OutSystems Reviews

Outsystems has a lot of what they call "accelerators" which are automatically generated when you are developing your applications,which is an excellent feature as it greatly reduces the development time needed to finish your application, be it a web based application or a mobile application.

Outsystems also has a great way of integrating plugins into your applications as it provides thousands of API's or plugins available at the forge for referencing to the applications that you will be developing.

There is also a great online community in which you can post questions or search for questions that may already have an answer.

The outsystems support team is also great in responding to any issues or concerns you may have even for trial/personal accounts which are provided for free.

Since Outsystems sends that application that you are using to the server for compiling to native code, i fear that i would not be able to work as efficiently as i wanted to, especially in the event of a network downtime, where it could mean that i would need to wait for the network to come back online before i can potentially resume working.

Outsystems is a great platform to use, although an initial time investment is required to be able to fully utilize its capabilities.

as a developer we are always looking at new technologies that we can leverage in realizing the client requirements with high quality and in a timely manner, outsystems has helped us realize this by providing a low code platform that is easy to learn and use

The platform outsystems, is an ideal work system for application development that are based on administrative processes, the visual environment of outsystem development is oriented, to create the applications in a faster and easier way, executing the instances much faster that in another type of the development system that runs on windows or in the cloud, for me, one of the biggest advantages of this system, is the creation of applications for all types of devices in less time, here I can perform all kinds of tests, before launching the application to the market, or deliver it to the client, decreasing substantial work times.

Los cotos de la aplicacion son un poco altos, me parece que falta un mejor analisis del mercado, para ver a que personas o empresas quieren llegar, la plataforma esta destinada para pequeñas y medianas empresas, la mayoria de estas tratan de abaratar costos de todas las maneras, otra cosa que no me gusta de esta aplicacion, es que despues de un tiempo, se puede ver muy basica, ya que no se ven mejoras o cambios de la plataforma en el ultino tiempo, es como si enfocaran su plataforma a todos los nuevos desarrrolladores, pero para los que ya cuentan con mas experiencia en este sistema, no hay manera de dar nuevas herramientas.

We have a platform in the cloud, where you can perform all kinds of administrative applications, we also have the environment where you can test this type of project, the speed of development thanks to custom templates improves a lot, and you can create new projects in greater quantities, with less work time.

Easy to learn.

Easy to enhance.

Easy to implement complex logic also.

Handling of user/role management is quite simple.

The first great thing about OutSystems Agile Platform is that it make everything easy. By removing the standard-but-trickier part of all websites/apps, it allows the development team to focus on the real issues. And instead of watching pages and pages of code, there are modular blocks of operation that are quite easy to understand, but anyone can add the old-fashioned code if they like or have to.

The second best part is that OutSystems controls its product like few companies do, and offers bootcamps and a single online community so that everyone can start working by the book and reach all the pros in no time. You can do it on your own to start, or you can jump into the the professional version and see architecture recomendations, design and usability, server performance and everything else.

No need for any particular set of skills to do a full stack application. It can be a one person job, or a full team working on the product. As long as they follow the Agile methodology, the final product can't go wrong.

Multiple persons can't work on the same module at the same time. Sometimes when we are trying to put an application with a lot of dependencies in production we need to refresh all of those dependencies

- Building once and deploy everywhere

- Lower risk and higher ROI

- Improved agility

- Elimination of the IT skills gap

- Scalable governance of multiple Apps

- Full lifecycle maintenance

- Better customer experience

Easy to learn.

Easy to enhance.

Easy to implement complex logic also.

Handling of user/role management is quite simple.

Everything but particularly the possibility to extend the platform, its maturity (community, documentation, tool) as well as their continuous evolution. The growing community provides all the support to face the most uncanny situations / requirements. The documentation of the website has been improving consistently providing all the tools that together with the hands-on experience can make you the ultimate solution delivery manager.

The idea that anybody can do it without governance. With OutSystems you can deliver very fast, which is positive if you're producing good code but negative if you produce bad code.

Be humble to be able to learn from others and study documentation, be ambitious because you really can do almost everything with this tool, be creative because the platform gives you endless possibilities and be positive because you have a whole community to support you.

I have been working with OutSystems ever since I started my career and have delivered solutions for various sectors such as banking, health care, human resource or utilities.

The Outsystems development environment it very easy to use for anyone with previous development experience as well as being a great place for those with little or no development experience to come up to speed quickly.

• Allows fast prototyping whilst keeping good consistency and a polished appearance

• Provides a good balance between continual deployment and traditional dev-qa-prod staging

• Enforces inter module dependency integrity

• Enabled good UI-Business-Data separation whilst still allowing for RAD

• Good merging and conflict detection when multiple devs are working within the same module

• Projects and applications are rock solid and stable once released

• Priced at the high end and not cost effective for small scale development

• Shows some signs of instability in the publishing process with very large and complex projects

• On the PaaS version you are heavily restricted on access to the infrastructure and cannot get access to simple functions such as SQL replication or database maintenance options.

Don’t assume that because the development is easy that you will have an easy path into the app stores. You still need to comply with all the app store restrictions.

Outsystems was chosen as a platform to rewrite a legacy product developed over 30 years and bring it into the cloud. It has been a really good choice for an organisation that had no web or cloud experience and has helped avoid many of the basic mistakes that could otherwise have been made. Whist there are some limitations on flexibility and price the benefits and speed to market far out way these.

Easy prototyping to raise POCs in hours and swiftly validate with the customer.

Amazing capacity to manage any code, database or other change, even if it doesn't happen inside the scope we're working on.

Unitary testing, behaviors and defects traceability are so easy, the difficult part is knowing when not to use the debug capability.

Not possible to perform Data Migration between environments.

Incapacity to create Intellectual Property (close the code of a given module) with the platform is a down side.

Multi-thread capacity not included, what prevents some high performance solution usages.

It should have a more flexible licensing model, adjusted to the geography and business case. SME should be able to use with limitations and for some specific scenarios. In some cases a simple customer facing portal will have a prohibiting cost due to needing Unlimited Users.

Analyze the cost against the full range of dimensions, not just against being Low Code and fastest then other typical technologies.

Originations - Ease of data collection. Easy integration with services either on REST or SOAP.

Customer or Partner Portals - Ease of data collection. Easy integration with the Core systems, either through a SOA layer or directly against external databases.

Having managed, sponsored and promoted dozens of OutSystems projects across multiple industry sectors since 2005, what I like best in OutSystems:

• Build strong Web and Mobile POC, Prototypes and MVP in record time;

• Not only how fast we can build applications from the ground up but more important, how fast we can adapt applications to meet an increasingly dynamic and uncertain business environment;

• We benefit from the Rapid Application Development power of OutSystems while maintaining full flexibility to integrate with external systems and applications seamlessly and increment functionality through custom developed software components known as Extensions.

From a business perspective, the price structure and licensing model should change less frequently, be more clear and more flexible to accommodate different adoption scenarios. Initial investment costs and lack of predictability regarding future cost of ownership, as applications evolve, are common objections to OutSystems platform adoption.

From a technical perspective, I know that, in bigger and more complex projects, technical teams may struggle with governance issues, code merging, release building and versioning, although we recognize that OutSystems has made important improvements in that area in recent versions of the platform.

My first recommendation would be to try the platform. It is free, you have access to complete training materials and do not need any special guidance to build your first OutSystems application.

As a second recommendation and like many things in life, one size does not fit all. The approach you follow in the adoption of the platform will depend on the scenario at hand. Sometimes OutSystems will be great just for applications’ front-ends, leveraging the power of great user experience and anywhere, anytime access, connected to already existing solid backend systems. Other times OutSystems full stack applications may be the right path to follow to achieve modernization of legacy systems and leverage the full power of RAD. The decision of when and how to use the platform will dictate how much business value you can extract from its adoption.

As a last recommendation and as it usually happens with powerful tools like OutSystems, you can build great applications that bring high value to the business and that users love but you can also build sloppy, unmanageable and unusable applications that will be, sooner or later, thrown away. Good architecture decisions and sound governance are critical to maximize the benefits extracted from the OutSystems platform adoption, so be careful when choosing the project team.

From modernizing legacy systems to streamlining inefficient paper-based processes and engaging customers, suppliers and partners, we have solved a great variety of business problems and delivered real value to our customers, with great ROI in just a few months. Most of all, I have seen satisfied end users that breed and embrace applications built with OutSystems, which is ultimately our goal as information technology professionals.

The form that I can focus my effort to the business rule and no in code.

How we can integrate with legacy systems easily.

How we can construct bigger things in less time.

How we can construct what that not exists using the Integrator Studio.

The community is very active, helping every time and creating something new every day.

Support of all employees, no matter what is your grade.

The form that the server use SOAP to communicate with extensions.

Outsystems is the present and future of development, and is all about you to decide of living in a stone age or do the better things with much less time and the better quality.

The most problem that I solved was the time expend to develop. With this gain, we work in others deliveries to do better things.

The first great thing about OutSystems Agile Platform is that it make everything easy. By removing the standard-but-trickier part of all websites/apps, it allows the development team to focus on the real issues. And instead of watching pages and pages of code, there are modular blocks of operation that are quite easy to understand, but anyone can add the old-fashioned code if they like or have to.

The second best part is that OutSystems controls its product like few companies do, and offers bootcamps and a single online community so that everyone can start working by the book and reach all the pros in no time. You can do it on your own to start, or you can jump into the the professional version and see architecture recomendations, design and usability, server performance and everything else.

No need for any particular set of skills to do a full stack application. It can be a one person job, or a full team working on the product. As long as they follow the Agile methodology, the final product can't go wrong.

After working in OutSystems is hard to go back to other tools, and that includes doing extensions (C#/Java) to connect Agile Platform to external libraries.

And while debugging the native quality rules (like the use of transactions) may cause problems to developers not used to good code. It takes a while to correct bad habits.

You can give it a try online and free. That will be enough to convince most of the non-believers.

By working in the fast moving consumer goods, the issues are diverse. We solved problems of Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Quality, Logistics... Most applications are for internal use, but they are business critical and the business is very flexible (and applies to several countries). We are having the best time to market ever.

The power key business users and product owners have to evaluate new strategies by having powerfull solutions ready very quickly instead of strugling with endless projects. The built-in UI and components are very helpfull.

One must be very carefully when engaging a big developers team. Having many developers competing when publishing their last changes to the "code" sometimes can be a painfull process. As the platform's development modus operandi relies strongly on heavy files being transfered over the internet (for cloud based projects), merging and deploying tasks can be a challenge.

That's why it's so important to have in the team someone with expertise in software development processes and software architecture.

Ask for a PoC with one of OS expert guys. It will surely be surprising

I've rolled out some strategic projects in just a couple of weeks, re-written legacy systems with huge client satisfaction and guided developers on very short learning curve experiences in the most diversified teams.

The platform allows me to concentrate more on the functionality and features in my applications rather than how to code it. I won’t even get into debugging. I used to always generate Visio flowcharts before coding. With this platform, the flowcharts ARE the code!

There aren’t many things I dislike, but one thing that comes to mind is merging code when multiple developers are working in the same eSpace. It would be nice if it worked more like Microsoft’s TFS source control.

Avoid advanced queries, keep all JavaScript organized, avoid tweaking processes automated by the platform.

I primarily use OutSystems for in-house applications requested by employees and managers. The primary benefit is super-fast turnaround. It usually takes longer for users to describe to me the functionality they need than it does for me to generate a functioning prototype for them to test out.

The ability to let us concentrate our skills where technical expertise is really needed, instead of loosing time with repeated technical tasks.

Version control over partial developed features (layout, logic, data...) and be able to decide what goes for that release without having to compromise too much (branches...).

If you have the ability to setup a "factory" with several applications being developed on a fast pace and always changing environment, then you'll have the return on investment more quickly than you can imagine.

The main business benefit I keep seeing addressed on all these customers that embraced this low code platform is the ability to adapt change and let the requirements come and go with no real pain. IT starts to be aligned with business and is now challenging product owners to give them more work to tackle.

Outsystems enables us to bring a huge value to our clients by delivering our projects really fast. This help our clients to manage their backlogs that kept growing before Outsystems. We can also can delivery mobile apps really fast without doing code for both systems.

Sometimes Outsystems focus too much on making the life of the new users easy and forgets to implement more complex stuff for advanced users

Keep open mind to low code. Sometimes looks magic but it is in fact a fantastic framework that have been evolving for the last 10+ years

There are 2 business problems that Outsystems is perfect to solve: deliver all the clients requirements at lightning speed and build mobile apps without ,much effort

With no previous background or experience in software development, I started working with OutSystems about 7 months ago. It amazes me how easy to learn OutSystems is and - moreover - how intuitive OutSystems is in its use. There's no need to know any code (though it is usefull) to build usefull applications with OutSystems.

The one thing I dislike about OutSystems is in fact one of its benefits. There's so much inside OutSystems; so many features, so many options... it would take me a lot of time to get everything out of OutSystems that's in it.

OutSystems is an amazing platform to use combined with an agile way of working. Delivering value every few weeks with its intuitive ease of use.

Because we use OutSystems to build our software application, we can deliver new features every few weeks. Instead of working for months on end programming new software, OutSystems does the hard (coding) work for us and even someone like me can build and develop like I've been doing that for years.

Ability to deliver quality software with very high speed is considered very valuable. With OUtsystems you can develop applications really fast. If you make mistakes or forget things, the platform is very flexible in letting you make the corrections and deploy the fix to production

The pricing staffle should be proviced in smaller staffles. Right now it is very tough to invest for smaller development applications, as you you buy ao packages per 400 objects. The product is to my opinion very interesting for smaller companies as well. Unfortunately with utsystem you have to invest quite a lot of money in the beginning of your yourney to be able to start. A model with a lower tresshold can help clients and outsystems both.

Outsystems speeds up our time to market on software delivery.

Delivering fast on high demand Business desires. The outside world is demanding rapid development and as a IT department we need to be able to answer this desire. unfortunaltely legacy systems are needed to change fuctionalities as well. Please take into account that your backend needs to be ready in order to get the maximum value out of this low code platform. A frequently heard remakt is that outsystems is implemented, but that the velocity of the change jorney is stil slow. This because the integration changes and backend changes take long and are inflexible to chnage. In these situations you pay for outsystems, but do not get the value out of the platform.

The best of the platform is how quickly you can get brilliant results according to business requirements and it's very easy to deploy the applications between environments.

Mobile applications, being still a novelty, there are things that need to be improved, such as the Offline and the Debugger.

The license price is very expensive and a lot of small companies can’t support.

All business problems can be solved with OutSystems platform.

It's easy to do integrations with other technologies and to use plugins and APIs, and it's simple to replace business processes which are paper based and reduce the overhead costs associated.

With the platform management tools we can identify and correct bugs very fast.

Outsystems Mobile Platform was the best low code platform to develop mobile apps I used until now.

It´s super easy implement an app and deploy system hide all complexity.

Only work on Windows Microsoft it is a limitation for apple lovers and the need to publish in the cloud to test client-side code it is a handicap for UI developers.

My team work with client-side code, we try to solve the gap of UI customization when work with low code. The Outsystems platform has a dependencies architecture feature that enable us to create great reusable UI patterns.

For us, scale design is the biggest challenge and the platform it´s great for that.

Simplicity and power that is provided out of the box. Easily tackles the issues faced in the traditional development. Don't have to spend too much time on UI or thinking about the coding best practices (like design pattern). Just have to follow the Outsystems guide lines and by default it encourages modular programming. This will be very helpful when building applications as code re use is also encouraged. Apart from that things like monitoring and logging are taken care by the platform we don't have to spend too much time on it.

Programmers still need to know Java or C# should they write extension, it would be much better if Outsystems can come up with its own programming language so we can write code in the IDE itself instead of relying on C# and Java. This will help developers to debug code and test it within the IDE instead of the integration studio.

Definitely people should try Outsystems to realize how much work is taken care by the platform. This really allows the developers to solve business problems instead of technical problems.

Business would like to have the applications delivered fast with decent UI. So using Outsystems, this was easily achieved and visual programming allows the developer to do most of the QA testing too.

The intuitiveness of the IDE is very good and new developers can easily catch on. I also like the cost of change that is very low - this is important in industries where change is at the order of the day.

I dislike the licensing model and pricing structure. I believe OutSystems can be more flexible in this regard. I also dislike the version control system as it is sometimes inadequate or cumbersome for larger teams working on the same projects

Automation of mundane tasks frees up human resources that can be applied to other areas of the business where more humans are needed.

Outsystems is a very easy to use platform wich enables a very fast web and mobile apps development. It allows us to develop solid work in a simple way.

There is not much to point here. I guess that the only problem with Outsystems platform is that specific things tend to be, sometimes, harder to code. But Outsystems is being updated almost every week, so i believe that in no time this problem will no longer exist.

Try it and you´ll never go back.

Outsystems provide us a simple way to manage a lot of data. Its modular organization enables a better understanding of the code developed.

It is a low code platform. with out the database (sql) knowledge can create the tables and relations and can create the applications with in the short period of time.

I dont think, but we can not change the font color, size etc easily (my feeling) for widget.[ I am thinking to do this we need to check CSS code.]

I can Recommend to others considering outsystems

I have solved many business problems like business data is saving and retrieving easily using scaffolding directly drag and drop the attributes.

Point and click development makes it easy and quick to create both web and mobile applications. You can explore and learn using the personal environment. They've provided courses online that are very helpful and easy to understand.

Environment is dependent on the servers, and only OutSystems personnel can reset/fix it. My project got delayed by 2 days because of this downtime.

Their courses online cover the basics. You might have to explore or look at forums to help you in more complicated designs/solutions.

The time it takes to develop a web application is significantly cut down. You can create more web apps in OutSystems in the time it takes to create 1 java-based/angular-based web app.

OutSystems provide first class support along with excellent applications deployment. The apps that OutSystems can create are great for end users and line of business applications. Each step is driven by proven patterns and the success engineers are great for making sure you ship excellence.

OutSystems web applications are HTML heavy and I wish that could be optimized a bit more.

Make sure you know the solution you want to implement before investing in any one tool or toolset.

Fast deployments, fast application building and POCs. Agile all the way.

SPEED! ... of development, agile cycle times, and app run-time performance is ground breaking.

UX! ... the quality of the SilkUI is awesome!

DEBUGGER! ... is simply the best I have ever seen! I find errors in my LOGIC super fast!

Honestly, the big reason why I chose OutSystems for my firm is because I've not found anything that I truly DISLIKE. Trust me, that is hard to believe. I know, I can't believe I am saying this. For 25+ years as a technology leader, I've waiting for such a platform. It's now REAL.

Kick the tires in the FREE "Personal Environment" ... it is the perfect test.

I am starting TWO new companies at the same time. The ease of re-use across the two companies has been incredible. We are building B2B and B2C apps for the employee benefits and healthcare finance markets.

I'm also building apps for internal sales, marketing, and ops teams.

-Low learning curve, which leads to easy adoption for developers and "pseudo-developers" alike.

-We have found that we no longer do paper-prototypes since its easier to prototype on the Outsystems platform and let it take shape as the end product.

-Platform-approach to administration of dozens of low/medium complexity applications pays dividends

-Pretty robust integration functionality to expose functionality as APIs real easily as well as consume external data

-Outsystems perfectly complemented our journey towards 100% Agile and SCRUM adoption.

-After the initial investment in training and base setup, results come at record rate.

-Be prepared to give up some control of the infrastructure when you go with the Cloud hosted model (they do offer an on-premise model as well). This is typical of most PaaS solutions.

-Change Management has room for improvement but we hear the latest version of the platform did improve in this area a bit.

-Support has room for improvement and timeliness is not always their forte. Again, we find this to be the case with other vendors as well.

-The Forge (the marketplace for trying out functionality contributed by other users or Outsystems) has much more potential than is currently realized.

It is a good idea to find your development patterns within your enterprise.

- We are no longer reinventing the wheel. We reuse functionality that was already developed for one application in other applications. This was our main use case.

- We have found ourselves to be active practitioners of RAD concepts like Rapid prototyping and following the critical path.

- We are able to develop our own "add-ons" or "extensions" within the platform to make it do more.

Speed of development and ease of integration with existing platforms. As someone who has spent a career in IT, but never been a "developer", I was able to create a fairly complex application that seamlessly integrates with our existing databases.

True Change is pretty amazing - you make a change in one place and it corrects it in other areas of your application.

The software usage in the pricing model is a bit difficult to understand. Forecasting the software usage/consumption of a new project is not easy to do.

The support forum is a user community. While it is a great resource, if it is your only means of finding an answer to a problem it can take too long to get an answer.

Sign up for a personal environment and do the online tutorials.

We replaced a paper volunteer application with an online version. The time required to complete the application was reduced from days to hours. As a non-profit that needs more than 1,000 volunteers per year to staff our mission, this was a huge step forward in our recruiting process.

As a old-time c# coder I love the fact I can focus on solving business problems instead of technical issues. I have no worries about dependencies and low-level stuff. Furthermore the TrueChange is awesome. I really have no trouble to refactor, move methods around and clean up stuff. Maintenance is fun as well. The new features in P10 is very welcome for the mobile department as well as the desktop environment.

As a lowcode platform it lacks certain flexibility, but those are only edge cases nowadays. Ofcourse the versioning could have some loving by check-in comments but it's all in the nitpicking categories.

As long as it don't evolve in a old-school IDE i can manage most of the dislikes.

There is no perfect tool and there never will be.

Embrace the change and don't be afraid you are boxed with this tool.

It's hugely dynamic and you can still use c#/java if you really really need to.

Upgrades are a breeze and every new major release will surprise you everytime!

All sorts of business problems, from invoicing, webshops and plain websites. The speed of change and flexibility is the biggest benefit. The easy of refactoring datamodels and simple yet effective way of implementing security measures is a big plus.

Customers see how easy and fast changes are implemented and are very happy with it and are becoming more active in the development itself instead of waiting in the backroom to see what it has become.

Where do I start? The ability to develop and deploy the full stack quickly and easily is second to none. In addition, the platform TrueChange tab allows you to find where all of your obvious bugs are, and won't even allow you to publish until they all are resolved, making sure that the simple mistakes won't be detrimental to your application. Recently I've been heavily developing in platform 10, and the mobile and offline capabilities of this version are tremendous.

The primary issue that I've had with Outsystems is the lack of powerful advanced data grids. The grids are okay in taking care of basic to intermediate needs, but if you need something with the power of KendoUI, you need to go elsewhere to get it.

It's a niche product because it isn't free, but if you have enterprise-level projects for desktop and mobile and want one code base, I would highly recommend Outsystems.

We have a very small development team, and we've been able to successfully manage all of the needs much better than we could with any other platform. Outsystems allows us not only to develop and deploy very quickly, but change orders and bug fixes are EXTREMELY easy. I've loved that aspect of the platform almost more than anything else. It has been possible for us to be able to keep our IT costs down with fewer developers, yet still deploy quality products in a timely manner.

I experience OutSystems as an easy to use tool which makes it possible to realize applications together with customer representatives along the journey towards realizing a new application. Sitting together behind the monitor and build the application they want/need, making modifications on the fly and see the result right away after 1-click-publish.

Very important for me as well is the fact that I can talk about the process a customer goes through and build the main processes of the application instead of building a data model and menu to access data in that model.

I experienced some limitations when migrating large amounts of data to OutSystems. OutSystems has a lot out-of-the-box features to import data from for example Excel sheets or use data from databases outside of the OutSystems environment. When I started to import >100K records, I faced throughput time of hours. Luckily extensions in several languages (C#, Java) are available in the community or can be custom made to get rid of that issue.

Take a serious look at it!

Just started using OutSystems (1/2 year), so few successes booked until now: generally replacing manual data processing. Also performing several time consuming validations (due to manual data retrieval from different systems) and presenting information from different systems in one application.

Fast solutions with a fraction of time. Easy to use, medium to master. Recommended best for when you don’t need to reinvent the wheel all over again. Large community.

Personalization can be challenging. If you what specific things or external connections that are not supported, you have to develop you solution in .net so you can integrate with Outsystems. Not actually a dislike, just a remark.

Fast client solution delivery

Since it is low-code, less development time needed

Complex solutions made easy

The Outsystems platform is the best way to reduce the time to market in all types of it projects, reduce direct and indirect costs and the overall number of elements of the development team is smaller then comparing with other it development platforms..

The offline capability of the platform is not yet the best way to mobile programming, but is growing in that direction. The silkui is other part that in my opinion needs more development, and growing to became more usability in larger projects sutch as insurance it.

Is a great product anf i enjoy workimg with it.

All inquiry and expertise bussness is being managed in outsystems platform based applications, and all the users are very happy with it. The time to market achived with the platform is another benefict to all the parts envolved in the development process. The number of developers is other benefict of outsystems platform.

- prototyping to developing quickly, in the same tool

- focus on business requirements instead of technical stuff

- integrated DevOps tool : truly publish in one clic

- front-office and back-office in the same tool

- code once and publish to Android and iOS

- do not under-estimate the learning curve for developers

- scarcity of Outsystems developers on the (Belgian) market

- sometimes, you have to follow the rules & constraints of the tool (but just minor issues so far)

- provider not keeping its promises for rapid delivery on first implementation

Developed a brand new and innovative mobile app in just 5 months with 1 developer.

Building a core HR system for planning and time registration,

This platform surprised me with the ease we can innovate and achieve the goals of the organization.

Difficult problems to solve now are easily solved by opening space to innovate and add value to the organization

The licensing format is strange for me and in some circumstances prevent to get the best architecture decisions.

we are very satisfied with this platform and with your power

We are using this platform to automate the status report generation, claims handling and precification

Outsytems makes it very easy to create new applications.

It is an easy to learn development tool. It provides a much faster development tool compared to traditional programming languages,

It offers multiple tools to start an application from scratch

It also provides tools to maintain your development environments.

Publication times. Compared to other technologies, such as traditional programming environments like C# or Java, using Outsystems will take you a little longer to deploy and publish new versions of your applications.

Licensing can be very expensive, making it only accessible to large corporations.

I have been working with Outsystems since 2010. I have used it mainly to work on Insurance business applications.

The most important benefit I realized is how fast we can deliver new applications or change them according to the new business requirements.

- Low-code development.

- Visual design and develop of applications

- Easy generation for iOS and Android

- High productivity

- Personal environment for free

- Plenty of available themes

- Personal environment subject to maintenance down with no option to avoid it.

- Applications built under personal environment add the "Not.Licensed.For.Production" text in the URL

- Paid version is not cheap

If you are looking for a real agile low-code development platform, OutSystems is for you. Its visual design and develop of applications is really cool, the generation for iOS and Android is quite easy and the productivity is really high in comparison with other similar tools. The personal environment for free and there are plenty of available themes.

- Develop of Work Order Management System for mobile.

- Develop of application for control and track of WODs (Workout of the Day) in a CrossFit gym.

- Develop of application to search for doctors, specialties and doctor locations (and the relationships between them)

I like the fact that you have the ability to develop, webapplications very fast. When you're done you're just a click away to publish the application. As this is hosted as a platform we need a lot less resources for operations and maintenance.

I would love to have the ability to use the managed Amazon cloud services "inside" the Outsystems platform. For example nosql databases, api gateways, function as a service and so on. I would also prefer that it would naturally scale horizontaly.

Make use of the Customer success program. They are skilled and eager to help.

Don't think you don't need to have programming skills to make it work, It's easy to use, but it's still a development platform.

We're in the process of building self service apps for our citizens. We will also focus on internal inovation when we get more experience. As for now, we're to early to realize any benefits.

The best of OutSystems (OS for short) is the speed at which you are able to set up your first professional looking app without sacrificing any of the complexity. I found that OS allows any developer to develop at his or hers level, but can develop nonetheless.

It is hard to say which really can be dislikes when the OS platform is really good as it is. However I would say that the high licensing fee (relatively) is a dislike when you want to create something for a small community, although the personal environment is able to tackle this problem somewhat.

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By using the OS platform we are able to add a structure to an usually already existing different framework such that overhead is reduced.

One of the aspects that I liked in outsystems is that it allows you to implement things in a short time. And it also allows me to be aware of certain basic principles of an application screen and its input and output components. And on which part of the screen these components should be placed.

In outsystems technology, there is a limitation when trying to implement certain complex functionalities when there are no widgets or mechanisms to accomplish this functionality. Or even that sometimes it takes a long time to discover them.

The outsystems platform is well-prepared to structure an application following a three tier architecture. The Core, Logic and Interface. This is a benefit that the platform provides.

OutSystems platform allows developers to meet business expectations in no time! Code has never been so easy to be visualized. The ramp-up for new developers is easy and developers are supported by a community that builds and share components to be used like a charm!

The licence pricing is high for a small-medium company.

It's a good platform to help your business achieve faster the digital challenges.

Customer resource planning system, integrating new applications and legacy systems, mobile business-to-customers applications.

Fast coding and fast upload, easy to understanding what i make, visual programming is the best!

some error message is not too clear to understanding (SQL Query mostly)

before make and comment or opinion, just try first and after that make the comment or opinion the platform. This is a great platform in actuality!

All business problems can be solving using Outsystems platform, the benefits is: better to manage the timing, fast development, fast SQL Query and integration to other Database.

OutSystems has built a product that immediately garners disbelief. As a developer and architect I generally do not trust or use visual coding solutions. I feel that many of my clients quickly hit limitations when I choose to implement low code solutions. OutSystems is the exception. Over the course of a few years I have yet to hit any limitation and I have been able to deliver all of the requirements, both functional and non-functional, that my customers have given me.

The only dislike I have is that OutSystems can be very confusing to use when you first get started. They have overcome this issue by providing many hours of constantly updated training sessions on their website. Their training team listens to feedback and provides new examples that are very easy to refer to throughout the course of a project.

Dynamic UX requirements with "immediate" due dates. Many of my customers change their minds on the layout and theme of their UX multiple times throughout the course of a project. OutSystems gives me the flexibility to separate my front end and back end seamlessly so I can provide change controls that would normally be refused late in the development process.

Low-Code allow us to deliver our applications faster and we also start using Agile Methodologies (SCRUM).

Sometimes when we are trying to put an application with a lot dependencies in production we need to refresh all of those dependencies. This processes should be faster.

Easy to learn, the go live is really quick and is ideal to implement digital transformation through any organization.

Digital transformation of some of our internal processes.

All features of OutSystems:

Native Support for Agile Development

Fully extensible through APIs

Complete security functionality

Full support for Batch Processes & Scheduling

Suited for custom application development

Support entire app development life-cycle

Complete mobile app deployment and monitoring etc.

Wait time to publish as concurrent publishing is not possible.

It's a great RAD tool with very good return on investment

Developing the software in less time with max ROI

I like the simplicity that Outsystems provides in order to create beautiful mobile apps and also Web Apps. I takes very few hours of study in order to be able to perform the hardest tasks in the platform.

The time that takes to put a solution from the Development Environment into the Production Environment. Service Center is also a bit old and doesn't look and feel like the remaining services of Outsystems.

Like I said, it's easy to use Outsystems as a platform to produce mobile and web apps since it doesn't require many hours of study to get along with the platform. It solves problems related with the need to have many developers for each and one of the mobile platforms. Outsystems allows the user to produce apps for Android and iOS in one single platform of development.

What I like the most is how rapidly you can deliver products to the customer, especially if you have to make some modifications or changes to the program. Our customers have been really impressed with how fast we deliver and I think that is one of the things that the customer feels the most.

Working with the Outsystems platform is also great. It is easy to use, especially since everything is so visual, and that makes it easy for the programmer to read through the project and for others to see what is going on.

The Outsystems community is also very good, if i post a question or a problem on the forum i usually I get a response within days, I have also been using the Forge a lot, getting ideas and supportapps for my projects.

Because some parts, for example operations and functions, are so well encapsulated it is sometimes hard to do certain things the way you knew before. But usually I just have to look the problem up on the forum and there I find the answer.

Outsystems offers a great variety of courses to take and webinars to attend to and I would recommend to anyone, who is interested in the platform, to take the advantage of that.

It can also be good to take a look at the apps that have been published to the Forge page to see how things have been done and get ideas.

I have been working several different projects. On one project the app is mainly used out in the field where users are gathering information using mobile devices. That project was fairly simple, the project was assigned on Wednesday and I delivered the app 95% ready 2 days later.

What I see as a benefit for the customer is that you can deliver the product quickly and at development time you can show the customer the product on screen, meaning that you are not showing the customer just a code but they are getting something to look at that they understand and can relate to.

Creating beautiful front-ends and solid back-ends while being able to manage and continuously improve all of its modules.

Easy to develop also means easily you can do mistakes. Developers should focus on a good architecture as a solid background for their developments otherwise refactoring will be required

OutSystems is a good tool to accelerate your business but It requires a solid architecture. If the intend is multiple applications that connect to each other make sure you have a good integration mechanism (ESB or similar). Good designs and front/ends will be the easiest part.

We're replacing our whole business with OutSystems and building Order to cash and arrival to departure applications.

Outstystems Is a low code platform that makes it easy to transform business processes in technolgy. It applies the last trend in technology in terms of user interface.

It integrates without effort external systems, databases, business cases and user interface.

With mobile capabilities, it is easy to develop IOS and ANDROID applications to be accessible offline

Sometimes we are a bit tied up to the way Outsystems does things. Since it does a lot of automatic stuff some you would like to make it other way. It should be easier to develop hand made code sometimes

Star making the right architecture right from the begin

User interface in multiple platforms, and heavy data processing via batch. Application to manage bad credit in banking, where it is used by more than 1000 users at a time.

We are a new customer and were very happy with the onboarding process and initial support. Developing in Outsystems is proving very valuable for us. We are using Outsystems mostly for integration purposes.

Sometimes you miss features and must hope that they will be implemented in a future version. This can sometimes be frustrating and can lead to the necessity of workarounds that er not alwyes the preferred solution

Do a proper POC, There are other vendors with similar offerings. For us Outsystems was the best fit.

Mostly integration issues. We are not yet implementing any customer facing applications because we have specialized partners for that.

You can develop something functional in a very short period of time with very little code.

There is a lot of information available with a lot of quality.

What I least like is the need to do many Querys.

With little code you can get something to work in a fast way

The problems solved are several, depending on the project in which I'm inserted, the biggest advantages of the platform are the procedures all well documented.

- Building once and deploy everywhere

- Lower risk and higher ROI

- Improved agility

- Elimination of the IT skills gap

- Scalable governance of multiple Apps

- Full lifecycle maintenance

- Better customer experience

Price. As an agile software development firm representative, we find some projects are lost due to the fact that the prospects cannot understand the benefits of such technology - ideally this should be suitable for all our projects, independent of the customer size.

Considering OutSystems as visionary, others should follow.

Simplifying the development process for coders, by automating manual processes, low-code development makes it easier to create flexible apps to get specific tasks done.