OutSystems

Score7.4 out of 10

213 Reviews and Ratings

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 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Platform Scalability
Apps developed by low-code platform must be scalable and capable of supporting large numbers of users
Category average: 8.5
Reusability
An internal repository where assets, modules, and even entire applications can be reused
Category average: 8.8
Platform User Management
Tools enabling admins to control user access and on-board and off-board users
Category average: 8.3

Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Drag-and-drop interface for building applications
Category average: 8.5
Platform Security
Security guardrails in place to help prevent malware, data breaches etc.
Category average: 8.5
Visual Modeling
Visual modeling tooling allows business users to design processes visually.
Category average: 7.6

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OutSystems is a low-code tool that helps us develop web and mobile applications quickly. with in no time, you can build a user-ready application for an organization. it also helps developers to write the code in a fast way and developers can track the changes that they have done in past time. Even OutSystems provides security warnings and security systems to make their solution more secure and user-friendly.

Pros

Security Management of application
User management and role management
UI development for the different devices
Code comparisons for the changes that have been done
forge components to build more functionalities in application

Cons

OutSystems need more functionalities to work with large binary files
We need components for binary file view in the application itself
AI functionalities like face detection and voice recognization could be a add on

Return on Investment

We need a large amount of money to make our application live
we need a minimum-size of the development team to build an application
Outsystems has evolved over the time that is a plus point for the future they bring new feature even every week
they have a documentation for learning the things

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Mendix, Power Apps, Django and React Native

Other Software Used

Mendix, React Native, Django

Nandhakumar Sureshbabu View profile

Trainee Programmer in Information Technology at Netlink Digital Solutions | Part of Xebia (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Database Connectivity
Integrating API

Cons

I feel, Everything is working fine.

Most Important Features

Drag and Drop
Scaf-Folding

Return on Investment

No negatives, As of now.

Carlos Alberto Aponte Roa View profile

Senior Application Integration Engineer in Information Technology at JDW Consulting Corporation (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Database integrations: These integrations allows users to speed up development processes by providing ready to use methods.
Error handling: Error handling is excellent. It is showing errors in real time while you are programming. Syntax errors are avoided and changes in variable names, input parameters and other definitions are automatically performed on site where it is referenced.
Fast deployment: Deployments between development and test, and test to production are fast and avoid many of the possible deployment errors caused by human intervention.

Cons

OutsySystems needs to improve in web services. Support SOAP 1.2 and also do a better handling of date types when they are used as input parameters in web services.
OutSystems needs to handle better integration with databases that do not have tables with a single field primary key defined. Some tables have a primary key composed of two or three fields and those are not well managed by OutSystems. I am specifically talking about the fact that in those cases inserts, updates and other database actions are not created.
Content management. Nowadays there is no available and reliable content management to develop web sites with CMS capabilities.

Most Important Features

Fast form creations
Integrations with SQL Databases
SOAP and REST Services integrations
Multiplatform Mobile Applications

Return on Investment

Development times are reduced almost 5 times.
Allow us to create 3 new mobile applications from scratch fast and better that were not possible before using different multiplatform application generators.
The applications can be easily maintain for different people reducing the knowledge transfer required in other programming languages

Other Software Used

Android Studio, Oracle Java SE, WebSphere Process Server

Nivaldo Pereira View profile

Senior Lead Engineer in Information Technology at NTT DATA Europe & LATAM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use OutSystems to develop mainly B2B Applications. I have used it in Banking, insurance, utilities, etc. <div>I used it to develop web and mobile applications. </div><div>I have used OutSystems to develop B2B apps in cases like creating apps for insurance, to provide Call Center staff and Processors the information that they need, when they need it to better serve customers. Also in Banking to create a B2C app for Mortgage Platform development. And others.

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Pros

Reactive Web Apps
Mobile Apps
Community
Documentation
Training Videos

Cons

Pricing
Documentation in multiple languages

Most Important Features

UI
Templates
Forge

Return on Investment

Job opportunities
Return on investment

Alternatives Considered

ASP.NET, MATLAB and SQL Server Integration Services

Other Software Used

MATLAB, .NET

William Vermeulen

Solution Architect in Sales at Product-League (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Drive innovation
Rapid great UX App development
Integrates with everything
Performant and scalable
Your goto modern application development environment

Cons

Going so fast the backlog dries up :)
macOS support for Service Studio and Integration Studio (although that will be there soon)

Return on Investment

Great UX saves the user time (direct costs) and frustations (indirect costs)
Business value gets met early on and promotes further adoption and helps cost reductions in general

Alternatives Considered

Mendix, Thinkwise Platform and Betty Blocks

Mendix

Quickbase

Temenos Quantum

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Platform Scalability

Reusability

Platform User Management

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Drag-and-drop Interfaces

Platform Security

Visual Modeling

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