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We primarily use Outsystems as our Low-Code platform. Since the day I started using it, I was wondering that the exposing and consuming …
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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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- Drag-and-drop Interfaces (49)10.0100%
- Reusability (51)9.999%
- Visual Modeling (48)8.888%
- Platform Security (48)8.080%
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$4,000.00
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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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OutSystems Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Reviewers rate Drag-and-drop Interfaces highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of OutSystems are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 29, 2019
Becoming a real application engineer thanks to OutSystems
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
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- OutSystems helps us becoming agile.
- With OutSystems we can deliver value every two weeks instead of having to wait months for a new update.
Easier to learn and use. More flexible.
4
Our company has a scrumteam, in which we have developers, testers, a scrum master and a product owner. We have four developers in our team; these are the persons using OutSystems. We have two senior developers and two junior developers, at the moment. The software we create using OutSystems is used by the entire company (about 90 people) and our client (a few thousand).
2
Our team of developers consists of two external engineers and two full time in-house engineers. They need to know the OutSystems system (and preferably have an 'associate developer' or even 'professional developer' certificate) to be able to support OutSystems.
- Replacing our legacy software system
- Building new software to support our business processes
- Monitor our business processes
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- We might use OutSystems to build more and other software
Yes
Before we started with OutSystems, we uses Microsoft Navision. We decided to replace this, because it became a not-so-flexible legacy software package, which we were not able to adjust ourselves. We needed a product which would offer us a way to develop new software to replace the old software, at a fast pace and with an ease of use. With OutSystems, even developers with little experience are able to build good, working software, which is highly flexible and easy to maintain.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
The most important factor to choose OutSystems was the fact that it's a Low-Code platform, so we could train in-house employees - without much software developing experience to use it and build with it. Besides, OutSystems is the perfect system to use in combination with an agile way of working. The scrum framework gives us the opportunity to deliver new working pieces of software every two weeks, making it possible to expand our new software over time while using the software at the same time.
We wouldn't.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
It is very important to manage people's expectations. Employees expected a finished product straight away, while the OutSystems team was told to build a mvp at first. So when presenting the mvp software, there was some disappointment in the business. Also, we had some developers from our old software platform, who were not really giving OutSystems a chance. So with them, there should have been a better talk before making them OutSystems engineers.
- Expectations
- Unwillingness to change
No
There was one incident where we accidentally lost a part of our database. This was on a Friday afternoon. We had no real hopes things would be solved before the weekend, but we got a call back immediately after we sent in a support ticket. The OutSystems support helped us getting a backup of our missing date and guided us through getting it back in our live database. So before the weekend, everything was solved. Amazing.
- Create websites
- Create (web) applications
- Debugging is sometimes troublesome
Yes
The mobile interface works great. OutSystems has prefab and custom mobile interfaces, all very easy in usage.
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.
- We created new products and services 10x faster than first planned and at a cost roughly 1/2 of what was quoted by development partners/agencies that were "hand-coding".
- In short, our two start-up companies would not have launched without it.
Most complete solution. Beyond the super fast ability to create high-quality web and native mobile apps, the built-in analytics have proven to almost eliminate the need for added overhead of analytics tags.
I've been following OutSystems for 3 years and the pace of innovation and their investment in the platform is stunning.
Lastly, the developer community is excellent - when I am faced with a particularly hard or unfamiliar challenge, the community typically has a solution the same day - often it's already been solved and there are pre-build free components or at least a post that describes the solution.
10
Digital Center of Excellence and Digital IT
10
General IT and customer service skills
- Internal apps for team productivity and communications
- Consumer self-service
- Consumer marketing & messaging
- I assumed we would have to build most apps from scratch - instead I found that the FORGE had a TON of pre-built apps, modules and widgets that really sped up our development.
- The OutSystems community is VERY vibrant and helps us think of solutions differently and solve business challenges even faster.
- Retail apps for consumers, healthcare providers and employers
No
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Product features - it truly is a Swiss Army Knife. We can create anything!
I would not change it - we picked the top 5 solutions on the market based on paper evaluation.
Then, we built apps 5 different ways ... after a week two were eliminated because they were too difficult to use.
For 3 months we created apps using 3 different platforms - OutSystems was the only one left standing at the end.
We either "broke" the others or found we had to go outside the platform to do customer extensions.
While we CAN bring custom code extensions into OutSystems - I found we didn't need to and after 3 years still have not.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Training then 2 month pilot then rollout to small SWAT team for on-going build.
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
Production deployment into your own cloud environment can be tricky unless you have IT staff that are already skilled in your cloud (e.g. AWS or Azure, etc)
- Getting folks pulled out of their normal day-to-day work
Yes
Yes
yes
One time, after a platform upgrade, I had a few modules that would not build.
They helped me resolve it quickly the same day.
- Simple layout of the PROCESS - UI - LOGIC - DATA construct for each app
- Unless you are a CSS guru, working on refining the UI design to be very custom can be tricky ... but it's the nature of CSS.
Yes
AWESOME for testing for sure!