Spin off an innovative digital team who can quickly crank out customer-facing code while allowing traditional IT to plod along (as Gartner’s problematic advice on bimodal IT would suggest), or build end-to-end digital apps, even though traditional IT processes and technology might get in the way?
This choice is the digital dilemma that enterprise digital transformation efforts face every day. But what if you could rapidly build digital apps that connected to your systems of record with a simple push of a button?
That’s the challenge that Mendix addresses, and with its new Mendix 6 release, its digital cred is stronger than ever.
Building end-to-end applications rapidly is a challenge every digital initiative faces. However, rapid application development is a well-worn 1990s term that typically yielded inflexible code that didn’t play well in an enterprise environment.
Mendix’s story, however, is fully modern. “Rapid application development – but now scalable and integrated,” is how Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix, describes the visual, model-driven development platform.
With its one-click deployment, Mendix interprets the models in real-time and produces a working app on the Mendix platform. That platform can run on-premise, in the Amazon Web Services cloud, or on the Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service cloud environment.
Mendix is also fully responsive – but it’s not just the user interface that works across device form factors. “The underlying logic and data structure are the same across all channels,” Roos explains.
This week Mendix is announcing Mendix 6, a new version of its platform featuring support for offline mobile functionality, better resilience on Cloud Foundry, and an open model application programming interface (API) and open source platform software development kit (SDK) that open up the inner workings of its model-driven platform to developers.
The best way to get a sense as to what makes Mendix special, however, is to talk to a customer.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2015/10/01/mendix-resolving-the-rapid-application-digital-dilemma/.
Intellyx advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Photon Infotech is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Paul Williams.
