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OutSystems Raises $55M For Its Rapid Application Delivery Platform

OutSystems, an Atlanta-based service that helps enterprises quickly build line-of-business apps, today announced that it has raised a $55 million funding round led by North Bridge Growth Equity.

Low-code solutions: Empowering businesspeople to make their own applications

"As organizations seek faster time-to-market releases of the software necessary to stay ahead of the competition, new solutions that enable the business to create applications without the need for IT to get involved are starting to emerge."

Guest View: Bimodal IT supports new requirements for agile app development

"For years IT organizations have been criticized for being too slow, too restrictive and unresponsive to the business. Analysts and vendors have pushed IT to transform itself as a whole, and encouraged the adoption of technologies that enable agility(...)"

Welcome on board - Mercy Ships finds faster way for HR to onboard volunteers

"The operator of the world’s largest civilian hospital ship has developed a custom web app to recruit the medics, ship’s crew and others needed to deliver healthcare to patients in the developing world."

Research: Cloud Platforms Cater to Three Developer Types

"Are you a strict code-writing machine, a DevOps programmer who needs to fool around with a lot of configuration management or a point-and-click "developer" just wanting to get quality apps out as quickly as possible via a GUI interface?"

AXA unveils new claims tracking tool for brokers

"Portal will enable brokers to view claims progress round the clock."

Guest View: Are you delivering an app du jour or an app for the ages?

"RAD. MADP. RMAD. aPaaS. Everyday it seems that analysts are defining yet another category of products. This makes sense because it is how the industry is used to tackling something “new” (cloud platforms, mobile devices, wearables, etc.)."

OutSystems rides RAD wave in Asian waters

"AT a recent roundtable event hosted by OutSystems in Singapore, one of the chief information officers (CIOs) in attendance purportedly said that for the first time in his career, “IT was faster than business” in delivering what was requested."

Guest View: Choose wisely at the mobility crossroads

"Today’s CIOs are at a crossroads. Bombarded by user requests for sophisticated mobile-friendly business apps, they have a choice to make: be a roadblock and force users to find their own workarounds, or provide a thruway that leads to innovation and enables agility. CIOs who assume an active role in leading their organization down the right path will deliver true business value."

Enterprises: We need more mobile app developers

"A survey of IT managers finds that half report backlogs of at least 10 mobile apps."

Survey Shows Firms Confounded by Lack of Mobile App Developers

"Enterprise developers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand for mobile apps in the new "mobile-first" era, according to a new survey."

Cloud Expo 2014 Interview with OutSystems

Erik Linask, Editorial Director at TMC, catches OutSystems own David Holmes at Cloud Expo 2014 to discuss how enterprises are moving to the cloud to rapidly build and deploy mobile and web applications.