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OutSystems is a high-performance low-code platform that achieves serious productivity, creating serious apps with continuous innovation. Visual development tools and automation powered by AI help customers tackle strategic...

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4.2
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
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Customer Support
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Pedro
Pedro
  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 12/01/2024

Best product available to low-code solutions

Overall I would change it for anything else, is my main first choice for most developments and we'll keep using it as it keeps improving.

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

Mendix and Appian

Reasons for Switching to OutSystems

It was just an overall better product, we started in an earlier phase and got a chance to grow alongside the product.
Julio
  • Industry: Security & Investigations
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 07/04/2024

Easy to Use Development Platform

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.

Sirajeddine
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

3
Reviewed on 20/02/2023

Outsystems Review

Satisfied

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

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Aravind
Aravind
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/07/2023

Why OutSystems Lowcode Platform is on top?

OutSystems support is one of the best timely and quality support i have ever seen. I have lost data in production one time, then support team came into picture and got the data back with their effort.Thanks to that/.

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.

Balaji
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 28/05/2023

Low code and No code platform

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.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 27/06/2023

Amazing low code tool

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.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 11/04/2023

My Experience with Outsystems

Outsystems is primarily used where there is a need for quick time to market products

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.

Ronald Abilmar
Ronald Abilmar
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 10/09/2023

My revolutionary experience.

It is very good because I have always found quick answers and solutions to my doubts. This is good because it can solve all my problems quickly.

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.

Flor
Flor
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 10/04/2023

User experience of 1 year.

As a user I recommend its use for the development of moderately complex applications. It does not require much technical knowledge, it is easy to use.

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.

Nishant
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 10/06/2023

Create LowCode apps with ease

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.

Quinn
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 06/04/2023

Fast, Good and Easy to learn software!

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.

Krinal
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 09/03/2023

An innovative way of making development quickly and interesting!

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.

Nihilkumar
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 18/02/2023

My experience with OutSystems

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.

Ritchie
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 17/11/2016

A really slick RAD tools with some particular strengths

I've actually had occasion to make RAD-style tools in the far-flung past. This is the sort of platform I would have made if I could.

Some of the initial steps are a little harder than you would expect, but once you are used to where everything lives, it's easy to find it again.

Coding is done via flowcharts, and these are pretty easy to use, not to mention fairly easy to use straight up as diagrams to show other people what's going on.

OutSystems is pretty good for only showing you matching options, e.g. if you need a date, it will show you everything local with a date and important functions, like the current date. If you adopt certain naming conventions, OutSystems will fill in the type for you: IsSuccess will become Boolean on account of the "Is" part. JobEntryId will become a Job Entry Identifier.

Database design is extremely easy, just add, adjust and publish in a tree or diagram and migrations are automatic, though when you remove things, it won't remove them from the database automatically.

Using the databases is even easier. Drag and drop the columns, join whatever is not automatically joined, add sorting and filters and OutSystems will try to choose a sample of your data. This sample can be changed by changing the test value, e.g. let's see UserId = worker1.

There's a "business processes" that looks strongly inspired by BPMN 2.0, though it is not identical. These can be used for long-term states or even just simple asynchronous programming.

The web interface side of things is pretty slick, though it can be quite ornery about exact placement. I would recommend using the widget tree view instead when this happens to avoid frustration. There is some pretty good support for Responsive Web Design, especially if you choose a theme designed to show on many devices.

If you are missing some functionality, one option that is available is to make extensions. I've made a few of these. The programming side is a bit esoteric , and there are some odd holes (can use a list of records but not a list) but it's pretty good once you get the hang of it.

A few complaints or improvement opportunities: it would be nice if it was a bit more object-oriented. Built-in tools for data migration, especially between Development, Testing and Production, would be most welcome. I also found myself desperately wishing for a try...finally construct. Java versions of components are a bit neglected.

It's been very, very productive all said.

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.

Floris
  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 30/10/2019

Good system but not perfect yet

Good learning curve, the mobile part is evolving rapidly.

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.

Yukie
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 24/08/2016

Review of OutSystems Platform

I was able to start use ServiceStudio though I have a little knowlege of Database and SQL. OSP allows us to get pleasure and fun by starting developing applications first, and then we are interested in the back architechture such as SQL sentence, server and client structure, and so on and start learning. It will be good tool to start learning of developing web application, and fill the requirement of professional developer.

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.

Christian
Christian
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 16/02/2017

Positively suprised; and that is still going on

Working / developing / creating with the OutSystems platform for a year now .. Sceptic as I always am about the promise of low-code and then "getting a lot of magic" ... OutSystems does a very good job in actually keeping their promise. Yes there is a learning curve but you get into it very fast. Yes it is more for developers than for business people ... but we can now both work together much faster in creating something we need / like. Also very impressed with the deployment process. It is a breeze. And I actually perform updates without sleepless nights because the platform helps me check several dependencies during development but also at deployment time. By the way .... this is platform not a tool. You can use the platform to support companies with a lot of users .. it is serious shit ;-) Only thing that is difficult to get an idea of is what type of license you need. For my client we had to buy additional points because we needed more ... that is of course a bummer ... so OutSystems if you are reading this ... this would help customers ... getting a better estimate of the license they need. But the pro's out weigh the con's by far. Good luck choosing your next platform!

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

Carlos
  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 03/10/2019

Reduce Time To Market

We are totaly involve, and we are migrating a lot of the organizations solutions into the plataform, our POS solution, delivery hand held solution, our transportation manager application (Oracle TM), and we also create a custom CRM levaing behind the SAP CRM solution.

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

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud and SugarCRM
Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 07/03/2018

Development Platform that brings a new experience and speed of delivery

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.

Remco
Remco
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 09/10/2018

Long term low-code OutSystems user review

I've been working with Outsystems for the last 12 years and I've built a lot of different systems while working for different employers. From automating business processes to rebuilding complete core systems. I've also built several mobile applications for different user groups.

The overal experience on all projects is that the platform is very stable and improves continuous with every update. Nowadays they split the Studio from the Platform and this results in even faster delivery of new functionality.

I've never had any regret from the switch I made 12 years ago.

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.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 29/10/2019

Best low code application platform

Our company has implemented about 30 different applications to many different process areas including sales, order-to-cash, R&D, HR, etc. Work process automation, time saving, effiecience order biggest benefits.

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.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 09/10/2018

Tailored and guided low-code app & web development

Exceptional, We were successful in our strategy. Thanks to low code environment where we could focus more on user needs and less on architecture and coding discipline.

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

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 03/10/2019

Speed up value deliver

We already developed almost 15 applications for our company, including a well succeeded HR app that is used for every employee in the company, creating a digital path between HR department and employees.

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.

HÉLDER
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
0
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 23/03/2016

Simple and Powerful!

Build applications fast powerful, change them even faster, accelerating the development with existing resources, simplify the process of change
Integrate with all existing systems and data sources and maintain order with the management and analysis
The cost to make a change to an application during development increases exponentially with time, complexity and versions
With agile methods becoming standard, application development has become a continuous exercise in change
quick Productivity
OutSystems platform was built to be fast so you can start working immediately
Are obtained in applications in less time and with less risk than traditional solutions
Speed and Code
Combining visual modeling with your code to deliver high-quality applications at the speed your business demands
Extending a powerful modeling environment in all layers from the UI to the complex logic for modeling and database processes
With a JavaScript UI code, your own CSS classes, Java or C # code, APIs multiple database technologies
Development of Multi-Channel
It helps reduce the time and cost of development once for all devices
Can be created beautiful and advanced UIs that perform well on all platforms, devices and the Web
Get engaging experiences with drag and drop simplicity with
Open Platform
open platform that provides standards-based code and accumulates with extensibility
You can extend the visual models with standard or custom code such as JavaScript, Java, C#, SQL, CSS and HTML
Integrate with any external database and use APIs rest or SOAP web services for integration with their existing mission-critical systems
Enterprise-Grade Platform
It is scalable, allowing you to build and manage large portfolios of applications, created by teams of developers working on separate modules simultaneously
Scale applications linearly as they grow from hundreds of millions of users
It generates highly secure code that passes the audits of large financial and government institutions stricter safety
reduced costs
Significantly more time, money and resources are often spent on maintenance of an application than is spent on application development
To save time and simplify the tasks that are done quickly and simultaneously tested so that the process is easy and fast
No Lock-in
Most platforms on the market can only be used and changed with the platform built
OutSystems is the only platform that offers non-lock in truly can separate Java applications or C#.

Pranav
Pranav
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 27/11/2018

Best Low Code Platform Ever...

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).

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