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Mendix Essentials28 oktober 2011

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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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What’s on their agenda?

The Problem We Solve

Business Manager:

“I want to be able to easily respond to market change, and not be constrained by our legacy backoffice systems.”

Business Analyst:

“I want my requirements to be in the lead!”

Customer:

“How can I find the right data to best service my customer?”

Customer Service:

“I want a single point of access to the right customer data, regardless of the underlying systems.”

CIO:

“I need to continuously innovate, change and adapt

quickly, with a decreasing budget, while controlling the

app jungle”

IT Specialist:

“I need a more flexible toolset so I can be more efficient in

customizing my applications.”

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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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Business IT

Collaboration & Co-Creation

It’s time to bridge the gap

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Days…

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

Mendix bridges the gap between business & IT

Traditional projects

Months…

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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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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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Business Overview

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Dun & Bradstreet

Customer Case Studies

Region: Netherlands, Belgium & UKIndustry: Financial services

Challenge:• D&B under pressure from competition• Challenge in incorporating customer specific

requirements in service offering• Challenge incorporating 3rd party data

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

work

Results:• Shorten time to market of new business service• Increase customer satisfaction• Retain clients• Additional revenu

Business ValueType: customer self-serviceTime to change: 8 weeksIntegration: rules & dataTeam size: 2

D&B Global Decision Maker

Mendix Platform

Portal 1 Portal 2 Portal 3 Portal 4 Portal 5

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From “Built-to-last” to “Built-to-change”

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1. Collaborate using sprintr™

3. Deploy to the Cloud using single-click-deploy

2. Develop with the App Factory™

4. Get real-time user feedback & iterate

5. Manage & monitor with the Enterprise Cloud Portal™

Supporting the full agile application lifecycle

Product

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

Project Collaboration Portal

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Mendix App Factory: Mendix Business Modeler™

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

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More than 100 apps in our Community AppStore and counting…

Mendix Community App Store

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Mendix Platform

App 1 App 3

CRM Legacy DB

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ERP

1 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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What is required for a Me - dndix application?

Mendix Cloud Portal

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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 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

No cure, no pay Proof-of-Concept> 95% success rate!

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Thank you!

derek.roos@mendix.com