It is with great pleasure and excitement that I write this note to you, our customers, partners, user community and friends. Mendix has signed a $13 million investment round led by Prime Ventures. See here for the press release. We are honored to bring forth a new era for Mendix as we continue to bring innovation and productivity to organizations all over the world.

When we started Mendix as ambitious university students, we set out with a mission to revolutionize the relationship between business & IT. We imagined a world where business apps are delivered in days (not months) and where processes can be changed at the speed of business. We envisioned building a company and a team that would attract, develop and retain the brightest minds in the industry. And we could only dream of opening offices on three continents with partners and customers spreading our message around the globe. Today this is our reality.

Our product has developed significantly over the years, from a high-productivity development tool to a complete agile business platform with a fast-growing user community. Nevertheless our mission to increase the speed and ease of business change is as strong and relevant as ever. You can continue to expect us to keep pushing this frontier.

We thank you for your ongoing support.

Derek Roos
CEO, Co-Founder

BOSTON – October 31, 2011 – Mendix (www.mendix.com), a leader in the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) market, today announced the closing of a $13 million Series A round of financing. The round was led by Prime Ventures, with HENQ Invest following on its earlier seed investment. The investment will support the company’s international expansion and fuel its global sales efforts, building upon its fast growing partner network and user community.

Since its product launch in 2007, Mendix has remained profitable experiencing triple digit revenue growth year over year; acquiring and retaining customers such as GE, Genzyme and TNT. In addition to the funding, Prime Ventures’ Roel de Hoop will join the Board of Directors for Mendix and work alongside the company to help accelerate the global expansion.

“Mendix is at the intersection of several IT trends including PaaS, agile development & app stores.  These trends, combined with their innovative technology and collaborative approach to aligning the business and IT sides of an organization, enable them to deliver real business value to their customers,” said Sake Bosch, managing partner at Prime Ventures. “We are living in an app driven world, where time to market and flexibility to change are key competitive advantages. Mendix is leading this trend, and we are very excited to support them with our experience and network to build a global success.”

The company’s core product, the Mendix Agile Business Platform helps companies rapidly develop, deploy and integrate applications at a fraction of the time of existing tools and platforms. Mendix applications can then be deployed in the cloud, on mobile devices or locally at the customer’s site.

“To date we have always organically achieved triple-digit growth on the results of delivering business value and solving real pain-points for our clients,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “Our customers are looking to increase their business agility and turn to Mendix to jump-start their productivity and app deployment. The partnership with Prime comes at the right time for us to accelerate our abilities to meet this demand and act quickly in sales, marketing and product innovation.”

BOSTON – October 19, 2011 – Mendix, the leading agile application platform provider, announced today that Adam Clay has been named Vice President of Sales for North America. Clay joins Mendix after leading Shunra Software to record revenue growth and worldwide expansion.

Clay explains his motivation to join Mendix: “Having worked in technology for 15 years, I’ve observed a fundamentally dysfunctional relationship between business and IT. It’s broken. Everyone’s frustrated – and it starts with the fact that business and IT expectations regarding feasibility and speed are incredibly difficult to align. Unfortunately for most companies, the dysfunction manifests itself in lost revenue, increased cost, and lost productivity. It doesn’t have to be that way, and that’s exactly what Mendix is addressing.”

“It’s a simple, yet revolutionary concept.  The team at Mendix has married the business need for responsiveness and IT’s desire to provide business value quickly into a solution that delivers what is needed most in today’s business climate: agility. And it solves a major problem for businesses today. The Mendix story is one that needs to be told.  My job is to make sure that we are telling that story to everyone.”

“With Adam, we are adding a strong and experienced sales leader to our North American team.” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “I am looking forward to working with Adam and seeing his contribution to our North American growth.”

 1. Version Control
If you’ve ever been forced to use an external change management system to handle your versioning needs, you’ll understand the implications of having this functionality nestled into your design and runtime environments.

2. sprintr Feedback Mechanism
One of the key elements of business agility and meeting complex business demands is the ability to respond to change. That’s where our new feedback mechanism comes in: collaboration between business and IT.

3. Transport Workflow
This functionality enables DevOps teams to easily transport apps from development environments to  test-, acceptance- and production environments.

4. Cloud Based Team Server
It’s now possible to combine requirements, implementation and feedback, all with the Team Server. In other words, each application phase is becoming more and more connected to the next, making planning, developing, deploying, and managing applications a truly seamless process.

5. Monitoring & Setting Alerts
One of the common misconceptions about “going cloud” is that you lose control of your applications. With the launch of the Mendix 3.0 Enterprise Cloud Platform, we put  this worries to rest with extensive monitoring options.

BOSTON – October 5, 2011 – Mendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, announced today that it has received recognition in three separate Gartner reports. The reports were: 1) IT Market Clock for Application Development, 2011; 2) Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2011; and 3) Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2011.

Published by one of the IT industry’s premier analyst firms, the reports forecast Mendix and similar technologies entering a mainstream adoption phase. Mendix had previously been named a “Gartner Cool Vendor.”

The Mendix Agile Business Platform enables business change by simplifying collaboration between business and IT through the use of application development methods cited in the Gartner reports. The IT Market Clock for Application Development specifically stated that application and development managers should be able to see returns in less than 12 months when using such technologies.  “These findings are consistent with the results our customers have seen, and we are obviously pleased to be placed into high impact categories by such a recognized and respected research firm,” said Paul Campaniello, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Mendix.

Using the Mendix Agile Business Platform, companies can plan, develop and deploy applications that seamlessly integrate with existing systems at approximately half the cost of traditional software development platforms. These applications can then be deployed in the Mendix cloud or locally at the customer’s site.

Integrate with Microsoft Exchange Server

Mendix offers an out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Outlook Exchange server.

Advantages:

• Associate emails with data in your app (for example customers)
• Synchronize contact information
• Synchronize your task list

Technical features

• A .net based plugin in your outlook client to retrieve meta data from your web app
• A server side Exchange connector allows you to synchronize or use data from your Exchange Server

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Easily create document templates

With Mendix you can generate documents based on document templates. A document template consists of layout information and the data it should contain. Document templates can be created using the Mendix Business Modeler and they can produce documents in several formats.

Advantages

• Export your application data in user-friendly formats
• Easy and fast adaptation to new requirements; no custom coding needed
• Easy -to-use WYSIWYG editor

Technical features

• Export to various formats: PDF, Word (.doc and .docx), HTML, and RTF
• Use application data as input
• Customize document layout using the modeler or CSS for advanced layouts
• Document templates are based on familiar form builder widgets such as data grids and data views
• Support different images formats for logo’s etc

Learn all about generating documents with Mendix:

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BOSTON – September 20, 2011 – Mendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, today announced that Eurofiber, a top provider of fiber-optic connections, Ethernet and optical transmissions in the Netherlands, has extended its license with Mendix for an additional three years.

The Mendix Agile Business Platform enables Eurofiber to manage and modify its business applications in response to changing market conditions quickly and at low cost. Eurofiber’s self-service portal, a Mendix web app, allows its customers to configure their orders or upgrade their services quickly and easily.

“Deploying Mendix in the cloud was a fast and easy process.  Because of the role we play in the cloud market, it is important for us to enjoy and highlight the benefits of the cloud,” said Wim Turksma, Customer Experience IT manager of Eurofiber.  “Eurofiber is in a dynamic, growing market and we need to be able to respond quickly to changing conditions. Development time with Mendix is three to five times faster than with other platforms and it also allows us to adopt business rules easily. Additionally, the learning curve for developers is significantly shorter.”

Managing over 25% of internet traffic and 50% of all mobile communications traffic throughout the Netherlands, Eurofiber was recently named the “Best Managed Company” by Deloitte, and the company is also on Deloitte’s “Fast 50″ list. The company offers industry-leading network services to organizations, both directly and as a provider of white-label products via Internet and mobile providers.

“As we continue to expand our platform’s capabilities, we are very pleased to extend our partnership with Eurofiber,” said Derek Roos, CEO of Mendix. “Their renewal is another example of the tangible business benefits experienced by our customers.  It is extremely satisfying to see Mendix enable our customers to quickly respond to business change and achieve success using the Agile Business Platform.”

About Eurofiber

Eurofiber is a specialized provider of Managed Dark Fiber connectivity, Ethernet-services from 10 Mbps and Optical Transmission Services up to 400 Gbps. The Eurofiber network now covers more than 10,000 km and grows continuously. More than 25% of all internet traffic and 50% of all mobile communication traffic in The Netherlands is transported via Eurofiber’s fiber optic network.

Eurofiber stands for freedom to choose and headroom to grow. That gives organizations the freedom to decide for themselves how to use the connections and to choose their own service providers. Our finely meshed network, the broad product range and the possibility to increase the bandwidth at any moment, gives organizations the headroom to grow and benefit from new ways of working. Eurofiber has won the Technology Fast50 Award for fast-growing technology companies and was awarded the title ‘Best Managed Companies’ in an annual competition, organised by Deloitte in co-operation with Nyenrode Business University, the Chamber of Commerce, VNO-NCW and Management Team.

Single sign-on enables users to sign in once to get access to multiple web applications, Mendix or otherwise. Using Mendix, user authentication and management can be integrated in your existing IT infrastructure.

Advantages

• Sign in once for all your Mendix applications
• Integrate user management with your existing infrastructure
• Users only need to remember one password increasing the likelihood that they choose a safe password

Technical features

• Single sign-on can be used to centralize user management and authentication in your company environment
• It can be used in combination with both Mendix and non-Mendix applications
• The application bar allows you switch between different applications
• Integrate with existing LDAP, NTLM and Kerberos services

Learn all about setting up Single Sign-on with Mendix:

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Apply your own look & feel

Mendix makes it easy to integrate your application into your corporate branding using themes. With a theme, your own look & feel can be applied to any Mendix application using your own CSS. It is even possible to switch themes runtime, or use different themes based on the current user.

Advantages

• Customize the graphical user interface of your application to integrate it into your corporate branding
• Switch themes based on the current user (for example his user role or his department)
• Create a theme once, and apply it to any Mendix application you want

Technical features

• Easily theme everything you want by using consistent widget templates
• Build your theme upon a well-tested browser compatible default theme
• Re-use your CSS by defining classes on almost every element in the Business Modeler

Learn all about theming Mendix applications:

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