.0

This week we launched version 3.0 of the Mendix App Platform, now supporting full Agile Application Lifecycle Management in the cloud.

F.C. Barcelona and Agile Software Development: The Parallels

The parallels between soccer and software development are striking. The best developer in the world is unable to make the best software in the world if the software organization does not provide an environment that allows focusing on improvement…

Jeff Sutherland at Dialogues House, Amsterdam

Last week I attended a seminar given by scrum inventor Jeff Sutherland at the Dialogues House in Amsterdam.

5 reasons you should start collaborating socially

Mendix launched sprintr into private beta last week, but we have been using it for a while now, and already there a five main advantages noticeable. I wont dive into all the features here specifically but more about what social collaborating will add to your project-team, your department or your company.

15 Years Ago I bought an ERP, What Are My Options?

Every day thousands of companies are trying to maximize the functionality of their legacy ERP systems on very tight budgets, because, upgrading the system may not be a particularly feasible option. One solution to this problem involves adding a top layer of functionality and utilizing its [valuable] underlying components.

How Immediate Feedback Enhances Agile Development

In Agile development, feedback loops play a vital role in enhancing the development of enterprise applications.

Satisfy Requirements with Continuous End User Involvement

The iterative nature of agile development forces engineers to go back to the user regularly, but more importantly, forces them to think of the user continuously.

My Employees Want an Enterprise AppStore

How can the adoption and maintenance of these applications take a note from consumer driven technology, but preserve its utility as a corporate asset?

Mendix Brings Sexy Back to Enterprise IT

The topic of consumerization of IT has been floating around the blogosphere for quite some time now, so I thought

3 Apps That Keep On Giving

‘Tis the season to think about giving – why not give the gift of business agility? Here are three applications that have outstanding return-on-investments. Happy Holidays…

How Mendix Shortens Project Durations: Part 1 – Testing…

The Mendix Business Modeler’s consistency checker virtually eliminates four of these testing cycles!

It’s Always Black Friday in the Mendix AppStore

Consumers in the United States are known for their vigorous shopping habits and cunning ability to seek out deals – but as an international software company, we see the best deals in enterprise software happening every day of the year, in our online marketplace for apps.

Modeling the Agile Enterprise

Nifty title isn’t it. It also happens to be the title of the Mendix whitepaper, but I just thought it would work well for this post about, well, modeling the agile enterprise. In other words, let’s talk about bringing agile development to organizations of different sizes, and the enterprise effects (…er, business agility) of IT agility.

Enter the Business Engineer: Part 3

For part three of this series of posts, I got to spend some time with a real live business engineer.

Telecom Channel Portals 2.0: Commission Automation

The final type of solution left to be discussed in the Telecom Channel Portals 2.0 series of posts is the commission automation app. This type of application, like the marketing portal and order entry portal, saves telecommunications organizations a significant amount of time and money.

Telecom Channel Portals 2.0: Online Quoting and Order Entry

In part two of this series of blog posts, let’s discuss another way for telecommunications organizations to improve business agility. Online quoting and order entry is an area of interest for channel managers at telecommunications organizations for good reason. These processes reflect the transfer of data and knowledge between sales stakeholders. In effect, online quoting and order entry modules offer fast return on investments.

Enter the Business Engineer: Part 2

In a previous post regarding the emergence of the Business Engineer, I discussed the Who, What and Why of this new type of human capital. At Mendix, we see them growing in numbers, most likely due to the nature of our software. If you’re going to give business analysts the ability to develop software, or developers the ability to communicate business – you’re going to see doors open and walls collapse on either side of the business-IT equation.

Enter the Business Engineer: Part 1

At Mendix, we find that our customers appoint a particular kind of person to work with our products. Sometimes they’re from IT, sometimes they’re a business analyst or project manager – in any case, they practice the skills of both fields.

Telecom Channel Portals 2.0: How Marketing Portals increase Profits

If you’ve been keeping up with the business agility blog, you probably read last week’s post about Telecom Channel Portals.

Say Goodbye to the Jurassic Enterprise

“It’s not the strongest who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin.

Visual Modeling – Stopping IT Failure at the Root of the Cause

I came across this slideshow from CIO Insight a few weeks ago. The aggressive-looking deck attempts to explain why IT

5 Steps to Improve your Career as a Business Analyst

The community of business analysts in the United States and abroad is taking notice of their impact on the world

3 Ways Google Maps are finding their way into Mendix Applications

The AppStore offers all kinds of widgets, themes, and application add-ons that can be used in any application built on

New to the Mendix AppStore: Google Maps, HR On-boarding, and CO2…

The Mendix AppStore was launched only a month ago, with dozens of prefabricated apps, widgets, and themes. Developers using the

World Cup “Soccer” and Software Modeling – Here by Popular…

As our US office watches these games with a keen interest in the cultural phenomenon that is “voetbal” – our Dutch counterparts are virtually cut off from reality, entrenched in their teams every move. And they should be, for the Netherlands is now in the World Cup Final, one win away from immortality.

An Enlightening Interview with our Head of Research and Development

In a recent blog post on Modeling-Languages, well-known blogger and technology expert Jordi Cabot interviewed our own Head of Research

Lifting the veil on the Medical Device Industry

The medical device industry has found itself on the front lines of the battle for Transparency. Legislators, backed by the public’s trepidation, have mandated that all medical device organizations are to report their expenditures to health-care professionals (HCPs).

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