OutSystems Raises $55M For Its Rapid Application Delivery Platform
Marién Hadges
Therefore, I thought this was the perfect excuse to catch up again with the people at OutSystems and see how they have evolved since we last chatted five years ago (as part of our interview series with MDE experts) and why they have been successful where so many others have miserably failed.
OutSystems provides a low-code rapid application development and delivery platform that enables seamless integration of custom code. Combine speed with custom for the best of both worlds. Integrate with all of your existing systems and data sources and maintain order with built-in management and analytics.
OutSystems Raises $55M For Its Rapid Application Delivery Platform
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Read on for my conversation with Rodrigo Coutinho, one of the co-founders of OutSystems and manager of the R&D section, among other responsibilities (like being in charge of the next release of the product).
Rodrigo: OutSystems is a software company that builds the OutSystems platform. The platform allows companies to build web and mobile applications extremely fast and to change them even faster. We have a visual modeling environment from which you can generate robust, scalable and secure enterprise applications.
R: Yes, the platform generates code. You can choose to generate for the Java or .NET platforms. And you do get the source code but the platform takes care of deploying the application in the cloud. You click a single button in the modeling editor and you get your application published and running. And you can either deploy it in our ycloud or on yours.
R: Yes and you can do it over and over to quickly improve and iterate over your application. You have a staging, a QA (Quality Assurance) and a production environment and you can easily deploy from one to the other.
All models are inter-connected. Every time you change one of them, the platform will take care of propagating the changes to the others automatically (or warning you for those that cannot be automated).
Q: You develop also mobile applications. You use the same model for all platforms or you offer some kind of annotation to adapt the software to the specificities of each platform (e.g. read this to get an overview of the different mobile generation options)?
R: We do use the same model. For generation purposes we follow the hybrid approach where the application itself is built using web technologies but deployed as a native application in the phone. So most of the codebase is the same in all cases but wrapped it up and optimized for the specific platform. Then, we have two challenges:
Q: So maybe your tool will pass one day the turing-test for code generation tools. Related to this, how do you find new customers? This is typically very time consuming since it requires a lot of effort to convince a single client
R: We have a free version of the platform. You can just go to our website, build your app and deploy in our cloud for free forever. This gives the opportunity to developers to try out the platform. This is also the way we address new customers.
R: The funding had two purposes. One was to be able to grow faster, specially in the US market. But also, very important for us, was to build this partnership with North Bridge. This is not just about the funding, we believe they will be helping us scale to support our growth.
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