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OverviewOverviewOverviewOverview OutSystems technology combines the productivity

offered by visual modeling tools with the level of

extensibility found in integration suites and custom

development frameworks. The OutSystems Agile

Platform gives you everything you need to rapidly

integrate, assemble and deploy web business

applications and then manage and change those

applications across their entire life cycle. At the core

of our value proposition you will find a highly

intuitive visual environment and a breakthrough

deployment technology that is helping companies

deliver web business applications and services in

weeks, instead of months or years.

Integrate, Assemble, Deploy, Manage, and

Change

The power of the OutSystems Agile Platform begins

with a set of tools and services that fully automate

the process of delivering web business applications

that integrate with existing systems and reach users

through web, email, and mobile user interfaces:

OutSystems Service StudioOutSystems Service StudioOutSystems Service StudioOutSystems Service Studio is a codeless

comprehensive visual environment that empowers

application developers, with any class of expertise,

to rapidly assemble and change web business

applications and business services.

OutSystems Service CenterOutSystems Service CenterOutSystems Service CenterOutSystems Service Center is the centralized

management console that coordinates the

administration, monitoring, auditing, operation, and

deployment of all applications, services, integration

adapters, and any other resources.

OutSystems Integration StudioOutSystems Integration StudioOutSystems Integration StudioOutSystems Integration Studio is an integration

tool that enables the extension of OutSystems

Service Studio through the creation of custom

adapters to integrate any class of APIs, databases, or

enterprise application platforms.

1-Click Publishing

After experiencing the OutSystems Platform “1-Click

Publishing” feature, you will consider the traditional

process of deploying applications into production

systems as nothing less than obsolete. From a single

mouse click in Service Studio or Integration Studio,

you will be able to run and test your application in a

server regardless of the kind of changes you have

made to the user interface, to the business rules, to

the database, or to the integration adapters.

Best-of-all, the OutSystems Agile Platform generates

standard .Net or Java applications, makes all

application code accessible, and does not require

any runtime engines to operate the produced

applications. Additionally, during the 1-Click

Publishing process, versions and configurations are

automatically stored and maintained.

Once you have your web business applications up

and running, a set of Environment Operation

services will also enable security, auditing, logging,

and monitoring for every application running.

OutSystems Agile Platform

Technical Overview

OutSystems technology combines the productivity offered by visual modeling tools with the

level of extensibility found in integration suites and custom development frameworks. The

OutSystems Agile Platform gives you everything you need to rapidly create and deploy web

business applications and to change them at any stage of their lifecycle.

At the core of our value proposition you will find a highly intuitive visual environment and a

breakthrough deployment technology that is helping companies deliver business applications

and services in weeks, instead of months or years.

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Intuitive and Visual Application Design

Using OutSystems Service Studio, you will compose

and deploy web business applications using a highly

intuitive and visual design environment. User

interaction flows, data models, business rules,

scheduled processes, web services, and integration

adapters are accessible within a visual environment

and can be used to create complete applications

using a simple and intuitive drag-and-drop process.

All-in-One Application Model

Using the OutSystems Agile Platform, you will no

longer need to maintain your application as a set of

assorted files, which are hard to modify and track,

written in different languages and requiring complex

deployment instructions. Any application definition

coming out of OutSystems Service Studio will include

all the definitions for the user interface, data model,

business logic, scheduled processes, web services,

and the required integration adapters. During “1-

Click Publishing”, these definitions are used to track,

monitor, and automate changes made to any layer of

the application, and to generate and deploy the

target running applications.

Easy to Get Started

Building applications with OutSystems Service Studio

is so easy and intuitive that new developers can start

being productive and participating in projects with

no more than 2 days of training. Developers will need

basic programming and data modeling skills as well

as some understanding of how a web-based

application works.

Of course, seasoned developers will be able to start

much more easily and will also experience huge

productivity gains.

Easy Knowledge Transfer

The OutSystems Service Studio provides the right

blend of common sense visual tools, which will

rapidly enable anyone within your IT organization to

open, browse, read, understand, modify, and

redeploy any application definition for testing or

production use in minutes.

Drag & Drop visual elements to compose business rules.

Ready to Change, Integrate, and Extend

By combining powerful discovery and code

generation technology and a mix of intuitive visual

tools and wizards, the OutSystems Agile Platform

gives systems integrators a quick way to create their

own integration adapters to connect OutSystems

web business applications with any class of

middleware, database, or API. For application

developers working on end-user functionality,

Service Studio offers visual tools to assemble any

existing integration adapter as if it was a built-in

building block of your application.

Native Web Services

OutSystems Service Studio offers application

developers the ability to consume and expose

standard Web Services using simple, intuitive, and

codeless tools. As you move forward, you will foster

the adoption of a Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) within your organization.

Customizable & Extendable

OutSystems Integration Studio gives you flexible

code generation capability, allowing you to create

your own integration and extension adapters using

the technology of your choice, either Microsoft .NET

or Java. Again, such adapters will be available as

building blocks from Service Studio, side by side

with all other standard Platform components.

Issues with Non-Agile Project

Methodologies

Non-agile, traditional project methodologies

typically follow a Waterfall model where the main

project phases are serialized in time.

Web services and wizards simplify integration with existing systems.

Painless Maintenance and Evolution

What do you do when you need to change your

applications? Don't be afraid, embrace change! The

OutSystems Agile Platform offers you a set of

collaboration, automation, and productivity tools

that enable you to become agile and move forward

with new business requirements as they come.


Centralized Collaboration of Multiple

Developers

Plug in more application developers to your project

and you will get instant collaboration. First, they will

have access to a list of available services and

adapters they can use to build their own services and

applications. Second, they will get instant access to a

version control repository where they can find

everything they need to start working on an

ongoing project. Third, when they start working and

testing their work, they get a centralized sandbox for

personal use. Finally, whenever relevant changes are

found in the version repository, every developer is

notified and is invited to visually review and accept

changes made by others. The OutSystems Agile

Platform's integrated features promote the adoption

of Agile Methodologies to quickly deliver your Web

business applications. All a developer needs is

Service Studio installed in her or his desktop.

Automatic Dependency Checking

Whenever you modify a business or data service,

OutSystems Service Studio promptly displays a set of

notifications to guide and automate the process of

updating all related business services, data, and user

interface elements that use the modified service.

Developers are shown detailed differences, allowing them to merge their work using a fully visual utility.

Fast and Reliable Deployment

Make changes to your Web business application and

then make it instantly available with “1-Click

Publishing”. You will notice that any change to an

application that would usually require a large

amount of modification and extensive testing, will

now become painless. Any inconsistencies will be

pinpointed and even modified directly by Service

Studio during “1-Click Publishing”.

Centralized Collaboration of Multiple

Plug in more application developers to your project

and you will get instant collaboration. First, they will

ess to a list of available services and

adapters they can use to build their own services and

applications. Second, they will get instant access to a

version control repository where they can find

everything they need to start working on an

. Third, when they start working and

testing their work, they get a centralized sandbox for

personal use. Finally, whenever relevant changes are

found in the version repository, every developer is

notified and is invited to visually review and accept

es made by others. The OutSystems Agile

Platform's integrated features promote the adoption

of Agile Methodologies to quickly deliver your Web

business applications. All a developer needs is

Service Studio installed in her or his desktop.

Whenever you modify a business or data service,

OutSystems Service Studio promptly displays a set of

notifications to guide and automate the process of

updating all related business services, data, and user

fied service.

Developers are shown detailed differences, allowing them to merge their work using a fully visual utility.

Make changes to your Web business application and

Click

hing”. You will notice that any change to an

application that would usually require a large

amount of modification and extensive testing, will

now become painless. Any inconsistencies will be

pinpointed and even modified directly by Service

Integrated Management, Configuration,

Versioning, and Monitoring

Gone are the days of having to juggle a broad set of

tools to maintain applications' source code, services,

adapters, versions, and configuration files, and then

another set of tools to monitor, track, and evaluate the

performance of running applications. OutSystems

Service Center does it all for OutSystems applications

from a web-based console.

Centralized Services Repository

The OutSystems Agile Platform streamlines th

of maintaining and updating a repository of services,

applications, and adapters that can be easily browsed

by applications developers at any time to compose their

applications. Automatically, during “1

the OutSystems Agile Platform keeps track of every

reusable service. Application Managers use Service

Center to manage the access rights to use, edit, and

execute each of the services.

Centralized Security and Configuration

Management

Service Center enhances an application manager

ability to manage and control all application resources

in a centralized repository. Create your configurations to

provide your developers and teams with the access

rights to open, change, or execute each application,

service, or integration adapter. Ma

settings allow you to control what each of your

developers, managers, and system administrators will

be able to browse and modify when they log in from

Service Center or even Service Studio.

Moreover, you can control more advanced deployment

configurations, such as servers, deployment zones, application

configurations, application packages, and much more from a

single centralized management console.

OutSystems Service Center offers you a centralized management, versioning and monitoring cons

business applications

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Integrated Management, Configuration,

Versioning, and Monitoring

Gone are the days of having to juggle a broad set of

tools to maintain applications' source code, services,

adapters, versions, and configuration files, and then

r set of tools to monitor, track, and evaluate the

performance of running applications. OutSystems

Service Center does it all for OutSystems applications

Centralized Services Repository

The OutSystems Agile Platform streamlines the process

of maintaining and updating a repository of services,

applications, and adapters that can be easily browsed

by applications developers at any time to compose their

applications. Automatically, during “1-Click Publishing”

form keeps track of every

reusable service. Application Managers use Service

Center to manage the access rights to use, edit, and

Centralized Security and Configuration

Service Center enhances an application manager's

ability to manage and control all application resources

in a centralized repository. Create your configurations to

provide your developers and teams with the access

rights to open, change, or execute each application,

service, or integration adapter. Managed system

settings allow you to control what each of your

developers, managers, and system administrators will

be able to browse and modify when they log in from

Service Center or even Service Studio.

Moreover, you can control more advanced deployment

configurations, such as servers, deployment zones, application

configurations, application packages, and much more from a

single centralized management console.

OutSystems Service Center offers you a centralized management, versioning and monitoring console for all your

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Application ArchitectureApplication ArchitectureApplication ArchitectureApplication Architecture The OutSystems Agile Platform changes the way

application developers work together with business

analysts to rapidly deliver Web business applications.

You can integrate and assemble solutions that

extend your existing systems and data, or you can

create a new business application from scratch. In

any case, the features of the OutSystems Agile

Platform will help your organization to quickly

integrate, assemble, deploy, manage, and

continuously change Web business applications.

Service-Oriented Development of

Applications

In 1 month or less, you will get Composite

Applications that are Service-Oriented by design.

Just follow the drag & drop editors and tools

presented by Service Studio to visually compose

Business Services, Data Services, and Integration

Adapters that otherwise would take several months

to glue together. Later, the OutSystems Agile

Platform deployment engine will connect your

systems and keep track of their dependencies, and

your application architecture will grow organically,

always remaining easy-to-modify.

You can use Service Studio to visually create and

maintain Web business applications that truly

address business requirements by assembling

reusable Business and Data Services into new front-

ends. Similarly, you can use Service Studio to create

your own Business and Data Services by composing

business rules and data drawn from multiple sources

with your own application data. Using OutSystems

Integration Studio, you can also build and deploy

custom Integration Adapters to be used to assemble

new Web business applications.

Build your composite applications by assembling business services, data services, and your own integration adapters.

Moreover, you can use Schedulers to configure the

asynchronous execution of Business Services, Data

Services, and Integration Adapters.

The “1-Click Publishing” process will perform the

required dependency checks and transform and deploy

all services within your applications according to the

appropriate design and deployment patterns. Moreover,

OutSystems Service Center provides the necessary

management and catalogue services for Application

Managers and IT Architects to keep and develop their

Service-Oriented Architecture.

Visual Assembly of Applications - A New Way

to Work

OutSystems Service Studio is fully based on visual tools

that promote a drag & drop style of assembling

applications, rather than the traditional, time

consuming coding process. An intuitive Screen Editor,

user interaction maps, and a series of drag & drop

features allow you to easily connect the user interface of

your web business applications to independent

business, data, or integration services and adapters. And

since these applications will always be easy-to-modify,

you will be able to improve them later based on user

feedback.

Structure your user's navigation experience.

User Interaction Flows

While assembling applications with Service Studio you

will use user interactions flows to describe and keep

end-user navigation patterns across the application.

Application pages are represented, as well as transitions

and actions that take place upon user interaction. In the

User Interaction Flow diagrams you can also easily grant

or revoke the access rights of multiple user profiles to

each of the pages and transitions.


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Drag & Drop User Interface Design

OutSystems Service Studio lets you design and

preview the user interface of your applications using

a powerful WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get)

editor. It offers a wide set of visual elements that you

can drag & drop into web pages to retrieve, display,

and transform information at your discretion, based

on your end-user requirements.

Web, Mobile Web, and Email Interfaces

Create your Web, mobile and email screens in a WYSIWYG drag &drop editor.

OutSystems has made it easy to integrate tailored

web, mobile web, and email interfaces within the

context of one web business application. Whether

your users require mobile access to online

information or regular notifications by email, you will

use the same development environment and will

reuse the exact same Business and Data Services to

serve your users.

Visual Design of Business Services

OutSystems has championed a common-sense

approach to the design of Business rules that is very

easy to learn, understand, and share with business

analysts, yet powerful enough to shape complex

business processes. These rules are designed using

familiar constructs like conditions, cycles, nested

calls, assignments, queries, and a wide range of

other pre-packaged or extended visual building

blocks.

Enterprise Class Business Logic

The built-in building blocks and services will save

you a lot of work when turning your application into

an enterprise class system. These include Transaction

Handling, Auditing, Exception Handling, Excel File

Handling, Integrated Authentication, and

User/Profile Management.

Schedulers

The Schedulers feature allows you to program long-

lived batches and any type of asynchronous

activities for execution. Behind a simple

configuration interface, an advanced scheduling and

throttling engine will drive the execution and

orchestration of your business services. You can use

schedulers to send periodic reports, fire a consolidation

process, synchronize data from an external system

regularly, or any other long-lived batch processing

activity.

Drag & Drop rules, adapters, data, and services to build new business services.

Data Mapping and Composition

Designed to be a composition tool for heterogeneous

business services and data, OutSystems Service Studio

facilitates the whole pipeline of data handling,

transformation, and composition, whether you are

getting data from one system to send to another or are

mixing data from multiple data sources to present in a

unified user interface.

Data Services

OutSystems Service Studio empowers any class of

application designer to easily model and handle data

easily within your application. Data models are used to

drive the assembly of Business Services and web

business applications at a very fast pace.

Data Modeling

Following the visual modeling foundation of

OutSystems Service Studio, you can create, model, and

integrate persistent data repositories based on standard

relational databases. You can do this either by creating

new database entities or by reusing existing data

sources. In any case, your data can be easily accessed

from your business rules without resorting to

traditionally complex SQL statements.

Data Consistency, Tuning, and Refactoring

Whenever you use Service Studio to modify your data

model, it will check the consistency of all dependable

services and composite applications and issue

recommendations or change those automatically to

prevent data inconsistency or poor performance.


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Design and maintain your data models within your application.

Integration, Security, and More

From security and authentication to integration and

language support, Service Studio includes a

multitude of features that let you make your web

business applications complete, secure, and easy to

assemble.

Integration Adapters and Extensions

OutSystems Integration Studio includes a set of

integration tools that automate the process of

creating integration adapters and transforming

them into services that can be assembled using

Service Studio as you would any other business logic

construct.

Security and Authentication

If certain pages in your application require

authentication (Active Directory, LDAP, or Custom)

or data encryption (SSL with or without certificates),

simply configure your application screens and your

applications will run in a secure environment

without programming and testing headaches.

Application Level Permissions

You can also use Service Studio to define application

access rights for each of your user profiles. A

powerful and open authentication engine with

single sign-on capabilities keeps track of and

controls every user's authorization levels, granting or

revoking access to specific business functions.

Set your user profiles access rights and enable authentication and/or encryption using a graphical utility.

Multilingual

Service Studio simplifies the creation of multilingual

applications by providing you with a series of tools to

generate, extract, and load multiple resource files to be

used at runtime to present data and content in multiple

languages to your users. You can freely develop your

entire application in one language, and then generate

and extract each text element for translation.

IntegrationIntegrationIntegrationIntegration With the OutSystems Agile Platform, the difficulties of

integrating are minimized with a straightforward

integration tool and native support for managed web

services. Take advantage of a built-in set of tools and

wizards to integrate functionality from multiple systems

into your applications without resorting to low level API

programming and extensive testing.

Extendable Architecture for Easy Integration

Instead of developing proprietary technologies,

OutSystems has embraced widely adopted

technologies, such Web Services, .Net or Java

programming, and SQL Server or Oracle databases.

OutSystems integrates these robust technologies and

enhances them with a unified adapter development

framework that you can use to generate Integration

adapters that allow you to simply connect to existing

systems by discovering existing APIs and data tables.

These are wrapped around automatically generated

code that is open for customization and adaptation to

your reality.


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(1) You start your integration project using Integration Studio together with Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse IDEs to generate and fulfill stubs of code that implement the integration component to be used in your application.

(2) Once assembled, your component APIs or data services become available from Service Studio.

(3) Finally, when you publish the application, the Platform links the adapter implementation (a set of .dll or .jar files) to the application code as generated for the application and deploys everything at the front-end servers just as it would any other component of your application.

Once you create and publish the Integration

Adapters, they become available from Service Studio

for use by application developers just like any other

building block. Accessing an external database, an

SAP API, or any other system becomes as simple as

querying your application database or invoking any

of your own services created inside Service Studio.

As it happens with your applications, you

automatically get the Dependency Checking and 1-

Click Publishing. In the execution environment, the

adapters will seamlessly execute together with all

the generated code, including connectivity, error

handling, and data transformation for

interoperability.

Visually Consume and Expose Web

Services

You don't need to be a Web Service guru to create

your own Web Services. Consuming and exposing

functionality as standard Web Services is a simple

task that requires no special skills. Just type in the

address of an available service or select the ones you

want to make available and that's it.

Consume Existing Services Effortlessly

Whenever you need to integrate existing Web

Services from external systems, just enter the

location of your Web Service description (in standard

WSDL - Web Service Description Language).

OutSystems Service Studio will automatically read the

Web Service contract and transform the methods and

data structures of the Web Service into visual building

blocks that you can use directly inside your applications

just as you would any other service or API.

Turn Application Functionality into Web

Services

Making your business functionality available to other

applications as standard web services is even simpler

than consuming third-party web services. Just select

and configure the services you want to expose and the

OutSystems Agile Platform will take care of generating,

deploying, and publishing standard Web Services.

You can mix together a series of existing services to produce very complex application in minutes.

Custom Integration Adapters

You don't need to be an experienced System Integrator

to connect your SalesForce.com to your Microsoft

Dynamics or your Siebel to your SAP. OutSystems

Integration Studio automates a lot of the coding for you.

OutSystems customers have created hundreds of

integration adapters to connect multiple ERPs, CRMs,

external databases, EAIs, CMSs, GIS, portals, and many

other proprietary technologies using OutSystems

Integration Studio.

Wizard-Based Adapter Creation

If you already have your own Java, COM, or .NET client

APIs you can use OutSystems Integration Studio's

discovery wizards. These will create all the required

stubs of code. Finally, if you need to customize the

Adapter to your specific needs, Integration Studio will

pop-up Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse and let you

edit the implementation code.


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Follow Integration Studio's wizards to automatically generate all the code you need to connect to your

existing systems.

Reverse Engineer Existing Databases

You can also use wizards to discover existing SQL

Server or Oracle database tables that will be

available to use in your new applications, just as if

they were created by you using Service Studio. You

can now combine local and external data sources

without requiring complex integration projects.

Automatically Connect to SAP

If you need to create web business applications that

take advantage of existing data or functionality from

SAP, OutSystems Integration Studio brings you the

possibility to create your own integration adapters

without coding at all.

SAP Adapter Creation Wizard

OutSystems Integration Studio supports the creation

of your own custom integration adapters to retrieve

and submit data to SAP. A simple and intuitive 4-step

wizard guides you through the process of identifying

the SAP BAPIs (Business APIs) you need for your

application. OutSystems Integration Studio

automatically generates the source code that

connects SAP to your application, mapping APIs and

data types.

Follow the SAP wizard to create your own custom adapters.

ProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity The OutSystems Agile Platform delivers unprecedented

levels of productivity and maintainability that let you

deliver entire web business applications in days or

weeks, instead of months or years. Enjoy the drag &

drop style of assembly, a fully automated deployment

engine, an interactive differences & merge tool, and a

groundbreaking visual debugger. All within a single

environment that does not require the installation of

complex servers and databases at every developer's

desktop.

Point-and-Click Productivity

When you need to deploy an application for testing or

even production purposes, OutSystems Service Studio

offers the “1-Click-Publishing” feature, which fully

streamlines the application deployment process,

replacing complex packaging, upgrading, and

distribution procedures with a single click. “1-Click-

Publishing” generates and compiles the target code of

the application, deploys it in every front-end server, and

updates the required databases in a single step.

(1) Upload the application over the internet with 1 click;

(2) At the server, a Code Generator combines the application design definitions with information available at the Services Repository and configuration data to produce and optimize a Java or .NET application and the corresponding database creation script;

(3) The Platform deployment engine installs the binaries of the application over a cluster of application servers;

(4) The deployment engine applies an upgrade script to the database;

Deploy New Versions in Seconds

Such an automated build and deployment process enables the

changes made to an application to be published in production

(or pre-production) in seconds. Changes to the data model,

user interface, and data update scripts, as well as verification

tests, are done automatically with a single click.

Versioning, Upgrading, and Managing

Configurations

OutSystems Service Center integrates all configuration

and versioning information about each application.


Instead of imposing additional tools and servers and

asking developers to use them regularly, you get

your applications stored in Service Center's version

repository regularly upon “1-Click Publishing”. As an

Application Manager or System Administrator, you

can use Service Center to decide which version of

your application must be running in your production

environment.

Upgrade and Rollback Applications in

Seconds

In the event that you receive an update or new

version of an application to put into production, you

just need to upload it from Service Center and

trigger the deployment of that new version. On the

other hand, if you decide to rollback your application

to a previous version, just browse the list of ex

versions and press the Publish button. The

Deployment engine will redeploy that version of the

application. In any case, it's a matter of seconds to

have the right version of your Web business

application running in your production

environment.

Rollback any of your running applications to a previous version

with a single click.

Centralized Access Control Management

OutSystems Service Center includes access control

management of all application resources, providing

flexible low-level permissions that allow you to

assign any developer or group of developers the

right to use, modify, or even publish a given

application. This helps you to manage large teams of

developers with different profiles and administrative

privileges, as well as clearly separate the access to

the Platform's Integrate, Assemble, Deploy & Change

Services from the Platform's Execution Environment.

Continuous Developer Collaboration

The OutSystems Agile Platform includes several

features that promote constant collaboration across

large teams of application developers working

together on multiple business functions. These

include version control, modification alerts, and even

debugging. Although you will conduct all of those

activities from OutSystems Service Studio, all

runtime activity will be held and controlled in a

centralized sandbox environment.

Instead of imposing additional tools and servers and

asking developers to use them regularly, you get

your applications stored in Service Center's version

Click Publishing”. As an

Application Manager or System Administrator, you

can use Service Center to decide which version of

your application must be running in your production

Upgrade and Rollback Applications in

In the event that you receive an update or new

version of an application to put into production, you

just need to upload it from Service Center and

trigger the deployment of that new version. On the

other hand, if you decide to rollback your application

to a previous version, just browse the list of existing

versions and press the Publish button. The

Deployment engine will redeploy that version of the

application. In any case, it's a matter of seconds to

have the right version of your Web business

Rollback any of your running applications to a previous version

Centralized Access Control Management

OutSystems Service Center includes access control

management of all application resources, providing

that allow you to

assign any developer or group of developers the

right to use, modify, or even publish a given

application. This helps you to manage large teams of

developers with different profiles and administrative

ate the access to

the Platform's Integrate, Assemble, Deploy & Change

Services from the Platform's Execution Environment.

Continuous Developer Collaboration

The OutSystems Agile Platform includes several

features that promote constant collaboration across

large teams of application developers working

together on multiple business functions. These

include version control, modification alerts, and even

debugging. Although you will conduct all of those

activities from OutSystems Service Studio, all

tivity will be held and controlled in a

You can plug new developers into your project without

requiring each of them to install a complete set of tools

and servers in their desktop.

Remote Personal and Team Sandboxes

Each application designer uses a personal server

sandbox to test his own work before publishing to the

centralized version repository that contains the

contribution of every team member. A single click is all it

takes to create a completely separate runti

environment to test your work in a server, accessing a

real database, without interfering with your teammates'

work.

Visual Differences & Merge

Just pick any two versions of your application and check their differences using the Visual Differences &

When you decide to publish your own version of an

application, you may receive notifications about what

has been changed by others and what service

dependencies are no longer up

information in hand, you can take advantage

difference and merge tool that is used to rapidly

combine everyone's changes. This takes advantage of

the Platform's version control service, meaning that the

information about what has changed is obtained

directly from the central version con

Seamless Testing & Tuning

OutSystems Service Studio makes it easy to test and

debug your applications. A Visual Debugger displays

insight information about your application's behavior,

step-by-step, over the internet. As you move forward

with the assembly of your application, you can get

instant simulation of query execution results and finally

get access to runtime performance reports and tuning

suggestions that will let you improve your Web business

application's reliability and performance

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You can plug new developers into your project without

requiring each of them to install a complete set of tools

Remote Personal and Team Sandboxes

application designer uses a personal server-based

sandbox to test his own work before publishing to the

centralized version repository that contains the

contribution of every team member. A single click is all it

takes to create a completely separate runtime

environment to test your work in a server, accessing a

real database, without interfering with your teammates'

Visual Differences & Merge

Just pick any two versions of your application and check their differences using the Visual Differences & Merge utility.

When you decide to publish your own version of an

application, you may receive notifications about what

has been changed by others and what service

dependencies are no longer up-to-date. With that

information in hand, you can take advantage of a visual

difference and merge tool that is used to rapidly

combine everyone's changes. This takes advantage of

the Platform's version control service, meaning that the

information about what has changed is obtained

directly from the central version control service.

Seamless Testing & Tuning

OutSystems Service Studio makes it easy to test and

debug your applications. A Visual Debugger displays

insight information about your application's behavior,

step, over the internet. As you move forward

h the assembly of your application, you can get

instant simulation of query execution results and finally

get access to runtime performance reports and tuning

suggestions that will let you improve your Web business

application's reliability and performance.


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Distributed Visual Debugger

OutSystems Service Studio introduces a

breakthrough distributed visual debugger, which

allows you to not only follow the step-by-step

execution of your application for the purpose of

identifying and correcting errors, but also allows you

to easily understand the business intent of your

application as it executes, as well as pinpoint and

correct any existing errors. And you can even do it

over-the-internet or over a production environment

without interfering with other users interacting with

your application.

Follow, step-by-step, the execution of your application over the internet.

Design-Time Query Testing

Even prior to testing and debugging your

application, you might want to simulate the result of

the calculation of one specific database query,

without even testing the surrounding business logic.

Just click the “Test” button in your query editor and

you will get live data from your database, allowing

you to check whether you wrote the right query or

have the required data for testing.

Integrated Performance Tuning Reports

Once you put any web business application into

production, you will get several performance reports

from Service Center that will give you valuable

tuning and optimization information for your

applications. Moreover, you do not even have to

worry about enabling and developing extra

frameworks to take those measures. You get it by

default, without any extra work and without

introducing any overhead to your runtime

environment.

Service Reuse and Dependency Handling

The OutSystems Agile Platform provides flexible and

powerful tools to help you share, reuse, and manage

services and data among applications. By using the

Add/Remove Reference utility built-in to Service Studio

you can browse all available services made available to

you in your platform installation and pick those you

need to assemble your application. From there on you

can drag'n'drop them into your application definition as

if they were part of Service Studio by default. With a few

clicks, without leaving your development environment,

you can set up a series of services and rapidly compose

a new application that orchestrates them.

Browse and pick the services you need to build your application.

Share UI, Logic, and Data as Services

As you move forward with application assembly, you

may decide to share specific items from your

applications for use in other applications, possibly by

other developers. Simply select those and mark them as

shared services. Once you do that, they immediately get

catalogued and become available to other developers.

Items of your application may include not only business

services but also user interface widgets and data

entities.

Service Dependency Coordination

Once you catalogue a new service, other developers get

notifications if the base implementation changes. Again,

you get instant collaboration and have your

development efforts coordinated from a centralized

service. In addition, it's rather easy to act upon

notifications. Service Studio automates the process of

refactoring the invocation to the programming

interfaces of every service, allowing you to dependably

update all your applications with just a few clicks.


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Centralized Services Management & Control

The OutSystems Agile Platform is designed to let you

scale your ecosystem of applications as it grows in

complexity and size. In fact, as the number of

services available for reuse grows, you may want to

decide who shall be able to modify and update

them, who is authorized to use them inside

applications, and even who is authorized to update

them. Application Managers and Systems

Administrators have the power to control such

access permissions from Service Center, making sure

you can scale and operate your ecosystem of

applications and take steps towards a pragmatic

Service-Oriented Architecture.

Packaging & Staging of Applications and

Services

The Service Center console gives you the possibility

of packaging sets of applications, services, and

adapters to be deployed altogether as an integrated

web business application. As an application

administrator, you can coordinate the staging of one

large release of your portal, made of multiple

business processes, and make sure that all those web

business applications are deployed as if they were a

single one, with no downtime and no integration

testing required.

Automated Packaging of Complex Business

Solutions

Sets of applications, dependable services, and

integration components can be packaged by a

single click into a single file in the development or

testing environment.

Configure your solutions out of multiple applications. Download and publish groups of application as if they were just one.

1-Click Staging of Complex Web Business

Applications

Once packaged and downloaded, an application or a

set of services can be easily uploaded to a

production environment. The OutSystems Agile

Platform orchestrates the complete deployment of

the several services included and their

dependencies.

Non Proprietary TechnologyNon Proprietary TechnologyNon Proprietary TechnologyNon Proprietary Technology For IT architects, rationalizing the organization's

infrastructure technology portfolio is critical to reducing

costs and increasing efficiency. The OutSystems Agile

Platform includes a unique deployment engine able to

generate and deploy both .NET and Java based

applications. These target applications are fully open

and will integrate smoothly with your choice of

infrastructure technology.

Dual Stack Architecture - .NET or Java

OutSystems Service Studio is a codeless application

Assembly environment that is fully technology

independent, which lets you transform every

application model into either a .NET or a Java

application depending on your choice. At the end, you

will always get a fully open, standard, yet well-behaved

implementation of your web business application.

You can decide whether to install the OutSystems Agile Platform over: (a) a Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows Server 2003 or; (b) on a Java Application Server running on Linux.

Every server side service and component is available to

run on top of the selected application server platform.

The OutSystems Agile Platform deployment engine will

generate and deploy your Web business applications

using the widely known and accepted ASP.NET and C#

or JSF and Java frameworks.

This dual-stack architecture allows you to choose which

installation best suits your business requirements now,

and lets you easily migrate it to another technology if

needed in the future, without having to rewrite or even

change your applications. If you are an ISV, you have a

unique chance to build your value added solutions and

deploy for multiple customers with different technology

choices.

Choice of Database Engines

You may also decide to use an Oracle or Microsoft SQL

Server database server to support your Web business

applications. Again, you may decide to deploy your

application in either of the supported databases. In

either case, you can integrate data from any other

external database into your application.


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High-Quality and Standard Target

Applications

The OutSystems code generator optimizes every

building block in your application for optimal and

well-behaved execution, including query

optimization (complexity, number of retrieved rows,

indexes), page size, session state size and caching,

among others. As an IT Architect, you don't have to

be worried about applying sophisticated design

patterns to every new application under

development. The code generator uses and

optimizes such patterns with every application,

regardless of the developer.

Standards Compliant

All the design patterns that are used by the

OutSystems Agile Platform code generated take

advantage of open standards like ASP.NET, JSF, XML

Web services, cross-browser XHTML, JavaScript, XML,

and emerging “hot” technologies like AJAX.

Immediately, your applications will interoperate well

with other systems and stay in-line with your

architectural guidelines.

Assemble once, deploy everywhere.

Constantly Adapt to New Technologies and

Trends

Web services, AJAX, .NET, Linux, Windows, or Oracle.

Which product or organization will come out next

with new standards and upgrades? Using a

technology independent platform also means that

technology updates can be faster. The OutSystems

Agile Platform evolves pragmatically whenever we

can help our customers to improve their delivery

options and standards compliance. Once you get a

new version of the OutSystems Agile Platform, you

always get new deployment options, from operating

systems and database versions to new architectural

standards.

Designed for Detaching

Unlike proprietary technologies and closed

frameworks, the OutSystems Agile Platform

generates optimized open source code and doesn't

require any runtime engines or interpreters to

operate the generated applications. In fact, if you

choose not to use the Platform, the generated

applications can be manually detached and deployed in

another environment without resorting to the

OutSystems Agile Platform tools and services.

Readable Generated Code

At OutSystems, we take care of protecting your

investment in our technology. If you take a close look at

the source code generated by the OutSystems Agile

Platform, you will notice that all its modules are open,

readable, and documented just as if they were coded by

hand.

No Vendor Lock-In

We don't want you to be locked into yet another

proprietary technology and think twice before using our

products just because you're afraid to become locked-

in. All applications delivered and maintained with the

OutSystems Agile Platform can be extracted and

deployed on top of a standard Java or .NET application

server without using any of the built-in deployment

engines.

Readable target code in C# or Java.

Scalability and PerformanceScalability and PerformanceScalability and PerformanceScalability and Performance The OutSystems Agile Platform is designed to scale as

your web business applications grow more complex. In

fact, it grows smoothly by just adding additional servers

to your execution environment. You also get an array of

advanced configuration and monitoring features that

allow you to tackle scalability, security, and performance

issues, from a single management console.

Designed for Unlimited Horizontal Scalability

The OutSystems Agile Platform is designed with a

strong focus on performance and scalability. Its

architecture supports a wide range of installation

options, ranging from departmental applications with

few users to large enterprise-wide deployments

supporting upwards of 1 million users. To achieve this

goal, the OutSystems Agile Platform’s distributed

architecture supports load balancing and removes

single points of failure in the execution environment.


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Just configure more front-end servers and add them to your cluster. All required applications are

automatically installed and configured.

The OutSystems Agile Platform distributed

architecture consists of (1) a deployment server that

performs all code generation, configuration, and

versioning updates and automatically deploys

applications to several (2) front-end servers that are

accessed by end users via a load balancer.

Those front-end servers can be spread across various

networks (Internet, Intranet, and Extranet) and you

can deploy your applications to distinct clusters of

front-end servers as configured in Service Center’s

centralized management console. Thus you can, for

instance, have your internal applications running on

the internal network and your websites running on a

demilitarized zone.

Besides, adding new front-end servers to your

installation is a simple installation and configuration

process. Once you plug a new server into your

execution environment, all your applications are

automatically deployed, instantly. And you get

scheduler and asynchronous logging services.

Performance & Reliability Management

The OutSystems Service Center management

console features a series of unique performance

monitoring and analysis tools that give you an

overview of all the services running at each server, as

well as statistics about the performance of every

component of your web business applications.

Performance Reports

Performance issues are normally hard to detect and

fix. And because they normally appear only in

production, the consequences can be devastating.

The OutSystems Agile Platform pinpoints

performance issues in real-time, by asynchronously

tracking the execution times of all queries, web

service invocations, screen renderings, and

schedulers.

Browse runtime reports to understand how your applications perform.

Design-Time Validation

OutSystems Service Studio includes powerful

verification tests that ensure that your applications are

correctly designed even before testing them or moving

them to production. Design-Time validation reports

include a lot of information about potential errors,

performance bottlenecks, or dependency

inconsistencies.

Performance tips are issued to prevent scalability issues.

Code Containment and Optimization

All the code generated by the OutSystems Agile

Platform enforces a series of rules and optimizations

that make sure your new application behaves correctly

and avoids scalability or reliability issues.

OutSystems code generators use the following rules and

optimizations:

• Optimized page size - Reduces bandwidth

bottlenecks;

• Database fetch size containment - Avoids

unnecessary network roundtrips and overload;

• Database connection pool containment -

Avoids excessive use of operating system and

network resources;

• Adapter timeout containment - Eliminates the

risk of using custom coded components that

affect the performance of the applications;

• Recursion containment - Reduces the

possibility of letting business rules execute

indefinitely;


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• Asynchronous logging - Ensures that no

logging activity will affect the core user and

business events;

• Scheduler Throttling - Ensures that

excessive loads of badly programmed

scheduled activities do not take all the

processing power;

• Transactional Deployment - Ensures that

your applications are deployed correctly

and that you don't get incompatible

versions of your application components

running side-by-side;

• Multi-tenant data Isolation and

containment - Lets you operate multiple

applications in perfect data isolation.

High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and

Instant Installation

You don't need to be an experienced webmaster or

enterprise architect to set up your applications for

high availability and fault tolerance. With the

intuitive administrative interface of Service Center,

you can configure multiple front-end servers to

support one Platform installation.

Once the servers are configured, the OutSystems

Agile Platform deployment engine will deploy every

application in each of your servers. No user data or

session information is stored locally in one single

server. This allows you to distribute any user request

to any of the servers, increasing the redundancy and

availability of your system. In case of a catastrophic

failure, you can safely replace any of the servers.

Once you configure a new server, the OutSystems

Agile Platform deployment engine automatically

starts the installation of the applications to process

more user requests.

Strong Security & Traceability

Once you deploy your Web business applications, you

get instant security and auditing. Every OutSystems

application is created and configured to generate

logging upon relevant events like performance

warnings, unhandled application errors, or

unexpected/unauthenticated user access. With the

OutSystems Service Center, you can follow the

application’s execution logs online or extract

aggregated reports to decide on changes to your

applications.

Runtime Monitoring

If you are an application manager or system

administrator, you can also use Service Center to check

the runtime activity status of your application services

and take immediate action to recover or reconfigure

your system. If you already have your own monitoring

and administration system, you can easily integrate the

information provided by the OutSystems Agile Platform

to get automatic notifications when problems occur.

Filter and review application activity logs from Service Center.

Runtime Auditing, Logging, and Reports

OutSystems Service Center includes a log monitoring

and browsing feature that you can use to understand

any application's misbehavior, error condition, or

performance data. You can also aggregate the same

data in consolidated reports to understand which pages,

queries, or web services are performing badly and

provide those reports to application developers so that

they can tune their applications from live data.

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