Software Delivery —
Faster. Simpler. Safer.

Jakob Rahr Bork Jensen
3 min readSep 4, 2020

Improve innovation and speed-to-market while staying secure with the OutSystems platform.

The need to transform towards digital and provide first class and secure customer experiences is growing to unprecedented levels. Customers require ever decreasing time-to-market meanwhile news of malicious security incidents are becoming the new normal.​

In the mean time, most organizations struggle with massive backlogs, no time to innovate, scarce resources, and complex legacy systems. A wealth of different tools and technologies only clouds the picture — making it even more challenging to stay on the forefront of fast, secure and sustainable software development.​

One answer to the hardships resides in the rise of low code application platforms (LCAPs), such as OutSystems. OutSystems improves speed-to-market and security through visual full-stack development and baked-in DevSecOps capabilities, while alleviating the organizational resource deficiency through a single development platform for both web and mobile applications.

“We’re witnessing a turning point in the market — one where the demands for digital transformation in the enterprise have far exceeded the capacity of IT teams to deliver. The only option is to re-think, re-tool and re-engineer how technology gets delivered.”​

Paulo Rosado, OutSystems CEO

Work with the leader
OutSystems is the market leading platform for low-code development of enterprise applications with strong market recognition​

Three benefits of OutSystems
#1: Innovation at increased speed
The platform consists of a suite of products to develop, implement, operate and monitor solutions. It enables your organization to build web and mobile applications at a rapid pace combining backend- and frontend development in a unified drag-n-drop experience.​

#2: Significantly reduced tooling complexity
Utilize the same platform and way of working, no matter if you are developing a web app or a mobile app. For mobile, have one unified source, that can be pushed into Android or iOS stores by the click of a button.​​

#3: Baked-in DevSecOps capabilities
OutSystems both includes and handles a vast number of security aspects, including integration with OAuth2, SAML and Active Directory, built-in fixes for OWASP threats, data encryption, SOC2 compliance and security monitoring.​

Identify pilot projects
The first step on your low code journey is to identify use cases within your business to gain experience with the platform and build the capabilities needed to harness the power of low-code in your organization.
Some areas of business have proved ideal for kickstarting the development of web and mobile applications with OutSystems: ​​

Why co-create with Deloitte?
Deloitte is a global alliance partner to OutSystems and has been deeply involved in the delivery of many implementation projects all over the world.​

By embarking on your OutSystems journey together with Deloitte, you get:​

  • Free access to the OutSystems platform during 1–2 month POC’s.​
  • Access to Deloitte’s vast experience with OutSystems (including more than 160 certified professionals)​

Contact me if you want to know more about OutSystems and the services Deloitte provides to accelerate your journey. We have experts and competence centers both locally and abroad, who would be happy to help you out.​

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Jakob Rahr Bork Jensen

Jakob is working as a Management Consultant within IT at Deloitte Consulting. Primarily works with IT-development & -architecture, Cloud, DevOps and Low Code.