because it is a very reliable platform that allows you to develop solutions very quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to install and maintain.
Very reliable
Very easy to learn
Rapid development and maintenance of applications
What do you dislike about the product?
The availability of more UX/UI components to speed up development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
integration with other systems which facilitates the digital transformation of organizations
Introduction to low code software development with OutSystems
What do you like best about the product?
I absolutely love the library of pre-built components that OutSystems has to offer. Being able to create functional interfaces is so much easier compared to other development methods, and having access to existing widgets, templates and actions makes our code both more robust and easier to maintain in the future. The Forge store allows us to grab unwanted components from applications we've already built rather than starting from scratch, which can save a lot of time! Even if all these features weren't amazing enough, it's always great to be part of such an active community where your questions are answered in no time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like that the development environment within OutSystems, Service Studio, has a slower response time than higher code IDEs. In addition, custom features that are not included in the standard features can be difficult to build and time consuming to create. Finally, it seems that certain community-driven enhancements are overlooked in favor of more profitable short-term goals instead of being prioritized.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm benefiting from OutSystems because it helps me reduce costs and increase revenue by enabling me to deliver digital products faster with fewer resources. This agility gives me a competitive advantage and ensures that I stay ahead of technological advances.
Well-Rounded App Development PaaS With Enterprise-Class Support Structures
What do you like best about the product?
OutSystems' low-code model allows junior developers to learn faster, and senior developers who are new to the platform to start delivering value more rapidly than with other software stacks. OutSystems provides built-in accelerators to speed-up/automate common development tasks, like loading data from a spreadsheet into a database table, or implementing new REST APIs. OutSystems has a global presence, allowing us to engage developers from around the world, bolstering our local development team with additional capacity.
What do you dislike about the product?
OutSystems has tools and best practices (such as TrueChange, Discovery, and AI Mentor Studio) that make recommendations on how we can improve code quality and increase architectural agility. However, the platform doesn't provide a mechanism to enforce these standards, so often the recommendations are ignored and we need to manually check reports to monitor code quality. OutSystems enables lightning-fast application development and deployment, but without governance to enforce its own recommendations, applications can quickly become a sprawling mass of cross-domain dependencies that are difficult to disentangle. Running large teams with multiple developers working on an app can create challenges with code-contention. OutSystems is pretty good at merging versions, but it does sometimes get it wrong, with one developer over-writing another's changes. OutSystems version comparison is useful, but needs to provide a mechanism to compare changes across multiple versions to make it obvious when and who changed each component. My general experience with OutSystems Support is very positive, but is inadequate communication when they are working on P1 production incidents. We often don't know whether a problem is being looked at until after they have already found a solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OutSystems decreases time to market by providing templates for patterns commonly used in web apps. OutSystems increases productivity by automating frequent development tasks, and provides single click publishing and deployments.
OutSystems- Low code/ No code
What do you like best about the product?
OutSystems is a low-code development platform that enables organizations to rapidly build and deploy enterprise-grade applications with minimal coding required.
One of the key strengths of OutSystems is its ability to integrate with a wide range of technologies, including databases, web services, and other enterprise systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are no dislikes for OutSystems from my end. It is a good platform for enterprise grade application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrating new applications with existing IT infrastructure can be complex and time-consuming, requiring significant development effort and technical expertise. OutSystems simplifies this process by providing pre-built connectors and integration tools that enable organizations to quickly and easily integrate new applications with existing systems.
Custom plugins, good performance, and easy to manage
What is our primary use case?
We have been actively following the below strategy for our application development:
- Core applications and systems (SaaS-based external products)
- Bespoke Applications (using Microsoft Azure and Dotnet Application development technologies and tools)
- Quick turnaround applications for web and mobile (Outsystems)
- Portal knowledge and corporate portals (WordPress, SharePoint, DocuWare)
- Cloud Platform (Azure and AWS)
- Support within two hours on the community portal
- Access to native functionalities (camera, geolocation, QR code reader, and access to file systems, address book, and device calendar)
- Supports custom branding
- Supports custom plugins
- Silk UI response framework
- Big focus on performance
- Best practice for CSS and JS
- Tested on several modern browsers and devices
- Support and community (52000+ members, 500+ projects, and two-hour response time)
How has it helped my organization?
The OutSystems platform has improved the quick turnaround for application development and deployment.
It provides for faster development and better software releases.
The solution helps reduce costs and gives us an efficient budget.
The ease of management is great.
The product has good reliability and has improved business continuity with increased resilience.
We have a lot of choices through open-source standards.
The product gives us better customer experiences.
There is access to native functionalities (including the camera, geolocation, QR code reader, and access file systems, address books, and device calendars).
It supports custom branding and custom plugins and has a Silk UI Response Framework.
There is a big focus on performance.
The product has best practices for CSS and JS.
It has been tested on several modern browsers and devices.
There is support and a good community (52000+ members across 500+ projects and a two-hour response time).
What is most valuable?
Below are the solution's most valuable features:
- Device support (Android 4.0+, iOS 7+, Windows 8.1+)
- Access to native functionalities (camera, geolocation, QR code reader, access to file systems, address books, and device calendars)
- Custom branding
- Custom plugins
- Silk UI Response Framework
- Performance
- Best practices for CSS and JS
- Tested on several modern browsers and devices
- Great support and strong community (52000+ members, 500+ projects, and a two-hour response time)
- Online developer training
- Integration Studio
- Service Studio
- Service Center
- Deployment services
- Faster development and better software releases
- Reduce costs/improves budget
- Ease of management
- Reliability/improved business continuity with resilience
- Choice through open-source standards
- Better customer experiences
What needs improvement?
Areas of improvement include:
- Offering workflow solutions
- Adding event-driven architecture
- Usage of PWA, Responsive, and SPA architecture for front-ends.
- Better documentation and deployment tools. The packaging features need to be standardized using DevOps.
- Vertical Tabs (there is a Vertical Tabs problem: Entities.Orientation)
- Data Grid improvements and UI improvements
- There are performance issues in table data using React
- They need to make improvements in various UI assets.
- There should be automation of logs
- We have performance issues while fetching bulk data
- Need integration with core systems and integration with Outlook email
For how long have I used the solution?
This is a no-code platform solution. We have been using this for the past five years. We've used it for building solutions for web applications and mobile applications. There is a quick turnaround for applications that need to be implemented and deployed for business.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution offers good stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
There are good scalability options. However, scalability can improve.
How are customer service and support?
The solution offers excellent customer support and responses can be expected within two hours from the community forum to help with resolution.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
This is the first time we are using a no-code solution end-to-end.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. The process is good enough and elaborate documentation and help in community forums can help the process.
What about the implementation team?
This was an in-house implementation from the development team.
What was our ROI?
ROI and TCO are great.
With the pressure to deliver new customer and employee digital experiences and having to adjust existing enterprise systems to cope with the market changes, 75% of app development would use low-code platforms. Outsystems has the highest ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The setup cost, pricing, and licensing costs are competitive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have not evaluated any other options.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
Life changer experience
What do you like best about the product?
How fast it is to do most of things such as implementing complex developments, and specially doing frontend.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having specific ways to solve problems that could be solved more easily with 2 or 3 lines of code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reusability problems, fast developing and reactive widgets that are easily customized. It makes my life easier because i'm a frontend developer so most of the widgets that I have to build are already or partially made.
It saves alot of time developing an app in Outsystems as compared to writing code as a developer
What do you like best about the product?
Low Code and NoCode is the best thing. Maximum output with minimum effort by the developers out there. Coming from an IT background. I can assure you that its the best learning product one can have
What do you dislike about the product?
As per my little experience sometimes it takes a lot of time for the community to reply for a solution. Also the certification cost is very prohibitive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of the previous environments.
Providing solutions by showing the errors as a developer.
The scalable and secure solution for enterprise application development
What do you like best about the product?
Since implementing OutSystems in our organization, we have seen a significant improvement in efficiency and speed in delivering high-quality applications. This development platform is straightforward, so it has allowed us to create applications quickly without having to worry about code complexity. In addition, it has many integrated tools that simplify and speed up application development. One of the main advantages we found is its ability to generate native mobile and responsive web applications without the need to code specifically for each platform. Another attractive aspect is its scalable architecture, allowing us to handle large amounts of users and data without any problems. In addition, it offers excellent security for our applications and gives us peace of mind regarding compliance with standards and regulations.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is the main obstacle, especially for organizations with limited IT department budgets. Also, although it is easy to use, it still requires programming skills for optimal use, making it a bit difficult to adopt the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has significantly benefited my organization by allowing us to develop and deploy business applications faster and with a Marie quality; this substantially improves operational efficiency and increases customer satisfaction. The platform has helped us reduce the time and resources required for application development, allowing us to focus on other business areas. In addition, the ease of use and the ability to generate mobile and responsive web applications will enable us to reach a broader audience on multiple devices.
Outsystems: nice Low-code platform
What do you like best about the product?
The speed and quality of the applications that I can produce per our business demands. We can then leapfrog our competitors.
Also, the BTP is an excellent asset in encouraging the automation of workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited community + not easy to integrate third parties services (such as Google sheets, Apple Login, etc..)
Moreover, regarding databases, it should be more open to other kind of DB and DBMS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1- Rapid productivity throughout the application lifecycle: You create your apps and integrate them in weeks or less, not months.
2- Speed and code: Developing with a visual model while retaining complete flexibility to integrate custom code enables extensibility, efficiency, and accelerated development.
3- Multexperience development: Develop an application that can run on any device or platform. Risks, development time and costs are significantly reduced with error-free, automated deployments.
4- Agile oriented
Start in IT with Low Code
What do you like best about the product?
I've been working for an IT company and OutSystems since I graduated from university. I'd never seen anything create applications as quickly as OutSystems.
Now, after 8 years, I really don't remember how fast programming is in other languages.
The best thing about OutSystems for me is the fast programming and the ability to be at the customer and show them something after a 1-hour meeting and validate with them if it is what they want.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of commitment that many of the guys who put plugins on the forge have with the quality and maintainability of the components they provide. OutSystems, in my opinion, should establish some ground rules for components before making them available to developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Specifically, the time to market issue. OutSystems helps us deliver faster and achieve time to market more easily with our customers. I now that with other programing languages this processes are slower.
