Mendix and OutSystems are prominent low-code development platforms that simplify application building through visual interfaces and minimal coding. Mendix emphasizes ease of use, rich visual customization, and a cloud-native architecture that supports diverse deployment scenarios. OutSystems, on the other hand, focuses on enhancing developer productivity and offers robust features for enterprise deployment, including cloud and on-premise options.
The summary above is based on 45 interviews we conducted recently with Mendix and OutSystems users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The initial setup is easy."
"You can scale the solution."
"What I found most valuable in Mendix is that it's very much suitable for mobile apps such as native Android or IOS supported mobile apps. The multiple features of the platform are very, very attractive and very popular. Mendix has technical features such as microflows and nanoflows. You can also access data models in the platform. These are the features that are very, very strong in Mendix. I got my hands dirty on other low-code platforms, but I have not seen such strong features in them compared to the microflows, nanoflows, and data model access that are in Mendix, including creating and integration. The platform has out-of-the-box adapters or out-of-the-box-connectors that you can integrate with different interface applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, etc."
"Enables us to rapidly create a complex application. We are also able to customize features that stakeholders in the corporation want to see, something that could not be done with other software. Our workflows and processes have evolved and improved. The fast iterations allow us to be nimble, get feedback from users, and do rapid updates."
"I find the fast development speed and low cost to be very valuable features of Mendix. It's a smart solution for busy developers when we need to apply new changes or fixes quickly. Mendix helps to save time and meet project deadlines faster."
"We also use Mendix Enterprise Integration for complex business logic. It's a low-code platform, so we run Mendix in the Mendix Cloud."
"We find it intuitive and easy to use."
"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"Our previous solution had other overheads such as release management, version management, code management, monitoring, etc., all of which are built-in with OutSystems."
"We can do the validation before calling the API."
"In terms of user support and community engagement, I rate the tool a ten out of ten."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems with discipline and the development processes. Instead of each developer doing tasks on their own with their own approach, et cetera, the solution would help bring some organization to the development process."
"The most valuable feature is Agile development. I love that you save a lot of time on development and can focus on logic and business requirements."
"OutSystems' best feature is that you can build tests with the flow, so even the tests are made in the PDD framework in a low-code way."
"A constraint of Mendix is that you have to look for the required plugins which takes up development time. There are a limited number of Mendix experts in the market."
"Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep."
"While the documentation is good, the development box could be better."
"Mendix needs to think about itself offering machine learning and artificial intelligence."
"I struggle with solutions like Mendix in terms of creating enterprise solutions."
"Needs multiple database connections so an app can directly read/write data to/from multiple databases. This would enable easy splitting of big applications that have complex entity relationships."
"The platform still has many areas for improvement. If I compare apples to apples, the PWA features of Mendix could be improved, for example, I wouldn't recommend creating a B2C or B2B marketplace or web portals on Mendix, but there's a tendency for people to still do it through the systems provided by my company, particularly implement B2B or B2C marketplace, versus using eBay or Shopify. On the web portal front, Mendix still needs to improve."
"Mendix is great for internal applications but not so great for a public-facing interface. It lacks a proper directory structure for public use. The URL will not change from page to page unless a deep link is created for each page. That makes it difficult to bookmark pages in the browser to view later on."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
"Mobile apps need improvement."
"The initial setup is a little difficult."
"While I can't speak to the market impact, as a developer, I've seen significant reductions in development time across different versions of our applications. One area for improvement would be the UI controls in Service Studio. Sometimes, controls don't appear in the IDE, requiring us to check them in the web browser instead. Overall, our experience with OutSystems has been positive, though improvements in UI development would be welcomed."
"I would like to see OutSystems improve its integration capabilities, especially with emerging technologies like AI and GPT."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"In OutSystems, cloud management is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
Mendix is ranked 4th in Low-Code Development Platforms with 48 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 3rd in Low-Code Development Platforms with 46 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while OutSystems is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OutSystems writes "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow and Salesforce Platform, whereas OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, ServiceNow, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Pega BPM. See our Mendix vs. OutSystems report.
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