2. The Challenge
The average enterprise has 14 different
databases and spends 60 to 70% of its
application development budget creating
ways to access that data
Source: Gartner, Inc.
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3. The Problem We Solve
What’s on their agenda?
Customer: CIO:
“How can I find the right “I need to continuously
data to best service my innovate, change and adapt
customer?” quickly, with a decreasing
budget, while controlling the
app jungle”
Business Manager: Business Analyst:
“I want to be able to easily “I want my requirements
respond to market change, and to be in the lead!”
not be constrained by our
legacy backoffice systems.”
Customer Service: IT Specialist:
“I want a single point of access “I need a more flexible toolset
to the right customer data, so I can be more efficient in
regardless of the underlying customizing my applications.”
systems.”
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4. Why is Enterprise Software so Hard?
120%
100%
80% Failed
60% Challenged
40% Successful
20%
0%
1994 2009
Chaos Report: 68% of all software projects are NOT successful
Source: Standish Group 2010
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5. Top 3 reasons for project failure:
1. Lack of user
involvement
2. Incomplete
requirements: “the
business doesn’t know
what they want”
3. Requirements change
Source: The Standish Group
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7. It’s time to bridge the gap
Business IT
Collaboration & Co-Creation
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8. Mendix bridges the gap between business & IT
Traditional projects
Months… Days…
Benchmark analysis Custom development versus Mendix. Source : RDF Group Plc. (www.rdfgroup.com)
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9. Mendix enables continuous
business change by helping
companies to rapidly
develop, deploy and integrate
business apps at a fraction of the
time and cost.
• Accelerate time-to-market of
new business requirements by
5-10x!
• Streamline processes across
systems and organizational
boundaries
• Leverage data and increase
ROI of existing systems
• Business & IT are in the driving
seat together
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10. Who We Are
Launched 2007
Background at Erasmus & TU Delft
Fast-growing (annual triple-digit growth)
>200 enterprise clients in production
Strong partner network & user community
Offices in USA, Netherlands, UK & South Africa
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12. Customer Case Studies
Dun & Bradstreet
Region: Netherlands, Belgium & UK
Industry: Financial services
Challenge:
Business Value • D&B under pressure from competition
Type: customer self-service • Challenge in incorporating customer specific
Time to change: 8 weeks requirements in service offering
Integration: rules & data • Challenge incorporating 3rd party data
Team size: 2
Need / solution:
• Easily offer customized customer portals with
customers “own” weighing factors
• Interface with existing data and logic
• Run-time flexibility in how credit checks should
Portal 1 Portal 2 Portal 3 Portal 4 Portal 5 work
Mendix Platform Results:
• Shorten time to market of new business service
• Increase customer satisfaction
D&B Global • Retain clients
Decision Maker • Additional revenu
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14. Product
Supporting the full agile application lifecycle
1. Collaborate
using sprintr™
2. Develop with the
App Factory™
5. Manage & monitor with the
4. Get real-time user
Enterprise Cloud Portal™
feedback & iterate
3. Deploy to the Cloud using
single-click-deploy
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20. Seeing is Believing!
Kickoff with stakeholders 5-day on-site Deliver working app +
Business fixed price/fixed date 30-day go/no-go Success!
(no specs needed) Modeling quote for full delivery
• 5-day no cure, no pay on-site proof-of-concept
• 1 Mendix business engineer on-site with relevant business-IT
stakeholders
• No detailed specs required
• Proven methodology: in less than 5 days we present working app + fixed
price/fixed date quote!
• Cost: fixed fee of Euro 5.000,-
• 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
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What is needed for a basic application?- A domain model for your data definition Forms build in the modeler to display your data. Microflows for your custom logicCommunication between these 3 to have a coherent system