Evaluating OutSystems: The #1 Low code development platform
What do you like best about the product?
OutSystems's rapid development capabilities and ease of use are among its best features. The platform has excellent application lifecycle management, especially with its CI/CD features. Easy-to-use templates, comprehensive guidelines for style, the TrueChange Panel for instant feedback , and robust error monitoring are just a few of the features that OutSystems' user-friendly interfaces offer for easy imlementation. It also enables easy integrations, as well as a vibrant community for assistance. All of these characteristics combine to create OutSystems an extremely effective and developer-friendly platform for creating modern and enterprise applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
From a management prespective, cost is a primary factor. Its expensive for small to medium sized enterprises. OutSystems mobile applications tend to be quite large in size, even when the requirements are minimal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When it comes to mobile applications, the wide range of plugins and resources helps avoid significant costs associated with physical devices. The platform's enhanced security and full control over data helps in easy migration and integrations from legacy systems. The predefined templates enables easy and robust application creation, helping clients release their products to market quickly.
Amazing!
What do you like best about the product?
Since i had started my IT journey with Outsytems Technology, it would be very easy to learn and do development as well.
For learning great it has very well guided paths and documentations , so anyone can learn easily.
Also Outsystems had an integration of external codes and databases, so we can say it provided all features as all languages.
Support : And as i worked on Administrator part over Parter company, sometime we have worked with outsystems support, they will provide resolution and address every querries very well within SLA.
And many amzing features that makes me to learn continuesly and dedicatedly called forum ranking and we have opportunity to submit our ideas.
Also our contribution will be rewarded by outsystems that makes anyone to learn more and contribute more.
What do you dislike about the product?
With my experience i didn't find anything that makes me unhappy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystems is continuously upgrading and providing new features.
It saves lot of time with respect to development, any application we can built with less time compared to coding languges.
Boon for developers
What do you like best about the product?
We can able to build everything so quickly. Best ever low code in terms security as wells as features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Everything good in Outsystems .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it all types of applications with clients. Especially I worked in banking and Gen AI related application.
The best low code platform
What do you like best about the product?
Speed of development
AI Assist development
Integrate with most of the existing system
Exceptional UI
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive for licensing.
I would suggest to have one more option between free and premium
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Banking
Supports building applications for both web and mobile platforms, keeping up with AI and allows for faster development of applications
What is our primary use case?
The main use case is that it is a platform as a service based on .NET. We can build any type of enterprise application, but not reporting tools. It supports multi-channel development for websites and mobile applications. We can create a single mobile application and generate iOS for the App Store and Android APK files for the Google Play Store. No recoding is required for conversion, only generation of iOS or APK files as needed.
I have mainly worked on financial and banking domains, and this platform supports all types of use cases. Additionally, with generative AI, OutSystems has started supporting it.
By using a backend database to store data brainstorming and consuming AWS APIs, our customers support the predictive AI mechanism. We can also go with generative AI because most of the tools are available in the market. OutSystems has a feature, IPP (Intellectual Property Protection), that allows for architectural property.
If someone wants to develop a website or web application in two to three months, they can develop that application in OutSystems. If they don't want to continue with OutSystems as a platform, they can convert the OutSystems source code into normal .NET code.
There is no extra cost required, and the application will work as a .NET source code base.
This is a possibility that the user or company can adapt this tool for development, and later, if they want to save costs, they can convert it to .NET. This is not possible with other tools.
How has it helped my organization?
OutSystems has integrated AI. We can improve the application tool. For example, if a user is creating a ticket, by using generative AI technology, we can create user interaction inputs. Users can input case IDs and their contacts. Based on that, the large language model (LLM) connects with the OutSystems vector databases and is capable of analyzing and understanding what you want in natural language.
So, some sort of predictive analysis. Based on that, the program can accept the outputs.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in support. They maintain a two-day SLA for everything. 48 hours is very high.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is supported by default by OutSystems on the cloud. Let's say we are buying 10 GB or 20 GB of hardware, and our database is near failure. We can request them to increase the sizes from the backend. The OutSystems cloud platform is based on AWS and installed on AWS. So whatever AWS supports is supported by OutSystems.
If we need any extra features, like using S3, OutSystems can integrate with it, but extra licensing costs are required. From the scalability and security point of view, everything is supported by OutSystems, and it is a managed service. Based on that, they are charging.
How are customer service and support?
If I face any problem during application development, I can create tickets based on the category by logging into my account. There is an SLA of two to three days based on the ticket's priority, and the team responds accordingly.
Most of the time, they resolve all issues. To speed up the process, they call if there is a high-priority ticket. We connect with them and fix the issue collaboratively via phone.
I will not rate it ten, though, because they are maintaining a two-day SLA for everything. 48 hours is very high.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not spend my time on any other platform. For the last ten years, I have only been involved with OutSystems.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is not difficult because everything is based on integration. A set of databases, like vector databases, and things like that require extra hardware and software configuration. But integrating with OutSystems is very easy.
What was our ROI?
There is ROI. To be specific, it's purely for the developers. It's reducing the cost of development. There is a 100% guarantee the platform is promoting code on the server with accuracy. Logical errors are a different thing, but the source code generated is secure. Anyone can understand the source code easily. We are providing security as a visual development tool.
By using the visual development tool, there is no need to remember the syntax. Everything is available as drag and drop. It just depends on remembering how and when we need to use a node for development purposes. Let's assume a project in .NET, native .NET, or Java takes around 12 months. In OutSystems, we can build that application in four to five months.
So, twice or even more. This is the area where we can improve and save money. But definitely, this is a highly in-demand tool, and the cost is very high. It's completely dependent on the vendor. Some companies are going with the cloud environment, and some organizations are using the on-premises environment. In the cloud environment, everything is managed by OutSystems. They provide some credentials, and the company can start developing multiple applications on the same cloud license.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is high. I saw on the website that the minimum license is around $4,000 per month.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate it a ten out of ten. I would definitely recommend this tool.
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What do you like best about the product?
Easy development
Quick delivery
Easy maintenance
What do you dislike about the product?
The constant changes in licensing
Not very flexible on complex projects
Vendor lock-in
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pretty much every business need that comes up, we solve it by building a corresponding app in Outsystems
Most of the cases the time to market and prices are better than other solutions
A great low-code platform that has a superior time-to-market from other technologies.
What do you like best about the product?
Superior time-to-market. Faster delivery, from development to deployment. Fits perfectly with agile methodologies. Rapid adaptation to change. Community support is amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Branching strategies are hard to acomplish. Code reviewing is complex and a lot different from other technologies which are file-oriented. Library/component versioning/isolation is not possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast delivery cycle, allows you to get quick feedback from target users and business stakeholders.
Flexible, agile and scalable
What do you like best about the product?
It is a platform that allows you to build, test and deploy mobile and web applications quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe is some backgrounds process that needs to write in onpremise network
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communications problems between OutSystems and our network.
OutSystems helped me quickly investigate and resolve the problem.
OutSystems also followed up on the situation.
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What do you like best about the product?
OutSystems Application development is very quick and we can develop apps very quickly, and and we can develop complex logic in applications , do integration with emails and other apis easily. implementation is very easy, less experince developers also can quickly learn outsystems.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing dislikes about outsystems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i am developining an insurance application, where i need to send emails to users frequently and this very much easy to implement in outsystems, and also there are complex math calculations in my applications these are possible easily because of outsystems, and email template design is also easy, in my application there is a functionality to read text files i achebied that because of outsystems.
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What do you like best about the product?
Outsystems help to manage the deployments easily to the QA and Production Environments.
It also helps to quickly develop business processes in OutSystems.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a limitation of AO's for small companies because they they exceed the limit then they have to change the payment plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to quickly develop web or mobile apps to fulfill business requirements. Offers different environments to deploy the application from dev to production. It also help to mange the application for different customers/tenants withing the single application.
