Mendix Partners with Persistent Systems; Offers Agile Business Solutions

Mendix grows partner network as application delivery PaaS market heats up

BOSTON – February 22, 2012 – Mendix, a leader in the application delivery Platform-as-a-Service market, has signed a partnership agreement with Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT), the leader in outsourced software product development (OPD) services. The partnership highlights the growing interest from systems integrators and solution providers in rapid software delivery strategies that can provide them with a competitive edge to win new projects.

Mendix enables organizations with the ability to respond to new opportunities and adapt to new business requirements quickly. The platform utilizes visual modelling to build business applications without code and a social collaboration application called Sprintr to facilitate end user involvement and agile project management. The resulting applications are easily modified, extended, and integrated to satisfy ever-changing business requirements.

Persistent Systems has been an innovation partner for the world’s largest technology brands, leading enterprises and pioneering start-ups. Adopting the Mendix platform will enable Persistent Systems to bolster their reputation with highly agile rapid application delivery.

Adam Clay, Mendix VP of Sales for North America, has high expectations for the partnership. “Persistent Systems has an incredible reputation around the world for being fast and innovative. It’s gratifying to see them adopt Mendix with open arms; their customers are going to love the responsiveness that Persistent Systems will be able to achieve.”

Hari Haran, President of Persistent Systems, Inc. further added, “We are pleased to partner with Mendix. Product development is our DNA and it is also a critical differentiator for our customers. In order to enhance the value of our customers’ IT investment, it is important for us to adopt agile methodologies and applications. With the Mendix platform, we continue to accelerate our development cycle to deliver high quality scalable products.”

About Persistent Systems

Established in 1990, Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) is a global company specializing in software product development services.  For more than two decades, Persistent has been an innovation partner for the world’s largest technology brands, leading enterprises and pioneering start-ups. With a global team of 6,700+ employees, Persistent has 300+ customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Today, Persistent focuses on developing best-in-class solutions in four key next-generation technology areas: Cloud Computing, Mobility, BI & Analytics, Collaboration across technology, telecommunications, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, banking & financial services and healthcare verticals. For more information, please visit: www.persistent.com.

    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.