We performed a comparison between Appian, Bizagi, and OutSystems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"Technical support has been amazing overall."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"It provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"The most valuable features of Appian are the VPN engine, it is fast, lightweight, and easy to set up business rules. Business teams can do it by themselves. That is a very good feature."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"The approval process is simple."
"The API is pretty straightforward."
"It is quite a stable solution."
"The solution's simulation capabilities are the most valuable aspects."
"Its cost is the most valuable. It is not as expensive. It is also easy to make different types of processes for the users."
"The interface, design, and accessible user manuals to help get started using the solution are valuable features in Bizagi."
"I like the integration part, and I also like how they use the database, such as the data when they implement all the data side, and how you can easily integrate it with their widgets."
"In Bizagi, all of the features are valuable."
"The flow editor is the most valuable feature. It is simple and intuitive, and it can guide you step-by-step."
"Our previous solution had other overheads such as release management, version management, code management, monitoring, etc., all of which are built-in with OutSystems."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems is the drag and drop and toolchains in the small AI developing environment. Additionally, the documentation is helpful."
"Once built, web/mobile components can be reused in all new developments. In addition, the OutSystems Forge is very useful. We can exchange components and even already-built applications, reducing costs to build specific solutions."
"I really like the one-click publish feature in OutSystems. In other development tools/languages, it's not as easy. I also like how easily I can manage all my projects in one place."
"We used almost all of the features, themes, styling guide, and approach components. They are useful in our applications."
"OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are like drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work. Thus it helps the organization by saving time for developers."
"The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user interface, the flexibility to quickly integrate with almost anything in the system, and the ability to connect with databases."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"There should be more flexibility for the developers to choose the look and feel of the UI. They should have a better ability to design their widgets and customize them with different colors, shapes, and sizes. That is a limitation that could be improved upon."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"I'm not really satisfied with the reporting aspect."
"It needs an easier setup for the Bizagi Engine."
"The product used to have a simulation feature, which I had used quite often. However, it's since been discontinued. It might have originally been a paid feature. It would be nice if they could bring it back and offer it for free."
"The on-premise software has some bugs."
"It is difficult to drive ROI on types of processes involving complex business rules."
"One part of the university has changed its regular desktops to Linux. This is a weak point because Bizagi doesn't run on Linux. I would like the opportunity to run the software inside of Linux."
"They should improve the migration process between major versions, from version 9 to 10, we had to redo our implementation."
"Framework approach, which extends to reusability in tools, like Pega, for deployment management could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in technical support."
"In my opinion, the support and the pricing could be better."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
"The solution is costly."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
"While I can't speak to the market impact, as a developer, I've seen significant reductions in development time across different versions of our applications. One area for improvement would be the UI controls in Service Studio. Sometimes, controls don't appear in the IDE, requiring us to check them in the web browser instead. Overall, our experience with OutSystems has been positive, though improvements in UI development would be welcomed."
"It needs improvement in the AI capability."
"Currently, in mobile applications, we don't have push notifications."
