We performed a comparison between OutSystems and Salesforce Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."OutSystems is easy to use."
"There is literally a ton of stuff it can do. It's very flexible."
"It is easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"It is very stable."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"A very flexible solution."
"It is very user-friendly, and intuitive, it will lead you and take you to the next steps."
"We use this solution to track customer activities, opportunities and contact information."
"One can do almost everything using Salesforce's OOTB functionality without much investment."
"The most valuable features of the Salesforce Platform are the ability to manage customers' data, many report filtering options, and consolidation."
"The product is pretty responsive."
"Scalability to configure and integrate."
"It is a platform that allows you to get applications quickly to the end user in a secure way."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"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."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
"The solution's testing framework needs to be improved, and the workflow should be slightly more mature."
"One of the biggest areas for improvement is that every time an existing data element is modified, it creates a new data element. It doesn't really modify that particular data element. So, a user has to follow an extra step of removing the existing data element and bringing in the new and modified data element that is being added, which sort of goes into negative productivity."
"The asynchronous processing and multithreading tasks for which the current resources of the platform are very generic and not built for the end-user. Any asynchronous jobs have to be constructed with an end-user dashboard to allow inspection of the status of the activities."
"We had some lagging issues under high data loads, and the solution needed to be customized to improve this."
"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."
"Their reporting needs to be improved. It should be easier. I don't know how, but it needs to be easier."
"In terms of features, for our business needs, we have more than enough right now. There is nothing that we are missing or would like to add. They can maybe share some best practices so that when you are starting, you can stick to a good process, and you don't have to think so much about the process that you want or your CEO or CMO wants. The process should not be based on one person in the company. Having some best practices will make it easier to get started. These best practices can be based on what has worked for others. Its basic version is pretty simple, and the customizations are up to the companies, which can make startups like ours lose a lot of time in figuring out what all stakeholders want rather than what would work."
"Salesforce Platform operates as a cloud system, and within our organization, numerous internal systems handle data processing. While real-time data retrieval is feasible through services, achieving real-time communication poses some challenges."
"When we're documenting information such as notes, and so forth, if we were to go back to the same case all notes go missing."
"The reporting for Salesforce could be approved. It is a manual process and it would be useful to have a guide or videos on how to generate reports or any other cool things that you could do with the platform."
"Pricing is the biggest factor. The cost right now is too high and I've had a lot of clients leave."
"I would like to see the organizational details improved to make it less difficult to bring new clients on board."
"The initial setup process was a complex thing to do because four different organizations were working together."
OutSystems is ranked 1st in Mobile Development Platforms with 30 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 3rd in Mobile Development Platforms with 29 reviews. OutSystems is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OutSystems writes "Helps with validation, offers good features, and is reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Offers out-of-the-box features and provides a wide range of capabilities under what they call "No code," "Low code," and "Pro code" options". OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and Bizagi, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian and Appium. See our OutSystems vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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