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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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September 19, 2017
OutSystems helps with time to market solutions
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
OutSystems is being used as a tool of implementation for our customers. Additionally, it is being used internally to create tools of communication across the company.
- Where deep web customization is not mandatory and you require a quick to market approach for the product
- Deep customization for web experience
- Unit testing automation and integration in a devops process
- Integration with 3rd party libraries
September 19, 2017
OutSystems really is a rapid development platform
We are using Outsystems for implementing applications for our SaaS product for the utility sector. We started with a small team (4 persons) and are now ramping up to 12. In the end, we are going to use more teams to work with the new product. Our customers use the service for energy meter data management and analytics.
- Ease of creating and modifying user interfaces.
- Ease of managing database entities, business logic and refactoring them.
- Deploying the application can be done with one click.
- Managing complex data structures.
September 19, 2017
Great Rapid Application Development tool for enterprise grade complexity
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Outsystems has a comprehensive toolset to develop, deliver and manage a large portfolio of enterprise-grade applications with matured product features, significant market presence, and in-house professional services team and an evolving ecosystem. It is helping us to move out of the legacy of lotus notes and other digital transformation initiatives. We see it will help bring our users in the coming years a lot with mobile apps as well.
- Rapid Application Development (RAD), 1 click deployment, overall app governance.
- Community of experts
- Ease of Integrations
- Mobile apps
- Partners network for project delivery
- Debugging
- Automated Testing
September 19, 2017
Take the next step with Outsystems
Outsystems at Schneider Electric is currently open for developers in IPO, which is the IT business function for SE. This is step one, where we want to enable our developers in IPO and empower them to deliver B2E apps with high speed. Going forward we plan to increase the scope to B2B and B2C solutions as well.
- How Outsystems manages the deployment using the LifeTime tool is quite amazing. Our web operations team has been empowered with the Lifetime tool. The visibility on different versions of the same code, dependencies etc., is very easy to manage.
- With Outsytems Now testing mobile apps on the fly has become very very efficient.
- Forge components allow developers to build something by picking reusables bricks from the public forums, which enables us go to market even faster.
- Mobile debugging is a bit of a pain today with outsystems as we need to go back to the logs everytime to check and troubleshoot.
- We still don't have an application dev IDE on Mac machines which leads to a situation where developers need to carry 2 systems (Mac and Windows).
September 19, 2017
My notes on using OutSystems
OutSystems is a company-wide development application, it is used for developing applications across the entire company. Many applications such as windows applications VS, to web applications, are being upgraded to OutSystems. New applications are already being build in this platform. These applications are for the various departments across the company.
- Easy and fast way to implement apps
- Ability to do incremental development
- Positioning objects on the page (textbox,etc)
- Reduce the deployment time
- BPT improvement
September 19, 2017
OutSystems review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Deloitte is using OutSystems as one of its main site and application development tools with the purpose of delivering faster and better products to its clients in all types of markets.
- Quick development
- Integrations
- Data management tools
- Concurrent programing
- Java stack version is less stable
- Fairy new application development tool, and needs more time to mature
September 19, 2017
OutSystems Review
We're using outsystems for rapid application development and reacting quickly to business changes. And also being able to cope with the competition.
- Better UX
- Short development lifecycle
- Simple external services integration
- Absence of a visual database manager
- Uncontrolled forge modules
September 19, 2017
Deliver Business Value in Days
As an OutSystems partner, we also use the software to optimise internal business activities. We've found the agility and flexibility truly transformative in the way it allows us to adapt the business and help customers adapt their businesses.
- Single platform for Web, IOS and Android development.
- The platform allowed us to give analysts the ability to develop the solution directly.
- Application lifecycle management no longer requires dedicated people.
- The pricing and metrics around which the platform is priced is expensive and not suitable for all project types.
- The development interface does not work on MacOS, and requires you to run a Windows Virtual Machine.
- Installing the on-premise software is relatively complex.
September 19, 2017
OutSystems - Very good low code platform
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OutSystems accelerates the development of mobile apps and web applications, which helps us to present a product to our clients in a very fast way. We develop all types of applications - B2B and B2C.
- Fast development
- Low code
- Many integrations
- No easy implementations out of the box
- Too much time publication between environments
September 19, 2017
OutSystems RAD review
Currently, we are using OutSystems in big insurance companies in order to help them with improving their online sales capabilities.
- Easy to learn and gain capabilities
- Time to market
- Provide more information regarding good practices on the training webinars
- Build more forge components for facilitating the developers work
September 19, 2017
OutSystems - Easy to deploy with string capabilities
I work in a banking organization where we use Outsystems in the credit branch. It integrates with the core systems of the bank, taking care of heavy duty information processes, and managing customer credit accounts, using the great user interface.
- Great user interface, accessible via mobile and web applications.
- Easy communication with other core systems, making it a really good option to interact with older systems. This gives them a great lift up with the Outsystems user interface.
- It is very easy to transform business cases in technology.
- Great database management.
- Strong community where problems can be addressed
- In mobile applications, it should be more easy to integrate with existing browser capabilities.
- It should be easier to move entities and business processes across different applications.
- Should provide more testing capabilities, like, an easy way test business actions without having to publish.
September 18, 2017
Outsystems - Deliver with speed
We have many applications in OutSystems across the whole organization. We are currently migrating many of the "old software" to OutSystems. We use OutSystems to create business workflows and to complement many other technologies.
- Fast delivery time
- Easy to upgrade your applications and keep up with the business
- Easy to develop
- I believe OutSystems is already addressing them but one of them was mobile
- I would like to change variables in runtime when using the debug
September 18, 2017
Low-Code at its Best
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use OutSystems to build web and native mobile apps to empower our employees. All our employees now have mobile access to leave, claims and asset management apps and this helps them perform transactions easily and on the move.
- Speed of Development: The platform helps to reduce mundane work for developers and allows them to focus on business value, such as user experience, innovation and the like.
- TrueChange: realtime dependency analysis reduces errors especially when change requests are implemented.
- Ease of Development: Drag and drop with visual language levels the playing field in terms of developer skills.
- Cloud Support: As a PaaS, more flexibility can be provided. Instead, the cloud team is inflexible and provides few options for management.
September 18, 2017
My Experience with OutSystems
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At Deloitte, we provide consulting services to other companies and, for some of them, we use OutSystems as our main implementation technology. We have projects that focus [not] only on front ends, but also, projects that use OutSystems functionalities to integrate with core and legacy applications. It is used by several departments inside the organization.
- The out-of-the-box functionality that processes a SOAP endpoint is very useful.
- The functionality of using one application as a dependency of others.
- The low code functionalities.
- Projects that use native cordova plugins sometimes have lots of conflicts generating native mobile apps.
- The merging system when working with other developers.
- The customization system has to be more extendable to other non out-of-the-box features.
September 18, 2017
Fast and easy way to develop enterprise apps.
We are developing mobile apps for HR internally in order to reduce stress-related issues (a combination of websites and apps).
- Visual development
- Seamless deployment
- Fast integration to external systems
- Licensing is too complicated
- Availability of resources in the nordic countries
September 18, 2017
OutSystems, give it a try before your competition does
I have helped several organizations, both as an inside resource and as a consultant, changing their development approach to low-code. I've addressed both simple enterprise apps and complex systems with integrations. All with success and unbeatable time to market.
- Unbeatable speed, with a special focus on deployment (not just on coding), DevOps and response to change requests.
- Unbreakable. Really, you'll have to put in a big effort to get it to break.
- Happy, motivated team that always says "Yes!" when something new comes up!
- Integration Studio (one of the IDE components) needs a revamp.
- The platform is too server centric, should evolve to containers so it could go more easily to private cloud.
- The licensing model is a bit overwhelming for some smaller companies that need to get their use cases really valuable.
September 18, 2017
A little hard to grasp for a DevOps pro
OutSystems is used in creating a next-generation energy market SaaS solution. It is used in two development teams.
- Learning curve for actual process implementation is remarkably low.
- Integration to other systems is smooth ( e.g. developing a UI that uses Tableau works really well).
- It's particularly easy to extend OutSystems with your own .Net solutions.
- Licensing model does not allow an easy way to scale or rebuild your software stack in a public cloud environment.
- OutSystems' scalability model leaves a question on how OutSystems behaves under a heavily varying workload.
- OutSystems version control lacks support of branches, version comments, and version difference reviewing.
September 18, 2017
Implementation is easy with a better user experience
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Outsystems to migrate Lotus Notes applications. So far we are using it for our projects, billing and finance apps. We are also working on extending it to other departments. It is being used by an entity of our company (4000 users).
- Very good user experience and UI
- Faster to develop
- Enterprise grade full-stack system
- Integration with other products
- Releasing updates faster
September 18, 2017
Rapid application development !
We at Schneider have chosen OutSystems as our most preferred platform for custom development of large-scale enterprise applications. It is used to develop global, regional, local applications on the web as well as mobile. We were on the lookout for an enterprise-grade platform that can help us govern our IT landscape better and also reduce the time to market the applications.
- Rapid application development
- Ease of integration
- Easy publishing
- Debugging
- Mobile capabilities
September 18, 2017
OutSystems : Enterprise web & mobile development using low code platform
OutSystems is being used to develop internal applications for HR & Appraisals. We are also developing software for our customers in the energy sector. The problem we are trying to address is to migrate applications in older technologies to enterprise web apps and mobile apps using the OutSystems low code platform.
- Extremely fast to prototype ideas.
- Develop beautiful user experiences with very little efforts.
- Integrate very well with legacy applications.
- The licensing model is complicated.
- Developer community in our region is limited.
- More UI widgets for mobile.
September 18, 2017
OutSystems is a great platform!
OutSystems is used across the organization. We use OutSystems for internal projects and to external clients.
- Allows us to create Web and Mobile apps really fast.
- The TrueChange validation engine that allows us to almost instantly correct an error.
- Integrating with (a lot of) external systems is easy.
- SOAP integration.
- Mobile page Lifecycle is not easy to understand
September 18, 2017
Easy and Simple
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OutSystems is used across the company but mainly in manufacturing area. It gives support to the business in Angola and Portugal.
- Usability
- Simple to configure
- Ability to solve problems
- Change management is improved with OutSystems
- OutSystems is a bit challenging for new users.
September 18, 2017
OutSytems P10
OutSystems is mainly used on our customer premises, helping them in their day-to-day procedures.
- fast to develop
- easy to deploy
- version control through product lifetime
- Display mobile app generations errors in a more appropriate way
September 18, 2017
OutSystems - an addictive low-code experience!
We use OutSystems as part of a drive towards digital transformation, replacing existing (mostly paper or spreadsheet-based) processes with ones that provide better governance and visibility to those process stakeholders. We are targeting operational processes first, and then moving into other areas, such as system integration tasks. OutSystems is very good at handling the orchestration of web service APIs. We intend to simplify our main sales to an invoicing process.
- Engaging prototyping experience with stakeholders.
- 1-Click Publish and TrueChange makes it easy to refactor a solution without making simple errors.
- Addictive solution engineering - if every problem looks like a nail, then it's a pretty good hammer!
- Simple handling of REST and SOAP web services.
- Requires good internet connectivity.
- Sometimes a little slow to respond.
- Intelligent typing can sometimes be a little too smart in a complex solution.
September 18, 2017
Good platform for rapid implementation of one off projects
We use Outsystems to implement one off applications.
- Fast implementation
- Good Support
- Expensive and complex licensing
- Not the best option for batch processing