Mendix® Model-driven Application DeliveryA model-driven approach towards building Service-Oriented Business Applications

Mendix delivers a powerful, model-driven application platform

providing tools and architecture to rapidly design, build, test,

integrate, deploy, manage and optimize dynamic business

applications in any existing business and IT environment. Unlike

other platforms, the Mendix technology allows business analysts

to actively take part in the development cycle —translating

business models into executable components that are easily

adapted and assembled automatically into a personalized, web-

based application

Dynamic business applicationsWith the Mendix technology, you can use business models

– instead of code - to build applications that seamlessly fit

a company’s needs. As functional requirements change and

applications need adaptation, Mendix’ Model-driven approach

eases implementation of those changes - offering significant

time and cost savings. Placing business models at the core of

application development, changes are made in hours, instead of

days or weeks.

Easily integrate with your existing ITMendix leverages the value of your existing IT infrastructure

by simply integrating with applications and data inside your

company and across the value chain. Next to that, integrating and

exposing Web services is just a few clicks away. It is easy to reuse

legacy systems, existing applications and skills in new projects,

extending the life-cycle of your past IT investments and reducing

the risk when implementing new business-critical applications.

Equipping the business analystOur goal is to equip business analysts, process owners,

developers and system architects with an integrated modeling

and application framework that empowers them to effectively

work together in designing, building and maintaining scalable

web applications that are highly user-friendly, agile, secure and

future-proof.

Key Benefits

Flexibility to ChangeChanges to existing functionality can be realized in

hours, ensuring your solutions are easily aligned with

your company’s dynamic requirements.

Fast DeploymentNew solutions can be created in weeks and rolled out

in days. Mendix web-interfaces can be integrated with

your existing environment, so users need minimal or no

training at all.

FACTSHEET

“We’ve been experiencing double-digit growth figures

annually. Mendix allows us to build our company in our

own pace.”

Co Konings

Business Development Manager Sandd

“I am impressed with Mendix and their model driven

approach towards delivery of business solutions. In

today’s business climate the ability to deliver business

functionality through a portal interface is essential in

engaging with business partners, customers, employees.”

Dr. Zoya Kinstler

PhD, Harvard Extension School

FACTSHEET Mendix® Model-driven Application Delivery

The Model = The ApplicationMendix introduces a radical innovation in application

development, using human-readable business models, which are

directly deployed on the application server without the side-step

of generating code. Building a new application becomes an

easy configuration task. Not only allows this business analysts

and developers to work effectively together by visually defining

applications, it also increases application agility and quality,

together with a significant decrease of development lead-times.

Software agilityMost architectures, requirements, improvements and designs

emerge from existing IT systems. With the Mendix software, it is

possible to alter applications to changing requirements, even late

in the development process, by easily changing the models that

define the application.

Application quality, performance & scalabilityTechnically, we don’t generate code, we interpret the model. This

also means Mendix enables automatic quality-, regression- and

consistency management. To ensure run-time performance the

Mendix platform is built with scalability and distributed networks

in mind.

SecurityExposing critical systems to the web requires advanced security

measures. Mendix includes an extensive and proven security

model that stood the test of our customers’ highest security

requirements.

Open standards & interoperabilityAs central part of our philosophy, Mendix strives to be as

interoperable as possible when it comes to the integration with

existing platforms, the (re)use of (third-party) components and

industry standards. Mendix embraces open standards.

Web ServicesIn accordance with building service-oriented business

applications (SOBA), we made it very easy to visually design,

consume, map, expose and monitor Web Services.

Enhanced User ExperienceThe success of web applications largely depends on the intuition,

user-friendliness, richness and performance of the graphical user

interface. Mendix portal applications automatically make use

of a highly advanced rich internet client (AJAX), requiring zero

programming skills to implement.

Mendix in practice

Streamline complex business processes across organizational boundariesOrganizations increasingly operate in a networked

environment. Mendix software is often used to extend

legacy back office systems to the web and automate

business processes that span across the value chain.

Easily design your own workflows and execute them

automatically in the Mendix runtime application

environment

Unleash a next-generation Self-Service Portal to your customers, suppliers or employeesUsing Mendix to build interactive Self-service Portals

means enhancing collaboration with customers and

business partners. Via a personalized WebTop with

interactive dashboard and mash up capabilities each

user is tailored to his/her needs. This means improving

user satisfaction and lowering operational costs. All

together.

Get alerted by real-time ‘event-driven’ management informationDefine business rules and validations and have your

Mendix application perform automatic tasks such

as sending emails, SMS or triggering workflows.

Also monitor your process using interactive reports,

dashboards and KPI´s.

Migrate those Excel, Access and Lotus Notes apps that are flooding your organizationMany organizations shockingly depend on a multitude

of custom Access, Excel or Lotus apps. Migrate those

apps into a much more flexible, scalable and future

proof environment that is web based and integrated in

your enterprise architecture.

Extend your ERPWhether you use SAP, Oracle, IBM or Microsoft, stop

writing manual code today and use Mendix to build

your extension.

Key principles underlying the Mendix solution framework

Mendix architecture

Mendix product capabilities

The Mendix Model-driven application platform consists of

multiple components that are fully integrated and built from the

ground up in a single, scalable architecture. Key features are:

Powerful & easy-to-use modeling environmentCentral to the platform is the Mendix Business Modeler™: an

integrated, multi-user modeling studio for designing business

applications. Models include: workflows, micro flows, forms,

reports, business rules, security, web services, mapping and

much more.

Open run-time frameworkWith “one-click-deploy”, all models are automatically Executed

by the Mendix Business Server™ into an enterprise class portal

application. The Mendix Business Server™ is a scalable, platform

independent and high-performance run-time environment. To be

future-proof, Mendix Business Server™ is standards-based, runs

on all leading J2EE application servers and has an extensive API.

360˚ integrationMendix supports a wide variety of integration scenarios,

meaning Mendix apps can easily be integrated with your existing

databases, files, middleware, applications, Web services and

enterprise portals.

Mendix Webclient™ and portal environmentMendix applications utilize an highly advanced, flexible

and personalized Mendix Webclient™, fully based on AJAX

technology. Mendix apps are known for their style, rich user

experience, performance, browser independence, intuition and

user-friendliness. Alternatively you can run Mendix applications

in your existing portal environment.

Mendix Web servicesMendix enables you to easily design, consume and expose

Web-services with nothing but a few mouse clicks. If needed,

we can also integrate with existing data stores without the use of

Web-services.

Template libraryTogether with our ISV partners, we offer a fast growing library

of best-practice application and process templates. Examples

include: complaint management, customer service management,

incident management, service management and much more.

Mendix Developer Network™Mendix Developer Network, or MXDN™, is our online community

and knowledge-base, built to help our customers, partners and

community developers get the most out of Mendix technology. Go

online and join for FREE.

Mendix is a powerful, model-driven application platform suite,

designed for building, integrating and extending business

applications in renewed agile architectures.

How we fit in your SOAMendix is used to rapidly create service-oriented

business applications (SOBA) that integrate seamlessly

with existing platforms. Mendix offers proven

integrations with IBM, Tibco, SAP, BEA and Microsoft.

Mendix Rich Webclient

ANY DATABASE

ANY APPLICATION

ANY WEBSERVICE

ANYFILE

Mendix Connectivity Manager

Process engine Meta Model

Service agents Event processor

Rules engine

CSS based Reports & graphs Rich forms

Translator Security

Community

Mapper

Mendix Business Server

Business Requirements

Service agents

Mendix Business Modeler

DESIGN TIME RUN TIME

Web services Mobile

JSR Excel

External Interface

Meta Model

Business analyst

Developer

Reusable business models

Best practice application templates

MendixModel

Repository

About MendixMendix is a fast-paced software company dedicated to

streamline, automate and integrate complex business processes

in the extended enterprise. Mendix products enable a model-

driven approach towards business application and portal

development, empowering business analysts, increasing

flexibility, accelerating delivery and reducing risk and complexity.

Mendix is used by Fortune 500 companies to create dynamic

rich-Internet business applications that are easily integrated with

existing systems.

Contact usIf you’re interested in more information please contact us

via www.mendix.com or:

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Examples of customer successList of standards

Feature Benefits

Web services Support latest standards including: SOAP, WSDL

Database support Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Progress, DB2, DB2/400, Informix

Platform independence Unix, Linux, Windows

Application Servers Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle Application Server J2EE

Web servers Apache, IIS

Rich Internet The MX Portal is based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-technology (AJAX) enhancing usability. All major browsers (IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari) are supported

Java MX Platform provides complete support for Java technology, including Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) , Java 1.6 API, and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).

Standards Mendix embraces the use of (open) standards such as: XML, XSD, XPDL, XPath, XSLT, JSON, BPMN, LDAP, OQL, SQL and JSR-168

3rd party technologies Mendix actively supports tight integrations with 3rd party technologies of SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, BEA, TIbco, Cordys, BusinessObjects and many others