Digital sovereignty for Mendix applications

Thanks for taking part in this short survey on digital sovereignty. Your input will help us prioritize the sovereignty capabilities and products we build next. It takes about 5-7 minutes.

Section A — About You and Your Organization

We will use this data to aggregate and correlate data across different customer types.

A1. Which of the following best describes your primary role?

A2. What best describes the industry your company or your customers operate in?

A3. What region do your company or your customers primarily operate in?

A4. How many Mendix applications are your company or your customers running?

A5. What deployment options are your company or your customers using?

Section B — Sovereignty Drivers and Demand

What are the sovereignty concerns within your company and customers?

B1. When you hear 'sovereignty' in the context of application development and deployment, what does that mean for your company or customers, in your own words?

B2. What is driving the discussion on digital sovereignty right now?

B3. When does a decision on this need to be made?

B4. What's standing in the way of moving to a sovereign option today? (optional)

B5. Where do you and other stakeholders in your organization see sovereignty needs differently, and where are you aligned? (optional)

Section C — Sovereign Product Requirements

What requirements does your company or customers have for sovereign cloud hosting?

C1. Would you need sovereign hosting for just your applications, or the full Mendix platform?

C2. What does this depend on? (optional)

C3. For deploying Mendix applications, would you prefer Mendix-managed operations or self-managed by your team?

C4. What does this depend on? (optional)

C5. Would you need single-tenant dedicated infrastructure, or is multi-tenant shared infrastructure acceptable?

C6. What does this depend on? (optional)

C7. Who should own the cloud account — Mendix or your organization?

C8. What does this depend on? (optional)

Section D — Sovereign Product Assessment

What sovereign product ideas would your company or customers consider?

D1. For each of the following capabilities, would you expect it to be provided by default, would you pay more to get it, or don't you need it?

ExpectedPay MoreDon't Need
Data encryption with customer-controlled keys
You hold and control the encryption key, making it harder for Mendix or third parties to access your data
Cloud Act / legal jurisdiction protection
Protection from US extraterritorial data-access laws; contracts and disputes governed by EU law
Private, isolated network hosting
Dedicated, isolated network infrastructure rather than shared connectivity

D2. Sort the following deployment options by preference, most preferred at the top. What option would fulfill your company's or your customers' needs and requirements best?

1
Managed by Mendix
Your applications are deployed to a platform fully managed by Mendix; Mendix is responsible for the platform, you're responsible for your applications
2
Managed by Partner
Deployed to a platform managed by a certified Mendix partner; the partner is responsible for the platform
3
Co-Managed
Deployed to a platform managed together by you and Mendix (or a partner); shared responsibility for the platform
4
Mendix-defined stack
Deployed to infrastructure you manage; Mendix defines the technology stack and provides updates, you apply them
5
Customer-defined stack
Deployed to infrastructure you manage; you choose the technology stack (within Mendix compatibility limits)

Most preferred at the top.

D3. For each of the following sovereignty options, how much premium would you be willing to pay on top of your current hosting costs to enable the option?

0%1-10%11-25%26-50%>50%
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)
Data Escrow
US-owned EU Sovereign Cloud
Customer-operated EU Sovereign Cloud
Partner-operated EU Sovereign Cloud
Mendix-operated EU Sovereign Cloud
Private Mendix Platform