Gigabit January 2019

does. Enabling business value is the
end goal, and it has a four-step proven
plan to make it happen. “We call it the
four P’s: portfolio, people, process and
platform,” comments den Haan. “We
also start small: we ask the company to
identify a first project application that
needs to be built and of course, we
shouldn't start with the most complex
one but start easy. Something that can
be built and delivered within 30 days.
The biggest compliment I hear from our
customers is that they say that ideas
are flowing amongst the team again
because if the first application is built in
30 days people start to think ‘well
maybe we could do this bigger project
too.’ We focus on collaboration and
make sure that the business is able to
build software that they are proud of.”
Den Haan believes that low-code
development isn’t the end of the road
for Mendix, he believes that the applications
of the future lies in AI-assisted
low-code development. “I think the next
era of applications is the smart app.
These have three characteristics – it
understands the context of the app so
where the user is located and what the
user is doing, using personal, sensor or
location data. It’s also intelligent: it uses
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