Turning the career into the Outsystems
What do you like best about the product?
debugging is one of the most useful thing which I feel in outsystems
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes some of the widgets are getting depricating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystems helping me to build an application with high efficiency and user friendly withing a limitted period of time.
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.
Boost development speed with Outsystems
What do you like best about the product?
Outsystems is very user friendly like developer and non-developer can easiy use this for building application.
Also supports integration with multiple systems and services.
Outsystems has strong community and customer support for developers.
Service studio provide easy implementation for developer via drag-drop widget functionality.
Outsystems is very frequently use is larger organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Outsystemsis quite expensive while for larger companies. It's difficut to those developer who prefer complete control over code but on other side Outsystems are use to automatic generate code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
While integrating with another systems wether it's from OS11 or ODC. Integration becomes easy in ODC as compare to OS11.
Great Platform - Too expensive
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of creating easily beautiful pages
What do you dislike about the product?
last year update put the license cost too expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
accelerate development
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.
Application Security and Development
What do you like best about the product?
There are several positive aspects of OutSystems
its rapid application development capabilities. It allows businesses to create and deploy applications much faster , it suitable for both small projects and enterprise-level solutions & creating applications with a strong focus on user experience (UX). This means you can deliver intuitive and engaging applications
What do you dislike about the product?
some considerations regarding security
I have faced some issue in Site Attributes and Header Injection issue
OutSystems will help developers improve their security knowledge and practices effectively. Encouraging a proactive approach to security education and resources ensures that developers are equipped to build secure applications and mitigate potential vulnerabilities within the platform and Clinet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
its rapid application development capabilities. It allows businesses to create and deploy applications much faster , it suitable for both small projects and enterprise-level solutions & creating applications with a strong focus on user experience (UX). This means you can deliver intuitive and engaging applications
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.
A hybrid low-code solution that improves development speed with its prebuilt templates and drag-and-drop interface
What is our primary use case?
The primary use cases are mostly related to the rapid low-code framework. Currently, I'm working on a business use case where we need to create a responsive website that enhances the customer's experience.
What is most valuable?
OutSystems is a hybrid framework and supports my mobile and web application development needs. This means I don't have to write separate code for mobile applications. It adapts the UI and functionality, whether I'm developing for web or mobile interfaces. All I need to do is provide the layout during development.
The tool has enhanced my development speed through its prebuilt templates and drag-and-drop interface. Unlike legacy frameworks like C# and Java, OutSystems provides everything ready to use. You need to connect integrations and formats, which allows developers to develop their modules rapidly.
In the healthcare sector where I work, we handle clinical and non-clinical research involving study criteria and customer-responsive interfaces.
In one of our recent projects, which involves setting up appointment bookings for healthcare organizations like NHS and Canadian provincial health services, OutSystems plays a crucial role. The system monitors Outlook email criteria every five minutes to detect appointment requests. When a request is identified, OutSystems uses AI capabilities to determine if it's a new booking or a follow-up based on the email content.
Once categorized, the tool integrates with other systems, such as Salesforce.
What needs improvement?
The tool's weakness is its focus on the solution only. Other than that, it's pretty easy to use for both technical and non-technical people. However, the tool lags in automation. For instance, we've used Python for scraping and other automated tasks. So, I believe automation is an area where it could improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the product for three and a half years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
OutSystems servers are currently managed directly by the vendor. This setup makes scalability readily achievable because whenever we need to expand our operations to different locations, we can directly engage with the vendor who handles the tool. They can scale the infrastructure to meet our requirements. However, at this point, our focus isn't on scaling further because the configurations we've implemented for recent developments are adequate for targeting the Canadian and North American regions.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support is good, especially for customers on the Gold tier like us. Typically, we receive responses within 24 hours, and their support team is very responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Appian offers advantages in automation structures with its Appian RPA platform, formerly Jidoka. They have integrated this acquisition into their offerings as Appian RPA. Additionally, Appian has a well-established market presence. Appian holds a slight advantage over OutSystems, which entered the market approximately five years ago.
What was our ROI?
Our primary goal has been to enhance customer experience by deploying applications developed with OutSystems. The initial response from users has been positive, particularly in reducing previous backlogs. We've streamlined processes with the product, enabling rapid development, integration, and automation.
We haven't yet reached the stage of calculating ROI specifics. Typically, such evaluations are conducted either at the end of the fiscal year or three years.
What other advice do I have?
The tool has its own AI modules, but we've utilized our custom models. As we focus on specific regions like Canada and North America, we've developed dedicated forms and solutions. We've implemented our custom models using Python and Gen AI to extract data from emails and forms. OutSystems does offer its own AI capabilities.
Due to its fast development strategies and everything, I would recommend OutSystems over Appian. Appian is in a different space and has its own components and frameworks.
I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.
