Transforming Concepts into Results
The obstacles encountered in enterprise application development.
A Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) Empowers Enterprises To:
AGILE DEVELOPMENT:
Conventional development methods hinder adaptability.
For contemporary enterprises seeking agility and swiftness, the inflexible nature of waterfall development poses challenges:
The Application Development Lifecycle with Low-Code
Develop, launch, and sustain top-notch applications using low-code technology.
A clearly outlined process forms the backbone of exceptional applications. The low-code application development lifecycle encompasses five distinct stages: Ideation, Development, Testing, Deployment, and Operations.
Mendix's low-code Platform offers robust support across these phases by simplifying and automating many complexities found in conventional development.
Employing Mendix's collaborative and visual approach allows businesses to tap into their existing workforce, irrespective of their development expertise. This approach accelerates the time to market, ensuring the delivery of user-friendly apps while reducing overall development expenses.
During the initial phase, teams delineate the purpose and objectives of the new application, assess user expectations, and foster a shared comprehension of all prerequisites. Tasks also involve collecting requirements, estimating expenses, and assigning resources.
Maintaining alignment between IT, business units, and stakeholders regarding goals and requirements is pivotal across the application development continuum. Low-code's emphasis on robust collaboration facilitates the breakdown of silos, ensuring everyone remains interconnected.
How ideation with Mendix is structured:
The Mendix Developer Portal serves as a centralized collaborative platform for teams. It encompasses features such as chat and social tools, user feedback management, backlog organization, and DevOps utilities.
Integration with external tools like Trello and Jira is facilitated through APIs.
Grounded in Agile principles, the Mendix Platform encourages continuous collaboration, fostering transparent communication for expeditious development.
Upon finalizing requirements and strategizing, app development commences. Low code presents a visual, collaborative approach to development, allowing diverse skill sets to participate in app building. This boosts developer efficiency, hastens deployment, fosters versatile teams, and facilitates involvement of non-technical stakeholders and users across the application lifecycle.
The developmental process with Mendix:
Mendix maintains seamless collaboration between business and IT developers. Multiple developers can concurrently contribute to the same project, leveraging Mendix's robust version control capabilities without encountering obstacles.
Integration with external tools like Trello and Jira is facilitated through APIs.
Mendix Assist, an AI-driven bot, offers real-time guidance for configuring logic and evaluates app performance against industry best practices.
Mendix promotes the development and reuse of various application components such as UI, logic, and data. Additionally, the Mendix Marketplace houses app templates, app services, widgets, and more, ensuring a broad array of resources for developers.
This stage involves meticulous quality assurance and testing processes to ensure the app's alignment with business needs and user expectations.
Mendix streamlines the testing phase by addressing common challenges such as resource scarcity, limited test coverage, and manual testing errors, enabling teams to deliver superior-quality apps that surpass anticipated standards.
Testing methodologies with Mendix include:
This phase marks the delivery of your application to end users. Low-code methodologies expedite the delivery process to users and simplify cloud operations. Mendix facilitates the deployment of cloud-native applications to the cloud platform of your preference.
Containerization, a fundamental aspect of low-code development, involves bundling an application and its environment for deployment. This practice guarantees consistent and reliable app performance across diverse environments. Moreover, containerization enhances app resilience and ease of management, resulting in reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
The deployment process with Mendix involves:
Mendix Empowers Agile and DevOps Teams
Mendix maintains seamless collaboration between business and IT developers. Multiple developers can concurrently contribute to the same project, leveraging Mendix's robust version control capabilities without encountering obstacles.
From streamlined one-click deployment to integrated monitoring, Mendix aids DevOps teams in working more iteratively and independently across the application development lifecycle. The Mendix Platform comes equipped with standard DevOps tools and services that are either readily available or entirely automated. It encompasses continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), testing, and monitoring functionalities, accompanied by accessible APIs for seamless integration of your Mendix application with existing DevOps toolsets.
COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT:
Expeditiously reach the market by minimizing revisions, enhancing communication, and amplifying feedback loops.
Foster an environment for innovation by removing resource constraints and inspiring teams to conceive and implement novel concepts.
Boost adoption rates by engaging end-users throughout the entire process, actively listening to, and integrating their feedback at more frequent intervals.
The Mendix Collaboration Suite offers integrated digital collaboration tools that assist diverse teams in strategizing, overseeing, and collectively developing applications aligned with the business requirements.
Manage Your Portfolio Effectively
Utilize Mendix's integrated Portfolio Management Tool to identify and oversee the scope, effort estimation, and value assessment of digital projects.
Epics:
A user-friendly, agile project management solution that seamlessly integrates with SP, enabling real-time updates to stories.
Application Insights:
Gather fresh ideas for enhancing solutions through polls and enhance your application quality by actively receiving both active and passive user feedback.
Version control:
Utilize version control to seamlessly merge multiple teams' efforts into a unified revision automatically!
How Mendix Facilitates Collaborative Development
Establishing the norm of deploying accurate applications on the first attempt. We've revolutionized the application creation process for organizations by optimizing stakeholder communication.
Select Your Tools
Utilize Epics and Feedback Management to empower teams in choosing the most suitable Mendix tools for enhancing collaboration, leading to potential savings on additional technology licenses.
Extend Beyond Application Development
Mendix fosters collaboration not only during the development phase but also throughout maintenance and upgrades, ensuring your applications remain relevant and valuable while enabling your team to sustainably operate.
Constantly Enhance
Engage with end users by converting their feedback into fresh user stories. Seamlessly integrate new tasks and change requests as required, and gauge engagement levels to optimize each application.
MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
Accelerate software development using the most extensive low-code platform available.
What does model-driven development entail?
Model-driven development forms the core principle of low-code development.
The Mendix low-code Platform functions as a model-driven Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that abstracts the technical complexities involved in constructing an application—such as logic, data model, user interface—and showcases them as visual drag-and-drop components.
Whether you possess professional development skills or are new to this field, model-driven development enhances team productivity, fostering better software quality and easier maintainability.
Design advanced web and mobile applications effortlessly using Mendix's visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Enhance your applications through intuitive drag-and-drop features. With Mendix's model-driven development approach, developers of varying skill levels can efficiently design, construct, and expedite app delivery using visual models and user-friendly development tools.
Mendix utilizes five fundamental domain-specific languages in constructing its models.
Domain ModelingUtilize a visual UML-based data modeler to establish entities, attributes, and associations that accurately represent your data structures within the domain model.
User Interface ModelingBuild responsive web and mobile user interfaces comprehensively utilizing a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) graphical page editor.
Microflows and Nanoflows Create client-side logic (nanoflows) and server-side logic (microflows) visually to accommodate online and offline scenarios.
Security MeasuresDevelop reusable security protocols across various layers—data, logic, page, and API—using Mendix's multi-layered security language!
Workflow DevelopmentUtilize an integrated language to create workflows that leverage and reutilize various model components, such as microflows or pages.
Mendix is designed to facilitate collaborative development driven by models.
Create exceptional applications with Mendix, bringing developers of diverse skill levels together to encourage transparent communication and collaboration. Teams can instantly exchange ideas and feedback through integrated social channels and feedback management tools. All levels of developers actively engage in the development process, resulting in the successful delivery of high-quality applications from the onset.
Accelerate your development journey and facilitate immediate communication between developers and business stakeholders by speaking the same language. Collaboratively model data and bridge the gap between business and IT, making it significantly smaller!
Accelerate app delivery significantly!
Mendix Empowers Agile and DevOps Teams
Mendix maintains seamless collaboration between business and IT developers. Multiple developers can concurrently contribute to the same project, leveraging Mendix's robust version control capabilities without encountering obstacles.
From streamlined one-click deployment to integrated monitoring, Mendix aids DevOps teams in working more iteratively and independently across the application development lifecycle. The Mendix Platform comes equipped with standard DevOps tools and services that are either readily available or entirely automated. It encompasses continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), testing, and monitoring functionalities, accompanied by accessible APIs for seamless integration of your Mendix application with existing DevOps toolsets.
Planning Phase In the initial phase, business and IT stakeholders join forces to swiftly outline project scopes, emphasizing crucial objectives while retaining flexibility, especially within the prototyping phase of the User Design stage.
User-Centric Design Structured around iterative cycles of prototyping, testing, and refining, RAD prioritizes user design by promptly showcasing a functional model to users at an early and frequent cadence. This approach not only guides design choices and the evolution of product features but also serves as a reality check to assess the feasibility of your significant concept.
Building Phase In contemporary Rapid Application Development (RAD), the construct phase is enhanced through the utilization of low-code platforms, streamlining communication between business and IT. Within this phase, low-code platforms integrated with model-driven development (MDD) capabilities empower both developers and business users. While expert developers address complex challenges, the use of easily comprehensible visual models enables citizen developers to seamlessly contribute fresh ideas to the product's designs and functionalities.
Transition Phase The cutover phase condenses parallel stages found in the traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), encompassing implementation, testing, integration, and maintenance processes.
Understand User Perspectives: Collect data to comprehend the thoughts and emotions of app users.
Clarify: Transform user data into well-defined insights.
Generate: Explore app concepts derived from user insights through brainstorming.
Prototype: Commence the construction and testing of your concepts.
Assess: Gather input on your prototypes and engage in iteration
Design Thinking through Mendix.
Transform concepts into results. Leveraging the Mendix low-code application development platform integrates design thinking methodologies, enabling the delivery of value to both users and businesses.
Swiftly Generate Ideas and Innovate
Prioritize User Requirements
Transition effortlessly from prototype to production!
Reduce time, effort, and resources through app prototyping and testing. Mendix empowers teams to develop functional prototypes that seamlessly transform into production-ready applications, eliminating the need for disposable mockups.
Build Applications 10X faster with 70% fewer resources.
Increase developer productivity and capacity.
Application for any channel, any device, online and offline, smart, and connected.
Easily embed automation into core systems.
Extend automation without limitation.
Integrate data and logic from any data source, system, or service.