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OutSystems

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Overview

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

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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.

Attribute Ratings

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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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

OutSystems review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Niel Malan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • 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.
Vasco Mendes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Steven Cabaca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
Bruno Fonte | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • 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.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Amal Raj | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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