Are You in Control? AppControl Elevates Mendix Governance with End-to-End Compliance Automation
December 1, 2025 – Blue Storm, the leading provider of Mendix governance solutions, today announced the November release of AppControl, introducing powerful new automation capabilities that transform how enterprises manage audit controls, compliance workflows, and security incident processes across their Mendix landscape.
With this release, AppControl evolves from detecting governance issues to automatically orchestrating the tasks required to resolve them. New policy-triggered actions, structured task lists, and pipeline-integrated compliance steps allow platform teams to operationalize audit controls directly inside their Mendix delivery lifecycle.
Compliance tasks no longer rely on memory, meetings, or external systems.
AppControl now ensures they happen—automatically, consistently, and on time.
Policies can assign tasks the moment a control fails, releases can require human executed tasks before proceeding, and teams can group compliance steps into structured task lists assigned to different app roles. For enterprises facing increasing scrutiny around security, auditability, and operational risk, this release represents a major leap forward in closing the gap between detection and action.
“Governance is more than knowing what’s wrong—it’s ensuring the right people take the right actions at the right moment,” said Andrew Whalen, Founder of Blue Storm. “This release turns policy results into workflows. Compliance becomes automatic, verifiable, and embedded directly into the Mendix lifecycle.”
AppControl continues to evolve as the enterprise governance layer for Mendix—Develop, Deploy, Monitor, and Control.
🔍 Highlights of the November AppControl Update
Automated Policy Actions for Compliance & Security Controls
Policies can now trigger alerts or automatically assign tasks when a check fails—closing the loop between detection and remediation.
New Task List Type for Audit and Compliance Workflows
Create structured groups of tasks that must be completed together, with each task assignable to different app roles such as App Owner or App Administrator.
Pipeline-Integrated Compliance Steps
A new “Assign Task” pipeline step lets you require manual compliance activities—such as approvals, evidence collection, or security reviews—before a release can continue.
Version-Aware Component Insights
Insights now display both the latest version of a component and the latest version compatible with your Mendix runtime—reducing false positives in compliance reporting.
Improved Severity Logic for Vulnerability Policies
COMP_0001 now uses CVSS scoring to determine severity levels, preventing low-severity issues from generating high-risk alerts.
Cleaner Governance Configuration Management
Configurations can now be disabled in the Environments page, helping platform teams keep release options organized and audit-ready.
🔧 Governance Fixes and Enhancements
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APP_0003 now only fails when the environment type is SANDBOX.
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A warning is now shown when a Deploy Task is added without an existing Build Task in the pipeline.
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DOM_0006 now correctly checks whether anonymous users can create Persistent Objects.
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Component policies COMP_0007 and COMP_0008 now use the latest Mendix-compatible version of a component for more accurate compliance checks.
About AppControl
AppControl is the enterprise governance solution for Mendix. Built for platform, governance, and DevOps teams, AppControl simplifies oversight, enforces compliance, and provides end-to-end visibility across the Mendix application lifecycle: Develop, Deploy, Monitor, and Control. Its real-time governance reports, active controls, and fine-grained access roles empower organizations to answer once and for all: “Are you in control?”
For more information, visit www.bluestorm.io/appcontrol.
About Blue Storm
Blue Storm specializes in governance and application management solutions for the Mendix platform, empowering enterprise teams to manage application portfolios with confidence, control, and compliance. Committed to customer success, Blue Storm delivers innovative tools designed to meet the evolving needs of large-scale Mendix environments.
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