Beginner’s guide to OutSystems that enables Digital Transformation to Businesses with enterprise-grade applications – Part 1

In Today’s fast paced digital world, businesses are constantly seeking ways to stay ahead, to innovate and to adapt constantly changing demands and expectations in the market. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through digital transformation. Even the companies that provide services and products on digital transformation need to seek ways to stay ahead and be instant on providing the services and products, to achieve that OUTSYSTEMS a low code platform emerged as a key enabler of digital transformation deploy applications faster and more efficiently than before. In this beginner’s guide, we’ll explore the basics of Outsystems and how it can drive the digital transformation of your business.

Introduction to Outsystems

Outsystems is a low-code development platform that enables organizations to develop, deploy and manage enterprise-grade applications with minimal coding and maximum speed. With its visual development environment and pre-built components, Outsystems helps both developers and business users to collaborate seamlessly in building applications that meet the specific needs of business.

Features of Outsystems

1.????? Drag and Drop: Users can simply drag and drop pre-built components to the screen to design and build the application according to their requirements.

2.????? Rapid Application Development: Advantage to the software development and service organization time to market the application is reduced, with Outsystems developers can build an application much faster than developing in traditional methods.

3.????? Integrations: In Outsystems we can integrate with existing databases and third-party services with minimal effort.

4.????? Security: Outsystems has built-in security features such as automatic scaling, built-in security controls and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

5.????? Forge: Forge is a central repository for reusable components, such as UI patterns, integrations and connectors created by Outsystems community and Outsystems partners. These components are developed and shared by other users to accelerate supplication development and enhance functionality.

6.????? Forums: Outsystems developers, users, experts and learners come together to discuss various topics related to Outsystems Development, best practices and more. Forums are about asking questions, sharing knowledge and seeking assistance from peers and experts.

7.????? Trainings: Outsystems provide trainings and certifications designed to empower developers and IT professionals with the knowledge needed to succeed in building and managing applications on the Outsystems platform.

Getting started with Outsystems

Installation

First go to Outsystems Portal website, by clicking the “Start Free” Button sign up for an account. Fill your details to create an account.

After created an account, login to the account, “Download” service studio.

After Outsystems is installed you will need to copy paste the link available in the “your infrastructure tab” in the above image and Outsystems credentials to login the environment.

After you login create new application.

After that you will decide if you are building an app from scratch or Using pre build apps.

You can use according to your requirement. Whether it’s a Web app, Mobile app, App for tablets, External web portal, Traditional web or Service app.

You can name your app and choose the theme color.

Breaking down an application into modules provides organized structure, makes it easier to manage and maintain each modules focus on specific set of functionalities.

We can download and have back up of modules as OML file and download as OAP file to access from another environment with certain permissions.

Continuation in the part - 2 of this blog.