Mendix is a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. Its LCAP offering is the Mendix Platform. Mendix is a subsidiary of Siemens. Its market differentiation is based on its combined support for both citizen and professional developers, its library of composable assets for different business verticals available from the Mendix Marketplace as App Services and Solutions, and specific targeting of independent software vendors (ISVs). Mendix supports multi cloud, on-premises deployments and multi experience development.

Mendix’s operations are largely based in Europe, but its headquarters is in the U.S. and has an increasing presence in APAC regions. Its customers are distributed across all sizes of enterprise, mostly in the finance, professional services and manufacturing sectors.

Strengths

  • Innovation: Mendix continues to provide advanced enterprise low-code capabilities that benefit new use cases, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital twins. These include Mendix Data Hub for data and event services, and MxAssist Performance Bot, which proactively detects modeling and architectural anti-patterns that can impact app performance.
  • Product: Mendix scored highly across most key capabilities, especially on UX design, integration support and governance. Its Gartner Peer Insights rating for product capabilities also affirms this. The vendor’s support for fusion teams via different editors simplifies citizen development for more sophisticated enterprise applications.
  • Operations: Flexible deployment options, multicloud support and a release strategy with backward compatibility help to ensure reliability and resilience for Mendix customers. Mendix invests in support for additional region and self-service features, and it remains focused on security and application development governance.

Cautions

  • Marketing strategy: Mendix’s go-to-market strategy is relying more on its parent Siemens (Siemens acquired Mendix in 2018). While this connection is driving much of Mendix’s growth, it may not be enough. Gartner speaks with clients who see Mendix as primarily driven by Siemens, such as for industrial use cases. To improve its broader marketing strategy, Mendix is making an effort to build new marketing partnerships with cloud providers, ISVs and provide more coverage for use cases with SAP. IMHO It’s true since the Siemens acquisition there are plenty of industrial apps as a templates, but Mendix has 17 years of history, so there are a several templates for Insurance, Banking, Finance, Travel, Retail use cases.
  • Geographic strategy: Mendix has had less success expanding its market presence outside of North America and Europe compared with some of its competitors. However, the vendor has been increasing headcount in its APAC offices to build a stronger presence in that region. They were born in the Netherlands so the Europe customer base is huge, and now Siemens has an office in each country of the world. That means that Mendix cover ALL the world.
  • Vertical industries: While Mendix is a fully featured, general-purpose application development platform that would suit most vertical industries, significant preference is still given to a limited number of business verticals such as finance and manufacturing. Not true, please visit http://marketplace.mendix.com to discover horizontal business cases, including RETAIL and TRAVEL among others.