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Project Overview
OutSystems provides the only open, high-productivity application platform (PaaS) that makes it easy to create, deploy and manage enterprise mobile and web applications - helping IT deliver innovative business solutions fast.
OutSystems Platform enables rapid delivery of beautiful applications for all devices utilizing responsive or device-specific web design. The Platform empowers IT to attack changing business requirements by automating core DevOps best practices such as continuous integration and delivery. It is available as a public cloud, private cloud and on-premises solution.
Organisation
Team
OutSystems was founded in 2001, and has 280 employees globally, a majority focused on product development.
Project Brief
OutSystems Platform enables rapid delivery of beautiful applications for all devices and empowers IT to get ahead of changing business requirements. Leveraging a mobile-first mindset, OutSystems Platform ensures that all applications are built from the ground up with mobile in mind. OutSystems reduces the complexity and the expertise required in order to build these systems, enabling apps to be built in days or weeks, instead of months.
Almost 400 enterprises run over 36,500 instances of OutSystems Platform in 24 countries, across 22 industries. Customers include Fortune 5000 organizations globally, in verticals including banking (ING, ABN-AMRO), insurance (Zurich, AXA), retail and consumer goods (Safeway, Panda Express, Bacardi), pharma and biotech (Medivation, Charles River), telecommunications (Cablevision, Vodafone), computing and technology (HP, Siemens), advertising and media (WB, Yellow Pages), manufacturing and automotive (Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen), and many more.
OutSystems enables enterprises to:
• Develop visually, modeling all aspects of applications visually, without any low level coding.
• Deploy automatically, providing one-click staging and deployment of applications, within minutes.
• Change continuously, any aspect of apps, quickly and easily.
• Manage centrally, including performance and usage, from a centralized console.
"The name of the platform should be OutStanding instead of OutSystems as the platform is awesome," said Pratik Shah of FICO.
Project Need
Mobile-first applications embrace mobility as the primary IT platform for enterprises, and therefore are designed with the mobile device as top of mind. As a result, the number of applications that must be developed is immediately multiplied by 5-10x, in order to account for the variety of platforms, devices and related requirements. The creation, deployment and management of these applications calls for a different approach to the entire application lifecycle, to allow IT to keep up with business and user demands. OutSystems high-productivity application delivery platform enables a ‘build once for all devices’ approach, and also makes it extremely easy to integrate applications with both existing cloud and on-premises systems.
OutSystems provides powerful functionality to mobilize the enterprise, including:
- Responsive application design, which renders across all form factors
- Powerful HTML Widgets, which work across all devices
- Native OutSystems Now app which provides enterprise IT the ability to manage and let end users access their complete web and mobile applications portfolio (such as a customer portal, employee directory, expense reporting app, etc) from one location or multiple devices.
- One Login – single-sign on and ability to make immediate changes on the go
User Experience
OutSystems Platform makes it extremely easy to quickly integrate external systems and databases or to extend applications with an organization’s own custom code. Helpful wizards are available to easily integrate with SAP and other existing applications, databases and services. Reusable components and connectors can be extended and created for use across all of existing applications and projects.
A recent Bloor Research report (http://www.outsystems.com/offer/paas/bloor-research-report/#_) ranked OutSystems Platform as easier to use than Salesforce.com’s development platform (Salesforce1 Platform). The report noted that “Customers say that they buy OutSystems Platform because it’s the ideal tool if you want to be able to forget about technology and concentrate on the important part of software solution delivery—the business and its requirements.”
In addition to providing an enterprise solution to hundreds of customers worldwide, OutSystems offers a free cloud offering, leveraged by over 8,200 developers in 154 countries. This free version has been used to build over 8600 applications, with over 12.6 million page views, in the first seven montns since its release. From a thirty-year COBOL programmer in the U.S. to a medical physicist in Belgium, a trader in the U.K., and a professional developer in Tasmania, people across the globe are using OutSystems Platform to create innovative applications that they never imagined could be this easy.
Project Marketing
Hundreds of companies in 24 countries across 22 industries use OutSystems Platform to create and deliver custom, mission critical applications.
OutSystems was named one of IDG’s “20 Red Hot, Pre-IPO Companies” in November 2013 and recently was named Platform as a Service of the Year by Business Innovation Group’s Stratus Awards.
The company markets to enterprises in the traditional manners (tradeshows/events, demand generation, awards and industry recognition, PR and corporate communications, etc), but also is able to harness the power of hundreds of happy customers as amazing testimonials that drive true customer-to-customer marketing. http://www.outsystems.com/customers/
In addition, OutSystems markets a free cloud offering, leveraged by over 8,200 developers in 154 countries. This free version has been used to build over 8600 applications, with over 12.6 million page views, in the first seven months since its release. From a thirty-year COBOL programmer in the U.S. to a medical physicist in Belgium, a trader in the U.K., and a professional developer in Tasmania, people across the globe are using OutSystems Platform to create innovative applications that they never imagined could be this easy.
Project Privacy
As an application platform, OutSystems provides the tools needed for our customers to build applications that protect the privacy of their users.
Best Platform
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