1. FACTSHEET
Mendix® Model-driven Application Delivery
A 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, Key Benefits
integrate, deploy, manage and optimize dynamic business
applications in any existing business and IT environment. Unlike Flexibility to Change
other platforms, the Mendix technology allows business analysts Changes to existing functionality can be realized in
to actively take part in the development cycle —translating hours, ensuring your solutions are easily aligned with
business models into executable components that are easily your company’s dynamic requirements.
adapted and assembled automatically into a personalized, web-
based application Fast Deployment
New solutions can be created in weeks and rolled out
Dynamic business applications in days. Mendix web-interfaces can be integrated with
With the Mendix technology, you can use business models your existing environment, so users need minimal or no
– instead of code - to build applications that seamlessly fit training at all.
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.
“I am impressed with Mendix and their model driven
Easily integrate with your existing IT approach towards delivery of business solutions. In
Mendix leverages the value of your existing IT infrastructure today’s business climate the ability to deliver business
by simply integrating with applications and data inside your functionality through a portal interface is essential in
company and across the value chain. Next to that, integrating and engaging with business partners, customers, employees.”
exposing Web services is just a few clicks away. It is easy to reuse
legacy systems, existing applications and skills in new projects, Dr. Zoya Kinstler
extending the life-cycle of your past IT investments and reducing PhD, Harvard Extension School
the risk when implementing new business-critical applications.
Equipping the business analyst
Our goal is to equip business analysts, process owners,
developers and system architects with an integrated modeling
and application framework that empowers them to effectively “We’ve been experiencing double-digit growth figures
work together in designing, building and maintaining scalable annually. Mendix allows us to build our company in our
web applications that are highly user-friendly, agile, secure and own pace.”
future-proof.
Co Konings
Business Development Manager Sandd

2. FACTSHEET Mendix® Model-driven Application Delivery
Key principles underlying the Mendix solution framework
The Model = The Application
Mendix 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 agility
Most architectures, requirements, improvements and designs
emerge from existing IT systems. With the Mendix software, it is Mendix in practice
possible to alter applications to changing requirements, even late
in the development process, by easily changing the models that Streamline complex business processes across
define the application. organizational boundaries
Organizations increasingly operate in a networked
Application quality, performance & scalability environment. Mendix software is often used to extend
Technically, we don’t generate code, we interpret the model. This legacy back office systems to the web and automate
also means Mendix enables automatic quality-, regression- and business processes that span across the value chain.
consistency management. To ensure run-time performance the Easily design your own workflows and execute them
Mendix platform is built with scalability and distributed networks automatically in the Mendix runtime application
in mind. environment
Security Unleash a next-generation Self-Service Portal to
Exposing critical systems to the web requires advanced security your customers, suppliers or employees
measures. Mendix includes an extensive and proven security Using Mendix to build interactive Self-service Portals
model that stood the test of our customers’ highest security means enhancing collaboration with customers and
requirements. business partners. Via a personalized WebTop with
interactive dashboard and mash up capabilities each
Open standards & interoperability user is tailored to his/her needs. This means improving
As central part of our philosophy, Mendix strives to be as user satisfaction and lowering operational costs. All
interoperable as possible when it comes to the integration with together.
existing platforms, the (re)use of (third-party) components and
industry standards. Mendix embraces open standards. Get alerted by real-time ‘event-driven’
management information
Web Services Define business rules and validations and have your
In accordance with building service-oriented business Mendix application perform automatic tasks such
applications (SOBA), we made it very easy to visually design, as sending emails, SMS or triggering workflows.
consume, map, expose and monitor Web Services. Also monitor your process using interactive reports,
dashboards and KPI´s.
Enhanced User Experience
The success of web applications largely depends on the intuition, Migrate those Excel, Access and Lotus Notes
user-friendliness, richness and performance of the graphical user apps that are flooding your organization
interface. Mendix portal applications automatically make use Many organizations shockingly depend on a multitude
of a highly advanced rich internet client (AJAX), requiring zero of custom Access, Excel or Lotus apps. Migrate those
programming skills to implement. apps into a much more flexible, scalable and future
proof environment that is web based and integrated in
your enterprise architecture.
Extend your ERP
Whether you use SAP, Oracle, IBM or Microsoft, stop
writing manual code today and use Mendix to build
your extension.

3. Mendix architecture
Mendix is a powerful, model-driven application platform suite,
designed for building, integrating and extending business
applications in renewed agile architectures.
DESIGN TIME RUN TIME
Mendix Rich Webclient
Business Developer
analyst CSS based Reports & graphs Rich forms
Mendix Business Modeler Mendix Business Server External Interface
Business Requirements Meta Model Mendix Process engine Meta Model Rules engine Web services Mobile
Model
Repository
Service agents Service agents Event processor JSR Excel
Community Mendix Connectivity Manager
Reusable business models Translator Security Mapper
Best practice application templates
ANY ANY ANY ANY
DATABASE APPLICATION WEBSERVICE FILE
Mendix product capabilities
The Mendix Model-driven application platform consists of user-friendliness. Alternatively you can run Mendix applications
multiple components that are fully integrated and built from the in your existing portal environment.
ground up in a single, scalable architecture. Key features are:
Mendix Web services
Powerful & easy-to-use modeling environment Mendix enables you to easily design, consume and expose
Central to the platform is the Mendix Business Modeler™: an Web-services with nothing but a few mouse clicks. If needed,
integrated, multi-user modeling studio for designing business we can also integrate with existing data stores without the use of
applications. Models include: workflows, micro flows, forms, Web-services.
reports, business rules, security, web services, mapping and
much more. Template library
Together with our ISV partners, we offer a fast growing library
Open run-time framework of best-practice application and process templates. Examples
With “one-click-deploy”, all models are automatically Executed include: complaint management, customer service management,
by the Mendix Business Server™ into an enterprise class portal incident management, service management and much more.
application. The Mendix Business Server™ is a scalable, platform
independent and high-performance run-time environment. To be Mendix Developer Network™
future-proof, Mendix Business Server™ is standards-based, runs Mendix Developer Network, or MXDN™, is our online community
on all leading J2EE application servers and has an extensive API. and knowledge-base, built to help our customers, partners and
community developers get the most out of Mendix technology. Go
360˚ integration online and join for FREE.
Mendix 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.
How we fit in your SOA
Mendix Webclient™ and portal environment Mendix is used to rapidly create service-oriented
Mendix applications utilize an highly advanced, flexible business applications (SOBA) that integrate seamlessly
and personalized Mendix Webclient™, fully based on AJAX with existing platforms. Mendix offers proven
technology. Mendix apps are known for their style, rich user integrations with IBM, Tibco, SAP, BEA and Microsoft.
experience, performance, browser independence, intuition and

4. List of standards Examples of customer success
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
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streamline, automate and integrate complex business processes via www.mendix.com or:
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