I have used it for a company in Saudi Arabia. The application was mainly focused on transportation. The other application is a recent upgrade.
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What do you like best about the product?
Covers the whole spectrum of apps, from three minutes ready to go simple app to very large and complicated business app
What do you dislike about the product?
There are limited options to integrate code into the platform (I understand it is a design choice but a great deal of flexibility is lost here)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company uses Outsystems for internal use. Our current focus is migrating silo'ed business practices in departments and legacy systems (spreadsheets, microsoft access) into Outsystems apps.
Provides a standardized approach to development and highly stable solution
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I love OutSystems because, as a manager and someone who has experience with various traditional development technologies (approximately 20 technologies), it provides a standard approach. Unlike other companies where there is no development standard, with OutSystems, we have our own standard. This makes it easier when transitioning between developers or onboarding new team members.
What needs improvement?
It's not easy to master OutSystems within the first month. Even if you have ten years of experience, like me, it will take about two to three months to explore everything. For example, customizing a header or integrating a video is not easy.
Many people assume that mastering OutSystems is as simple as drag and drop, but for specific tasks, you need someone with development experience, preferably a senior or expert with over five years of experience.
Sometimes it requires both skills, someone who knows how to develop and add script code or extensions to our system. However, there are also times when it is easy. Let's say around seventy percent of the time; it's easy. Customizing the user interface, aside from the header, is relatively straightforward, although I did encounter difficulties with the header.
Another example is working with live video, which is also not easy.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OutSystems for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of OutSystems is not bad. I know someone who conducted a scalability test. They used SCC Solutions, a telecom company with a great team of developers. They encountered some issues compared to what OutSystems claimed. However, I believe you always need to have a package that can handle more users than OutSystems recommends.
If they suggest an eight-gigahertz processor, you should go for a better specification. But overall, it's not a major problem. Just make sure to exceed the recommended specifications. OutSystems is widely used in many regions. It's extensively utilized in the UK and Australia, as I have experience working with these countries. However, in some countries, traffic and other factors can make it more challenging.
How are customer service and support?
I did contact the customer service and support team, but they mostly provide general IT support.
I believe there is room for improvement in technical support. However, they are good and responsible in terms of providing documentation and guidance to help you.
How was the initial setup?
I believe you would need someone who is already good in development or has a logical understanding of development. OutSystems has four layers: the timers and processes layer, the interface layer, the version layer, and the database layer.
Sometimes, when you add a module from the first layer, it doesn't work because it needs to be compatible and supported by the OutSystems platform. Many components or modules from the first layer are often incomplete or non-functional when compared to the later layers.
Therefore, you need to comprehend the logic and then integrate it. It's not always straightforward. There are challenges involved.
If you don't have someone who is already skilled in development, most of the time, you won't succeed. I believe you need a certain level of intelligence to excel in OutSystems. You have to be intelligent, like in development.
I've brought in many developers who weren't skilled in development and put them in our system. They excelled at all the traditional tasks but when I asked for any custom work, it took them around one month to finish.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment process is very easy. It involves just one publish button. They call it the "one publish" button.
In our system, there are always many challenges in development. For example, you don't need an administrator or a developer because we have something called architecture AI. It can evaluate your application and determine if it follows the best practices or not. We already have a baseline of good practice cases or standards for our system, so we're not far from the best practices. There are certain things you can't do directly, like calling a server action. Instead, you need to use client actions.
There are many perspectives like this that you need to consider. Otherwise, it won't work. For example, you can't simply drag and drop a client action inside a server action.
I believe anyone would require about two to three months of training, and they would need to build their own application. The issue in our system is that sometimes developers are only skilled in either logic or UI. I think it's important to train people to be proficient in all aspects.
What was our ROI?
There is an annual cost of approximately 23k. So sometimes, you need to wait for a return on investment. It also requires skilled individuals who know how to utilize this technology and train others. Finding good developers isn't easy because most of the people who work with OutSystems come from Big Data or have multiple engineering backgrounds. We face difficulties in finding the right people, and I think this is a common issue across platforms. Nonetheless, I consider it a unique feature.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I still believe in our system, despite some limitations in traditional development. There is always room for improvement.
I think they are constantly making progress and adding new features. However, sometimes it's not easy to achieve customizations.
A low-code solution that's easy to work with but needs some customization in the front-end
What is our primary use case?
We use OutSystems for our customers in the banking and utility sectors.
How has it helped my organization?
OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work with. It thus helps the organization by saving time for developers.
What is most valuable?
The OutSystems Accelerator is the most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
There are very few resources available to learn OutSystems. If someone is utterly new to OutSystems and is trying to understand this technology by searching on platforms like YouTube, Udemy and Coursera, they won't find anything. It has negligible resources.
In the next release of OutSystems, I would like to see a few more customizations in the front end.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for four months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate the technical support nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously I was working on high-code solutions. Then I started using OutSystems low-code solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. I would rate the ease of setup a ten out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would rate the pricing a five out of ten. There are no additional costs with the standard license.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise anyone wanting to use OutSystems to start learning early while pursuing a college degree.
We are a team of ten Software Developers who use OutSystems in my company. We plan to increase the usage of OutSystems in the future. I would rate the overall product an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
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.
Most rapid develop enterprise web application
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn, easy to create the application, focus on designing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Online IDE does not exist. Sometimes I like coding with my iPad, but I can not.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can show my idea quickly to my customer. Get more feedback after presenting the mockup.
Develop low-code platform quickly and easily
What do you like best about the product?
Outsystem has the speed for my company to create an application in days instead of a month or quarterly. This means the development process is streamlined and simplified. Not only that, but Outsystem also provides an extensive library of templates and components for efficiency.
What do you dislike about the product?
For user interface or user experience (UI/UX) maybe Outsystem is lack flexibility because Outsystem is a very structured platform and it can be difficult to customize to meet dynamic UI/UX standards. This can be a challenge for developers who are used to having more flexibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Outsystem provides a secure and reliable platform for my company to deploy an application. Quick and easily create and deploy two platform apps (Mobile and Web) in one step.
a journey of constant improvement
What do you like best about the product?
The easy creation of patterns.
Fast start of a project and creation of its structure.
Fast start of a project and creation of its structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when trying to use outside plugins require a bit of mental gymnasts to bring into an outsystems environment.
The unpredictability of deprecated patterns.
The unpredictability of deprecated patterns.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improved javascript compiler.
The interactions of react help on the creation of new patterns.
The interactions of react help on the creation of new patterns.
Fast , Good , Easy to learn
What do you like best about the product?
It about learning curve that it easy to learn , all you need before start Outsystems is just a simple knowledge about IT to make it faster to learn, another thing is strong community and good support from Outsystems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mostly I didn't have anything that I dislike, but something that I didn't like is if we using OutsystemsUI component it hard to modify the component and hard to modify if we using Javascript code, but I understand It lowcode so we can use another workaround.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most thing for me is a time , today mostly business can't have too much time to pause to develop a systems , so time is the most thing for me and another thing is learning curve, it take not much time to learn
Very neat and clean platform
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive UI and proper documentation to understand everything and forum to ask and see questions, also strong community.
Everything is quite good and the thing is I worked with a low code platform appzillon comparing both outsystems stands alone.
Everything is quite good and the thing is I worked with a low code platform appzillon comparing both outsystems stands alone.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing much to dislike as I feel there is lot to explore. So, main thing in low code platforms is ease to use it and I think they've covered pretty much everything so, nothing much to mention here.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is obviously solving business solutions building via creating fast and accurate web and mobile application with ease and comfort.
Outsystems is cool :-)
What do you like best about the product?
PRO:
Very user friendly
Interaction with existing DB
Low coding
Very user friendly
Interaction with existing DB
Low coding
What do you dislike about the product?
CONS:
Not easy to integrate with existing JAVA application
Hard to automate test case with free tool
Not easy to integrate with existing JAVA application
Hard to automate test case with free tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to implement a connection between different database and application
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