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OutSystems

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What is OutSystems?

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…

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Recent Reviews

A tale of awesomeness

8 out of 10
March 05, 2024
I help clients utilize OutSystems technology and help build cloud based sites that run a full force. It allows the user the architecture …
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TrustRadius Insights

OutSystems has a wide range of use cases, making it a versatile tool for various industries and departments. Customers have used …
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Happy Outsystems User

10 out of 10
March 30, 2023
Hi Everyone

As an outsystem's user, It's a best way to create a top class applications within a short span of time. We just need to know …
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OutSystems Review

10 out of 10
September 02, 2022
I develop applications for customers. We use it to provide solutions to very complex problems that any customer or organization might …
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Build for speed.

10 out of 10
April 28, 2021
Incentivized
We use OutSystems for all kinds of internal business processes, where a full fledged externally exposed user interface is not required. …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Reusability (52)
    9.5
    95%
  • Drag-and-drop Interfaces (50)
    9.0
    90%
  • Platform Security (49)
    8.5
    85%
  • Visual Modeling (49)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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Basic

$4,000.00

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per month

Pro

$10,000.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Low Code Platforms - OutSystems - Arabic

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How to Create an Internet-connected AI-powered Candy Dispenser

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OutPower Tutorial - Reactive web applications - Escape Content (OutSystems)

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OutSystems Demo Part1: Build a Mobile Supplier Directory (1 of 3)

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OutPower Tutorial - Reactive web application - Sending an Email (OutSystems)

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Order Management Demo OutSystems

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Features

Low-Code Development

Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.

8.8
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is OutSystems?

OutSystems is a low-code platform that aims to drive productivity, creating apps with continuous innovation. Visual development tools and automation powered by AI help customers tackle strategic challenges such as application modernization, workplace innovation, business process automation, and customer experience transformation. OutSystems helps to ensure that solutions are secure, resilient, cloud-ready, and built to scale.

OutSystems Features

  • Supported: Visual development environment, extensible with custom code
  • Supported: Integrate any existing system and database
  • Supported: Deploy to any device
  • Supported: No technology lock-in
  • Supported: Model complex offline behavior
  • Supported: Integrate native device capabilities (GPS, barcode, etc.)

OutSystems Video

OutSystems 2 Minute Overview

OutSystems Competitors

OutSystems Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Web-based, Android, iPhone-iPad, Windows Phone, Mobile Web App
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAsia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Mendix, Temenos Quantum, and Quickbase are common alternatives for OutSystems.

Reviewers rate Reusability highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of OutSystems are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

OutSystems has a wide range of use cases, making it a versatile tool for various industries and departments. Customers have used OutSystems to build applications that support sales, back-office processes, complex authorization issues, and point of sale systems. It has also been utilized in industries such as banking, insurance, utilities, and healthcare to develop B2B applications and improve operational efficiency. OutSystems is known for its ability to reduce time to market and the number of developers required for projects. It has been used to deliver web and mobile applications for financial services, insurance, and other industries. Customers appreciate the platform's rapid application development capabilities and its effectiveness in reacting quickly to business changes. OutSystems not only helps improve business processes but also enhances online sales capabilities for companies in the insurance industry. It has been widely implemented company-wide to create in-house solutions tailored to specific business needs. With OutSystems' API integration and database creation functionalities, users have successfully addressed various business problems across different departments. The platform has been instrumental in migrating old software, improving HR processes, and creating highly interactive web and mobile applications. Organizations have also used OutSystems as their preferred platform for custom development of large-scale enterprise applications. Deloitte has adopted OutSystems as one of its main development tools, allowing them to deliver faster and better products to clients in various markets. Overall, OutSystems helps organizations digitize their operations quickly, provides quick development and delivery of applications, improves user engagement through better user experience design, and aids in digital transformation initiatives.

Valuable Tool for Rapid Application Development: Users find that OutSystems is a valuable tool for developing applications quickly, especially for those who don't have coding experience. Many reviewers appreciate the low-code development environment which allows for faster application development compared to traditional methods.

Highly Praised Visual Design and Logic Structure: The visual design and structure of the application's logic in OutSystems are highly praised by users. Reviewers have found the modeling part of OutSystems easy to understand and appreciated it for rapid development and changes.

Cross-Platform Mobile Development Capabilities: Users appreciate OutSystems' ability to handle cross-platform mobile development for both iOS and Android platforms, eliminating the usual challenges associated with multi-platform development. Many reviewers value that OutSystems provides a single platform for web, iOS, and Android development.

Expensive Licensing Model: Users have found the licensing model of OutSystems to be expensive, making it less accessible for small-scale businesses. Several reviewers have expressed concerns about the high cost associated with using the platform.

Challenges in Customization: Some users have encountered difficulties when customizing already implemented themes in OutSystems. This process often requires overwriting styles of SilkUI, which can be complex and time-consuming. A number of reviewers have mentioned this as a drawback of the platform.

Longer Deployment Time: Compared to other technologies like C# or Java, deploying and publishing new versions of applications in OutSystems can take longer. Several users have stated that the process of deploying applications is slower with OutSystems, leading to delays in releasing updates and new features.

Users commonly recommend the following actions for utilizing OutSystems effectively:

  1. Start with small applications and invest in training and professional services to maximize benefits.

  2. Engage OutSystems in designing the governance model from the beginning and establish a Center of Expertise to govern adoption.

  3. Utilize OutSystems' training and implementation support, consider test automation and automated deployments, and establish a training program for developers.

These recommendations highlight the importance of careful planning and utilizing available resources for successful implementation and increased productivity with OutSystems.

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Reviews

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March 05, 2024

A tale of awesomeness

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It handles most problems easily and tells team .
  • It deploys easy aswell. And changes scripts.
  • All these things it corrects saving time and money.
  • All these things are corrected while not effecting responsiveness
  • Honestly I'm very impressed with the company and it's innovation.
  • Having more streamline access to certain tools would help.
March 30, 2023

Happy Outsystems User

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Database operations and Connectivity
  • Faster front-end development
  • Reusability
  • Easy to use logics
September 02, 2022

OutSystems Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Rapid development
  • Create good looking and responsive applicatoins
  • With OutSystems you will have happy customers
  • Pricing
  • Documentation in different languages
October 24, 2021

Outsystems review

Carlos Alberto Aponte Roa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Database integrations: These integrations allows users to speed up development processes by providing ready to use methods.
  • Error handling: Error handling is excellent. It is showing errors in real time while you are programming. Syntax errors are avoided and changes in variable names, input parameters and other definitions are automatically performed on site where it is referenced.
  • Fast deployment: Deployments between development and test, and test to production are fast and avoid many of the possible deployment errors caused by human intervention.
  • OutsySystems needs to improve in web services. Support SOAP 1.2 and also do a better handling of date types when they are used as input parameters in web services.
  • OutSystems needs to handle better integration with databases that do not have tables with a single field primary key defined. Some tables have a primary key composed of two or three fields and those are not well managed by OutSystems. I am specifically talking about the fact that in those cases inserts, updates and other database actions are not created.
  • Content management. Nowadays there is no available and reliable content management to develop web sites with CMS capabilities.
April 28, 2021

Build for speed.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides very clean and intuitive flow editor.
  • All "parts" in OutSystems (flows, UI, data, logic) are fully interconnected. A change in data will be immediately propagated through all layers.
  • I've never, yet, experienced any bug in interconnectivity. For example when you change the size or type of a column, and expect it to be reflected in the properties of some UI field.
  • It's very easy to start being productive in OutSystems as a complete noob. Even for complex matters it is just a matter of a quick google search on how it's done. There is a flat learning curve.
  • The flow editor provides the ability to debug in a way that just works.
  • It integrates very well with custom C# code, if you want to. But we only added custom code during the first few years. After a little more experience we found ways to circumvent the need to implement custom code, but it's nice to know that you at least can extend any functionality in case you really need to.
  • It would be nice if OutSystems provided a way to import and export the YAML for any API.
  • The "servicecenter" and "lifecycle" modules can seem to be a little daunting at first. I would like to see a little more intuitive approach. But this is but a small problem, hardly worth mentioning, because even these modules have a rather flat learning curve.
  • Coding inside OutSystems is "data oriented" and as such follows more database-like architecture instead of good old Object Oriented design. Even when the latter is actually possible, working in OutSystems seems to recommend a more point to point and procedural approach. There are no "interfaces" or "base classes", which is both a strength and a weakness.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
  • Drive innovation
  • Rapid great UX App development
  • Integrates with everything
  • Performant and scalable
  • Your goto modern application development environment
  • Going so fast the backlog dries up :)
  • macOS support for Service Studio and Integration Studio (although that will be there soon)
Victor van Well | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very good user interface. Easy and simple to use. We were able to make a website for external users, without giving them training or an explanation.
  • The ability to upload/download documents as transport papers and customs papers.
  • The ease of developing. Development really speeds us up, and is very simple.
  • The possibility to solve defects/do changes in a very short time.
  • We had very much trouble with synchronizing data between an app in the central database. We had to take into account that the app was temporarily not online. Data synchronization gave us a hard time.
  • Changing characteristics of data elements. E.g. if the length/name of a data element has to change, a new data element is created and we need to adjust all software using this data model.
Nuno Miguel da C F Verdasca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It can put an application into production in less time than other technologies, ensuring good performance and safety.
  • It is a rapidly growing technology that has always available support to help its partners and customers no matter what the problem.
  • It seeks to innovate with each version, and is always looking for new solutions to everyday problems by adapting new trends and introducing them into their development platform.
  • I think the key point I would like to see improved would really be the issue of versioning. I think you can try to find a better solution to create versioning.
November 12, 2019

OutSystems, easy and fast

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The rapidity.
  • The fact that you can easily make a good looking application.
  • The flexibility.
  • The vendor lock-in.
  • Maybe integrate better with the Apple store.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Rapid visible results
  • Easy integration with APIs
  • Customizing styles
  • Development of interaction elements outside the "defaults" is a lot of work.
Steffen zander | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy to start using OutSystems.
  • Easy use of external APIs or to use JS
  • Even if your computer is lost or damaged you can continue working with another computer
  • Easy to test your apps
  • Synchronizing from the local storage to the server database
  • Implementation of other Code-snippets like Java or C
  • Debugging Server actions
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The quick drag and drop way of building the application
  • Easy way to deploy to next stage in development process
  • Nice look and feel
  • Upgrade to next version of product is slow
  • Support doesn't communicate very well in an escalation
Dave Lardinois | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Scalable: being a cloud native platform with great usability, scalability is almost unlimited.
  • Innovation, releasing new features: the platform keeps developing, you keep getting more value for your money.
  • Strong, solid technology. Performance has not been an issue so far at all
  • Great usability and easy to manage.
  • Adhering to the latest security standards.
  • Support desk response times. We had several occasions with non-critical issues where we had to wait more than a week to get a proper response.
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