We performed a comparison between OutSystems and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The flow editor is the most valuable feature. It is simple and intuitive, and it can guide you step-by-step."
"The tool makes the development process easier."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of OutSystems is easy."
"I like the mobile features the most, and there are also various features around the portal we created that I enjoy."
"For me, the most valuable feature is the flexibility the tools give us to change any customer requirements on the fly, when we are in a meeting. I also like how easy it is to deploy the code between environments and how easy it is to integrate OutSystems with other systems."
"The technical support is perfect."
"I find it to be a genuinely cool and effective platform for my development needs."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems with discipline and the development processes. Instead of each developer doing tasks on their own with their own approach, et cetera, the solution would help bring some organization to the development process."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate Salesforce Platform's technical support a ten out of ten."
"It has definitely improved how we function."
"A great platform to import, manage and save customer data."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its overall ability to manage everything, including the sales pipeline and quick creation of sales reports."
"We used it for providing a 360 view of the customers from within Salesforce. So, a lot of data got presented there, for which we used Einstein Analytics. The Einstein Analytics dashboards were really great."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"I like the reports and the dashboards. Since I'm a managing partner, I use the reports and dashboards to understand my team's contact management, opportunity management, and account management activities. We use Pardot for marketing campaigns."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is flexible."
"The initial setup is a little difficult."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"I would like to see improvements in versioning. It can be challenging to keep track of what changes should be committed, especially when many developers are working in one environment."
"The asynchronous processing and multithreading tasks for which the current resources of the platform are very generic and not built for the end-user. Any asynchronous jobs have to be constructed with an end-user dashboard to allow inspection of the status of the activities."
"The prices should be lower. It is a little bit too high for a small market."
"We'd like OutSystems to add stronger workflow-based automation similar to what Appian offers. It needs more workflow modeling and RPA features."
"It is hard to find the logic in OutSystems. From an improvement perspective, I want to be able to properly use logic in OutSystems."
"Currently, in mobile applications, we don't have push notifications."
"It does need very specific resources to help deploy it and buy in from the users. It's one of those items it's pretty disruptive and if it's not deployed properly and if it doesn't get utilized efficiently, it won't be effective."
"Salesforce Platform has a cumbersome interface when creating reports, dashboards, and those types of things. They could be a little bit more simple. The administration has to be an aficionado to do any sort of administration and maintenance, for example, setting up the way you want to modify the lead tracks or functions. These systems tend to be quite cumbersome."
"This platform is indeed on the expensive side."
"The integration of Salesforce with other solutions could be improved."
"There needs to be more documentation."
"The back end really isn't user-friendly at all."
"Sometimes what will happen is we work on it and then we move to a different tab and work on something else. After five minutes, when we come back, it automatically signs out."
"We have a lot of strategic accounts and large accounts that are tied with all the growth and acquisitions across North America, being able to tag parent-child accounts in an easier fashion would be better. This is the biggest pain point is associating parent to child and being able to align and manage it better. Overall a better parent-child relationship between accounts would be a benefit."
OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile Development Platforms with 46 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 3rd in Mobile Development Platforms with 81 reviews. OutSystems is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OutSystems writes "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and Bizagi, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and Unqork. See our OutSystems vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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