Mendix Expands Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) Market Share with 122% Growth
Increased enterprise adoption fuels another year of triple digit growth
BOSTON – January 23, 2013 – Mendix, the app platform company for the enterprise, today announced that revenue of the Mendix App Platform more than doubled in 2012 compared to the previous year. This concludes yet another year of triple digit growth, outpacing the already strong growth of the overall Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) market by a wide margin.
“This tremendous success is a testament to the unique innovation opportunity, and value the Mendix App Platform provides to our customers, as well as its increasing adoption throughout the enterprise,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “We are excited about our growth around the world and are particularly pleased to see North America become our strongest sales region right in the first year of moving our company headquarters to Boston.”
2012 marked the move of Mendix headquarters from the Netherlands to Boston, following significant market expansion in North America. The company added many new enterprise customers globally and across various industries including life science, insurance, financial services, telecommunications, transportation, and services as well as the public sector.
Furthermore, 2012 growth was fueled by several innovative product releases as well as a very active user community that led to expanded usage of the Mendix App Platform within a company. Mendix users are highly involved – half of all user forum questions were answered within 16 minutes and the average number of projects per company more than doubled 2012. Roos concludes: “Companies are recognizing the potential of the Mendix App Platform for innovation and ROI, and as a result are standardizing on Mendix for end-to-end app development and deployment”.
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.