We can show an ROI. We are able to, on the factory floor, go and understand what all the needs of the clients are. We can see the manual operations they do, and try to very quickly convert them into a mobile app or an iPad or some application and give it to them. With the turnaround time very quick here, it helps save costs.

In terms of ROI, the results totally depend on the client. With one particular client, it was much more about time. They had 4,000 people that have to submit documents, and they were submitting them in PDF, and having people transcribe them. They had no digital, and so they're changing everything. One of our other big ones, which is a public use case on Mendix's site, called Zmac, was shown last year, while the trucking industry was in decline, to have experienced over 20% growth. They had ROI in year one, for five years worth of costs.

High, we do more with highly skilled engineers and love the speed of app development, especially the lower cost of maintaining apps over longer periods.

The fact that your development resources can be greatly reduced compared to those platforms will give you a better ROI.

ROI is dependent on the importance of a “fast time to market”. If a fast time to market is not a determinant, then write assembly or C, else Mendix might have a part to play.

In terms of ROI, we have seen an approximate 30%-40% reduction in time that we require for building applications.

Since the developer version is free you do not need to invest to start working with the modeler. You can even deploy to a free slot where you can demo to a client the sollution you made. So you only start paying after you closed your first deal with a customer.

Not sure about an exact metric count on this but as a subjective answer it did reduce development cycles. The official claim was somewhere between a five to sixfold increase but it was hard to corroborate that with actual metric.

ROIs at this stage is not good because of the high license fees.

I think the ROI is the:

• Skill 
• Execution 
• Vision