Mendix Helps Enterprises Drive Digital Innovation with New Platform Release

Mendix Digital Experience Release Includes Free Full-Function Platform, Responsive UI Templates, OData Support, and Developer Productivity Enhancements

BOSTON – July 15, 2015 – Mendix, a leading provider of application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS), today announced a new release, making it even easier for enterprises to develop and deploy modern applications in support of digital innovation and transformation initiatives. The Mendix Digital Experience (DX) release includes extensive pre-crafted UI templates; OData support; enhancements to the online developer community; and an expanded Free Edition with full production capability.

According to Gartner, Inc.1, “Digital business technologies are disrupting business operations in ways that have not previously been seen. IT leaders should act as change agents by adapting their thinking, their methods and their technologies to support fluidic change and by becoming proponents of digital technology.”

With applications playing an increasingly crucial role in digital business strategies, IT and business must work together to innovate faster and more flexibly. Industry leaders across the globe are responding to these pressures by adopting Mendix to augment existing IT and create a fast-track for digital innovation.

The Mendix Digital Experience Release moves the goalpost for high-productivity application platforms, making it easier to deliver smart, connected and appealing applications out of the box. Key capabilities include:

Responsive UI Framework

Mendix has simplified User Experience (UX) design, allowing developers without deep technical and design skills to build engaging, responsive multi-device applications. A new UI Framework delivers a comprehensive set of UI patterns, themes, navigation layouts, and page templates. Using this framework, developers can create “pixel-perfect,” fully responsive applications out of the box.

Enhanced Analytics through OData Support

Mendix now supports OData, an open protocol that enables simple creation and consumption of query-able and interoperable RESTful APIs for data. One click turns data into information by pulling live data from Mendix applications into BI and analytics tools, such as Tableau, SAS, R and Excel. A new streaming query mechanism features high performance and low memory usage.

Improved Developer Experience

The release offers an improved developer experience through upgraded sign-up flows, project wizards, instructional videos, how-to guides and an enhanced developer website. These resources, collected in the new “Mendix Cookbook,” help remove complexity, speed ramp-up time, and enable developers to focus on building applications that make a difference.

Free Full-Production Edition

The Mendix Free Edition provides a full-production platform, 100% free of charge. Companies can build and deploy unlimited applications, up to 10 users each. This includes backups, monitoring, live debugging, REST support and deep-linking. The Mendix Free Edition replaces the Mendix Community Edition, which thousands of developers used to quickly create pilots and prototypes. Now, companies can easily test application ideas in production, before scaling them across and beyond the organization.

“With software playing a defining role in companies’ success, each business faces a critical question: How will it drive digital innovation?” said Derek Roos, CEO and co-founder of Mendix. “With the Mendix Digital Experience Release, enterprises have an even faster path to harnessing the power of digital technologies to rethink processes, create digital business models, and revolutionize their businesses and even their industries.”

1 Gartner, Inc., “Digital Business Technologies Are Changing the Nature of Change,” Daryl C. Plummer and Janelle B. Hill, August 6, 2014

    About Mendix

    Mendix, a Siemens business, is the only low-code platform designed to address the full complexity of enterprise software development challenges. Deploying point solutions to departmental problems solves things at a micro level—but if you want to make a significant impact on your business, you need to go bigger and build powerful portfolios that move the needle sustainably and strategically.

    With Mendix, enterprises can take on more complex, transformational initiatives by engaging everyone in capturing requirements, forming ideas, and embedding value assessment throughout the lifecycle of the software portfolio.

    Focus on the right problems while relying on governance and control to avoid unnecessary risk. Mobilize your organization. Build the change readiness muscle. And when the next big idea drops, turn it into an outcome quicker.

    More than 4,000 organizations in 46 countries use the Mendix low-code platform. An active community of over 300,000 developers has created over 950,000 applications – and counting.