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Rotterdam24 juni 2011

Mendix Essentials

26 augustus 2011Gerolf RooversMendix

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1. What We Solve

2. How We Solve It

3. Solution Types, Areas & Benefits

4. Customer ROI/Case Studies

Agenda

Frustration with the rigidity of enterprise software and traditional development tools and techniques

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1994 20090%

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FailedChallengedSuccessful

Why is Enterprise Software so Hard?

Source: Standish Group 2010

Chaos Report: 68% of all software projects are NOT successful

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1. Lack of user involvement

2. Incomplete requirements: “the business doesn’t know what they want”

3. Requirements change

Top 3 reasons for project failure:

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Software developmentis NOT about

software development

(but value)

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Business IT

Collaboration & Co-Creation

It’s time to create value…

Involving everyone, all-the-time

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It’s time to enable change

Increasingly, the stability of an enterprise is rooted in its ability to be dynamic, to move fast and change quickly.- James McGovern

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow- Rupert Murdoch

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1. What We Solve

2. How We Solve It

3. Solution Types, Areas & Benefits

4. Customer ROI/Case Studies

Agenda

How to align dynamic organizations and software?

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Mendix =

the Platform-as-a-Service for the Agile Enterprise

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How We Solve It

Mendix improves business agility by increasing alignment

between business and IT.

Mendix’s Agile Business Platform™

is an enterprise-class

Platform-as-a-Service

for

Agile Application Lifecycle Management:

Enabling teams to rapidly plan, develop,

deploy and manage applications that

smoothly integrate with existing systems

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Agile Application Lifecycle Management

How We Solve It

Capture

Develop

Deploy

Iterate

User Stories

ModelAnalytics

Feedback

Manage

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How We Solve It

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How We Solve It

Capture requirements, manage backlog, plan sprints, incorporate ongoing feedback & collaborate

Project Collaboration Portal

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How We Solve It

Mendix App Factory: Mendix Business Modeler™

Build & integrate custom business apps easier and 5x faster using visual modeling!

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How We Solve It

More than 100 apps in our Community AppStore and counting…

Mendix App Factory: Community-driven, open source App Store

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How We Solve It

Mendix Platform

App 1 App 3

CRM Legacy DB

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ERP

Enterprise Cloud Dashboard1 click deploy & manage

Deploy apps into the cloud in a single clickCentral dashboard to monitor all apps and manage IT governance

App 2

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1. What We Solve

2. How We Solve It

3. Solution Types, Areas & Benefits

4. Customer ROI/Case Studies

Agenda

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Solution Areas

Flexibele Front-ends (with logic) on top of SAP.

Stand-alone applications, fully capable to integrate and accomodate change.

Replace domain knowledge driven Spreadsheets, MS Access, VB apps, etc. to deliver a quick & IT supported solution.

Intermediate solutions for integration of and adding logic to existing apps.

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Extending and leveraging existing systems

Mendix provides flexible front-end solutions on top of existing systems

Solution Types

Mendix is built to integrate, unlock & extend existing systems

Any database Any application Any service Any file

Mendix™ Agile Business Platform

Custom Application Web Service Business

Portal Mobile

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Why Mendix

Benefits

With Mendix you:

Put Business & IT in the driving seat together.

Shorten time-to-market of new products, apps and services.

Enterprise-ready platform:• Supports complex use-cases (logic, integration)• Fully integrated methodology (agile)• Enterprise-class capabilities (scalability, security,

performance, etc)• Cloud, Private Cloud & On-premise

Proven 100% successrate at our customers

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1. The Problem We Solve

2. How We Solve It

3. Solution Types, Areas & Benefits

4. Customer ROI/Case Studies

Agenda

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Fast, flexible & business-driven

Customer Case Studies

Mendix allows agile project teams to build apps 4x faster

Example statistics of comparison project

171 Days

Benchmark analysis Custom development versus Mendix. Source : RDF Group Plc. (www.rdfgroup.com)

670 Days

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No cure-no pay Proof-of-Concept

Kickoff with stakeholders (no specs needed)

5-day on-site Business Modeling

Deliver working app + fixed price/fixed date quote for full delivery

30-day go/no-go Success!

Seeing is Believing!

• 5-day no cure, no pay on-site proof-of-concept

• 1 Mendix consultant on-site with business-IT stakeholders

• No detailed specs required

• Proven methodology: in less than 5 days we present working app + fixed price/fixed date quote!

• No cure no pay conditions:- If NOT successful -> FULL REFUND of PoC costs- If order is placed < 30 days after PoC -> FULL REFUND of

PoC costs- PoC successful but no order -> NO REFUND

No cure, no pay Proof-of-Concept> 100% success rate!

Try it

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Thank you very much for listening. Hope to engage in a Proof of Concept & New project with you soon!!