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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.)
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based, Android, iPhone-iPad, Windows Phone, Mobile Web App |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States |
| Supported Languages | Arabic, 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 |
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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.
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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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:
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Start with small applications and invest in training and professional services to maximize benefits.
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Engage OutSystems in designing the governance model from the beginning and establish a Center of Expertise to govern adoption.
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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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October 03, 2019
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Outsystems is being used as a rapid prototyping platform enabling us to fail quickly and often to determine the best course of action when trying to cater to business needs. It allows us to quickly develop and demo software/proof of concept to business stakeholders to gauge their appetite and make decisions on future implementation.
- Streamlines processes.
- Enables quick development.
- Ease of adoption.
- Training.
- Flexibility.
- Resources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OutSystems is a great enabler of rapid solution delivery. We have used it to bring new product ideas and programs to market quickly. It is currently being used across several divisions, but has not yet gained full endorsement across the entire enterprise level. Based on our teams' experience, I believe that organizations can use this platform to deliver business technology solutions twice as fast, with one-half the people, at the same total cost of ownership (especially true when solutions need to be both web and mobile-enabled!). Like with any development approach, the tool/platform does not guarantee success, but it is a strong enabler (you also still need Agile execution discipline, UI/UX expertise, and change management plans).
- It eliminates the need to code (and thereby the need to understand the syntax with the coding languages); hence the idea/title of "low-code."
- Mobile development through auto-generated responsive web-apps. A huge value in this space alone!
- Minimal training is needed to become proficient. Business systems analysts are productive & proficient in a month. It helps respond to the war on talent!
- It marries the best of DevOps technologies with integration tools and code-generation. This platform represents a higher level of abstraction in the development process. With automatic provisioning of databases and infrastructure, the process is greatly automated.
- OutSystems seek and certify to HIPPA compliance.
- The OutSystems community needs to come together to solve for the lack of OS engineers in the USA (it's being worked on, but needs to accelerate).
- Technology leaders are usually the resisters to this platform/approach; yet business leaders readily appreciate the value. More needs to be done to help leaders get over the stigma associated with low-code (this new approach to development).
December 22, 2018
Outsystems - The future is here
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
OutSystems is being used in our company as a fast software delivery tool. With all the benefits of low code, we can develop enterprise, well designed and efficient apps that can respond to clients necessities. We can change and modify all that is needed as fast as the business grows. Overall, OutSystems fills the gap that always existed between the speed that companies evolve and the speed needed to develop software.
- Development speed.
- Abstraction. Focus on business.
- Easy to modify and change.
- Great support and community.
- OutSystems covers 99.99% of all necessities in enterprise and mobile development. That 0.01% we always can look up outside.
November 14, 2018
Enterprise ready rapid application development for web and mobile
OutSystems is being used as the mainstream development environment for our new product ranges of both web and mobile applications. We have a head count of between 15 and 20 developers and designers at any one time made up of both internal and external resources. Currently we are undergoing a project to rewrite a legacy product that was developed over a 30 year period.
- Deployment management – OutSystems has a built in robust, multi-environment deployment system that helps ensures the clean and error free deployment of applications through the development, testing and production product lifecycle
- Rapid application development – Through the low code, graphical development environment you can develop applications far quicker than with more traditional development environments
- Cross platform mobile development – OutSystems handle the development and building of mobile application for both iOS and Android in a simple streamlined way that removes 90% of the problems normally associated with multi platform development
- 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
November 13, 2018
Fast developer with higher quality
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
In our company we have a factory team that develops all types of applications for our customers.
Our applications/customers are from all types of business so we don't have a specific business problem.
Our applications/customers are from all types of business so we don't have a specific business problem.
- When we present a MVP to our customers most of the product is almost done. With the tool we can make a very fast product and with a very good quality.
- The development of and application web or mobile is very intuitive and very easy to implement. One example is our survey application: on the web part is the back-office to create the survey and the mobile is only to reply to that specific survey.
- Sometimes we face some problems to integrate external applications in our outsystems product.
- A more specific problem I face as a developer is sometimes using custom javascript to be used in the product. One example is to simulate some actions in specific buttons can be tricky because how the action is built in the OutSystems flow.
OutSystems is used to do innovations and enable access to the massive outdated unsupported monolith system made in Oracle. 4-5 teams are working on this for over a year now.
- Simply develop fast and deliver apps so you benefit with extreme short time to market.
- Maintainablility is even better compared to traditional development tools.
- Work on the same module simultaneously without losing code by useful compare and merge options.
- Well working staging / development tooling available in the form of Lifetime.
- Fast learning curve, especially for experienced developers bu also for complete newbies.
- Come up with a license model for SME. Now only medium and large companies are in focus. The basic license is just too expensive.
- Introduce reporting tooling.
September 28, 2018
Let`s make things simpler and keep the journey
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use OutSystems in one of our 3 Business Units. We now have quickly reached 25 Apps built and deployed. We have a couple of hundred users and interface with SAP and several other legacy systems. We also switched from our Waterfall mindset to Agile and started building an internal offshore team of developers. So far we believe we have a good start in our Digital Transformation Journey.
- Rapid Development
- Flexibility
- Excellent UI and UX
- Good DEVOPS tools
- SDLC and SSDLC clear alignment would be good
- Containers
- Gold client capabilities
September 28, 2018
Easy to start, hard to master, but better than most RAD tools.
We use it for building one of our product's module, where we changed the provider a few years ago and rebuilt it using Outsystems.
- Time to market
- Fast to integrate with other softwares
- API enabled allowing you to expand the software
- Easier than code
- Managing the Database. Sometimes it crashes when you remove a populated column (what it should) but it should also try to truncate it first and then remove it. Same happens when you change a column type or name.
- The BPM sometimes takes time to start and you don't know what's is hanging there.
September 26, 2018
OutSystems ROCKS OUT LOUD!
OutSystems has become the core platform for two different start-ups that I did in the past 3 years. At first, we needed a revolutionary way to create new innovative solutions & products at a speed never seen before. These new products needed to go from idea to market in weeks not months.
Enhancements need to rollout in days not weeks. Specifically, the products and services we created are B2C and B2B for Dental & Vision financial products and healthcare provider customers.
As we had amazing success creating products & services for our B2B2C customers, we then decided to forego SaaS-based Sales, Service, and B2B On-boarding and we built it ourselves using the pre-build sales & cases apps (from OutSytems) and the BPM capability in OutSystems for B2B On-boarding.
In short - at the startup that I did, we are using OutSystems as the core for the entire business and integrating it with 3rd party services like Office 365, Google G-Suite, RingCentral, etc.
- Skip prototyping phase - we create very quick designs that actually use our brand standard experiences and connect to real or stub services directly in OutSystems. We've found we co-create in OutSystems. The result is our "prototypes" are really 1st release candidates.
- SWAGGER 2.0 - AWESOME! If you have access to swagger APIs, integration is so very simple, fast, and robust. Click click click - done! Then the swagger API looks just like any other module that your app needs to access.
- Web, Mobile-Web, and Native all in ONE platform. We all have heard the dream and promise of "write once, run everywhere." OutSystems is the closest I have ever seen us come to that vision in almost 30 years in software. We truly have ONE module for Web & Mobile web (all responsive out of the box with SilkUI). We truly have ONE module for both Android and iOS thanks to the ReactJS-based solution from OutSystems.
- LOW-CODE Heaven: No longer to we spend our life slinging code. Now, the OutSystems "robots" generate all the code for us. I will say it's super clean too. I tried to hand-build code that runs faster... I couldn't. On average, OutSystems generated code was 40% faster than mine both on the .NET and SQL side.
- This is a hard one - I'd say continue to expand support and integration of micro-services. It's come a long way and certainly works - but keep on pouring the gas on micro-services as it's a huge part of our ecosystems.
May 17, 2018
Rapid build and painless deploy
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rapid build and ease of deploy of mobile stock control and BI apps, integrating with ERP and used internationally.
- Rapid build
- Ease of deploy
- Intuitive flow based IDE
- Can get Base level of dev skills quickly
- Expert support required (supplied as part of the purchase)
- Requires considered cost-benefit analysis before purchase
- The platform has vast capabilities, requires external expertise to get up to speed
April 19, 2018
OutSystems, easy to use and yet very powerful.
Collabworks has developed a SaaS product (Framework) using the OutSystems software. The Framework product was created to help companies to maximize the use of their worker's talent. The framework has been used by companies with offices around the world. The OutSystems product allows Collabworks to use the agile development process to reduce development time.
- They allow their customers to share information about issues and fixes to reduce downtime and obtain a wider view of the capabilities of the products through a customer posting section on the OutSystems website.
- OutSystems also holds conferences during the year at different locations making it easier for customers to interact and openly discuss what they have learned and how they have used the product.
- OutSystems also has resources that can be contracted to help a company get started using their products very quickly.
- Because OutSystems is growing so quickly it can be hard to get business questions, (contract issues, availability date), answered quickly.
- It is sometimes difficult to find employees with OutSystems product experience.
January 31, 2018
One of the best software to build fast applications
We use outsystems to develop our applications. Right now we have several teams developing the applications. Outsystems is only used by the developer team. It is helping us develop fast code, in a small sprint (2 weeks). Thanks to Outsystems we can have this low time frame, develop a lot of code, including bug fixing and new features.
- Fast code
- Working with big teams (merging the code)
- Fast deployment
- Doesn't have a Mac application, only Windows
- The licensing could be lower, for small projects/clients
September 28, 2017
Beyond High Level Languages
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The platform is being used to solve complex and simple projects, across different departments in the organisation. Basically, we are addressing all types of problems that come across. Whether the need is web or mobile.
- Complex logic that is easy to read
- Code easy to debug and mantain
- Fun to use and easy to learn
- One of the aspects that have been evolving and I think where there is still much to be done, are improvements related to developing and maintaining CSS classes. It is not possible to merge CSS files, some styles are not well interpreted by the IDE; even the creation of new CSS classes could be improved.
- Another aspect I would like to see improve is lifetime performance, and also more features like new analytics performance and adoption metrics.
September 21, 2017
OutSystems is expensive but is Worth every cent.
My company uses OutSystems technology in other to implement faster and better applications for our customers.
- Integration with other systems
- Business processes
- Responsive layouts
- Mobile applications is still an area that is new for OutSystems, and some improvements are still needed here.
September 21, 2017
OutSystems review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In my company we develop OutSystems solutions for our clients, implementing B2B and B2C portals with integrations to multiple external sources. We currently face the challenge of bringing digital transformation to our clients. With OutSystems we are able to rapidly implement valuable applications in order to improve our client experience.
- Rapid development
- Work with teams
- Integrations
- Low code
- Mobile apps debug
- Publishing time
September 21, 2017
Outsystems today
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using OutSystems as a platform to develop mobile and web apps in our two industries, Financial Services and PSUR. We use it to develop B2B and B2B products. OutSystems addresses the difficulties our clients experience in getting multi-platform apps developed quickly.
- SAP integration since it's easy to implement methods.
- SOAP and REST for the same reasons as SAP
- Low Code
- OutSystems takes too long to deploy solutions across environments.
- Mobile patterns
- Mobile plugins
September 21, 2017
Outsystems review
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
The OutSystems platform is used across the company and addresses all the major departments and business lines. I has been implemented to reduce .NET implementations because it is more agile, it reduces time to market, and also reduces the number of developers required to deliver all the projects in which we are involved.
- Agile implementation with less code
- Short time to market
- Complex implementation and architeture made easy
- Easiest css and style guide
- More assets for mobile
- Better scripting for BD
September 21, 2017
OutSystems! One of the best FastAppDevelopment tools
We use outsystems for an app to track medical assets (human resources, medicines, etc). Thanks to the easy charts we also use it to create reports.
- Very fast app development
- WebServices abstraction
- No need to maintain BD
- Very limited UI. If you want something that doesn't already exist in OutSystems it's very hard to implement
September 20, 2017
The OutSystems Way
As a partner, we implement and deliver projects on the OutSystems Platform. It helps our customers to change and digitize their business quickly. The low code platform makes it easy to build, integrate and change functionality in a visual way. This includes the high capacity mobile apps that can also be created with the platform.
- Low code makes it really fast and visual.
- Version and deployment management out of the box.
- Great patterns and solutions available to be re-used and adapted to the [business] needs.
- Mobility is done by using Cordova. It has great functionality, but sometimes you need to have more interaction with the device
September 20, 2017
RAD all the way
It is being used in an insurance company by the Personal Lines department. The goal is to accelerate the process of creating quotes and issue policies in a faster way. At the same time, the sales agent can have an overview of the customer (how many products he owns, etc.).
- Adds value to business in short periods of time
- Environments managing is easy
- Faster deployments
- Licensing
- Deep level of customization demands code which is not maintainable
September 20, 2017
OutSystems : Engineers Delight
We are developing internal applications and automating business workflows.
- Visual development
- Faster development
- Integration with legacy systems
- Licensing needs more transparency
- There is a lack of available skills in our region
September 20, 2017
OutSystems will accelerate your World
For the project I am currently working on, Outsystems will be used for more than one department. The base idea is to migrate old applications into Outsystems and modernize all the business concepts.
- End user's API is developed more quickly in Outsystems.
- Business processes are well handled by Outsystems.
- Agile concept.
- Timers may be handled in another way. Sometimes when there are problems, it seems that the timer is still running but actually it's not. The Service Center should be improved to give more options and feedback about the times when it is still running or allow users to stop timers.
- It would be an improvement if I could set up a timer to run more than 3 times from the service center.
- The entities are accessed directly from the web screens, it should have another concept that abstracts it. Instead of entities, another technical element like 'view' should automatically be created. With this new technical element, only 'view' is used in he web screen preparation.
September 19, 2017
OutSystems got me!
Outsystems is one of the major platforms used by my company and it's used to provide benefits to our customers through application development in all areas focusing majorly in pharma and healthcare.
- Ease of integration.
- Fast development and generation of apps.
- Eye-appealing widgets.
- Very good support and community.
- Debugging in mobile
- Massive assignments mapping deletion
September 19, 2017
OutSystems delivers faster.
We deliver Outsystems solutions for our customers to increase the value of the solutions. We deliver web and mobile applications for financial services, insurance, and Portuguese services.
- We deliver faster than with traditional technologies.
- We publish once for all devices.
- Great applications with great user experience.
- On the client side it should have some improvements. Javascript for example.
- Should have a test action to easily test the logic in the actions.
- Increase the webservices functionality as ws-a. ws-i.
September 19, 2017
Great Technology
We use it to offer our customers great value. Whether it is a web app or a mobile one, we leverage our partnership with this company.
- Scaffolding apps
- Guiding developers with best practices
- Staying ahead of competition
- Multi language support in development
- Affordable prices
- Longer periods before recycling environments