We performed a comparison between OutSystems and Zoho Creator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of user support and community engagement, I rate the tool a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems is the drag and drop and toolchains in the small AI developing environment. Additionally, the documentation is helpful."
"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."
"The visual program of OutSystems is one of the major advantages of this solution."
"It is very stable."
"Their out-of-the-box UI is quite good."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"I just like the simplicity of it."
"Zoho Creator is a flexible and powerful solution. I like the tool's advanced modification feature which helps to modify its layout and setup scripts."
"Zoho Creator can be integrated with other platforms easily."
"Zoho Creator boasts a multitude of impressive features, but one of the most outstanding is its flexibility in creating interactive reports and pages. With Zoho Creator, users have the ability to utilize HTML and CSS to create visually appealing pages that are rich in information, utilizing data from the system itself. This exceptional feature provides a remarkable advantage and adds immense value to Zoho Creator."
"It is very easy to build applications on the product."
"Zoho Creator is a flexible open platform that is good for development in a complex environment that other platforms may not support. It isn't a challenge for me to develop any kind of complex application in Zoho."
"The deployment process is quite straightforward."
"The most important thing is Zoho Creator's functionality. Other cloud platforms cannot provide its functionality."
"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."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
"Mobile apps need improvement."
"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."
"We had some lagging issues under high data loads, and the solution needed to be customized to improve this."
"In OutSystems, cloud management is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product could be improved if there was a shortcut, or predefined, predictable templates provided."
"Writing custom code still needs to be done via Integration Studio. This might have been added to the IDE."
"Zoho Creator's UX design needs to be improved."
"We are looking for a single portal across all Zoho apps."
"We face issues while moving from one form to another form. We have a negative impression of the tool's support since they do not provide us assistance with our queries. They don't have solid answers to our questions."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. So some room for improvement as well for scalability."
"When you're developing database-type applications, there is no way to see the actual database tables. They call them forms, and I don't like that. Zoho should also provide better user guides."
"Zoho provides different channels for support, like chat and email. There's also a multi-brand support self-service support portal, but it's time-consuming to deal with it. If we create a portal on Zoho, we need to pay an additional cost per user. It's a flexible platform, but there are limitations, such as the EBI. We need to purchase additional EBIs and other features that some businesses require. If we are developing complex applications, we need to set up many virtual automation and use API calls."
"Sometimes technical support does not answer our queries."
"I would like to see a simpler layout and interface. I would also like to see Zoho CRM and Zoho Campaigns integrated with the product."
OutSystems is ranked 3rd in Rapid Application Development Software with 46 reviews while Zoho Creator is ranked 12th in Rapid Application Development Software with 18 reviews. OutSystems is rated 8.4, while Zoho Creator is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OutSystems writes "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho Creator writes "The solution provides accessible and high functionality at a competitive price point". OutSystems is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow and Oracle Application Express (APEX), whereas Zoho Creator is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), Caspio and Salesforce Platform. See our OutSystems vs. Zoho Creator report.
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