Software Innovation — Enabling the whole organization

Enable all of your organization to create new software products at extreme pace!

In the digital era, the demand for digital innovation has gone through the roof! In fact, most organizations have been forced to accept that there are many more ideas, than what they have capacity to cater for. One of the bottlenecks is the severe scarcity of skilled IT professionals throughout the industry.

Low code application platforms, such as OutSystems, aims to expand the resource pool, enabling bigger parts of the organization to be able to take part not only in the ideation of new products, but also in the creation of them — and doing this at an extreme pace!

Developing applications in OutSystems is fast, partly due to the incorporated automated deployment pipeline and the inbuild quality tools to ensure fewer bugs. Relative to traditional software development, the development of new and existing apps is also quite simple. However, there is still a need for someone in the development team to be an IT professional and keep an eye on IT architecture, complex logic and lifecycle management. Or so it used to be.

Last week during the yearly OutSystems Nextstep conference, two new features where released to address specifically this. And with them an opportunity to take a giant leap towards setting the software innovation free across the whole organization. Welcome, Workflow Builder and Experience Builder!

Workflow Builder

Customized workflow web apps built in minutes
The Workflow Builder enables everyone to create a highly customizable workflow end-to-end in a matter of minutes.

Define form fields, branched processes and include both manual and automated steps as part of the workflow.

Once development of the workflow is done, test it out using sample roles you defined as part of the workflow. Iterate until perfection.

At this point the torch is passed on to the IT professional, who deploys the app to a development environment. A complete OutSystems (reactive) web app is created, following best security and architectural practices.

The developer can now enhance the look, feel and features further, as well as combine it with existing OutSystems apps, manage users and take it to production.

See more: https://success.outsystems.com/Documentation/Workflow_Builder

Experience Builder

Pixel-perfect mobile app prototypes in minutes
The Experience Builder contains a wide range of prebuilt patterns, flows and screens that can be mixed and customized into a prototype mobile app. This allows for prototyping a mobile app in less than an hour. Prebuilt screens include:

• Onboarding and login
• Mobile Banking
• Customer Insurance
• Product and Checkout
• Patient Healthcare

Apps developed with Experience Builder follow best UX/UI, code and architectural practices, and can be further enhanced by IT professionals in the Service Studio after initial deployment.

See more:
https://success.outsystems.com/Documentation/Experience_Builder