Bitrise, software from the company of the same name in Budapest, helps users automate daily app development tasks from building through testing to deployment. With Bitrise, users can configure these tasks with a visual Workflow editor, with over 330 service integrations ready to roll. All integrations or Steps are Open Source, so users can easily create their own and share it with others.
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Mendix
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Mendix is a low code platform-as-a-service offering with mobile and social extensions. Mendix was acquired by Siemens August 2018.
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Mobile App Development: Bitrise is particularly well suited for mobile app development workflows. It offers native support for iOS and Android projects (we use it for iOS only), including automatic provisioning, code signing, and app store deployment. Its comprehensive step library and integrations with mobile-specific services like TestFlight make it an excellent choice for building, testing, and distributing mobile apps. Small Projects with Simple Build Processes: If you're working on a small project with a simple build process and minimal automation requirements, the full capabilities of Bitrise may not be necessary. In such cases, Xcode Cloud could be a more suitable and cheaper option.
I think it's well suited if you have data available and you want to create customized solutions for different types of users. Mendix is very good at doing that. It allows you to do it very easily. So those are good use cases.
Drawing from my hands-on experience with Mendix, I can confidently state that the platform aptly fulfills our needs for web application development. Mendix stands out by providing a marketplace replete with pre-built templates and widgets. This feature empowers users to leverage readily available components, hastening the development process and contributing to an enhanced overall usability of the platform.
I think their support system is really professional. They answer question quickly and accurately. They have a ticket system that allows to track the current status of a request. The only point for imporvement is a way for me to postpone an answer. Tickets get closed automatically after some time. I feel that the user should have the option to change to an on hold status, allowing for more time to respond to a ticket.
Bitrise is explicitly for Mobile apps, which gives a different way/structure to build the apps, and Bitrise is cloud and not need to host it somewhere explicitly. It is useful to automate the testing and deployment of the apps. Support is excellent and usually gets back to us in 1-2 days.
Because most of our apps work closely with our main system (ERP) and other tools, we went with Mendix. It's good at easily connecting with lots of different systems, which is exactly what we need. Another thing we like about it is that it can handle growth well, and its pricing is straightforward and easy to understand.
By standardizing the pipelines for mobile builds across different teams we allow the developers to focus on developing great apps and reduce the knowledge needed to maintain the CI / CD pipelines.
The simple and friendly interface allows for quick onboarding and easy learning even for non-developer roles.
Robust integration e.g. with Firebase for automated beta deployments allows quick feedback from internal testers.
Without Mendix we could not have been where we are now. A development platform as Mendix can make the difference in a constantly changing environment.
Upgrading to newer versions of Mendix is a breeze when you stay within a main version (e.g. M6.x to Mx6.x+1) and even between versions (Mx5 to Mx6) most of the time it is no problem at all and there are only minor changes needed to upgrade.
Learning Mendix is simple. Just start playing with it and see for yourself how easy it is and feel the joy of developing applications.
