OutSystems

User experience of 1 year.

Comments: 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.

one of the best low code platforms in the market

Comments: overall, a very positive experience with the platform, the vendor personnel involved in the sale activity and also the community that was very helpfiul.

Pros:

it is a very easy to get started product with very minimal or no prior programming experience. In addition, the platform is very intuitive and self guided and hence one can do very well on the platform if they know their use case and have a good systematic approach to leveraging the platform. There is also a very active community to help and the vendor personnel are also there to handhold along the way.

Cons:

very honestly speaking, there is nothing that I dislike about the platform. It is very intuitive and one can learn to use and leverage the platform very easily and quickly.

Alternatives Considered: Kony

Reasons for Switching to OutSystems: when we did a use case with both products side by side, we found the user interface of outsytems to be simpler and at the same time it was more self guided for a non-technical personnel.

Suficient

Comments: We are using Outsystems to create insurance related apps.

Pros:

You can build basic sw in little time SoC is easy to implement Easy to monitor issues

Cons:

Search functionality isn't user friendly It "crashes" too many times, specially when detaching eSpace tabs(originating another instance of outsystems) Has the number of components grow inside, lets say an action, the "messier" looks

Best Low Code platform out there

Comments: Despite the pricing category, OutSystems get the job done in a oustanding way, It's really a fun and intuitive way to get your heads into programming.

Pros:

What make us choose OutSystems was it's simplicity and the speed up, when you are developing new projects. The ability to use the same base code for both mobile platforms was a big thumbs up too. We also contacted a indenpendent code review company to check the generated code base and they liked what they saw, it's generated with good pratices and putting the performance in the right place.

Cons:

Definatelly it's cost. It's a very expansive platform and it's only suited for big companies. They offer a free option but it's just for test purposes.

Alternatives Considered: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Reasons for Choosing OutSystems: We were trying to get a more easy to use/develop platform.

Switched From: Salesforce Sales Cloud

Reasons for Switching to OutSystems: The easy of use, support and also the community behind it.

Quick development and Quality Deployment

Comments: Outsystems has allowed our team to very quickly develop and release a production application in a matter of months with the inclusion of business units testing each feature along the way. It allows us to really adapt to an iterative development approach.

Pros:

Outsystems uses the latest UI designs so we can focus on building out the business process. We are able to deploy in on environment and then quickly send it over to a test environment for our customers to be engaged in the SDLC. Code changes and security enable quality deployment into our production environment and minimizes any breaks in our application.

Cons:

You can sometimes reach a roadblock and the customer support might take a bit longer to answer your questions if you did not purchase the higher SLA support package. Certain bugs can occur when using the Service Studio but patches usually fixes it in a timely manner.

Alternatives Considered: Mendix

Reasons for Switching to OutSystems: Sales and demo was done very well. The personal environment to run a free environment and make a POC app also helped us make a decision.