The challenge
A manufacturer needed reusable delivery practices as OutSystems applications spread across international teams and departments.
OUTSYSTEMS IN ACTION / MANUFACTURING
How a manufacturer scaled its OutSystems Center of Excellence to more than one hundred applications
A shared pattern only scales when another team can understand and use it. This manufacturer built a Center of Excellence around that need. Explore the reported application portfolio and the focused front-end change that reused an existing backend.
RESULTS REPORTED IN THE SOURCE
100+
applications running on OutSystems in the reported portfolio
≈1 month
to rebuild only the mobile approval-app front end, with an existing backend
Part-time
one developer on that front-end rebuild
THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE. THE CHANGE. THE RESULT.
The change
It established a Center of Excellence providing shared templates, components and guidance to its developer community.
The outcome
The source reports more than one hundred applications and a separate mobile approval-app front end rebuilt in around one month by one part-time developer, reusing an existing backend.
Source: customer case study published by OutSystems. Brief prepared by Digital Alchimia.
DIGITAL ALCHIMIA’S DELIVERY PERSPECTIVE
What could this approach unlock for your business?
The useful next step is to connect the story to your own operating reality. Here are the questions we would bring into that conversation.
01
Make the shared pattern easy to adopt and review.
A Center of Excellence helps when teams can find a working example and understand when it applies. Define the responsibility of each reusable capability and the route for reviewing an exception. That gives additional OutSystems professionals a practical way to contribute within a common delivery approach.
02
Separate interface change from backend replacement.
An existing integration and data foundation can make a front-end rebuild a focused project, but only when its boundaries and behavior are understood. Review the tasks and acceptance evidence for that specific change. This keeps a successful interface delivery from becoming an assumed estimate for replacing an entire application.
START WITH THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
You bring the business challenge. We help shape the delivery team.
Digital Alchimia provides OutSystems professionals and delivery expertise for application development, modernization and evolution. Whether you need to reinforce an existing team or explore a new initiative, we can discuss the capabilities, responsibilities and next steps that fit your context.
A useful starting brief
✓ The process or customer journey you want to improve
✓ Where work waits, repeats or depends on disconnected systems
✓ The expertise already available in your team
✓ The outcome you want to measure and the timeframe to explore
Turn a promising idea into a useful conversation.
Tell us where your business needs to move faster and where your team needs additional expertise. Let’s explore an OutSystems approach shaped around your requirements.