We performed a comparison between IBM MobileFirst and OutSystems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."I like Its capability for developing hybrid applications, with an ability to integrate device-native code as well"
"IBM MobileFirst has one of the most feature-rich admin panels."
"With help of this product, we have been able to develop mobile applications without having complete knowledge of each mobile OS's native programming technology. App development, delivery, and code management have been very efficient using this product."
"The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user interface, the flexibility to quickly integrate with almost anything in the system, and the ability to connect with databases."
"I like the mobile features the most, and there are also various features around the portal we created that I enjoy."
"The most important features of this tool are its visual modeling capabilities and drag and drop functionality. You can see what you are coding which makes it easy to understand and maintain. They have also created a big revolution in digital transformation by introducing native mobile app development under the same IDE."
"It is a stable solution."
"The tool makes the development process easier."
"Integrations with external systems with SOAP and REST are easy to implement off-the-shelf, but a developer can always implement specific libraries for other integrations."
"We can quickly develop an application using the tool."
"Refactoring with TrueChange is very simple."
"There are issues with push notifications, especially for Windows mobile apps. JSONStore also crashes abruptly at times."
"I would like to see improved support for native device functions."
"The tutorials for the solution should be updated."
"I think OutSystems needs to improve in many areas. First, sometimes Service Studio becomes really slow and even hangs for long periods. Also, if I have not published my module in some time, and some kind of Service Studio exception occurs, I lose my work."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
"Writing custom code still needs to be done via Integration Studio. This might have been added to the IDE."
"OutSystems does not provide any native reporting resources. All reports must be created with other tools or as a webpage."
"Since we first started using OutSystems, they switched their language support from Java and .NET to .NET only, which was a bit of a surprise. Their language support could be better in this sense, although on our resource side it is now a bit more flexible."
"While I can't speak to the market impact, as a developer, I've seen significant reductions in development time across different versions of our applications. One area for improvement would be the UI controls in Service Studio. Sometimes, controls don't appear in the IDE, requiring us to check them in the web browser instead. Overall, our experience with OutSystems has been positive, though improvements in UI development would be welcomed."
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IBM MobileFirst is ranked 14th in Mobile Development Platforms while OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile Development Platforms with 46 reviews. IBM MobileFirst is rated 8.4, while OutSystems is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM MobileFirst writes "It provides access management for the enterprise user as well as for the consumer". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OutSystems writes "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". IBM MobileFirst is most compared with IBM MaaS360, Microsoft Azure App Service, SAP Mobile Platform and Ionic, whereas OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and Oracle Application Express (APEX).
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