OutSystems

Outsystems Game Changer for the City of Shawnee

Kommentare: Excellent outcomes. Product was a game changer for the City of Shawnee by replacing our legacy applications in less than 2 years.

Vorteile:

Rapid Application Development Model; Time to develop and deploy.

Nachteile:

Costing; AO model. Currently using only 66% of AO's.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Microsoft SharePoint und Salesforce Sales Cloud

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Product performance and Rapid Application Development model ; Mobile Device programming ability

Best in Class Low Code Enterprise Class Platform

Kommentare: We have been very pleased with the overall results, we have found that once applications are built, they are extremely easy to update and push out new relieases.

Vorteile:

The software has all of the Development, DevOps and Management capabilities all built into one single platform.

Nachteile:

The software has so many features and capabilities that it takes a while to learn how to navigate and use effectively.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Mendix und Appian

Warum OutSystems gewählt wurde: The OutSystems Platform was integrated and the pricing model was very simple to understand and consume.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: The Outsystems product has better features and overall capabilities. There is no lock in to the product. The company is well funded and well managed.

Suficient

Kommentare: We are using Outsystems to create insurance related apps.

Vorteile:

You can build basic sw in little time SoC is easy to implement Easy to monitor issues

Nachteile:

Search functionality isn't user friendly It "crashes" too many times, specially when detaching eSpace tabs(originating another instance of outsystems) Has the number of components grow inside, lets say an action, the "messier" looks

one of the best low code platforms in the market

Kommentare: overall, a very positive experience with the platform, the vendor personnel involved in the sale activity and also the community that was very helpfiul.

Vorteile:

it is a very easy to get started product with very minimal or no prior programming experience. In addition, the platform is very intuitive and self guided and hence one can do very well on the platform if they know their use case and have a good systematic approach to leveraging the platform. There is also a very active community to help and the vendor personnel are also there to handhold along the way.

Nachteile:

very honestly speaking, there is nothing that I dislike about the platform. It is very intuitive and one can learn to use and leverage the platform very easily and quickly.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Kony

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: when we did a use case with both products side by side, we found the user interface of outsytems to be simpler and at the same time it was more self guided for a non-technical personnel.

Best Low Code platform out there

Kommentare: Despite the pricing category, OutSystems get the job done in a oustanding way, It's really a fun and intuitive way to get your heads into programming.

Vorteile:

What make us choose OutSystems was it's simplicity and the speed up, when you are developing new projects. The ability to use the same base code for both mobile platforms was a big thumbs up too. We also contacted a indenpendent code review company to check the generated code base and they liked what they saw, it's generated with good pratices and putting the performance in the right place.

Nachteile:

Definatelly it's cost. It's a very expansive platform and it's only suited for big companies. They offer a free option but it's just for test purposes.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Warum OutSystems gewählt wurde: We were trying to get a more easy to use/develop platform.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: The easy of use, support and also the community behind it.

Quick development and Quality Deployment

Kommentare: Outsystems has allowed our team to very quickly develop and release a production application in a matter of months with the inclusion of business units testing each feature along the way. It allows us to really adapt to an iterative development approach.

Vorteile:

Outsystems uses the latest UI designs so we can focus on building out the business process. We are able to deploy in on environment and then quickly send it over to a test environment for our customers to be engaged in the SDLC. Code changes and security enable quality deployment into our production environment and minimizes any breaks in our application.

Nachteile:

You can sometimes reach a roadblock and the customer support might take a bit longer to answer your questions if you did not purchase the higher SLA support package. Certain bugs can occur when using the Service Studio but patches usually fixes it in a timely manner.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Mendix

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Sales and demo was done very well. The personal environment to run a free environment and make a POC app also helped us make a decision.

TPM. S&OP and Retail Execution made easy

Kommentare: We've streamlined the whole Trade Promotion Management process, putting all into one platform, getting rid of e-mails and excel sheets and integrating all the info backwards towards production/demand planning and forward towards retail execution monitoring and compliance

Vorteile:

Time to deploy, ease of adaptation, customer focus from 3rd party vendor, user interface and user experience

Nachteile:

It's not cheap but if you consider that time to develop also adds a cost, then it's a fair deal

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Retail Execution

Warum OutSystems gewählt wurde: Much more user friendly, much more tailored to the whole process needs, much more complete in terms of functionality

Zuvor genutzte Software: Retail Execution

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Ease to implement and to adopt from a very broad set of users and profiles

OutSystems is a nice platform to learn how to make applications in less time with less people

Vorteile:

The ease of use. It is easy to use this platform, but hard to master.

Nachteile:

The license model. We made choices regarding the licensing model (application objects) that were bad architecture chooses we had to fix later on.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Mendix

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Integration with our integration landscape in .NET.

Great to use if you can get past implementation

Kommentare: Overall good - the international scale of the business and partner means that we can look to create a global centre of excellence using a single product

Vorteile:

Easy to use to build attractive apps quickly

Nachteile:

Difficult to do an on premise implementation and dealt with disaster recovery

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Mendix

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Easier to work with and more professional. True global scale and experience particularly compared to Fliplet. Interesting roadmap.

Implementing with outsystems

Kommentare: very good, it has the ability to solve a lot of our business problems once we have upskilled

Vorteile:

the speed of delivery the ease of scoping our project from vision to reality the look and feel the functionality

Nachteile:

the licensing model and the cost of application objects, hard to justify future projects

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Appian

Gründe für den Wechsel zu OutSystems: Cost and functionality provided, there is more freedom with outsystems

Revolutionary Low Code Technology

Vorteile:

The flexibility to adapt and integrate with various current technologies and the ease of use even for the new users. The optimal performance for developing a application and what not with AI suggestions and Accelerators to it makes them a unique yet bucks worth product.

Nachteile:

The cost for licensed version seems a bit pricey. Of course, it is worth for it's product quality and efficiency and even experience that with free of cost but as we tend to like the product, it tempts as to upgrade to licensed version.

Outsystems Review

Vorteile:

Easy and fast to deliver the app, beautiful designs.

Nachteile:

The price is high that makes it hard to get normal customers.

Built-to-change

Kommentare: After spending some time working with other web technologies, such as .NET, python and Java, it's difficult not to feel some enthusiasm while developing a brand new web app with the OutSystems platform. But why? ... some may ask. Well, if you spend 5 minutes looking at its IDE (Service Studio), you will quickly understand. The way the fundamental concepts are organized on it - Data Model, Business Logic, Interfaces and Processes - they easily allow you to materialize the business requirements into each layer, creating a thriving application. At the end, if the business needs change or if requires some adjustments, the complexity to change the application, in order to be compliant with the needs, is far more simple with this technology. In a nutshell, it's a real built-to-change technology.
Driving the focus to my latest experience with the platform at ENGIE, the applications developed in OutSystems are actually allowing the end-users to perform both day-ahead and intra-day nominations to the Electricity Transmission System Operators (TSO) - Elia and TenneT.
In one hand, knowing how critical it is to have an energy imbalance of zero all the time, in order to avoid any energy disrupt of the network grid, and in the other hand, given the floating energy market prices and the unexpected interventions to the power plants, it's critical that the applications be constantly responsive, enabling the end-users to adjust the Production Plans and to communicate these changes to the TSO within 15 minutes.
This kind of business responsiveness, allied to the fact of having new versions of the applications going live every 2 months, demands a zero-downtime during each application deployment. With the OutSystems platform, the goal of having a Go-Live without any runtime interruption can be easily achieved.

Vorteile:

Well, the motto is not mine, but I surely have to apply it in here: "The IDE of my dreams!" This is certainly a good reason to drive the adoption of the platform. Any developer keened to fulfill the business needs on time will surely understand the advantages of using it for development. The simplicity allied to the legibility of the written code in this IDE, reduce the gap between the business requirements and its materialization into lines of code. For last but not least, the built-in application Lifetime - which is part of the platform - is surely a gem for any DevOps team, providing them a powerful mean to control and to revert any deployment between environments.

Nachteile:

Knowing that the road to perfection always ends up in the horizon, there are definitely two points that should be mentioned: the first concerns the lack of legibility of the application's Javascript and the second one, the lack of built-in Unit Tests. If your application is mainly a client-side application, written in Javascript, the platform may not be the right solution for it. In the other hand, if it's intended to execute all the business logic at the server-side, you should definitely spend some time evaluating it.

One of the best low code Platforms

Kommentare: Many companies have used Outsystems to build web and mobile apps. I have worked on a project which create a high UI density , responsibe web app for a world famous investment bank in UK. For most business usecase, the Outsystems platform is a very good choice. The Outsystems team is also very talented and they listen to community feedback.

Vorteile:

The intuitive development experience which makes developers highly productive as well as brings a joy working with Outsystems platform.

Nachteile:

The pricing is slightly on a higher side and it's bit complex. Compared to Appian(another low code platform) the pricing is slightly complex. Also Outsystems used to have a way to target Java for code generation which was removed since Outsystems 10

Development Game Changer

Kommentare: The business landscape has rapidly moved to digital operations. To be successful your business
needs not just to be resilient, but also to embrace a resilient culture. The technology that supports business operations should be agile enough to embrace the continuous changing market landscape and enable business to move at the speed of change. The Outsystems platform reduces development time by up to 75% and accelerate time-to-market by a factor of
three. This provided our organization to cost effectively implement locally developed solutions and other businesses in a significant shortened time. Our main focus is now more on the user interface and interaction, which provides the value expected.

Vorteile:

The speed to develop and making changes to applications developed Development is done logically with very limited hard coding Ease to develop mobile applications and submissions to the app stores Ease to use the native features of devices Built in change management and control of the development and release process with a one-click publish feature Built in security features in the platform Excellent support and community forums Technical aspects very well documented and user friendly The true change and debugging features are invaluable Notification and guidance on dependencies for changes made to modules Cloud hosting option The investment by Outsystems to provide annually new features, functionalities and keeping up to date with technology trends and providing their customers with the tools to easily stay abreast Pre-build modules provided, which eliminates the need to develop commonly used functionality

Nachteile:

Cost in South Africa is expensive due to weak currency and exchange rates Difficult for developers used to hard coding to change their way of thinking to grasp how the platform works. However, this is not a flaw of the platform, but rather a change required in the mindset of traditional developers.

Excellent software and very well thought about the end to end process of software development

Kommentare: Eliminates lot of issues encountered in traditional software development. Helps to build really quality applications. Piece of mind after deploying to production.:D

Vorteile:

-Easy to use and built in ui and template gets people up and running in few mins. -Structured development -Built in widgets prevents developers from developing the same components again and again (like pagination, menu bars, navigation and many more) -Focus on solving business problems instead of technical challenges -Code reuse is encouraged as AOs are tied to licensing -Deployment is nothing to worry about. Database scripts, versioning of code and migration all taken care by the platform -Refactoring is piece of cake with TrueChange. -Developing CRUD applications is a breeze but complicated applications can also be developed with ease. -Monitoring and logging taken care by default no setup is needed.

Nachteile:

-Although custom code can be written via integration studio, it would nice if we could write code inside of the service studio itself. -Some features like event based programming or reflection or looping fields of an object could be supported as out of the box features -Updating shared extensions will result in all the applications (that are using the extension) being redeployed -For the mobile apps, it will be good if the apps converted to purely native. (only an opinion) -Could have licensing for individuals (free lancers) :D

Powerful tool for moving from ideas to prototypes to MVPs

Kommentare: Overall I have enjoyed the time I've spent developing in Outsystems very much. It takes a lot of the tedious mind-numbing work out of the process and lets you focus on creating awesome solutions.

Vorteile:

I really like how easy it is to get a prototype up and running in days or even hours/minutes. To be able to put something in your clients hands that they can see and interact with so quickly is very impactful. From there, making changes/improvements in an iterative fashion is very comfortable.

Nachteile:

In multi-tenant applications I've found that scaling can be an issue in regard to views generated for each tenant and those being updated with each release. In a traditional sense the read uncommitted setting on SQL server is something to adjust to and not exactly something I felt comfortable with (but I understand why the platform does it).

Outsystems rocks!

Kommentare: I got introduced a little bit more than 2 years ago to the Outsystems Platform. Since that day I fall in love with the drag and drop system. It's so easy to just create a small app in just a couple of minutes. Where using the platform to build applications for around 25+ users to use. With some application used by over 150+ users there getting pretty big!

Vorteile:

It's nice to see that OS is improving each day. The training videos and webinars are a real benefit for the new developers. The easy drag and drop technique is so nice to work with. I don't hate coding but this is just some much better. For around 1.5 year I started with the OS Cloud service that is free available for everyone. OS did a real good job to open a free possibility to let you play around with their software.

Nachteile:

I think the main market for OS are the big companies with 250+ employees. By opening a cloud environment they let you use the application for free. Only if you have a company with for example 1 till 50 employees there is no solution for you. The license is that expansive that it's not possible to pay for small companies and the cloud environment is not for production use. I think this could be improved to also fill the gap in between free and real expensive.

Simple To The Point Review

Kommentare: Overall I highly recommend it for business projects and people who need to develop fast. But for those who like writing the code themselves like me. You will probably end up using the platform and coding stuff on the side like me. So I really like what they have built and highly recommend investing some time into learning a bit about the platform. :D

Vorteile:

Speed of development is insane. Outsystems really cuts dev time to a minimum. The speed that you can build things from the Functionality that is built into the system is really good. I use the platform at work for web dev. But it offers app dev as well and for android and ios in one build. No need to build different builds or versions for different platforms. One build covers android and ios. Overall there functionality is fantastic.

Nachteile:

It get's kind of complex as you get more in depth as to what it is you are capable of doing with the platform. But like everything you can be average or great and if you wanna be great you gonna have to put in the time to learn. The biggest personal downfall of the system is that it takes away a lot of the actual coding. For me this is more of a preference as I personally love to sit and crunch code myself. And you can build with code in there program but there's really no point unless you doing something extremely custom because they have already built in the functionality. The system overall is great, really simple and drag and drop.

It a fantastic development tool, easy to learn and easy integration with other programming languages

Vorteile:

The holistic view of an agile project of IT. Easy implementation of Rest and Soap WebServices . Easy integration with Database, safer and faster production climbs through Lifetime. Migration of new versions without complications in stack C#. Front-End user friendly and updated. Back-end It's all about business knowledge, easy to understand , develop and debug. It requires a smaller IT team meeting the requirements of the Scrum methodology. It has a fairly large community Outsytems components repository and excellent Webinars to learn and consolidate knowledge.

Nachteile:

Stack java with more complicated migrations. It is not an ETL tool for now, but it is possible to implemented.

Low code with OutSystems

Vorteile:

Outsystems offers a low code, rapid application development and distribution platform. It integrates with all your existing systems and offers management and analysis screens within itself. Complex workflows can be designed using visual development tools. Another feature is that we can use the application we developed in both mobile and web environments. Complex workflows can be designed using visual development tools. Another feature is that we can use the application we developed in both mobile and web environments.

Nachteile:

Requires training to use the system. Another disadvantage is that to develop applications, you need to install a program in your local (Service Studio). We develop the application using this program and deploy it to the cloud environment. It is easy to do these operations, the documentation is guiding enough, but making the application with the web interface is nicer and easier, as in quickbase and caspio.

Outsystems delivers

Kommentare: If your company is of sufficient size and you're not using outsystems yet, then start now. Not tomorrow. Outsystems will always be an asset.

Vorteile:

Outsytems is flexible enough to give speed and agility, but robust enough to keep your business going for the next decade(s). With Outsystems delivering top products becomes as easy as building an Ikea closet, without being stuck with that extra part that you don't know the function of ;)

Nachteile:

Outsystems is a growing platform. That means it keeps evolving and keeps demanding more from the user as well, to keep up with latest developments

build fast, fail fast, learn fast

Vorteile:

low code is the key to future mobile development, the speed and agility is the key to any business success in the future. the simplicity to build apps and deploy them as native on iOS and Android has been a game changer for us. In a period of two years we are in more than 20 markets and 100000 users.

Nachteile:

capability around ci/cd and architecture overview

High-productivity application platform

Kommentare: I have been working with Outsystems since 2008, as Consultant I have used the Outsystems platform to delivery several projects for several companies. For sure Outsystems platform keeps its promises:
"The OutSystems Agile Platform gives IT the power to build and change custom enterprise applications with the speed, agility and robustness the business demands." Where Outsystems makes the difference is even beyond application development, because supports the entire application lifecycle, making it easy for teams to deploy, manage and operate up to hundreds of different apps.

Vorteile:

- Development speed with Outsystems is outstanding. - Outsystems offers a Public Cloud PaaS that's perfect to evaluate the platform. - Monitoring and Management: Configuration management of running applications and identity management are also handled out-of-the box by OutSystems Platform. All apps are automatically monitored

Nachteile:

- Enterprise licensing can get expensive.

OutSystems as an digital acceleration platform

Kommentare: We're using OutSystems to address Digital Operations and Digital Core initiaites where mobile apps are a 1st class citizen. So far OutSystems has proved its value in helping us accelerate our digital transformation initiatives both from the techology perspective and from the agile mindset approach that we're also applying throughout the company, which is a 'native feature' when using the platform.

Vorteile:

Complexity encapsulation, ease of use: setup and ongoing evolution, mobile and web 'native' coverage, integration capabilities, speed of delivery leveraging an iterative and incremental approach

Nachteile:

OutSystems competences in the market are short regarding the demand. So, not a techological issue.