Mendix

Mendix, acquired by the manufacturing giant Siemens, is OutSystems' primary rival in the enterprise low-code market. What sets Mendix apart is its dual-IDE (Integrated Development Environment) approach, designed specifically to foster extreme collaboration between professional developers and business domain experts. They offer "Mendix Studio," a simple, web-based drag-and-drop interface for business analysts who know exactly what the app needs to do but don't know how to code. The analyst can map out the logic and the UI visually. Then, a professional developer opens the exact same project in "Mendix Studio Pro," a heavy desktop client, where they can inject complex Java code, integrate external APIs, and finalize the security architecture. Because it is owned by Siemens, Mendix has incredible integrations with the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems like Teamcenter. A manufacturing company can use Mendix to build a mobile app that allows a technician on the factory floor to pull up the 3D CAD schematic of a broken turbine directly from the Siemens backend, drastically reducing repair times.