The Mendix Low-Code Difference

For an IT leader, being asked to deliver more work faster while facing a declining budget can be suffocating. To cope with these daunting tasks, shifting the focus from "projects" to "products" can help you solve challenges more strategically and at scale. In fact, many people do turn to low-code development to solve the overwhelming problems.

The low-code market is booming. According to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report on enterprise low-code application platforms, "By 2024, 75% of large enterprises will use at least four low-code development tools for IT application development and citizen development activities." Because of this, Gartner is currently tracking more than 300 low-code vendors from various business fields that claim to solve "all problems" for users. So how can you select the right low-code platform from so many vendors and information?

In fact, Gartner's 2021 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms can help screen suitable low-code platforms and understand which vendor is best at providing the capabilities your organization needs.

5 key use cases for a successful low-code platform

When it comes to what a true low-code platform should offer an enterprise, many of these 300 vendors wouldn’t even pass the test of a sampling. While some of these vendors claim to be “leaders” in the space, few can prove it.

It may be a good idea to think backwards and consider the use cases where low-code is used to determine the low-code solution that is suitable for your company. Consider not only the present, but also the situation in the next one to five years. This will summarize five specific product/solution use cases to find where differentiation can be achieved.

The following categories may differ from what some organizations evaluate, but their functionality is the same as the five key use cases newly outlined in the Gartner 2020 Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms report:

• Business Unit IT Application Use Cases: This category measures the strength of functionality provided to users seeking to build new enterprise applications in terms of web, mobile, data, business logic and external services, and is specifically targeted at B2B and B2E scenarios, with an expected delivery target time of around eight weeks. Mendix received the highest score of 3.9 out of 5 in this category.

• Mobile and Web App SaaS/ISV Use Case: This use case is used to determine the capabilities of vendors’ low-code products and their effectiveness in building mobile and web SaaS/ISV apps and providing rich user experiences for B2B and B2C scenarios. Mendix received the highest score of 4.03 (out of 5) in this category.

• Converged Team Composable Apps Use Case: The underlying principles of this use case focus on the capabilities provided by vendors to enable provisioning of app experiences from a combination of “building blocks” that serve as custom app experiences for specific end-user roles/individuals. Mendix received the highest possible score of 4.0 out of 5 in this category.

• Citizen Development: Low-code is an ideal way to increase capabilities by engaging citizen developers in the application building process. This use case specifically evaluates the ability of citizen developers to build data-centric network line-of-business applications using no-code tools for B2E scenarios within two weeks. Mendix received the second-highest score of 3.8 out of 5 in this category.

• Enterprise IT Business Process Applications: This use case examines the ability of low-code platforms to automate complex business processes, workflows, case management with complex business logic, external services, and multiple end-user roles in B2E scenarios. Mendix received the third-highest score of 3.98 out of 5 in this category.

In addition to Gartner’s Critical Capabilities report, Mendix’s leadership in the low-code market continues to be validated by third parties.

Carefully selected

In the key features list, you can see that Mendix excels in every aspect and is the first and only all-in-one low-code application platform for the enterprise. With this, Mendix has extended the low-code accelerated development principles through abstraction and automation, and extended the agility of enterprise organizations to new areas, including native mobile development, process automation, data integration, cloud portability, and more.