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 most valuable features are the decorative style, model-driven development, and the fact that Mendix validates flows. Mendix is quick to develop because it's a low-code platform. It's very robust, flexible, open, and scalable. It's for a low-code customer. The tooling is also really good and it has mobile capabilities."
"They are leading in the smart manufacturing, and connectivity space."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a development platform which assists in accelerating your developmental lifecycle. This is one of its most valuable features. This solution also offers a good set of components that are readily available."
"The development environment is model-driven. We can use the information from this for our business engineers to make the information models, and they can also execute the model."
"We also use Mendix Enterprise Integration for complex business logic. It's a low-code platform, so we run Mendix in the Mendix Cloud."
"You can scale the solution."
"Mendix code and coding logic are very visual. It looks like a flow chart rather than lines of code. Rapid development is what drew us to Mendix."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems is the drag and drop and toolchains in the small AI developing environment. Additionally, the documentation is helpful."
"Integrations with external systems with SOAP and REST are easy to implement off-the-shelf, but a developer can always implement specific libraries for other integrations."
"It is much easier to develop applications with the product’s IDE."
"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."
"It is very stable."
"OutSystems' low-cost approach has positively impacted our productivity, because we were able to develop faster with OutSystems, enabling us to implement many changes during our sprint."
"The visual program of OutSystems is one of the major advantages of this solution."
"We can do the validation before calling the API."
"An improvement I would like to see is the ability to version manage independent modules. Their version management for software repositories must be better. It's good and you can do it, but it needs work."
"One area for improvement is its integration capabilities. Creating a pluggable widget or integrating it with other systems is challenging. In terms of features, it would be great to see advancements such as AI services and the integration of third-party services. Additionally, connecting external devices to the application requires multiple steps. Improving this will make it easier for the developers."
"While the community is great, they need to work on making their direct technical support services better."
"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."
"Mendix needs to think about itself offering machine learning and artificial intelligence."
"There's no direct tech support."
"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."
"Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++."
"Its ability to create and run automated tasks could be better."
"The new version could be improved."
"The solution's testing framework needs to be improved, and the workflow should be slightly more mature."
"The product could be improved if there was a shortcut, or predefined, predictable templates provided."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"When shared extensions are updated, all the applications are redeployed."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
"We'd like OutSystems to add stronger workflow-based automation similar to what Appian offers. It needs more workflow modeling and RPA features."
Mendix is ranked 2nd in Mobile Development Platforms with 48 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile 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 "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". 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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