I use the solution since it is a low-code platform. I am more into the BFSI domain. Most of the projects that have dealt with revolve around the banking sector. I have used the product for web development and mobile applications. My company has worked on a mobile app for a bank's core processes. My company took care of the website part of the bank with the help of OutSystems. My company also operates with other clients who operate in the banking sector. My company has also dealt with the insurance domain and mutual funds.
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Offers great user support and community engagement
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
The product's high price is an area of concern, where improvements are required. OutSystems should play around with the market or with its competitors. A lot of the clients feel that the license cost of OutSystems is way too high than the prices of its competitors.
In the future, I want OutSystems to offer support for which they should not charge any money from users. If a client is new to OutSystems and has taken a license for two or three years, I believe that the solution should provide free support for a year.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OutSystems for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
When it comes to the scalability part and its impact on our organization's growth, I can say that the development and implementation timelines are minimalistic, which is something that is good. It is pretty easy to implement anything that a specific client wants with the help of OutSystems. It doesn't take years to implement something with OutSystems since such areas can be dealt with quickly.
From migration to adding internal applications is easy with the product. The platform is very adjustable based on the requirements. The customization levels offered by the product are good. It is possible to distribute the loads in OutSystems.
My company deals with around ten customers who use the product.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have experience with high-code platforms like Java and Clutter.
How was the initial setup?
The product's setup is more of a PnP procedure, making it an easy process. I feel that the setup process can be a bit complex at an architectural level.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The number of people required for the deployment and maintenance of the product depends on the product that is used. If a business entity has multiple business units, it takes a longer time to implement the product. In general, my company has a team of around 15 to 20 people to take care of the implementation process.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The clients who use OutSystems feel that it is a bit expensive.
There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to OutSystems. It is an expensive product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I don't see any differences between Java and Clutter or OutSystems since I use different products depending on the requirements of our company's clients. I don't get the clients to choose a particular platform, but my company recommends OutSystems. Not all of our company's clients prefer OutSystems.
What other advice do I have?
The product's scalability is very good. The tool offers easy integration with multiple platforms.
The product's features and speeding up the application development process stem from the fact that the capabilities provided by the tool are not limited. The whole platform, user experience, and implementation time are good.
The interface of OutSystems has impacted our company's development workflow since it is very user-friendly. I rate the product's interface a four out of five.
Though OutSystems is an expensive product. If an organization wants better dynamics when it comes to a particular platform, I would recommend OutSystems to such companies.
In terms of user support and community engagement, I rate the tool a ten out of ten.
The value and positive impact experience from the use of the solution stems from the fact that it works very well when it comes to load balancing. The product is also easily configurable.
I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.
Has the flexibility to quickly integrate with almost anything in the system, and the ability to connect with databases
What is our primary use case?
OutSystems has use cases in the health care, accounting, banking, insurance, and automotive industries.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user interface, the flexibility to quickly integrate with almost anything in the system, and the ability to connect with databases.
What needs improvement?
The solution's testing framework needs to be improved, and the workflow should be slightly more mature. The solution should use generative AI capabilities.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OutSystems for nine years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
OutSystems is a scalable solution. The solution is auto-scalable regarding the number of users or the volume of data.
I have created an application which is being used by almost 2,00,000 users. That was done for some kind of enterprise wide application where it is being used across the globe. That's the maximum number of users I have created an application for.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support is quite useful, but it takes a good amount of time to get a solution from them. The technical support is not so quick and could be faster.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented the solution through an in-house team. Depending on the size of the application, the solution's deployment hardly takes a few minutes.
What was our ROI?
With the solution, I have seen around 80% to 90% increase in the return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
OutSystems is a very expensive solution, and it has to be cheaper. Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution.
What other advice do I have?
I have used the solution for both web and mobile application development. In the healthcare domain, we used the solution to create a mobile application related to patient care. We also used the solution to create web applications, including banking and in-house enterprise applications.
It hardly takes around six resources, including developers, for a typical project which goes for around six months. I would recommend the solution to other users. I rate the solution a nine out of ten for user support and community engagement.
Since I've worked with the solution for nine years, I'm well aware of its visibility. I will promote the solution if the business needs align with what can be achieved with OutSystems.
Overall, I rate OutSystems an eight out of ten.
OutSystems: An outstanding platform, if you know what you're doing
What do you like best about the product?
Development of business applications as well as customer facing applications is fast and relatively simple to do in OutSystems. Prototyping is easy and it takes a lot of standard development work out of a developer's hands. This means more time to work on parts of software that really distinguish your application from others. If you set up the architecture in the right way, development is even more faster because the reuse of components.
OutSystems has a Forge which offers a variety of plugins that are mostly free to use. This makes it easy to extend your factory and you don't have to program functionality yourself.
OutSystems offers template screens, web applications and even mobile apps. This is a great way to start building applications fast. The components from OutSystemsUI are easy to use and offer all the functionality needed, in most cases. And if not, search the Forge or build it yourself.
Learning OutSystems is easy. It offers a lot of (online) courses and guided paths. When following and completing a guided path, developers are able to put their knowledge into practice. Ofcourse, as always, they'll still make mistakes and will get better when gaining experience.
The OutSystems Community offers a lot of support. Reactions are fast and fellow developers often create little pieces of sample software in order to help. That's a very big advantage. Community members are all about helping everyone making to most of their experience with OutSystems and delivering value to their business. Not only the community members, but also OutSystems customer support reacts fast en is very willing to help.
Last but not least, OutSystems has AI infused into the platform. With the help of AI, OutSystems makes suggestions for the next component to use in a flow when developing applications, based on best practices and frequently used pattens. Tools like AI Mentor Studio help to monitor the quality of your factory and technical debt.
All and all, it's an outstanding platform.
OutSystems has a Forge which offers a variety of plugins that are mostly free to use. This makes it easy to extend your factory and you don't have to program functionality yourself.
OutSystems offers template screens, web applications and even mobile apps. This is a great way to start building applications fast. The components from OutSystemsUI are easy to use and offer all the functionality needed, in most cases. And if not, search the Forge or build it yourself.
Learning OutSystems is easy. It offers a lot of (online) courses and guided paths. When following and completing a guided path, developers are able to put their knowledge into practice. Ofcourse, as always, they'll still make mistakes and will get better when gaining experience.
The OutSystems Community offers a lot of support. Reactions are fast and fellow developers often create little pieces of sample software in order to help. That's a very big advantage. Community members are all about helping everyone making to most of their experience with OutSystems and delivering value to their business. Not only the community members, but also OutSystems customer support reacts fast en is very willing to help.
Last but not least, OutSystems has AI infused into the platform. With the help of AI, OutSystems makes suggestions for the next component to use in a flow when developing applications, based on best practices and frequently used pattens. Tools like AI Mentor Studio help to monitor the quality of your factory and technical debt.
All and all, it's an outstanding platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ofcourse, like most platforms, there are also a couple of downsides. While the Forge offers a wide range of plugins that you can use, the quality of support on these plugins varies. Even for some plugins that are supported by OutSystems. On top of that, one would expect that some functionality which is considered standard nowadays, would be out of the box available but isn't. Ofcourse, it can be created yourself but still.
Error messages aren't always clear and it doesn't take all work out of your hands. You still have to think really carefully about things like UX and architecture. OutSystems lets you create software very fast and because of that, it can also let you make a mess very fast.
Finally, the licencing costs are high, especially for smaller projects and companies and they increase disproportionate.
Error messages aren't always clear and it doesn't take all work out of your hands. You still have to think really carefully about things like UX and architecture. OutSystems lets you create software very fast and because of that, it can also let you make a mess very fast.
Finally, the licencing costs are high, especially for smaller projects and companies and they increase disproportionate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We bought OutSystems as innovation platform. It's mainly used to digitalize, optimize and increase efficiency for internal business processes
Easy to learn, offers ability to deploy rapidly, enabling changes to applications every two weeks
What is our primary use case?
We used OutSystems to develop different applications, especially those concerning environmental and sustainability governance.
How has it helped my organization?
OutSystems has streamlined or optimized our application development process.
The primary benefit of using OutSystems was our ability to deploy rapidly. We could deploy changes to our applications every two weeks.
Mostly, it was web applications that we created, utilizing the responsive aspect of OutSystems for traditional web applications.
What is most valuable?
It was easy to learn. OutSystems provides different tutorials depending on the user's expertise, so even beginners can quickly get up to speed.
Moreover, OutSystems integration with our database and internal systems was easy.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in versioning. It can be challenging to keep track of what changes should be committed, especially when many developers are working in one environment.
So, I would like to see support for different version models especially when multiple developers are working on the same module, it can be confusing to know which changes need to be deployed when comparing and merging codes.
In future releases, A built-in chart feature would be useful. We had to use Google Charts plugin for dashboards. Native support for charts, like bar and pie charts, would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
With OutSystems, my company started working with it in 2017.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. It is pretty stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
There were around 20 end users using this solution in my company.
How are customer service and support?
Another team in my company used to contact OutSystems for support.
What about the implementation team?
It was another team that handled the deployment process.
We used the cloud-based version, hosted in AWS.
What was our ROI?
OutSystems' low-cost approach has positively impacted our productivity, because we were able to develop faster with OutSystems, enabling us to implement many changes during our sprint.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is very high price.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Use Outsystems to quickly develop solutions for your business!
What do you like best about the product?
You can use Outsystems to quickly and easily create mock-ups, webservices and full blown web applications.
There's even an AI feature which helps you with suggestions on how to create your logic.
There's even an AI feature which helps you with suggestions on how to create your logic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The very expensive licensing and the fact that if you want to stop using Outsytsems, it means you can't efficiently build upon the code generated by Outsystems, basically putting your progress on the project to a stop.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystems helps us to quickly create internal applications for the business while simultaniously creating customer facing applications.
Comparative difference in various features by Outsystems
What do you like best about the product?
The amount of time it takes to create a new application screen is speedy. Buttons and forms are beneficial to get a pre-structured UI.
When we talk for Client action and server action it is very easy to understand someone's logic and the debugging UI is too easy.
The customer support of Outsystems is great!!
When we talk for Client action and server action it is very easy to understand someone's logic and the debugging UI is too easy.
The customer support of Outsystems is great!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Data security: When I say data security I mean the role hierarchy, eg we have a multiples roles and the reoles are in form of a tree it becoles very comples to have object, field and record level security with respect to data isolation from other users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The amount of time it takes to build a product is very low comparatively, with easy customization and fit for the business use cases.
Integrate and develop business logic with ease.
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with external DB
extraordinary capbilitites of BPT Timers
extraordinary capbilitites of BPT Timers
What do you dislike about the product?
Automation Testing tool can be tricky to implement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystems is rapid development tool which can help the business to grow fast and deliver the right product at right time.
Outsystems, Speeding up the process and saving time.
What do you like best about the product?
Outsystems is helping speed up development.
What do you dislike about the product?
Due to it being made for a wide use case there are some of the finer things that need work for specific use cases, some more control over UI elements would help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystems is helping in moving legacy applications to a modern web app using APIs.
Outsystems is an outstanding entry platform for new Developers.
What do you like best about the product?
-Outsystems is a fantastic gateway for new developers to learn web development as it easy to learn, implement features and use as you can see your work quickly on the web after publishes.
-Quick turnaround time for building and deploying applications.
-Outsystems forums community is really great for supoort and answering all your doubts and questions.
-Easily integrate with many external API's and applications.
-Large team can work simultaneously without getting their code overwritten by compare and merge functionality.
-Outsystems is Used by large teams everyday for building applications for clients.
-Easy deployments and simple steps to validate code and deploy to multiple environments and can happen everyday if needed.
-Quick turnaround time for building and deploying applications.
-Outsystems forums community is really great for supoort and answering all your doubts and questions.
-Easily integrate with many external API's and applications.
-Large team can work simultaneously without getting their code overwritten by compare and merge functionality.
-Outsystems is Used by large teams everyday for building applications for clients.
-Easy deployments and simple steps to validate code and deploy to multiple environments and can happen everyday if needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
-Oustsyems forums and community support can be larger, more prompt and robust than it currently is.
-When large number of developers working on same feature, can cause code overwrite issues, need a stronger or better set of rules to ensure no code overwrite happens.
-When large number of developers working on same feature, can cause code overwrite issues, need a stronger or better set of rules to ensure no code overwrite happens.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ousystems helps in creating completely new applications from scratch according to user needs and also helps in tranforming existing codebase/logic written in different programming language to Outsystems with the help of user stories. It also helps in creating Proof Of Concepts to see if new projects are viable or not.
Best Low Code Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and fast development of app and robust.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing such it is a grreat platform and uses are best
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast development
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