Mendix Introduces Mendix 5 – Powering the New Era of Business IT and Cutting Down App Development Time from Months to Days

High-Productivity Platform Enables Companies to Respond Faster to Business Change with Custom, Multi-Device Applications

BOSTON – June 19, 2013 – Mendix, the app platform company for the enterprise, today announced the launch of Mendix 5 – a major upgrade of its groundbreaking Application Platform as a Service that has helped hundreds of companies around the world cut development and deployment time for business apps from months down to days.

The Mendix App Platform dramatically speeds up the building of business apps by eliminating code from the development process, providing a simple, one-click-deployment capability, and bringing business and IT departments within enterprise organizations together on one platform. The combination generates applications faster and more efficiently, improving user experience and providing results in days.

“Competitive pressures are forcing businesses to react more quickly, and they don’t have time to wait months or years to get business apps working for their organizations,” said Derek Roos, founder and CEO of Mendix. “Mendix 5 will allow companies to take advantage of more opportunities and innovate faster. Our platform puts business and IT on the same page, enabling them to deliver the business applications they need, faster, across multiple devices and with the user experience they’ve come to expect.”

Mendix 5 – Powering the new era of IT

Companies around the world are constantly challenged by technology and business change. Long planning cycles for IT projects are no longer acceptable – companies need to be able to respond to the needs of their customers, partners or employees in days, not months, with applications that truly support their business needs no matter where they are.

“The rapid rise of mobile, social and cloud computing are opening up tremendous new opportunities for enterprises to enter new markets, create competitive advantages and drive operational efficiencies. But capitalizing on these opportunities requires new applications that are unlike the applications AD organizations have built in the past,” Gartner analyst Ian Finley, et al. wrote in the report “Agenda Overview for Application Development, 2013” published in January 2013.

Mendix 5 highlights:

Using the Mendix App Platform companies can build custom business applications with unprecedented speed and business results. Mendix uses a visual Model-Driven Development approach without the need for traditional programming and code that lets developers build the most demanding applications in record time and easily integrate them with existing enterprise systems. It brings business and IT departments together on one platform allowing continuous collaboration, feedback and change. With a fully integrated one-click deployment companies can instantly deploy their applications in the cloud or on-site. The comprehensive platform also provides centralized IT control, governance and security.

The new capabilities introduced in Mendix 5 empower business units to get the applications they need faster, provide a better experience for their end users and at the same time enable IT to better control and manage a growing portfolio of applications. New features include device-specific user interfaces for applications running on desktops, tablets and smartphones; simple re-use and sharing of apps and components in an internal Enterprise App Store; and advanced platform integration options, including: 

• Multi-Device Layouts – Mendix 5 includes flexible “layouts” for application pages, device profiles for desktop, tablet and mobile devices and an updated CSS-based theming structure which now also is aligned with the widely used Bootstrap framework.
• App Services – App Services across multiple applications allow developers to quickly create re-useable app components and share them between applications.
• Enterprise App Store – IT teams can manage, share and re-use all their apps and components within a secure Enterprise App Store. Applications can be instantly published to users or offered to the entire Mendix community in the public Mendix App Store.
• Platform API – With the new Platform API, IT organizations can make the Mendix App Platform an integral part of any enterprise development infrastructure and seamlessly integrate with common software development and testing tools.

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.