We evaluated Power Apps and OutSystems. It was the Siemens integrations that made us go for it.

I evaluated Joget.

At the moment, we are using Blue Prism for RPA. We are using also Mendix for the workflow, which is not quite RPA. We're combining those two. We do have an eye on UiPath due to the fact that, in the last year, we're feeling that Blue Prism is falling behind the competition at the moment.

We did look at other tools, however, it wasn't me who did that. It was about two and a half years ago. There was a lot of research on everything on the market. Honestly, I don't know why they picked Mendix, however, they were clearly a strong candidate. Looking at Gartner shows it's a very strong candidate. I was quite surprised that it doesn't have a bigger clientele. 

We have used React.js, JavaScript, C#, and Oracle Siebel. However, we strive to move to the next level for future projects.

At the moment, I'm looking for a solution for low code, so I am evaluating any product or solution with low code as an option. We already tried OutSystems. Microsoft Power Apps is another solution that may be an option.

Our team compared OutSystems with Mendix and confirmed that Mendix was the best solution for our business. 

Yes, Outsystems but we much preferred Mendix's non-code generating style.  Model Driven Development needs to run a model. We also did not like the licensing model of Outsystems.

Mendix's support is far superior to that of OutSystems and more competitively priced.

1. When we found that we also had the option to choose OutSystems, we chose Mendix for the same reason I always advise my customers: the platforms. Mendix and OutSystems are basically the same, but there are some differences. The main difference for us was Mendix is a Dutch company and has a very large ecosystem of partners. So that there is something to choose from with healthy competition. 
2. Mendix has always been a more business-oriented platform than OutSystems. OutSystems is more targeted towards improving the developer productivity. Mendix is more about business IT alignment, and supporting the business. This is reflected in the functionality, and the way they build their solutions. Mendix is more like Apple. It is a one click, and everything worked, while OutSystems is more like Android. It is very competitive and great, but it has more technical capabilities and it is a little bit more complicated with too many features for business.

If you're looking for a model-driven low code platform, there are two worldwide leaders, like Mendix and OutSystems. You have some local products in the Netherlands, such as Betty Blocks, which are growing, but they are not as big as Mendix and OutSystems with national brand specific solutions. If you are looking for a global platform that is well established with the right reputation, Mendix and OutSystems are basically the ones to consider. If you are excluding model-driven as a criteria, then Salesforce is by far the largest. Salesforce is much larger than Mendix and OutSystems, but it is not model-driven. It depends whether you want model-driven or not.

Our shortlist was that it should be model-driven and provide all the infrastructure deployment, because we are not likely to hassle with the deployment, infrastructure, etc. Therefore, the main criteria were from a technical point of view:

• Is it model driven?
• Does it allow us to build like administrative applications based on databases?
• What does both the solution provider offer in terms of deployment options and what are all the systems which are available that we have to deploy ourselves? 
• Did we have to build our own cloud capabilities? We skipped this because it was too much work for us, and we did not want to build such an organization. Mendix provided us with the complete cloud, and we were happy with it.

Not applicable. I am a Mendix consultant delivering Mendix solutions.

We had a look at OutSystems, some open source initiatives and BPM tools.

No.

We evaluated OutSystems, Pega Platform, Google App Builder, and a few others.

We didn't look at other solutions.

We also looked at Microsoft/Java options. We initially thought the license fees and speed of development was too slow.

We also looked at OutSystems, Triggre, and Apex. We chose Mendix because of the learning curve.