42nd to 4th Largest US Real Estate Firm in One Year — eXp Realty Supports Rapid Growth with Mendix’s Low-Code Application Development Platform

eXp Realty To Speak Publicly on Leveraging Microservices and Mendix to Drive Astonishingly Fast Growth at Forrester Conference

BOSTON — May 9, 2019Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in no-code/low-code application development for the enterprise, today announced that customer eXp Realty will be speaking about their decision to build a microservices-based application architecture using Mendix at Forrester’s Digital Transformation & Innovation 2019 conference, being held May 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois. Mendix is sponsoring the conference and will have representatives at booth #201 to discuss how low-code is playing an integral role in the digital transformation of the enterprise.

Growing from 42nd to 4th largest real estate brokerage firm in one year, eXp Realty is a cloud-based real estate brokerage firm with no physical offices. In order to keep pace with their astonishing growth, the team at eXp Realty knew that they needed to make some drastic changes to their core systems and turned to Mendix to accomplish this. Using Mendix, eXp Realty has created applications that manage its most critical core processes; enabling a fully remote workforce, automating the processing and cleaning of data, and managing financial reporting for the company.

“In such a rapidly growing environment, you need to be open to new technologies and new methods in order to thrive,” said Steve Ledwith, vice president of engineering at eXp Realty. “With Mendix applications as our backbone, we have maintained hyper growth and continue to disrupt the real estate market. We are thrilled to share our success story with Mendix at the Forrester Digital Transformation & Innovation Conference.”

During the conference, please join the following speaking session on Wednesday, May 15, 2019:

  • The Ah Ha Moment: How eXp Realty Reached The Decision to Build a Microservices Architecture 9:40 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. CT in Chicago Ballroom IX: Featuring Steve Ledwith, vice president of engineering at eXp Realty. In this session Steve will discuss how in order to continue supporting a rapidly growing business, he knew his team at eXp Realty would need to change how their applications were built. Hear how Steve and his team used Mendix to collaborate and modernize their applications that help more than 15,000 agents sell thousands of homes annually.

To learn more about Mendix’s work with eXp Realty, please visit the Mendix blog.

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