OutSystems Reviews

Pros

Very easy to learn and start developing.
The apps generated have a good look and feel while comparing with other enterprise tools (that usually look bland).
Deployments, database, scheduled task, workflows, everything is easy and quick to setup.

Cons

The licensing options are a bit confusing.
While is it very good for smaller apps, if the apps grow too much, they can become a pain to maintain.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to OutSystems

Pros

Very straight-forward and lots of Training Content available to be able to speed up and get ready to use the platform.

Cons

No Source Control, for branching of code. And a couple of bugs that are not being rectified by the vendor.

Pros

Very useful for Entreprise oriented solutions and complex AppsSignificant gain of timeReactive Web and Mobile Apps are fun

Cons

1- Pricing strategy should be reviewed to give more features for free trial plans (students, etc..) to enlarge community2- Limited community3- Limited in terms of DB choice4- Difficulty of integrating third party services such as Google sheet API

Pros

OutSystems allows us to add new features easily as a plug and play. even though of the addon or plugin is different technology, we can still integrate them with OutSystems .

Cons

They can improve their API features like allowing multiple types as input in REST.

Pros

I have been using outsystems more than 3 years, its a rapid application development tool, any one can be a good developer in short time of period, and they providing good documents to understand the product. Monitoring and maintaince and deployment are so simple. Evey year they updating the products with new features and i love the new ODC concepts in outsystems.

Cons

I dont have any dislikes, they are in right direction.

Pros

Applications can be build easily and efficiently with this tool. It has inbuilt features which enables developers to implement the requirements effectively. Also have some AI features, provides suggestions while designing the code.

Cons

I felt difficulty in debugging process in this tool since any change made in code has to be published and it's dependencies which is but tidy process to me.

Pros

Application development is easy even the person with no programming background can learn it in 1 month. The Code that is generated by outsystem is Three layered architecture. Mobile development is easy. Integration is not that easy.

Cons

Need to improve on Deployment. DevOps pipeline also need to be improved.

Pros

It's great, I like it because you can create complex applications without having to have deep programming knowledge.

Cons

At first I had to spend a little time learning how to use all the features and getting used to its workflow.

Pros

The most essential feature of this software is its ease of use, since through the low code, it allows the creation of functional and complex applications in record time compared to other similar software. It also has a free version. Although it does not have all the features of the paid version, such as only creating web applications and not mobile in the free version, it can still be used to develop basic and moderately complex applications.

Cons

The only disadvantage is its cost in the paid version, in similar ones there are less expensive ones. However, its free version is very good.

Pros

OutSystems helps our team develop Low Code applications using simple logic statements and allows developers to add great UI to the frontend.

Cons

The refresh time if a user does not use the application for a few minutes, which leads to the data being reset.

Pros

Outsystems is simple to learn; all that is required is a fundamental knowledge of information technology. In addition, the OutSystems community and customer support are excellent resources for accelerating the learning process.

Cons

Occasionally, errors can be found in the platform. If the bug occurs in a section of OutSystems, it can be challenging to resolve it since the source code is not available to the public. This can be a source of frustration.

Pros

OutSystems have a great ability to build hybrid mobile and 100% responsive web-apps with no separate need of writing code for specific platforms. The development process is very simple and simplified which makes anyone rapidly create their application. It have an amazing user-friendly interface!

Cons

More detailed documentation and guidance should be provided other than that it works amazing and smoothly.

Pros

I have experience on creating applications with the other tools as well, but OutSystems is one of the best and the quickest.All the development components / features and tools made available in the OutSystems Platform which makes development ease and fast. Low code development at its best.

Cons

I don't see anything to like to the least. I see frequent updates coming from OutSystems which makes the tool better and better.

Pros

The hard things made easy - the BPMN capability, the tree editing and republishing of data entities, the Responsive Web design. Also, the fairly intelligent guessing about properties, the rather speedy resolution/propagation of name changes, deletions, etc. The monitoring software is pretty good.

Cons

If you're developing an extension, it's a four-step manual publishing process to update. No try..finally. The licensing model per certain kind of object encourages bad coding to try to save costs. The visual editor for interfaces goes crazy far too often, making the widget tree the only consistent way to edit them. The lack of built-in data migration is my biggest sticking point right now.

Pros

1.Ease of use, tutorials and learningpaths, mobile part, it resemblance coding more than for instance Mendix which makes the transition back and forth more easy with OutSystems, when coming or want to go to real coding.
2.You can educate people faster to become a developer, but still finding the right person with surten qualities is important, not for everyone, but low coding definitely enlarges possibilities in finding personnel.
3. Mobile part becomes better and easier works charming and straight forward.

Cons

The pricing which makes it impossible as a small entrepreneur (enterprise focused pricing) to afford it or start your own business as a developer with it. For me that's very important, because if possible i could build some useful/ profitable things in my leisure time for my future, which will improve my motivation to become better and pays off at work as well. The free account deletes your DB after 2 weeks which makes practicing building big things a pain. This is a big deal for me personally. To be honest many low coding platforms miss out on this part and often lack focus on small businesses making it purely for big companies.
Further there should be a possibility to work locally when in developing mode so you are not dependent on internet. Other than that and also this count for every low coding framework at the moment I would personally be scared to get locked in, cause you never know how prices are evolving, but again that counts for all as we speak and until now OutSystems didn't do a bad job in this perspective and they wouldn't wanna loose clients and been reliable in my experience. I hope low coding frameworks in general will create possibilities to buy off compiled code in the future making the locked in possibility no argument no more.

Pros

VIsual Modeling, Beautiful Screen Design with default theme, free design with javascript and CSS, SmartPhone and Smart Device support, Cloud/OnPremise support, Auto-implemented performance logs, robustness of application, real time bug detection, auto-versioning of application, no-lockin architechture, multi-language support, etc.

Cons

- Localize problem - many of Japanese developers are not good at English, therefore it is difficult to increase the number of OSP developers easily. So it is expected that all documents and videos are translated to Japanese.
- Need cooperation feature with printing format like Excel diagram and PDF.
- Need cooperation feature with accounting system.
- To get the approval to purchase subscription license in Japanese companies, it will be better there is many license structure not only with AOs and Users but also type of purpose such as "For create Portal Site", "For create internal attendance and leaving system", and so on.
- Need product loadmap which describes wchich version of OS will be supported in the future and how many years current version of OS or Java will be supported.

Pros

See my review ... And let's not forget the amazing community that has been very helpfull ... it is alive and kicking

Cons

See my review; difficult to get an idea of the license you need as a starting company

Pros

The plataform enables us as a company to colaborate and implement agile solutions, innovations all across the organization, IT is not longer the bottleneck to promote that innovation, we are now a strong arm that the company relay on to create new technology, solve company issues and bring agile solutions to our customers (internal and external)

Cons

We are using de Paas solution and that by definition "retrict" the core in depht administration of the infrastructre, but we are working with Outsystems in order to have more control or visibility of the complete infraestructure, we need that 'cause we have core company solution on the plataform and need to monitor in depth the transactionability and guarantee as much as we can the availabilty

Alternatives Considered

Pros

really like the idea of being more focused on the business than in the code, but at the same time, if we want/need to be innovative and push our geek-side to create new components and integrations, we can also do it rapidly, using all the C# / Java / Javascript / ... capabilities. This, allied with the greater stakeholder engagement and satisfaction, the fast time to market, speed of change and full lifecycle maintenance and great community and support, are all keys to several successful projects on all kind of industries, top companies and all over the world.

Cons

What I like least about Outsystems is the fact that the licensing price is too high and it could help more the smaller and medium businesses.

Pros

Speed of Development
Ease of technical implementations
Open Community around Outsystems

Cons

Since I'm an expert Outsystems users, I don't like the initial responses of the support desk. It takes time to get to the right person at the support desk.

Pros

Speed. Excellent speed when starting to develop a new application. Time needed for backend system integration and data aggregation is amazing. Good user interface libraries and common style guides for app mobile and web applications that you can manage easily.

Cons

Response time from outsystems support is some times slow. There are some bugs with the platform and developer tools.

Pros

One of the best low-code app development tool out there in the market. One Click deployment & roll back.
Offline data storage, built in templates and seamless integration with iOS & Google play store.

Mature and well designed tool that builds good looking apps & web platform. Significantly reduces the time to market and new features can be rolled out in a few days.

Cons

Enterprise plans aren't cheap only desktop IDE for Windows

Pros

The speed up the delivery of new solutions to our clients / users.

Cons

So far nothing. I have some concerns about vendor locking, I can say.

Pros

I have been using outsystems for an year now and I must say that I am really impressed with it . This is the best low code platform that I have used till now. The positive point about that I liked is , its easy to learn ,You don't need to spent lot of time learning it and most of the key features/logic are already present that can be easy included in the application. Another positive point is its user and role managements . Implementation of Authentication and Authorization is very easy here.

Cons

The only con that I witnessed is , you need internet connectivity work in outsytems (for Web Development).