Mendix Announces Premier Sponsors for Mendix World 2016 including Amazon Web Services, IBM and Pivotal
Cloud Platform Leaders Join Capgemini, First Consulting and KPN as Premier Sponsors of Global Digital Innovation Event
BOSTON – May 10, 2016 – Mendix, a leading application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) provider, today announced Premier Sponsors for Mendix World 2016, the premier global event for innovation and digital transformation taking place June 7-8 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Mendix’s vision for an open, innovation platform is supported by the additional sponsorships from leading cloud platform providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM and Pivotal, who join Capgemini, First Consulting and KPN.
- What: Mendix World 2016
- Who: Premier sponsors include AWS, Capgemini, First Consulting, IBM, KPN and Pivotal
- When: June 7-8, 2016
- Where: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
At Mendix World 2016, Mendix will showcase its open platform ecosystem, which offers the fastest and easiest way to build new user experiences on top of best-in-class IoT, big data and machine learning services from AWS, IBM Bluemix, Pivotal and others. Attendees will discover how Mendix’s Digital Innovation Platform enables developers to rapidly build innovative Smart Apps without technical complexity. More information about Mendix’s vision for Smart Apps and how they enable companies to put their connected things, devices and algorithms to work, can be found in the following announcement: https://www.mendix.com/press/smart-apps-era.
Amazon Web Services to Support 24-Hour, IoT-Themed Hackathon
Mendix also announced that AWS joins KPN in sponsoring the Mendix World 2016 Hackathon, which is challenging small teams to build working Smart Apps in just 24 hours. To facilitate rapid connectivity and deployment, Mendix developers will have access to the KPN LoRa Network, a long-range network for connecting low-energy, low-data devices, plus one-click deployment on AWS. There will be several IoT use cases to choose from, including an event app that leverages sensor data collected at Mendix World.
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.