A giant leap forward in sustainable cooperation

Mendix 10 builds on Mendix’s legacy of low code and is designed to continually push business units to collaborate with IT to build and deliver solutions to new standards. By adopting Mendix 10, companies can prioritize, plan, track, and optimize their application portfolios in the platform’s new Portfolio Manager, just as they would in a consulting process. Traditional development teams (or modern converged teams of developers and business technicians) can use Mendix Epics to manage requirements, track progress, and align with agile methodologies. Teams looking to leverage their existing investment in Jira can track transaction progress and releases directly from Mendix through the new Jira connector.

“Collaboration doesn’t stop with the people who write the software,” notes Jelena Golubovic, product manager at Mendix, “that’s why we introduced App Insights.” App Insights enables development teams to work directly with users to manage the user experience.”

App Insights includes improved feedback for users to exchange ideas or ask questions with developers, for developers to communicate with those users, and for relevant notes to be converted into transactions for storage. Another new feature of App Insights is mini-surveys, which prompt users to proactively collect usage data through a single question on a specific page or when they complete a specific activity.

Multi-cloud function

Gartner estimates (https://www.gartner.com/document/4009244), by 2025, cloud native platform will become the basis of more than 95% of the new digital project. As such, Mendix 10 brings a number of capabilities to businesses to ensure they can realize the value of cloud-based application architectures.

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First, Mendix 10 provides a powerful implementation of Webhooks that allow DevOps professionals to integrate existing CI/CD pipelines. In order to meet the needs of some enterprises to develop CI/CD with lower code, Mendix Pipelines will launch a beta version by the end of this year. Later this year, Mendix 10 will also introduce self-management of Cloud resources, as well as multi-regional cloud failover capabilities for applications deployed on Mendix Cloud, which will soon be available on six continents.

In a recent webinar, Mohammed Kaka, Chief operating Officer of Al Baraka, a South African bank, revealed: “For us, moving Mendix Cloud to South Africa will be a huge benefit. It will further improve the Mendix low-code platform that has been successfully implemented. Our customer experience will be greatly enhanced in terms of responsiveness and richness.”

Customers who invest in AWS also have access to another key feature in Mendix 10. Mendix 10 provides private cloud customers with a reference deployment scenario and the accompanying Terraform module for simple configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Kubernetes Clusters. The solution automates the deployment of more than 95 AWS services and reduces configuration time from 40 hours to 30 minutes.

Mendix 10 also launched the Private Mendix platform. Currently in beta, the platform is designed to meet the specific needs of some customers to enjoy the speed and agility of Siemens’ low-code platform while complying with policies and regulations for a fully automated development environment. By using the Private Mendix platform, enterprises will be able to deploy Mendix for this purpose and gain access to out-of-the-box platform services, as well as connectors with a range of popular software development lifecycle tools, such as version control and CI/CD. Together with the newly announced FedRamp In-Process Certification, the platform will further enhance the value of the most secure cloud deployment solution.