We performed a comparison between OutSystems, Temenos Quantum, and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OutSystems, Mendix, Salesforce and others in Mobile Development Platforms."The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user-friendly platform. The drag-and-drop feature is great. I have used other rapid application development tools before, but they were not as advanced as OutSystems. With the previous tools, I had to manually build certain features, but OutSystems does it automatically."
"The drag-and-drop feature is very valuable."
"The technical support is perfect."
"OutSystems' best feature is that you can build tests with the flow, so even the tests are made in the PDD framework in a low-code way."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of OutSystems is easy."
"Speed of delivery: We were able to reduce development time by 30%."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it allows users to easily build applications."
"The visual program of OutSystems is one of the major advantages of this solution."
"You can build your own customized, native, mobile applications in an efficient matter."
"The visualizer and API manager are super useful. It's easy to create applications for the agent. Automations and other complex tasks can be hard, but it's mostly straightforward. You can create forms and populate tables."
"I like the complete, professional social site."
"You can do rapid development across multiple platforms."
"The most valuable features of Temenos Quantum are user-friendliness and customizability."
"The initial setup of Temenos Quantum was easy."
"Its greatest advantage lies in its exceptional security and robustness."
"The most valuable feature is usability. You can develop components inside it and reuse them in different parts of your application, wherever needed. You can replicate them. There's also a Quantum Fabric on the back end, which provides a middle layer between your database and the third-party systems you need to integrate. It also provides the integration to handle all sorts of exceptions and timeouts on the Fabric. This makes it easy to troubleshoot errors coming from third-party APIs."
"On the market, compared to everyone else, they're the top solution. They're the best solution out there that I could see."
"The cross platform ability is a great asset."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"Test Cloud, Calabash, SpecFlow, and Xamarin.UITest are the features which can’t be ignored because just writing code doesn’t mean your app will run flawlessly. You need to test your app on each possible device and configuration, which you can do easily."
"The Xamarin platform can reduce overhead significantly through code-share and reuse. The typical team size for a Xamarin project is significantly reduced compared to purely native projects."
"The most valuable features of the Xamarin Platform are that it has cross-platform development, one code base serves a purpose on both, and the grid layout is a lifesaver."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is that both the UI are the same in Android and iOS, in one project and Android and iOS, are applications for developing PCL projects. Additionally, the dashboard is good."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"OutSystems does not provide any native reporting resources. All reports must be created with other tools or as a webpage."
"The documentation needs to be more robust."
"The largest obstacle currently associated with OutSystems is its high cost and limited availability of skilled personnel. Despite being a rapid application development platform, having a highly skilled individual familiar with the platform can be much more beneficial than an inexperienced individual. Because there is a shortage of people with the necessary OutSystems skills, utilizing the platform can become expensive. This makes little sense, considering that a rapid application development platform should be accessible to the average person. However, having a highly skilled individual can greatly increase productivity, making the cost worthwhile."
"We had some lagging issues under high data loads, and the solution needed to be customized to improve this."
"The technical features are good, but the actual commercialization is out of reach."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
"Its ability to create and run automated tasks could be better."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"Using the API manager can be complicated when you're dealing with multiple teams, projects, and APIs. Quantum doesn't have user-based access, so I can't restrict parts of the project to specific users."
"There are many issues when integrating with native sides when building an Android application of the retail accelerator or an iOS application of the retail actuator. We have to incorporate on the native side of things, which creates a lot of issues. Temenos Quantum is a proprietary product and not open source. There is not much information available on the internet for developers to reference when solving issues. You have to contact the help desk, who will then give you an appointment and work to resolve the issue. In terms of what Temenos can do better, they can make the product more mature so that we do not encounter as many black holes when encountering an issue."
"One area where Temenos Quantum could improve is in the flexibility of widgets and additional libraries."
"When developing our application, we also encountered certain issues related to delays and time-consuming builds."
"Some features are only enabled for paid users. It would be much better if they enabled those features without having to pay. I would also like to see them publish information about future technologies on the Home screen under a separate tab. That would be an improvement."
"Temenos Quantum needs to improve its usability. It lacks information on the network. We have to contact the support when we are stuck with something."
"The technology of the solution needs an update. It is deficient in terms of connectivity."
"The UI lacks flexibility, especially regarding customizations. There are numerous issues at the fabric end, and working with the visualizer is extremely challenging. Basic development tasks require a high-end machine, and even clicking on an icon initiates a thirty-second processing time. The challenges mainly revolve around fabric and content."
"The solution does not include Hot Reload which is painful because it causes us to wait quite some time for huge builds."
"The file size is a bit big, so you have to make certain layers."
"For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three."
"Xamarin's profiling tools are only available for the highest tier of MSDN subscription and compatibility with platform-native profiling tools is rather lacking. This causes friction when working on performance-related issues."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"Regarding improvements, there are still some limitations with Xamarin, particularly regarding access to core functionality in Android and iOS."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
