Case Study

Mendix and HPE Helion deliver rapid app development in the “Our joint customers will use the HPE Helion Development Platform to advance a wide range of multi- channel apps across industries and use cases—including insurance and loan processing, clinical systems, logistics workflows, multi- channel order Objective Approach Seamless integration between and Partner with Hewlett Packard Enterprise management and HPE Helion Development Platform to foster to provide an integrated development customer and partner fast cloud application development. experience for rapid development and portals. This will deployment of open cloud applications. certainly be a win-win situation for customers and both HPE and IT Matters Business Matters • Applications run as a native cloud • Companies achieve ROI in days versus Mendix.” application built without coding. months.

– Mark Rogers VP Business • Visual/data application modeling enables • Collaboration between HPE, Mendix, and Development, Mendix the rapid building, integration, deployment, the open source community fuels greater and sharing of multidevice business innovation. applications. • Partnership advances a New Style of IT to • Portability allows applications to run across solve challenges across cloud, social, mobile, browsers, smartphones, and tablets. and Big Data technology. Case study Industry Page 2 Mendix Technology

Mendix no-code rapid • Build—build multichannel, multidevice applications with visual, model-driven application development development to promote communication, experience productivity, quality, and short iterations Many enterprises have a mix of developers— • Deploy—provision and manage apps in from a traditional developer who uses a the cloud, including one-click, auto-scale variety of languages to a rapid developer deployment; manage test, acceptance, who prefers not to code and instead seeks and production environments visual development tools to quickly create • Manage—manage all applications from a applications. Mendix addresses the needs single dashboard, delivering availability, “Rapid devs prefer not of the rapid developer by providing a visual security, performance, and scalability application modeling solution that enables to code; coding takes companies to build, integrate, and deploy • Iterate—gather feedback, including too long.… Rapid devs multidevice business applications six end-user input, and use in the next cycle of capture-develop-deploy-iterate want to deliver major times faster than traditional programming languages. • Integrate—seamlessly integrate new applications in weeks— applications with existing systems and days, if possible. They Mendix applications are cloud native and can processes across the enterprise, including be built without coding. Plus, they run across the HPE Helion portfolio of products see public cloud browsers, smartphones, tablets, and anywhere else the application is displayed. Using platforms as a fresh visual, model-driven development, one-click Shadow IT creates barriers start with the potential deployment, social collaboration, and a central for all companies to yield massive app governance all-in-one complete solution, companies can drive ROI in a matter of days With the speed of business today, IT gains in the quantity, versus months. Mendix is ideal for delivering organizations are discovering that new differentiated and innovative multichannel, cloud applications are not being delivered velocity, and quality of enterprise-class systems. This is a natural 1 fast enough using traditional application application delivery.” addition to the developer tooling and development methods. And when backlogs experience—a key feature of the HPE Helion inevitably occur, the trend is clear: LOB Development Platform, complementing managers will go with ‘good enough’ apps deeper languages and frameworks used by and services from SaaS and public cloud developers such as Java, Node.js, Perl, Python, providers. In addition to creating silos and Ruby, and Go. pockets of technology, such shadow IT practices introduce control, manageability, Mendix seamlessly integrates with the security, and governance concerns. This HPE Helion Development Platform, an presents a huge challenge for IT organizations open, interoperable platform that enables that are striving to modernize data application development and portability centers and implement a converged cloud across traditional, private, and public clouds. infrastructure that will meet the business and Based on ® and integrated technical needs of their entire organizations. with HPE Helion OpenStack to allow businesses to quickly develop, deploy, and According to Mark Rogers, Mendix VP of deliver cloud-native applications, Mendix Business Development, “CIOs see cloud and the HPE Helion Development Platform solutions as a way to transform their support the complete application lifecycle: business, but the path to get there is not • Design—capture, refine, and prioritize user always well defined. They will turn to stories; estimate, plan, and monitor sprints; offshore development as a solution only manage releases, etc. to find an additional layer of complexity. When it comes to application portfolio management, CIOs have many questions, such as, ‘How do I move existing apps to the cloud, or is it better to rewrite them instead?’”

1 “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2014,” Forrester Research, Inc., December 29, 2014. Case study Industry Mendix Technology

Resources Mendix and HPE Helion What HPE Helion and Mendix QSM Benchmark Report integration speeds mean for customers app delivery HPE Helion Development Platform Through the HPE Helion Ready Program, HPE and Mendix will help CIOs advance the Rapid App Development with The equation is simple. If you can empower New Style of IT across social, mobile, cloud, Mendix for HPE Helion data sheet a company’s business analysts or domain experts to create and deliver new apps faster, and Big Data challenges by offering a better way to deliver new, migrated, or modernized Videos especially in an environment supported and multichannel applications. The partnership “Testimonial: Dun and Bradstreet governed by IT, then you can divest yourself will provide an integrated experience to Delivers New Apps in Days with of the complications that come with shadow simplify the development and deployment Mendix” IT, offshoring, and portfolio management. You can then address important technology of enterprise-ready Cloud Foundry-based “Testimonial: Boston Globe Delivers initiatives such as establishing and evolving applications. Advanced features, including on Diverse Application Needs your private or hybrid clouds. security model integration and application Across Its Organization” lifecycle management, will further accelerate What makes the Mendix and HPE Helion and produce cloud-native development and “Testimonial: Mendix Enables LV= solution different? HPE is working with deployment for professional and rapid to Launch New Insurance Products Mendix to provide a simple, integrated developers alike. in Under Six Weeks” development experience for rapidly developing and deploying applications to In summary, Rogers states, “Our joint “HPE Helion Tech Talk: HPE Helion an open cloud solution. Mendix applications customers will use the HPE Helion Development Platform” run in the cloud as a Development Platform combined with Mendix (Cloud Foundry apps) and can be developed to build a wide range of multichannel apps “Introducing the HPE Helion without the need for coding. The HPE Helion across industries and use cases—including Development Platform” Development Platform uses open source insurance and loan processing, clinical technologies such as Cloud Foundry software systems, logistics workflows, multichannel “Deploying apps with the HPE and Docker containers, and is integrated with order management, and customer and Helion Development Platform” HPE Helion OpenStack, providing developers partner portals. This will certainly be a and IT operations with an open solution for win-win situation for customers and both agility, portability, and scalability. Mendix HPE and Mendix.” and HPE help to accelerate and simplify the deployment of enterprise-ready Cloud Customer at a glance Foundry-based applications, as well as fuel collaboration and innovation of the HPE HPE Helion Cloud solution • Private cloud Helion ecosystem for cloud development by combining the Mendix model-driven Software development approach with one-click, • Mendix App Platform auto-scale deployment to the HPE Helion Development Platform. HPE and Mendix are • HPE Helion Development Platform collaborating together and with a network of system integrators and service providers Learn more at to enable fast industry-specific application development capabilities and templates that hpe.com/helion can be used by business-oriented developers and users.

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