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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean App Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS. Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021.

    $5

    per month

    OutSystems

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AThe OutSystems Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service solution for rapid delivery of responsive web and mobile applications. It includes functionalities required to develop, deploy, manage and change web and mobile applications. It is targeted at the delivery of enterprise applications that require integration with backend systems, complex business rules and logic, usable interfaces and flexibility to change. It can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments.

    $4,000

    per month

    Pricing
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $5
    per month
    Professional
    $12
    per month
    Basic
    $4,000.00
    per month
    Pro
    $10,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
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    OutSystems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    Features
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of DigitalOcean App Platform and OutSystems
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    OutSystems
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of DigitalOcean App Platform and OutSystems
    Feature
    DigitalOcean App Platform
    -
    Ratings
    OutSystems
    7.9
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings5.251 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.052 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings6.251 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings9.954 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.951 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (131 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean App PlatformOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    I would only get into it if I where willing to pay for the support plan and getting some assurances from the team as to where they are headed. The platform itself is great and can save you a ton of hard work and money. but it's hard to be confidant in it's sustainability.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    Well suited for internal exposure of business processes (invoicing, API layer to other systems, customer maintenance etc), whether a UI is required or not. Not so well suited for full fledged web design. An OutSystems application must serve one particular business need, if gets too much functionalities and responsibilities it tends to get chaotic and complex.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosting of serverless application
    • Hosting of load balancer
    • Hosting of virtual appliances
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • Developing end user interfaces with ease and speed with a modern look and feel.
    • First class low code development to reduce time to market with visual programming
    • Their technical support team is fast and responsive. We've yet to have any issues they could not resolve.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • The company has not been very communicative as of lately. Not much news, no apparent work on missing features.
    • Some components are incomplete as far as some critical features. For example, I use RethinkDB as my database and it's missing critical features like backup and clustering, so It is unusable and they should have made that clear from the get go.
    • The pricing on the support plan is vague. I do have the feeling it is actually well worth the money, but it's hard to form a decisions based without more predictable specific.
    • Seems to me like the platform's future is unclear.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • Price – The licensing model of OutSystems is very expensive and not suitable for small scale developments. This is offset by the time to develop and stability for larger scale developments
    • Flexibility on PaaS version – The PaaS hosted version of OutSystems limits your flexibility to access the front end and backend database systems which can significantly restrict your options on high data volume developments or where anything requiring slightly out of the ordinary access is required
    • Same price for PaaS and self-hosted system. Licensing model dictates that you pay the same price even when you host the system on your own hardware which effectively means you pay more to manage the infrastructure yourself
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    We are very happy with OutSystems and our developers deliver good work. OutSystems lets us build new software on a regulare (2 weekly) basis, which is highly flexible and adjustable. Even without very much experience, our developers manage to build usefull software, which is working a lot better than our previous (legacy) software.
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    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    OutSystems has a feature in which we can develop a functionality in a application and can use that functionality in another application without developing it again. That is main plus point for the development team so they can work with different functionalities rather focusing on the same thing again and again. if we want to make any change on the user side then we can make it live with just the deployment using the service center.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    The tech support is very reachable. Usually by [email] from but also by phone if needed. We had some difficulties at the start with understanding "what our machine was doing" under high performance load. After some good sessions understanding our needs they delivered good solutions for our problems we had in the beginning.
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    In-Person Training
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    Excellent material full of hands on that improve the understanding of the platform.
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    Online Training
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    The online training material is well designed and explanations are step by step, helping trainees to understand and follow each exercise and new concept.
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    Implementation Rating
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    In a large company, patiently and consistently work the behind the scenes politics with business and IT partners across the firm.
    This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
    It can help you to host your virtual appliance or serverless application at very low cost. DigitalOcean marketplace also helps you to deploy the serverless app or virtual appliance effortlessly. It is suitable for small scale deployment and the process to setup an account and roll out your app via marketplace is easy and cheap.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    I tried to use WordPress with some success. Also looked at Joomla. But when I saw OutSystems I knew I had been wasting my time there. It takes you longer to get going with OutSystems - but even I as a novice realized immediately that Outsystems is simply in another league. Outsystems is powerful. (Can you compare WordPress and Joomla to Outsystems - I don't think so).
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    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • The platform is saving me a lot of time I would have been wasting on operations instead of development.
    • The platform is saving me a lot of money as I can easily switch between cloud providers to find the best price.
    • I am worried though for the price I might have to pay in case of an unexpected system issue.
    • Hopefully I will be able to pay the support plan before that.
    Incentivized
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    OutSystems
    • The ease of use of the OutSystems development process has been the biggest ROI for us. We have developed our Framework product and maintained/enhanced it with only 4 workers.
    • OutSystems has enhanced their product very significantly over the last 4 years. They have gone from a simple to use tool to a very simple to use sophisticated tool that covers the standard mainframe-based computing apps and the apps used on handheld mobile devices all using the same basic set of development tools.
    Incentivized
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