Case Study: MIT achieves rapid app delivery and a 25% reduction in development costs with Mendix

MIT Has a Need for App Development Speed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) needed to modernize its IT infrastructure and speed up application development to better serve roughly 20,000 students and staff. Initial modernization efforts using traditional languages like PHP were taking too long, prompting leadership to find a faster approach to meet growing demand.

MIT adopted the Mendix model‑driven rapid application delivery platform and began running agile sprints with end users, deploying 15 applications with 18 more imminent (from class registration to lab management). The approach cut application development costs by about 25%, enabled REST/OData integrations with tools like Tableau, and—despite a required cultural shift for developers to focus on outcomes over code—delivered faster delivery, greater scalability and increased confidence across the IT organization.

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Olu Brown

Director of Platform Engagement