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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.
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- 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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May 24, 2023
Outsystems - Freshers perspective
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We primarily use Outsystems as our Low-Code platform. Since the day I started using it, I was wondering that the exposing and consuming the API's and Creating Databases are this easy. It saves hours of time and it increases our productivity by creating the interface with the help of built-in widgets and patterns. I highly recommend Outsystems for the person or the organization who is looking forward to Low-Code.
- Database Connectivity
- Integrating API
- I feel, Everything is working fine.
April 28, 2021
Build for speed.
We use OutSystems for all kinds of internal business processes, where a full fledged externally exposed user interface is not required. Most of them are monitoring related, like invoice or payments overviews. But we also use it as a service layer, where the OutSystems application contains API's. OutSystems provides a way to implement a business solution in a seriously fast way.
- 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.
The platform enables innovation and speeding up your software delivery. It can integrate with everything, enables you to create great UX from scratch or by accelerators (like Experience Builder). It is scalable, performant and has built-in security. The platform is open to integrate with regarding its services like deployments and analytics, so no need to ditch existing processes/apps that already have deployments in scope (like Jenkins).
AI assisted development can help speed up new developers.
Pretty much everything is documented and easily accessible and OutSystems offers a lot of online training video materials which is well curated and organised.
With OutSystems driving innovation to bring disrupting and enabling cost reductions and increase user engagement by more and better UX applications.
With OutSystems driving innovation to bring disrupting and enabling cost reductions and increase user engagement by more and better UX applications.
- 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)
September 15, 2020
Newbie loving the experience
It is being used by our department to build applications that the entire organization uses to cover our retail stores in sales. It's also used for the life of our product since it is designed to production; for SAP integration, to book flights, serve the POS, and some other utilities that cover company needs.
- Simplicity
- Agility
- Ease to Learn
- Interoperability
- Customization
- Quickness in the app
November 12, 2019
Easy to use and maintain what you do
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OutSystems is being used by Meivcore's IT department to develop an industry solution to modernize and make Meivcore's data and processes digital. Meivcore's core business is industrial maintenance and everything was done in paper. This had a lot of impact on the productivity in the company because they wasted a lot of time filling forms and checking data on paper. With the solution that we developed, we managed to make the workload a lot easier and helped with productivity and general happiness with our employees.
- It's easy to maintain code.
- You save a lot of time while using OutSystems.
- As a developer, I would love to see a native solution for Service Studio in macOS.
November 12, 2019
OutSystems - The platform that builds the future today
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Low-Code technology from OutSystems is the main technology used by my organization. With it we help companies from different industries evolve their digital transformation journey, helping to create solutions that enhance the different usability experiences, both B2B and B2C.
- 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 is great to use - even for a non-software developer
Right now we use it for prototyping. With this prototyping we do user research. We are working on using this product company-wide. The idea is that other departments can use it for app development or for internal communication.
- 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
November 12, 2019
OutSystems feels like a warm bath
We are using OutSystems as a strategic platform within our organization.
The following processes are managed within this system:
The following processes are managed within this system:
- Ecommerce / Mobile app
- Price calculation (sales and purchase)
- Aftersales
- Time to market
- Low cost
- Easy to use
- Frontend HTML and CSS
- Dutch voice support
- Price of the product
November 04, 2019
OutSystems is awesome!
We've rebuilt our backend in OutSystems. The old backend was a 15-year legacy system that has been rebuilt and perfected in less than 2 years. OutSystems gave us a good overview of what to do and showed us where we could improve our code since it gives you a very good visual insight.
- Visual insight in your code since it is modular.
- Quick but not dirty.
- Easy of use.
- Ability to peer review code changes.
- Integration with Okta.
- New templates.
October 31, 2019
Easy to use and learn
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OutSystems is used for internal processes at the moment, using its own development team to design, create and deliver highly interactive and complex web and mobile applications.
- Reusable nuggets of code and UI.
- Good support and development community.
- Easy to create mobile apps without being an expert in native mobile dev languages.
- CSS styling and customizing of templates.
- Better preview functionality in the development environment.
October 31, 2019
Great for development
We are using OutSystems as a rapid development toolset to allow us to fill gaps in our current ERP system. This is allowing us to significantly increase the speed of development and build our customer confidence level while also significantly improving the look and feel of our developments.
- Rapid development allows developers to clear their backlogs easily.
- Low code allows for a steep learning curve without the pain. I was fully functional within 2 months.
- The look and feel of OutSystems applications are impressive. Especially when moving to mobile web apps.
- The menu should automatically adjust to page rights rather than requiring manual adjustment.
- Guidance over the integration of C# could be improved. Instructions were not that clear to me.
October 31, 2019
OutSystems Review
We are using OutSystems to improve on our business processes company-wide. Starting by re-inventing our order portals for our sales partners worldwide and creating a safety portal to report on safety-related incidents. The time working with low-code saves our team can be re-invested into higher quality end-products and allows us to take on more projects while staying on the timeline and within budget.
- Fast results.
- Easy to learn, even for non-coding IT staff.
- The thing that is currently missing, in my opinion, is wireframe and mock-up capabilities.
October 31, 2019
So far so good
We are going to be using OutSystems to replace some of our legacy systems. The product will be replacing services hosted within our secure environment.
- Simple - The product itself is simple to use with its low-code drag and drop interface.
- Extensible - I hate systems that don't allow me to extend them as and when I need to. OutSystems lets me extend in whatever way I want to, which could be support for a foreign database, to custom C# to integrate something completely different.
- Supported - The system is supported really, really well. there is a forum that is incredibly active, both the partners and OutSystems are responsive.
- "The OutSystems way" - As a web designer and developer, I often feel that some of the components, and the way that some "web blocks" work could be improved.
October 31, 2019
A simple way to speed up the architecture roadmap
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is currently being used by our business unit.
- User interface.
- DevOps integration.
- Connect with 3rd party plug-ins.
- In terms of organization, the customer should be free to choose the best way of work, instead of using always the Fabric Model.
- Code audits and reviews.
October 29, 2019
Becoming a real application engineer thanks to OutSystems
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We've recently created a scrum team to create a new "client following system" using OutSystems. So for now it's just one department using OutSystems. Our old, legacy system does not serve our needs anymore and is not flexible at all. So with OutSystems we are building a new one from scratch. Two of us are new to OutSystems (and IT) and learned to use it in a few months. We hired three external experts to build and teach the juniors, so we could start building and delivering value immediately.
- Being low-code, even people without any experience can start building with OutSystems immediately.
- OutSystems has a great and very helpful community, giving advice and pre-build features to beginning engineers.
- OutSystems is very flexible and easy to use; it enables us to build something useful within minutes.
- Being relatively new in the IT world, I could use some kind of quick reference guide inside OutSystems (instead of going to the website or forum)
- Filtering aggregates could perhaps be done in an easier way. I struggle with them, sometimes.
- I'd like more pre-made layouts.
October 05, 2019
A path to success!
OutSystems is being implemented across the entire organization. It's rapid development capabilities are being utilized to fill gaps in our IT application abilities. We have currently developed applications for both public and internal consumption. It has allowed us to increase efficiencies and save money throughout several departments.
- Customer Support - OutSystems is responsive and responds rapidly to issues.
- Efficiency - OutSystems allows teams to accomplish greater amounts of work in a shorter time.
- Rapid prototyping and bug resolution - Teams are able to adapt to customer demands quickly and respond to bugs in a more efficient manner.
- Ability to manage the data within the service studio.
- Ability to organize service studio modules by the project.
October 04, 2019
OutSystems Review by a satisfied user
We are using the OutSystems platform to convert an existing legacy student system and satisfy a long list of backlog projects associated with that legacy system. It will primarily be used by staff, faculty, and students. It will enable students to register online and pay for registrations online. We are doing all of this with the help of one of OutSystem's partners GrovePath.
- One can quickly create prototypes for an application and make changes to it. Because it is low code, much of the interaction with the developer is with graphical widgets. The scaffolding wizards are also very helpful.
- Integrates very easily with both internal and external systems using their Integration Studio.
- Tools are very intuitive to use and the plethora of training videos help the beginning developer to very quickly become acquainted with the Outsystems methodologies.
- Some areas that I would have put here that have room for improvement are due to come out in Q1 2020: Things like making the workflow engine easier to use.
- Being able to see all the modules and dependencies at a high level is also being addressed in Q1 2020. One can see at a glance which applications may be affected by changes to one re-useable module.
- I would like to see a better and more consistent wizard for the creation of autocomplete fields. e.g. converting a dropdown to autocomplete.
- I dislike the Active Object constraints with how they relate to pricing. I often feel I am having to sacrifice some of the ease of design to keep under the Active Object cap or be willing to pay the premium.
October 04, 2019
First class lowcode experience
We currently have one development team working with OutSystems for various internal and external facing products and we have hired an external team from DoItLean to develop a few of our products as well. All of them centered around payment processing for orthodontists and vets.
- 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.
- Currently there are few identity providers supported natively and out of the box however through the use of "Forge" plugins there are ways around this limitation.
- The testing frameworks used by Outsystems are not fully backed by Outsystems. If they are going to champion this they should consider giving it full backing as they do with other community driven projects.
- Documentation on how to implement CI/CD is rather sparse without requesting it directly from a customer service rep.
October 04, 2019
Great Low Code Platform
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it to deliver fast applications to our operation and point of sales.
- Flexibility - great to reduce costs.
- Scalability - it is very important to ensure support to the operation and business continuity
- Easy to use, it is very simple and fast to deploy
- Cost, it is a great tool based on the costs and value to the business
- Time to market, it helped us to reduce time to deliver apps
- Ease to use, help ease the administration and monitoring
- Fast delivery applications, great to increase the user expirience
October 03, 2019
New User Review
Outsystems is being used by many areas of the company, but my specific department will be using it to develop mobile apps and websites. We will be replacing the current custom code.
- Simple to make changes.
- It demos very well.
- It has a strong user base.
- It requires different thinking about SDLC and releases mgmt.
- Developers need to be trained.
- With so much flexibility, it is easy to over complicate products.
October 03, 2019
Convinced me that low-code really works at all the levels of complexity and delivery
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
One of the first projects that we're using OutSystems for is to accelerate our ability to deliver a modern user experience and retire a legacy system. We're using it in IT and will be building out a reusable framework that complements our security, privacy, performance, and compliance models.
- Training, support, & ecosystem.
- Ability to solve complex (not out of the box) problems, by allowing engineers to dig down to the lower level of code.
- Micro-journey type experiences.
- The ability for a developer to quickly deliver through the SDLC pipeline.
- Standard (GIT-like) branching model, including feature-branching, multi-version support.
- Team source code repository management (I would prefer integration to a proven product, not baked into it).
- Complex workflow/business process modeling.
October 03, 2019
OutSystems - Best Platform Ever
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use OutSystems to track our operation from contractors to vendors and customers. So far, it has been a great experience.
We are using OutSystems to automate our process and save time between management and internal process
I highly recommend this OutSystems to everyone who wants and needs good results in a short period of time.
We are using OutSystems to automate our process and save time between management and internal process
I highly recommend this OutSystems to everyone who wants and needs good results in a short period of time.
- Quick response.
- Low code.
- Support.
- I have no issues to discuss.
October 03, 2019
OutSystems Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OS helped us develop a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit documentation tool specific to our providers. It is currently LIVE at an MVP phase to 3 of our sites. We have an old legacy application and OS is helping us modernize the application to ensure provider efficiency, quality and patient safety.
- Customer experience.
- Low code.
- Customer engagement.
- OS resource knowledge depth.
- Flexibility in the UI, especially for healthcare documentation module.
- Architecture design specific to the client.
- Out of the BOX functionality limitations.
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
Vetted Review
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.