We performed a comparison between Mendix and OpenText AppWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers."
"The most valuable features of Mendix are the drag and drop functions, the data entities, domain models, and all the related features."
"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."
"The integrated security saves a lot of time, especially when it comes to setting up user-roles and security. Also, database updates work automatically. There is no need to write queries to update the database, once you make an update."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Mendix are its business process management and its minimal low code, both from an interface perspective and from a process perspective."
"You can scale the solution."
"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."
"I think that the workflow and automation features are quite good."
"We really appreciate the process automation and how can you create human tasks as one of your processes."
"OpenText AppWorks has standard features such as system-to-system and human-to-human integrations, but what I find most valuable in the solution is its monitoring feature that tells you more about your processes, how to restart and how to stop each process, etc."
"One of the most useful features is the code is customizable, we can make it our own."
"In terms of the scalability and the handling of complexity, the customers are satisfied, and we also have confidence in the solution to achieve whatever implementations are required."
"AppWorks is a very quick development platform with low-coding capability and strong integration with third-party systems."
"From a business perspective, the most valuable aspect lies in the optimization of processes."
"The monitoring aspect is highly valuable, as it offers an exceptional capability to track every minute of action performed by a business user in the global context."
"We've automated several processes, including purchase requisition to purchase orders, RFQ processes, vendor onboarding, project budgeting, and business case creation. The recent versions of OpenText AppWorks, especially those incorporating low-code functionalities, have had a significant positive impact. In some cases, we've observed a remarkable reduction in development time, ranging from 50 to 75 percent. The MTP model and life cycle have facilitated rapid development cycles."
"Overall, integration with the enterprise ecosystem needs improvement."
"While the community is great, they need to work on making their direct technical support services better."
"There is always a layer of custom code required."
"There should be more integration with engineering applications and tighter integration for user authentication, such as single sign-on, etc. They have some of that. It just could be stronger."
"Mendix could improve by allowing the customization of different programming languages, such as Python and C++."
"In the beginning, it is difficult to learn and work with."
"We'd like to be able to write in C Sharp to develop code for Mendix."
"It could use a more comprehensive widget creation studio in the IDE."
"The integration could improve."
"AppWorks could be improved by including BPM simulation."
"There could be some improvements with the low code design part. It could be more customizable and more user friendly."
"The crucial missing element is the archival function."
"A room for improvement in OpenText AppWorks is its user interface. It should have mobile compatibility because right now, you still have to make two applications with a user interface for Android and a user interface for iOS, so if OpenText AppWorks can provide one UI that can be used across all devices, that would make the solution better. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of OpenText AppWorks is a better UI in terms of the look and feel. Another feature I'd like to see in the next version of the solution is mobile compatibility because, at the moment, you have to make your application mobile-ready or compatible with mobile devices because there's no provision for it in OpenText AppWorks."
"The solution needs to continue to enhance the low-coding feature within the product itself."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing structure."
"OpenText AppWork's low-code capabilities can be enhanced by integrating them with AI offerings like Aviator."
Mendix is ranked 2nd in Mobile Development Platforms with 48 reviews while OpenText AppWorks is ranked 16th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while OpenText AppWorks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText AppWorks writes "Automates processes like purchase requisition to purchase orders, RFQ processes, vendor onboarding, project budgeting, and business case creation". Mendix is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Appian, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and ServiceNow, whereas OpenText AppWorks is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, ServiceNow Now Platform, OutSystems and Pega BPM. See our Mendix vs. OpenText AppWorks report.
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