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Developing with OutSystems

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  1. Single integrated development environment
  2. Covering the entire development lifecycle

OutSystems is a modern application platform designed to dramatically accelerate the development of a company’s most critical applications while also delivering unprecedented levels of flexibility and efficiency. Developers use a single, integrated development environment that covers the entire development lifecycle: development, quality assurance, deployment, monitoring, and management.

Single integrated development environment

The whole application is built on a single integrated development environment using a low-code approach. This includes the front-end, back-end, database, and integration with existing systems or services.

  • Build the UI of your mobile or web app using templates and ready-made building blocks that work across devices. You can extend the UI with standard HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and access any device capability (camera, calendar, gps, etc.) by creating simple plugins.
  •   All aspects of the back-end are developed visually, including APIs, web services, workflows, and business rules. You can extend the platform capabilities using custom code.
  • Model your application's database visually and connect to any existing data-source.
  • Use open-source connectors or an integration wizard to connect to software packages, current apps, or existing databases. You can visually consume or expose web-services or build your own connectors with custom code.

Covering the entire development lifecycle

OutSystems supports developers throughout the entire lifecycle:

  • Rapid development and integration: Quickly develop applications that are integrated with existing systems and databases. Ensure the quality of your applications through impact analysis and a self-healing engine.
  • Deployment: Move your applications all the way from development to production safely with a couple of clicks. Version tracking, dependency checking, and impact analysis ensure total visibility on the impact of staging.
  • Monitoring: Keep an eye on the health of your entire factory, and track client-side, server-side, and network performance with applications that are automatically instrumented with monitoring capabilities.
  • Manage: Easily perform day-to-day operations on your applications, including identity management and configuration management of application services.
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Will I hit a wall when developing?

When people ask us this question, they have often just experienced our visual application development model or seen a demo and are concerned whether they will be able to include their own code.
Can I build reports and dashboards with OutSystems?

Outsystems has a number of facilities developers can use to build reports and dashboards and incorporate them into their applications
Can OutSystems be used to build complex/big applications?

Yes. OutSystems offers a fully integrated approach to development, quality assurance, deployment and management - the entire application lifecycle - which enables it to support high-scale app development.
Does OutSystems support event-driven architecture?

Yes. OutSystems is perfectly suited for the event-driven architectures that have grown in popularity to support loosely coupled, modern distributed applications. OutSystems integrates with leading event-driven platforms. In addition, with OutSystems, events can be triggered and handled in all layers of your applications.
Does OutSystems allow the reuse of code?

Yes. Applications built with OutSystems can share and reuse code that is made available for discovery and usage. Reusability is available at all application layers: UI, business logic and database. And, code reuse is better with OutSystems for a number of reasons.

Is it possible to build a multi-tenant application with OutSystems?

Yes. It is possible to build a multi-tenant application with OutSystems. Modern enterprise applications and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications must reach out to multiple customers and multi-tenancy enables enterprises to house customer applications in a single place while isolating their data from one another. So, OutSystems makes it simple to develop a multi-tenant application, and our customers are benefiting.
Is it possible to create complex forms with OutSystems?

Yes. Organizations get great layout and styling features, conditional display and incremental disclosure constructs, and form ​validations that enable them to develop complex forms.