Mendix Low-Code App development: Innovation at speed!

The world is ever changing, and your company needs to be competitive to keep up. How do top performing companies cope with challenges such as:

• How do I quickly develop new innovative products and services?
• The shortage of experienced IT professionals?
• Replacing legacy systems and preventing shadow IT?
• How to start Digital Transformation and Digital Innovation?

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Our solution? Mendix, the award-winning Low-Code Application development Platform (LCAP)!

Summary

• Develop faster, save time and money
  Low-Code Application development Platforms (LCAP) help organizations develop enterprise applications up to 10 times faster than traditional programming methods like Java, .NET/C#, and SAP.
• Let your entire team collaborate in IT development
  People without an IT background (like business analysts and subject matter experts) can participate in application development with LCAP platforms, closing the gap between Business and IT.
• Create outstanding User Experiences
  Develop engaging desktop, tablet and mobile applications, connect to any ERP/CRM system and use composable modules and connectors to provide digital experiences that fit your target demographic perfectly.
• Mendix (part of Siemens Digital Industries Software) is an award-winning Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms and Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms For Professional Developers, Q2 2021.

The Orange Force has helped companies all around the world turn their Ideas into Value in no time!
We do that with the best experts in the fields of Mendix development, architecture and training.

What is Mendix?

It might sound like the best thing since sliced bread, ‘developing super fast’ and ‘in a way that closes the gap between Business and IT’.
But what is Mendix exactly?

Short answer: Mendix is a low-code application development platform (LCAP) to develop business applications for the enterprise.
Simply said, it’s a toolbox full of rocket-science, super-powered application components that make up high performing, safe and beautiful applications for your desktop, tablet and mobile.

Traditional software development (like in Java, C#, etc.) involves programming, the art of writing code that a computer can read and execute. That’s the thing, the code is meant as instructions for computers. You need a degree in Computer Sciences or extensive experience with programming to write an application that performs well, keeps your data safe and is user friendly. Most of the time, your business people don’t have this background nor experience and would not understand any of the code that the developer has written, creating barriers between Business and IT.

Low-code application development uses smart techniques like visual development methods (modelling instead of programming), drag-and-drop interfaces, pre-built components and reusable templates to quickly create the same applications, but with less code. This benefits both people from the Business side of things (they can interpret functionality and proactively provide input as part of the development team) as well as the IT side of things (Mendix accelerates development, also for experienced developers!).

Example of programming in Java vs. modelling in Mendix: Retrieve all Orders for Account ‘123’

Java

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// Order.java
@Entity
public class Order {
    @Id
    private Long orderNr;
    @Column
    private Long account;
    public Long getOrderNr() {
       return orderNr;
    }
    public void setOrderNr(Long orderNr) {
       this.orderNr = orderNr;
    }
    public Long getAccount() {
       return account;
    }
    public void setAccount(Long account) {
       this.account = account;
    }
}
// Account.java
@Entity
public class Account {
    @Id
    private Long accountNr;
    @Column
    private String accountName;
    public Long getAccountNr() {
       return accountNr;
    }
    public void setAccountNr(Long accountNr) {
       this.accountNr = accountNr;
    }
    public String getAccountName() {
       return accountName;
    }
    public void setAccountName(String accountName) {
       this.accountName = accountName;
    }
}

public interface OrderRepository extends JpaRepository<Order, Long> {
    List<Order> findByAccount(long accountNr);
}

public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       orderRepository.findByAccount(123);
    }
}

Hide Java code

Mendix

1. Add Account and Order to your domain model with a few clicks of your mouse

2. The rounded blue square ‘Retrieve list of order from database’ does the same as the code in the Java snippet

“The worldwide market for low-code development technologies is projected to total $26.9 billion in 2023, an increase of 19.6% from 2022 […]
A rise in business technologists and a growing number of enterprise-wide hyperautomation and composable business initiatives will be the key drivers accelerating the adoption of low-code technologies through 2026.”

Gartner Research

What you can build with Mendix

Literally any idea for business applications can be built in Mendix, but here are some examples:

Digitalize customer experiences
Desktop, Tablet, (Native) Mobile

• Create SaaS applications and business models
• Smart onboarding solutions that use AI and biometrical data to accelerate processes
• B2C Mobile apps, published in Apple App Store and Google Play Store
• Self-service portals
• etc.

Automate business processes
Smart workflows, AI-driven decisions

• Single workflow across multiple backend systems
• Complex budget approvals according to business rules
• Smart processing of claims through object and image recognition
• Predictive maintenance based on measurements from sensors
• Automated timesheet and attendance registration based on NFC/RFID tags
• etc.

Modernize core systems
Build on top of your backend systems

• ‘Keep the core clean’, build/customize your innovative solutions on top of your backend systems
• Extend your ERP/CRM with (offline) mobile capabilities
• Renovate legacy systems while maintaining business as usual
• Smart Warehousing, Workorder management solutions
• etc.

Connect with any system, any database, any service

• ERP / CRM systems
  • SAP ECC, S4/HANA
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Salesforce
  • Infor
  • Exact
  • AFAS
• Analytics software
  • Microsoft PowerBI
  • Qlikview
• Intelligent Automation
  • AWS Services: S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito, Rekognition, Sagemaker, Twinmaker, EventBridge, etc.
  • Smart IoT Devices that connect physical and digital worlds
  • RFID solutions to track and trace your assets
• Legacy databases, SFTP drives, MS Access databases, Excel files, OData services, AS400, etc.
• + any integration you can think of!

Our customers say…

The Mendix Expert Workshop given by The Orange Force added knowledge and expertise about performance, security and architecture to our international team of experienced Mendix developers at Norsk Hydro.

Ruben Nuijten
Team Lead MendixNorsk Hydro

The Orange Force’s Mendix development team was outstanding. They worked with us hand in hand to transform our initial concept into a tangible product. In a short time, our idea was an up and running application.

Duri Chitayat
Chief Technology OfficerSafeguard Global

The Orange Force is our expertise partner for training, expertise and innovation. They enable us to realize our solutions ourselves and supercharge our development by delivering expertise and innovation.

Lourens Akkerman
Process & IT ManagerVDS Automotive Group

Jeffrey and their team successfully trained the Humanex team in low-code (Mendix) and Agile Scrum.
This added digital innovation skills to our young and dynamic team!

Jacqueline van Duijvenbode
Digital Business Innovation ConsultantHumanex / TwynstraGudde

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