OutSystems Reviews

I was only testing 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.

The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing.

I have been using OutSystems for approximately one month.

OutSystems is stable.

The scalability of OutSystems is good.

I am the only one using this solution. I am a student at a university.

The support from OutSystems is good.

I rate the support from OutSystems a five out of five.

Positive

The initial setup of OutSystems is easy. You only need to sign up. It takes approximately 15 minutes.

I did the implementation of the solution by myself.

There is a free trial to use this solution and other options available, such as enterprise. There are different subscription plans.

The enterprise version of the solution is approximately $1,500 annually.

The maintenance of the solution can be done by one person.

I would recommend this solution to others. There is a portable version available for them to try.

I rate OutSystems a nine out of ten.

It is a stable solution, and the initial setup is straightforward.

I think the resource ecosystem could be improved. There are not enough resources on the market.

Multiple LDEV support would be great to have in the next release.

I've been using OutSystems for three months.

It has been stable so far.

It looks as though it will be a scalable solution.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I would suggest that you go for at least five or six environments. Typically, they provide three environments, and I think you should go for more, perhaps. six environments by default.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate OutSystems at eight.

Created an operational-risk-management and issue-management application.

We got discounted pricing from them in writing and built for a year, but now they require 50% more.

• Fast for server-side development. 
• Easy to learn. 
• GUI is good.

• You need jQuery/CSS skills for customization of the GUI. 
• Reporting is very light. 
• No built-in BI.

The primary use case is to build applications for internal users.

• Speed of delivery: We were able to reduce development time by 30%.
• Able to automate manual processes in various departments.

• Great built-in features to get us up and running in no time.
• Their out-of-the-box UI is quite good.
• Easy deployment
• Refactoring with TrueChange is very simple.
• Monitoring and logging are built into it.

• Writing custom code still needs to be done via Integration Studio. This might have been added to the IDE.
• When shared extensions are updated, all the applications are redeployed.
• Mobile apps should have been fully native.

I use OutSystems' platform to build mobile apps for our customers as well as good old-fashioned web applications.

Before using Outsystems to develop a client's reporting systems, the process would take six months to complete a report. After using Outsystems, and building a custom application, report-building is one click away - and it only took us three months to build the custom application using OutSystems.

For me, the most valuable feature is the flexibility the tools give us to change as customer requirements change, 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 latest version of the app generation tools could be more user-friendly.

You can have your solution on the cloud or on-premise, it all depends how you develop your code. But from my 11 years experience, well-developed solutions don't have stability issues.

All platforms and languages have their limitations. If the solution is designed, from the beginning, to scale properly, there will be no problem at all with OutSystems. The way OutSytems works, it is not too hard to scale.

Technical support is good, always able to help.

Setup is not complex at all.

You should contact OutSystems for more details but my opinion is that it is not for small business budgets.

The conventional coding rules don't apply here. You need to have an open mind and let the platform take control from you at times.

Customer track and trace. We get information from SAP which is updated later by carriers (via EDI). The user interface is built in OutSystems.

Development timeframe and deliveries on sprints. Customers can check the progress on a weekly basis and provide adjustments and comments right away.

Agile development. I love that you save a lot of time on development and can focus on logic and business requirements.

Mobile apps need improvement.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Technical support is a 10 out of 10.

We did not have a previous solution. We started the department using OutSystems with the goal of creating applications for our internal customers (departments and warehouse customers) to help their main businesses.

Setup was straightforward. I was not there at that time, but I know that it was very smooth. The developer at the time was trained by OutSystems and this helped with the first applications.

It is still very expensive, so small companies can’t generally afford it. We hope that this changes. Still, the time saving on development and delivery is worth the value.

Agile development is really worth it. Depending on the size of your department – and requirements – you don’t need a big development team. The same developer can take care of all steps: analysis, development, implementation, support.

First and foremost, OutSystems is one of the most robust platforms I've ever tried. Our primary goal was to reduce the overall development time and deliver to the customer faster than anyone else can. 

During the evaluation phase of OutSystems, we realized that it not only reduces development time but also helps in the overall delivery of our project/product. This platform provides our developers the edge they need to create, deploy, change, and manage mobile and web apps quickly and efficiently. With OutSystems' platform, developers can easily develop and build applications that work on any device, as well as cater to the needs of all types of employees, customers, and partners.

Even with it being a low-code platform, we have never encountered a problem that cannot be solved within OutSystems. We developed many enterprise-level applications in half the time when compared to traditional development tools.

Our primary focus is always our customer success and satisfaction. By using OutSystems, we started delivering results quickly to our customer without compromising the quality of the product. Performance and security are key factors for an IT application/product. With OutSystems, these goals can easily be achieved. We are pleased to say that we are making our customer happy by delivering a quality product in less time.

It has so many features and almost every one of them is awesome. It makes our development life easier. 

The most important features of this tool are its visual modeling capabilities and drag and drop functionality. You can see what you are coding which makes it easy to understand and maintain. They have also created a big revolution in digital transformation by introducing native mobile app development under the same IDE.

Integrations with external systems with SOAP and REST are easy to implement off-the-shelf, but a developer can always implement specific libraries for other integrations.

OutSystems is a great platform if used by those who are experienced. There are many tutorials available but they are very basic and good for learning the platform. To develop an enterprise-grade application, advanced tutorials need to be developed to help IT professionals design/develop high-quality/performance applications.

During the initial phase we encountered many issues with the platform that were limiting us but, as we became experienced with the platform, we were able to achieve almost everything that other development platforms can do.

There are certain design standards which, if you don’t follow them, will cause many problems in scaling up your product/application. How you use this product depends on your experience.

The technical support is not very good but I still give it a six out of 10.

We were using traditional development tools like Java/.NET but the overall development time was longer compared to Outsystems. Also, our previous solution had other overheads such as release management, version management, code management, monitoring, etc., all of which are built-in with OutSystems.

They have pretty good documentation to set up the environment and you just need to follow the instructions.

Pricing could be a concern. You have to pay yearly, even after you have completed your development.

I started using this solution in 2012 and still am using it for many of our customers and internal projects. OutSystems is a robust, low-code platform that can make a big difference in your customer satisfaction. The overall features of the platform and continuous improvement make it more adaptable than other tools.

I use OutSystems to develop web applications. OutSystems is a low-code platform that lets you visually develop your entire application, easily integrate with existing systems, and add your own custom code when you need it.

With OutSystems, we can build our application faster, and we have releases every two weeks.

All the features for developing web applications are valuable to me.

The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI.

I rate it a 10 out of 10. It is fantastic how fast we can build an application. We have a lot of users and the community is growing.