OutSystems vs Take Control Comparison

low code platform. one click installer. agille.

license model. revision control. multiple tenants.

- Speed - Quality - Flexibility - Business Processing Tools

- Rethink software development - Loosing control of the underlying technical things - SQL is managed by the system, so tuning and in depth control is harder

Integrated development, version control, packaging, deployment and hosting.

Documentation

able to develop screens that can work in a variety of form factors and use the database model to generate a working application quickly

don't have direct control over the database; limitations of a point and click development environment

Easy of use, visual representation of business process, accessability to citizen developers, integrated source control and analytics.

Adoption by exisiting developers and hard to find exisiting talent to hire direct.

The deployment process of each application is very robust among several environments that can be defined as needed.

The ability to set event handlers on events triggered by editable grids so it can have more control in execution of client-side scripts.

Very fast way to get prototype and proof of concept systems up and running Most custom features are pretty easy to add You can shell out to C# when needed Very easy roll-out of applications from dev to test to live

The underlying SQL database can get pretty complicated if you keep changing data structure - sometimes we define the database ourselves to get better control over it

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Extensibility of platform, ease of creating a demo and extending / modifying this to a enterprise ready product

Pricing, although price quality is good, it's an expensive product

I can say enough about how helpful the Success team has been helping my development teams make the transition from traditional .net development to Low code.

It is too easy to get started. Need to make sure you shift your mindset from "I have to write code" to what is the best way to leverage OutSystems.

Speed of development Ease of deployment Development for both desktop applications and mobile Integration with other platforms

Very prescriptive. You will find it hard to do extensive customization. Sometimes support can take time to fix platform bugs.

Outsystems allows our developers to develop apps that would take months to developer otherwise. It has so many features that are already pre-built, it is easy to use and fun for developers.

Outsystems is more difficult to learn than I thought it would be. I took the classes on line and followed the instructions. However, I was unable to do them on my own afterwards.

ease of use. It's so easy to build mobile apps for with this software. Development doesn't take long and you can make adaptations on the fly. Customers can use their product fast and are happy.

You can't insert any code into it. Sometimes you know the solution in code, but you can't input it anywhere

(No) code, so easy to understand for new team members

No feature branches (yet) and if you want to use automated testing tools, you have to take extra time to name all the objects

I like that it's written with React. I like that the mobile app generated (for iOS at least) does a good job at capturing the iOS look and feel. I also like that there are alot of customization options for custom blocks and the fact that you can trigger custom events from those blocks.

The id of the control is still not accessible in CSS and we have to resort to jQuery or use classes. The development process is mostly drag and drop and coming from a background of coding every little thing in the systems I've created, it seems at times, that I'm making a macro.

OutSystems truly does live up to the promise of 10x development. The cost of the platform is offset completely by freeing up developers to provide vastly more value for every minute spent working on projects. Perhaps not obviously, it also improves the quality of products significantly. Developers get time back to actually work with customers in the target markets and operate on feedback. Divisions and companies can become more agile and keep up with an ever changing world.

There are some limitations with collaboration amongst teams. Because the platform uses a modeling language which exists in three dimensions, typical version control features like branching, merging, and pull requests do not currently exist. This issue can be overcome by changing the way you organize your teams and how they do work.

great product and fun to use

customer support is somewhat lacking

Business processes are easy to map and associate with business rules and the user interface. A very intuitive interface. Visual Studio integration is great, and application development is a much more manageable process. Built-in version control, repository contains all logic and business rules. Change management is less painful thanks to the abstraction of business rules within the system.

The cost was much higher than we could afford. This platform is ideal for larger development shops that need the efficiency of a well-managed platform.

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)

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

Fast development, easy to change / maintain apps. Easy to learn (in 2 weeks you'll start rocking OutSystems development with no problem. If you know DB systems, and a high level programming language is enough to learn OutSystems fats and easy.

You will need to adapt a little bit to the IDE and it will take you 2 weeks to start being productive. It depends on you (of course). Also, you can start doing things from day 1 though.

Thank you for your review Hugo. For OutSystems it is a pleasure to see NGOs like yours take advantage of our technology to bring your ideas to the community.

The ease of use I amazing. With normal coding I would take a day to set everything up ( maybe more depending on the project ). With outsystems there is no need for setup. Just start a project and publish. That's it, The (web) application is already running! Also, no overly complicated data or OO design needed anymore. Outsystems mostly takes care of that.

There are still some really small points that need to be taken into account when developing with outsystems. to work faster, functionality wise there are still some things to be added. Also if you're looking to develop with outsystems if you're a small company, its very pricy in that scenario. Personally i would like to see a viable option for personal use / small businesses.

The software is a low code platform that allows us to create apps that we use for our everyday business needs. Our development team is able to streamline our processes and create a professional looking apps that looks great on cell phones, tablets and desktop. Our customers love the look and feel of our apps, and enjoy using them.

I did not like to have to learn how to use the program, but it was easy, and there are plenty of tutorials. Other than having to take the time to learn something new, I have not run into any issues that are concerning.

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.

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.

Visual modelling of data / Integrity checks (nothing is deployed when it breaks something else) / SilkUI (standard UI components so yuo doný have to make them all) / Ease of deployment between environments / Ease of integration with the rest of the world (REST, SOAP, database connections, extension with C#)

When using the correct architecture (4-layer) and you have a lot of espaces/modules ... you have to refresh a lot modules (rebuild manually) ... this can take some time ... So when you want to test your code you sometimes first have to wait for a rebuild

In short, what I titled above. There is so much available to take advantage of from connectors, prebuilt integrations, screen design accelerators and even user feedback options. There's almost nothing I want that isn't already a part of Outsystems, and if there is I can use custom code integrations as well! I don't know if our team will ever have enough time or project to explore all Outsystems has to offer.

Some of the training was lacking for some advanced components at first (api creation, etc). That has improved with more training options, but also building more accelerators into the tool. (i.e. enter the url end point and it can automatically create functions and variables for you)