Software Development Life Cycle
Mendix stands apart as the industry’s leading low-code platform, offering a comprehensive suite of integrated tools and services that streamline the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Through Mendix AI Assistance (Maia), organizations can now harness cutting-edge AI capabilities across all stages of the SDLC. Maia’s unique AI features—unmatched by other low-code platforms—significantly boost development team productivity while simplifying the creation and deployment of smart AI-powered applications.
Mendix delivers a seamless end-to-end development experience, encompassing every phase from ideation to evaluation. The platform’s built-in capabilities include comprehensive portfolio management, advanced Agile planning tools, as well as integrations with this parties, intuitive AI-assisted development features, and enterprise-grade version control—all available immediately upon implementation.
Mendix leads the way in enterprise application development by facilitating data integration across systems, automating and optimizing processes, and simplifying cloud deployment and management.
How does Mendix improve speed and quality through low-code AI assisted development?
We don’t just accelerate app development; we revolutionize it. While conventional low-code platforms merely focus on speed, Mendix’s distinctive approach integrates advanced AI assistance ) and systematic collaboration throughout the entire development journey.
Introducing Maia for Smart Development—an intelligent AI collaborator that enhances every development team’s capabilities. Mendix AI assistance elevates the entire development process by:
- Accelerating application modeling and delivery
- Ensuring consistent development practices
- Improving code quality and reliability
- Providing intelligent guidance across all SDLC stages
Plan
- Maia Story Creation: Instantly generates high-quality user stories from brief inputs, adhering to agile best practices for structured, clear, and actionable outputs.
- Maia Story Refinement: Provides AI-powered suggestions to clarify vague goals, add missing acceptance criteria, and ensure consistency across the backlog.
- Start from AI: Generates initial application versions from prompts and documents, including data models, test data, and pages.
Develop
- Maia Recommenders: Provides next-best-step suggestions for UI, logic, and workflows
- Maia Chat: Answers developer questions in natural language, supported by the latest documentation and community resources.
- Maia for OQL: Generates database queries from natural language.
- Maia for Domain Models: Creates and refines domain models based on prompts, media, and user stories.
- Maia for Workflows: Creates workflows based on natural language, media, and BPMN notation.
- Maia for Pages: Converts designs and / or natural language descriptions into Mendix pages.
- Maia Explain: Provides contextual explanations of existing logic.
- Maia Best Practices: Intelligent detection of anti-patterns with automated remediation.
- Maia Translate: Automatic translation of applications into over 80 languages.
Deploy
- Maia Best Practices in Pipelines: Trigger Maia’s Best Practice checks in Mendix Pipelines to ensure high quality apps are deployed.
- Quality and Security Management (QSM): Performs static analysis on application models against ISO 25010 standards including AI generated explanations for findings and guidance on resolution.
Operate
- Maia Feedback Processor: Automatically categorizes incoming feedback by theme, detects and groups duplicates, and helps create high-quality, consistent user stories—ensuring all relevantly captured data is included for implementation.
How does Mendix connect business stakeholders with the development activities?
Mendix fosters collaboration by empowering multidisciplinary teams to build digital solutions aligned with company strategy. With Mendix, professionals from various fields can communicate and co-create throughout the innovation journey, ensuring minimal rework and accelerated execution.
Mendix facilitates:
- Co-creation and communication among developers, technologists, and stakeholders in a single platform.
- Better management of requirements and user stories through enhanced tools like Epics for tracking progress and scope.
- Mitigation of development risk by aligning business and IT goals with Portfolio Management.
- Integration of stakeholder feedback into the development process through mini-surveys and feedback management capabilities.
By facilitating communication and co-creation throughout the innovation journey, Mendix ensures minimal rework and accelerated digital execution.
How does Mendix facilitate collaboration between app development and data science teams?
Thanks to Mendix low-code AI/ML deployment capabilities, Mendix ML Kit and REST APIs, both data science teams and (Mendix) app development teams can seamlessly collaborate to integrate AI/ML models into applications.
How does Mendix support enable AI assistance and effective collaboration in every phase of SDLC?
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Ideate
All successful Agile software development projects begin with an ideation stage where the Agile product owner works closely with stakeholders, the business team, developers, and future app users. Guided by the greater team, the product owner pieces together a project vision and validates with users.
Featured questions:
- How can I get ideating rapidly with stakeholders?
- How does Mendix support quick prototyping and validation?
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Prioritize
Portfolio Management is about identifying and prioritizing initiatives aligned with strategic goals, streamlining the planning process for low-code solutions. Portfolio Management allows for strategy refinement and better value assessment within your company, enhancing ROI justification for IT investments.
Featured Questions:
- Why is Portfolio Management critical in driving Digital Transformation?
- How does Portfolio Management help align development activities with strategic goals?
- How is Mendix Portfolio Management embedded in the Mendix Platform?
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Plan
Mendix advocates for an Agile approach, promoting incremental delivery by self-organizing teams. Learn about the Agile tools built into Mendix that will help you plan and manage your projects and teams effectively from day one.
Featured Questions:
- How does Mendix support Agile Working?
- How does Mendix support Requirement management?
- How does Mendix support integration with third-party planning tools?
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Develop
Mendix is designed for a variety of users while providing powerful capabilities to developers for their day-to-day work. Understand how the platform enables you to build quickly with visual development tools and reuse dynamic app components.
Featured Questions:
- How does Mendix enable model-driven development?
- How does Mendix support different developer profiles?
- How does Mendix support multi-user development?
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Deploy
Staging and deployment are essential parts of the DevOps process, and having proper governance and control in place allows developers to release new versions of their code rapidly.
Mendix provides integrated tooling to support the staging and deployment of applications into the Mendix Cloud and also into other PaaS providers such as SAP Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, and OpenShift.
Featured Questions:
- How does Mendix support staging and deployment?
- How do I deploy my apps as part of the release process?
- What controls are available to secure the production environments of my apps?
- How does Mendix support staging and deployment to other platforms?
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Operate
For Mendix Cloud Deployment options, Mendix offers out-of-the-box features for operating your applications. This includes resource management, application operations, configuration management, backup management, log management, monitoring, and alerts.
Featured Questions:
- What features does Mendix Cloud offer?
- What support does Mendix offer for the Mendix Cloud?
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Evaluate
Evaluation is critical in building successful apps that meet business needs. It’s not enough to release an application to users and hope it achieves its goal, you need to evaluate success in meeting user needs and business goals and preferably throughout the development and application lifecycle.
Featured Questions:
- How does Mendix enable stakeholders and users to rapidly share feedback with development teams?
- How does early and often feedback sharing improve application quality and delivery times?
- How does Mendix equip teams to evaluate the success of the applications they deliver?