2025 Forrester Wave™: OutSystems Named a Low-Code Leader
OutSystems has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms for the 9th consecutive year and positioned highest for ability to execute. The report defines enterprise low-code application platforms (LCAPs) as “software platforms for the accelerated development and maintenance of applications, using model-driven development tools, generative AI and prebuilt component catalogs for the entire application’s technology stack.”
We’re thrilled that we’re recognized as a Leader again. We believe that it’s because of our vision for the future of application development and agentic enterprises, where AI-driven agents perform tasks autonomously, reason, and adapt to complex workflows, with minimal human intervention.
At OutSystems, we think our platform has always offered the best way to deliver custom enterprise applications and systems quickly, whether you have a small team of developers or multiple, distributed teams. Now, with the platform’s AI application generation and agentic capabilities, it is easier than ever to innovate at speed while orchestrating human-AI collaboration. Let’s take a deeper look.
Built for the future and agentic AI
OutSystems is committed to ensuring that applications built on the OutSystems platform can adapt and evolve with changing technology and business needs for years to come. This commitment includes offering teams the opportunity to use the latest technologies. For example, OutSystems Mentor offers AI-generated applications and automates software development lifecycle management. OutSystems Agent Workbench enables developers to build AI-powered agents. You can even design multi-agent workflows and patterns with or without humans in the loop to deliver next-level automation.
As a result, OutSystems has evolved into an AI-powered low-code platform that enables the future of app and agentic AI development. Low-code provides the foundation that makes AI accessible, turning AI’s combination of data science and development into visual, manageable processes that are clear and easy to understand. Because you can use your preferred models, the platform provides the flexibility and openness needed to integrate the AI that best fits your needs now and in the future, such as a claims management solution that integrates AI, machine learning, natural language processing, robotic process automation, and human-in-the loop services and delivers a frictionless UX.
The story of a leading consumer rights organization in Austria is a great example. Verein für Konsumenteninformation (VKI) conducts over 100 comparative product and service tests annually to ensure consumer goods are safe and product information is accurate. When VKI decided to streamline its processes, its partner Damudo delivered a suite of modular, AI-powered apps with OutSystems.
“The apps we built with OutSystems are very well received—we’re already seeing remarkable adoption among consumers. As app engagement grows, we’re receiving fewer emails, allowing us to streamline operations and save valuable time for our team to focus on higher-impact initiatives.”
Michael Böhm, CIO, Head of IT, Procurement and Infrastructure, VKI
A modern platform, designed for scale
OutSystems has made modernization investments strategically so that customers can stay ahead of changing market demands. You can grow your app portfolios with confidence, using a platform designed to support complex, high-scale enterprise needs. You get the high performance and enterprise-grade security, governance, and scalability you need—without the silos, slowdowns, or limits of enterprise systems, ERPs, or CRMs.
With our AI-powered low-code platform in the cloud, teams can create highly unique, scalable, and adaptable apps and agents in a fraction of the time it takes to develop them using traditional methods. OutSystems offers seemingly limitless system and data integrations, enabling seamless connections to your most critical systems, software, and databases. You can start small with an application that solves a single business challenge, grow it as needed, and then move to creating a fully digital shopping experience for your customers supported by AI, computer vision, IoT and other technologies.
What does this look like in practice? UK-based Acacium, which offers healthcare workforce and managed services, originally used OutSystems for prototyping apps. Then Acacium saw an opportunity to use the platform for something more complex: helping healthcare organizations find the best people for a job. In just four weeks, the Acacium dev team built an intelligent staff matching app using OutSystems generative AI capabilities. Now, the company has 30 new gen AI ideas in its backlog, and 11 are already in production with OutSystems.
“We chose OutSystems for our gen AI project for two reasons: first, we were testing gen AI’s potential, so we didn’t want to spend much money and time. Second, OutSystems would enable us to tackle this project with a really lean team."
Daniel Lynch, Head of Solution Design, Acacium Group
Custom apps and agents, delivered exactly how your business needs
At OutSystems, we are convinced our platform is the clear choice for building custom applications and agents. We have invested in enhancing key platform capabilities, such as cloud-native runtime architecture, comprehensive observability tools, and enterprise-grade security, to ensure you can build distinctive solutions that truly differentiate your business without compromise.
Do you have legacy engineering, maintenance, and event management workflows that should be migrated and re-architected in the cloud? Or maybe your pharmaceutical company needs to develop a companion application that uses AI and your specific data for content creation, translation, emails, and communication. Or perhaps you’re looking to build an AI agent that acts as an intelligent meeting assistant that makes sense of chaotic calendars and schedules followups on your behalf.
With OutSystems, you can address these use cases and many more. You are never limited in what you can achieve. You’re free to launch cutting-edge applications tailored to your specifications and modernize processes with intelligent agents and intuitive digital experiences.
In the case of Oceaneering, a U.S. company that provides engineered services and products to the oil and gas, defense, aerospace, and renewable energy industries, OutSystems offered freedom from an outdated, cumbersome legacy tool. In just four months, Oceaneering launched a new, mission-critical inventory management system that manages inventory worth millions of dollars. And now, the team is using OutSystems for modernizing a total of 19 legacy solutions.
“We chose OutSystems not only because of its ability to build offline web and mobile apps but also because it had the widest range of use cases of all the low-code platforms…. We can finally keep pace with the dynamic demands of offshore operations.”
Hari Pillai, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Application Development, Oceaneering
Ready to build what you need with confidence?
In our opinion, being recognized as a Leader for nine consecutive years is validation of our belief that OutSystems is the platform enterprises can trust for their most critical applications and AI initiatives, today and tomorrow. As you evaluate your organization's path forward in an increasingly AI-driven world, I encourage you to download the full 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms to see how OutSystems performs across all evaluation criteria.
The agentic enterprise is the future, and it’s coming up fast. With OutSystems, you have a proven partner to help you build it with confidence.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Kyle Davis, Akash Jain, 28 July 2025.
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The report was titled as ‘Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service’ from 2017-2018.
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