When it comes to application development, most CIOs have only ever known one road: hiring an army of developers and coding away. What they may perceive as different paths – in-house development, outsourcing, and offshoring – are in fact variations of the same thing, the only difference being where the code is written and who gets paid to do it. At Mendix, we believe there is a far more crucial fork in the road where CIOs must choose between the same road they’ve traveled for decades and a radically new path to accelerate application delivery. This choice was the genesis for our new infographic, “Navigating the Road to Enterprise App Delivery Success.” It paints a picture of an exciting new world where custom business apps are delivered in a fraction of the time and cost—and without the complexity and risk of traditional methods.

1. NAVIGATING THE ROAD TO
ENTERPRISE
APP DELIVERY
DEAD
END
LIKE MANY CIOs
LOOKING TO DEVELOP
APPLICATIONS, YOU MAY
BE FACING A DILEMMA...
?
Traditional
Internal Dev
Outsourcing
!
Offshoring
WARNING:
These roads are one &
the same -- fraught
with the same
peril.
CODE
CODE
SUCCESS
CODE
CODE
COMPLEXITY
IT’S NO
WONDER THAT....
Both business (74%)
and IT (70%) execs
RISK
COST
WRONG WAY
TIME
are unhappy with IT’s
ability to drive innovation.
94%
Source: McKinsey
OF LARGE IT
PROJECTS ARE
EITHER IN
TROUBLE OR FAIL.
Source: The Standish Group
ROAD
WHICH
U TAKE?
L YO
WIL
A NEW PATH
TO ACCELERATE
APPLICATION
DELIVERY
THE SAME
ROAD YOU’VE
TRAVELED
FOR DECADES
IT’S TIME
TO CHANGE THE
INSANITY:
GAME
“DOING THE SAME THING OVER
& OVER AGAIN & EXPECTING
DIFFERENT RESULTS.”
/
Developers write code.
Lots of code...
500
MILLION
lines of code
Model-driven development
is intuitive & fast.
HOURS PER FUNCTION POINT
2.5
10.6
15.5
MODELING
JAVA
C#
in Healthcare.Gov
Apps are delivered in
a fraction of
JUST
the time.
4 YEAR
PARKING
ZONE
(and still no
solution at a
large bank)
AHEAD
3
SPEED:
Projects drag on
for months or
years.
10X
FASTER
WEEKS TO
PROTOTYPE
TIME TO
MARKET
Top 10 European
construction
company
SHORTCUT
Changes take
forever & pile up.
X-ING
Changes can be
made easily
on the fly....
$1 TRILLION
OF IT DEBT
BY 2015
BEFORE: 14 DAYS
AFTER: 1 DAY
Source: Gartner, Inc.
Multinational Retailer
Integration is effortless
& seamless.
Integration is complex
& never-ending.
90%
less time for SAP
integration
Multi-billion dollar beauty
care manufacturer:
Deploy apps quickly,
with one click...
Infrastructure
requirements
are massive.
“Deploying it instantly in
the secure Mendix cloud
further helped us show
results quickly.”
2nd largest provider of property
facultative reinsurance in N.A.
“We put developers &
business users together
& they can collaborate
very rapidly.”
The rift between
IT & Business widens...
50% 71%
of organizations
lack any formal
structure to align
IT investments
with business
strategy.
of projects fail
because of poor
business
requirements
management.
Source: IT Governance
Institute
Source: CIO Magazine
Leading UK insurer with
5m+ members
ROI is rapid and substantial.
ROI is microscopic...
94%
of projects are
in trouble or fail.
ROI IN
3 TO 4
MONTHS
$1.7M
IN SAVINGS
Leading insurance provider
to non-profits
International auto repair
company
E WOULD
WHER
ROAD CLOSED DUE
TO DANGEROUS
CONDITIONS.
YOU
HER BE?
RAT
Welcome
TO THE
NEW WORLD
OF APP DELIVERY
LEARN MORE: mendix.com/new-road