OutSystems: Simplified Application Development

The current scenario is one that has anointed web applications as the building blocks of every enterprise, thrusting the necessity for business organizations to quickly deliver applications in a cost-effective manner. However, a majority of IT professionals say that it takes more than three months on an average, to develop a web or mobile application, leading to considerable dissatisfaction in the required speed for application delivery. However, catchphrases such as low-code development and the technology associated with it, have set the stage for faster mobile application development and deployment. To this end, OutSystems develops low-code platforms for rapid application development, helping organizations build enterprise-grade applications and transform their businesses rapidly. By replacing the complex world of building applications with simple and ultra-fast visual-modeling, OutSystems eliminates offline data synchronization, native device access, and on-device business logic to assist their clients deliver business innovations at lower costs.

The company’s solution is among the very few that combine the power of low-code development with advanced mobile capabilities to enable visual development of entire application portfolios. The platform easily integrates with enterprise’s existing systems, through its in-house project tracking component, which offers powerful, yet simple, project-tracking and collaboration, to support fast and continuous delivery of applications. OutSystems also provides connectors to leading tools like JIRA and Rally, and APIs to enable easy integration with enterprise ALM platform. Further, the platform streamlines the whole process enabling developers to easily build web applications and portals that delight customers also relieving enterprises from relying on third parties for delivery.

The firm helps in crafting innovative applications featuring leading-edge omni-channel experience that perform great on any platform and device—from desktop browsers to companion applications running on tablets and mobile phones. OutSystems’s full-stack Visual Development platform, a visual framework, offers drag-and-drop functionality with pixel-perfect controls for user interface, business processes, logic, and data models to create back-end and front-end of cross-platform applications. The development platform is incorporated with more than 140 patterns and controls along with a library of world class UI widgets that can be added to an application with just a few clicks.