Mendix Announces Spring ’19 Release; Unleashes Full Potential of Enterprise Low-Code Application Development at Scale

Introducing ‘No-Code’ with Mendix Studio; game-changing unified development environment empowers all: from citizen developers to professional developers

Industrial IoT taken to the next level with Mendix for MindSphere; integration merges physical and digital worlds; billions of industrial and device data points now available to Mendix-built apps, which translate lower-level data into valuable analytics and predictive models driven by machine learning and AI

Introducing Mendix for SAP; native integration with SAP allows Mendix-built apps to run directly on SAP HANA in-memory database and enables important migrations from SAP ECC to S/4HANA

Expanded containerization support means Mendix can run on any cloud — private, public, hybrid

Introducing true native mobile development capabilities; employees given ‘license to innovate’ with rapid development of native mobile smart apps that enable greatly increased efficiency and customer engagement

Introducing the 2nd generation of Mendix’s AI engine, Mendix Assist; shortens ramp-time for all developers, increases developer productivity, improves software quality; Mendix Assist trained to 95% accuracy

MENDIX WORLD, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS – APRIL 16, 2019 – Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in no-code/low-code application development for the enterprise, today announced the Mendix Spring ’19 Release, a major update to its market-leading low-code platform. The new version ramps up the platform’s power and capabilities, enabling enterprises to catalyze their digital innovation agendas and advance their initiatives to bring the digital and physical worlds together. With the Spring ’19 Release Mendix is launching a new and powerful “maker movement” to drive the digital future — dramatically expanding the universe of application “makers,” furthering the platform’s leadership in supporting enterprise-scale applications, and leveraging smart technology both in the creation of applications and their capabilities.

The Mendix Spring ’19 Release equips makers of every skill level across an organization to pursue ambitious digital transformation initiatives, whether the next step is integrating the physical and digital worlds through the internet of things; migrating to SAP/4HANA; rolling out more valuable native mobile apps that delight users and boost engagement; leveraging the power of low-code/no-code visual models to power-up the entire talent pool of developers to build enterprise-scale applications, or moving to a multi-cloud environment.

“We have three words for anybody who wants to create the digital future for their enterprise,” said Derek Roos, Mendix founder and CEO. “‘Go make it!’ Whether you’re a business analyst, marketing director, CIO, factory floor manager, CDO, architect, app dev manager, or expert developer, you can use the Mendix platform to create enterprise-grade applications that leverage all your existing resources, using whatever cloud fits your strategy, employing AI and smart technology, to reinvent your business and better serve your customers. It’s that big. It’s low-code without compromise. And it’s all possible with our Spring ’19 Release.”

At the top of the features list in Mendix Spring ’19 Release are Studio and Studio Pro, Mendix’s no-code and low-code unified development environment; true native mobile development; exclusive low-code support for SAP HANA; support for any cloud strategy, public, private, or hybrid; and full Mendix integration with the Siemens MindSphere platform for the industrial internet of things, or IIoT.

Empowering everyone to advance the digital agenda. The crisis-level shortage of developer talent greatly hinders application development and impacts efforts to digitize operations. Mendix empowers enterprises to unleash their full human capital resources to address this critical challenge. New Mendix Studio is a visual, WYSIWYG tool that enables citizen developers from the business side — who are closest to the business challenges and objectives — to actively participate in the ideation and creation of applications. Mendix Studio Pro is a visual environment that gives professional developers advanced capabilities to create complex enterprise applications with complete control and flexibility, including the ability to customize code. Together, Studio and Studio Pro provide a tremendously empowering unified platform that works bidirectionally and brings business and IT together to collaborate as never before to deliver the exact right apps the enterprise requires to increase revenue and optimize business outcomes.

First and only true native mobile low-code apps. User expectations of mobile apps keep rising alongside the capabilities of mobile devices and the promise of multi-experience apps. Mendix is the only low-code platform that enables developers of varying skill sets to deliver true consumer-grade native mobile apps with all the ease and efficiency of low-code development. Built on the widely adopted React Native framework, Mendix mobile apps enable the native gestures, interactions, quick performance, and capabilities consumers expect from their mobile devices — and opens the door for developers to use AR and machine learning on the device to create smarter, context-aware, guided user experiences. And, with an “offline-first” approach, Mendix native mobile apps consistently deliver a superior experience, even when the connection is poor or nonexistent.

Exclusive low-code support for SAP HANA. With the Spring ’19 Release, Mendix is the only low-code platform to seamlessly integrate with SAP HANA. Now, enterprises can create both transactional and analytics applications that tap the speed and efficiency of SAP HANA to streamline business processes and pursue new opportunities to digitally engage with their employees and customers. Mendix empowers enterprises to rapidly deliver business-critical apps to the same data tier as the SAP core, complete with SAP HANA’s unprecedented performance, governance, security, and data analytics. And it expands the pool of human capital able to reap the benefits of SAP HANA for business innovation, by empowering both business-side and professional developers to create SAP HANA apps, including business experts contributing to the process as citizen developers.

Public cloud, private cloud, any cloud. With full Kubernetes integration and the introduction of Mendix Cloud Dedicated, which is a Mendix-managed instance of Mendix Cloud on the customer’s AWS account, Mendix now fully supports every cloud strategy — public, private, hybrid — and offers simple deployment to, and management of, any cloud, including IBM Cloud Private, RedHat OpenShift, AWS, Azure, and SAP Cloud Platform.

Bridging the physical and digital worlds. In collaboration with Siemens, Mendix revolutionizes application development for the “internet of things,” using low-code to connect the operational technology of industrial enterprises — where Siemens leads the market — with the insights and intelligence needed to optimize processes, maximize efficiency, and develop new business models to better serve customers. In conjunction with Siemens MindSphere — the cloud-based, open IoT operating system — Mendix-built apps can translate lower-level data into useful analytics and predictive models driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence. With Mendix and MindSphere, “we’re providing capabilities unmatched by any other industrial IoT provider,” said Stephen Bashada, EVP of Siemens Cloud Application Services.

The first AI-assisted low-code IDEs. Mendix Assist is the company’s second-generation AI engine and part of the company’s long-term AI strategy, trained to 95% accuracy. It is designed to harness the power of AI by shortening ramp-up time for citizen developers, increasing developer productivity, and improving application quality. Now available for professional developers in Mendix Studio Pro, Mendix Assist acts as a virtual pair programmer, anticipating next steps, double-checking logic flows, calling out potential errors, and more. Mendix Assist for citizen developers — the industry’s first AI assistant, introduced last year — simplifies the learning process and acts as a virtual tutor to take new users step-by-step through the app creation process.

“Low-code is redefining the way enterprises approach their digital futures,” Roos said. “And Mendix Spring ’19 Release sets the new standard for how low-code enables enterprise application development at scale, once again.”

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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.