OutSystems vs. Thermo Fisher Watson LIMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OutSystems
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Thermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers Watson LIMS, a laboratory information management system designed to support bioanalytic studies and research.N/A
Pricing
OutSystemsThermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Editions & Modules
Basic
$4,000.00
per month
Pro
$10,000.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OutSystemsThermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
OutSystemsThermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
OutSystems
7.9
54 Ratings
6% below category average
Thermo Fisher Watson LIMS
-
Ratings
Visual Modeling5.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.052 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security6.351 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management8.149 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability9.954 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability10.051 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
OutSystemsThermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(130 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.5
(44 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OutSystemsThermo Fisher Watson LIMS
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
Globally, the system is not very well suited. Lack of appropriate interfaces for instrument detectors is a good example. Watson lims can maintain sample traceability correctly however, it is clearly not designed for high throughput sample analysis. Our laboratory global efficiency significantly decreased upon Watson Lims implementation. New ''Analytical samples'' functionality was now well designed and have a lot of limitations. The Software validation provided and executed by the vendor is weak and showed major execution error also with poor documentation practice. Very disappointing.
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Pros
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.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • The concept of Master assay and study assay is interesting.
  • The security management can not be considered as an innovation but works correctly.
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Cons
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
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Watson have a lot of things to improve. The software has a old user interface absolutely not up to the current software standard. The backend is even worst.
  • The software has a old user interface absolutely not up to the current software standard. The backend is even worst. The system crash regularly.
  • The licensing service do not works properly, half of the time we need to restart the licensing server to provide access to new users.
  • The process that needs to be used to allow samples analysis a result reporting is rigid and clearly not enough flexible.
  • Multiple excel macro were internally created to cover aspect not supported by the software.
  • Interface between Thermo Fisher Watson Lims and Thermo Fisher Q Exactive instrument do not works. Watson Lims cannot interface neither with current version of WinNonLin software. This is a major lack.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Usability
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.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Support Rating
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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Thermo Fisher Scientific
Support is not reactive and is slow. Support has difficulty recognizing and admitting software bugs when reported by the client
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In-Person Training
OutSystems
Excellent material full of hands on that improve the understanding of the platform.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Online Training
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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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Implementation Rating
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.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Alternatives Considered
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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Thermo Fisher Scientific
The only reason to have selected Watson lims software is for its (overestimated!) credibility in the industry.
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Return on Investment
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.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • The only positive impact is for client facing. Watson lims is well known in the industry and the purchase of this software increase the credibility of our organization.
  • The ROI is a disaster. First: The cost of the software is significantly to high, the user licences cost also contribute in the ROI disaster. Second: The implementation of watson lims significantly decrease our laboratory efficiency.
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