OutSystems strengthens worldwide position

Venture investment has just been injected on OutSystems to strengthen their position on the global market.

OutSystems is an enterprise platform designed uppon agility concepts. OutSystems proposes the creation of applications that are faster to create, change and manage, built with scalability assurance.

Applications built with OutSystems are mostly graphical - except for some data relational code, users express their application using workflows, fluxograms and other graphical components, facilitation the communication between the functional and technical worlds, thus lowering the impedance mismatch between them.

In my first impressions, the great strength of OutSystems are:

• A development platform closer to the functional users – I believe this is the model most of information systems will depend on some years from now, probably on a self-sufficient model;
• The agility of the platform – fast prototyping is one of the greatest assets of a successful project;
• “Closed in developing, open in usage” – I find the runtime free model just awesome on an investment protection perspective;
• Betting on a community and certification - yeap, I'm now OutSystems certified (Level 2), and haven't spoken with anyone from OutSystems; just downloaded and installed the designer (and optionally the runtime), read ther PDF and video documentation and aplied for online tests;
• Betting on quality and reliability, not on a broad set of functionalities;
• (from the later) the confidence to open the product to the world “by itself” – the simple fact that we can use OutSystems without someone from OutSystems installing it is just a great achievement for an enterprise platform. For the first 10 years of my career I've worked on a software house on enterprise products, and that was a goal our product division didn’t achieve.

Good luck for them.