OutSystems Streamlines Data Access across the Enterprise with New Data Fabric Capabilities

OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, today announced significant platform updates including Data Fabric to help organizations maximize the potential of enterprise data, and extend the value of their existing IT systems. The company also released new features to improve app performance and a new Amazon Bedrock Connector to make it easier to build Generative AI-powered apps and experiences.

IDC Market Research states that companies can lose up to 30% in revenue annually due to inefficiencies resulting from incorrect or siloed data.¹ Meanwhile, 75% of IT decision-makers believe data loses its value within days if not used properly.² The importance of data access is especially critical when developing business critical apps, where incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated data can slow down deployment and deprecate the user experience.

With Data Fabric customers can securely and easily connect apps to data in a matter of minutes. Key benefits include:

• Centralized data access by creating a single repository from various sources so that developers can confidently build digital solutions that are secure, agile and responsive to changing business needs.
• Accelerated app development using pre-built integrations with the simplicity of drag-and-drop experiences designed to reduce the time required to integrate disparate data. The average organization has more than 400 data sources.³ Rather than manually integrating them, the new Data Fabric capabilities automatically unify data across their many SaaS and legacy systems.
• Faster time-to-insights and improved business decisions by simplifying data integrations and providing governed access to near real-time data, business leaders can access the information they need right when they need it.
• Improved data governance with built-in, role-based access controls can be tuned to easily ensure that only authorized data is exposed during development.

“Data is the rocket fuel for business transformation but unfortunately it is often locked away in legacy systems and spread across hundreds of disparate SaaS applications,” said Tiago Avezedo, CIO at OutSystems. “OutSystems Data Fabric empowers organizations to realize the full potential of their enterprise data by unlocking siloed data with apps that surface critical business insights, drive operational efficiency, and improve customer experiences.”

The new Data Fabric features will help companies like Gen Re, a leading reinsurer that leverages OutSystems to extend their existing IT investments and unify data across various applications. Gen Re relies on OutSystems to compose novel solutions that integrate multiple systems, including Azure Active Directory for authentication and authorization, Office 365, Documentum, RPA (Automation Anywhere), SAP, Dynamics 365, and numerous internal applications.

OutSystems Streamlines Access to App Performance Insights to Boost Application Quality and Improve User Experiences

Many IT leaders delay properly setting up application performance monitoring due to a lack of expertise and resources. However performance data has wide-spread impact on organization’s sales, customer trust, employee productivity and more. For example, when a website’s load time increases from 1 to 5 seconds, conversion rates can decrease threefold.⁴

The expanded Performance Analytics from OutSystems enable users to dramatically improve the efficiency of managing applications and their metrics, logs and traces. The OutSystems App Health Dashboards come with pre-populated metrics, including color-coded health scores, error rates, request and response times. Together with Open Telemetry technology, this enhanced visualization provides granular, app-level and element-level views and trend data. This makes it easier for developers to identify performance issues in their preferred tool and eliminates the need for manual instrumentation, reporting, and custom integration with third-party Application Performance Management and Digital Experience Management tools.

Expanded AI Library Makes it Easy to Build Generative AI-Powered App Experiences

The potential benefits of generative AI are immense, but many IT leaders don’t know where to start or how to safely leverage the latest AI capabilities inside their business.

To solve this, OutSystems has deepened its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce a new connector to Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon with a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications, simplifying development while maintaining privacy and security. Through the connector, OutSystems customers can easily integrate state-of-the-art AI models from Amazon Bedrock within their applications, enabling a variety of use cases, including text and image generation.

To learn more about how these new features can help your organization meet today’s innovation and IT transformation demands, visit

¹ https://datavid.com/blog/data-silos-cost#:~:text=IDC%20Market%20Research%20also%20states,than%20in%20the%20previous%20century

² https://blogs.idc.com/2023/06/30/navigating-the-planes-of-enterprise-intelligence-architecture/

³ https://www.matillion.com/blog/matillion-and-idg-survey-data-growth-is-real-and-3-other-key-findings#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20survey%2C%20the,per%20organization%20is%20400%20sources

⁴ https://www.portent.com/blog/analytics/research-site-speed-hurting-everyones-revenue.htm