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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.

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 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 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 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 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 1Click 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 1Click Publishing process, versions and
configurations are automatically stored and
maintained.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Web services and wizards simplify integration with existing

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

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.

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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.

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 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 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'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,

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Application 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-tomodify.

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.

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.

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

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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 enduser requirements.

consolidation process, synchronize data from an

external system regularly, or any other long-lived
batch processing activity.

Web, Mobile Web, and Email Interfaces

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

Data Mapping and Composition

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.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

Integration
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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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.
(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.

You can mix together a series of existing services to produce very

complex application in minutes.

Custom Integration Adapters

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.

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.

Visually Consume and Expose Web

Services

Wizard-Based Adapter Creation

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

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.

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

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Productivity
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.
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.

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-ClickPublishing 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.

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.

(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

Follow the SAP wizard to create your own

custom adapters.

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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.

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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 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 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.

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.
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 serverbased 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' work.

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

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,

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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

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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.

get it by default, without any extra work and without

introducing any overhead to your runtime
environment.

Distributed Visual Debugger

Service Reuse and Dependency

Handling

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.

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

Share UI, Logic, and Data as Services

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

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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.

Non 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 wellbehaved implementation of your web business
application.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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databases. In either case, you can integrate data

from any other external database into your
application.

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

High-Quality and Standard Target

Applications

applications can be manually detached and

deployed in another environment without resorting to
the OutSystems Agile Platform tools and services.

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.

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.

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
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Readable target code in C# or Java.

Scalability 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 Platforms
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distributed architecture supports load balancing

and removes single points of failure in the
execution environment.

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 Centers 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.

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;

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

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Recursion containment - Reduces the

possibility of letting business rules
execute indefinitely;

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
applications 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.

More information
If you would like to have more information about OutSystems and its products please contact our regional offices:
OutSystems US
2603 Camino Ramon, Suite 210
San Ramon, CA 94583 - USA
Tel: +1 925 804 6189
Fax: +1 925 804 6552
info@outsystems.com

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OutSystems Benelux
Planetenbaan 16
3606 AK Maarssen - The Netherlands
Tel: +31(0) 346 583 000
Fax: +31(0) 346 590 201
info.nl@outsystems.com

OutSystems Portugal
Rua Central Park 6, 2A
2795-242 Linda-a-Velha - Portugal
Tel: +351 21 4153730
Fax: +351 214153731
info.pt@outsystems.com

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