Why we chose Mendix
A few years ago I visited a Mendix meeting. That would be the future I was told, so together with my companion I decided to take a look. Unfortunately for Mendix, but we were not particularly impressed. (I think we're talking about five or six years ago.) A nice system to generate some screens based on a database model, but that's it. You couldn't make apps with it, just web applications. And building more complex applications with external links and complex business logic was certainly not something we could have imagined.
But when we did another research on low code platforms last year, we saw that Mendix had made great strides in their development. So much so that we thought: we really need to do something with this. This is really the future. It solves so many problems that you encounter with traditional development - just think of (in)stability and (non) adaptability - and it makes development so much faster, you can just do a lot more with it.
To cut a long story short: one of our customers was also convinced (and had the guts to do this with us!) and will completely switch from a classic Windows application developed in Delphi to a new online Mendix application with various apps around it.
We are now working hard to bring our Mendix knowledge up to standard as quickly as possible. The colleagues who are going to participate in this project have almost all obtained their Mendix Rapid Developer certificate. We also have a large list of topics that we are researching and where we write short blogs / documents about how Mendix can solve this. Think of links with SOAP and REST, dashboards, unit testing, but also things like Elasticsearch and machine learning. Of course we notice the advantage of our many years of experience with software development and custom software, but a lot is of course new and works just that little bit differently. In any case, our goal is to achieve the Advanced Developer certificate with all Mendix developers this year as well.
A very interesting development for us as GDK Software. It also inspires us to get in touch with new techniques again, to look at software architecture in a refreshing way. But what I find most exciting is the ability to create cool and stable solutions for our customers very, very quickly. I therefore hope that in the future we will be able to help more customers to switch from their legacy applications to modern tools, or to close their 'gaps' that they cannot easily fill with their standard applications at the moment. If you want to know more about this, you can of course always contact me or Marco Geuze.
To be continued!
But when we did another research on low code platforms last year, we saw that Mendix had made great strides in their development. So much so that we thought: we really need to do something with this. This is really the future. It solves so many problems that you encounter with traditional development - just think of (in)stability and (non) adaptability - and it makes development so much faster, you can just do a lot more with it.
To cut a long story short: one of our customers was also convinced (and had the guts to do this with us!) and will completely switch from a classic Windows application developed in Delphi to a new online Mendix application with various apps around it.
We are now working hard to bring our Mendix knowledge up to standard as quickly as possible. The colleagues who are going to participate in this project have almost all obtained their Mendix Rapid Developer certificate. We also have a large list of topics that we are researching and where we write short blogs / documents about how Mendix can solve this. Think of links with SOAP and REST, dashboards, unit testing, but also things like Elasticsearch and machine learning. Of course we notice the advantage of our many years of experience with software development and custom software, but a lot is of course new and works just that little bit differently. In any case, our goal is to achieve the Advanced Developer certificate with all Mendix developers this year as well.
A very interesting development for us as GDK Software. It also inspires us to get in touch with new techniques again, to look at software architecture in a refreshing way. But what I find most exciting is the ability to create cool and stable solutions for our customers very, very quickly. I therefore hope that in the future we will be able to help more customers to switch from their legacy applications to modern tools, or to close their 'gaps' that they cannot easily fill with their standard applications at the moment. If you want to know more about this, you can of course always contact me or Marco Geuze.
To be continued!
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