Technology alliance between low-code platform and enterprise iPaaS category leaders aims to meet soaring demand for rapidly integrated solutions and time to value

OutSystems, provider of the number one low-code application development platform, and Workato, a platform for intelligent automation, announced a partnership aimed at allowing organizations to rapidly realize innovation, time to value, productivity, and mission-critical objectives through readily available application connectors. Persistent Systems is integral to this partnership as a strategic implementation and go-to-market partner for both OutSystems and now Workato. Together, the companies are building new products, automating business processes, and transforming customer experiences for their enterprise customers.

Through the OutSystems low-code platform, developers and business users will be able to call on Workato’s rich set of over 1,000 app connectors and over 400,000 pre-built automation recipes to intelligently move data between OutSystems apps and thousands of applications and databases at much faster speeds. Together, OutSystems and Workato address the ever-increasing demand for:Large enterprise core system integration – Leveraging data integration, messaging, API management, EDI, and bot-assisted file transfer capabilities

Mission-critical system integration – Accelerating time to value through rapid third-party integrations and continuous automation through a readily accessible data integration layer

Connected customer experiences – Providing a consistent view of data spread across many departments to unify customer experiences across different channels

Emerging integration needs – Through AI, machine learning, and natural language processing integration, automation of chat-bot tasks, RPA, and collaboration tool integration

Line of business and self-service enablement – Extend organization and role access through HR, sales, marketing, support, and IT accessible integrations

Enterprise integration platform as a service (EiPaaS) adoption is growing fast and playing an increasingly strategic role for midsize and large organizations. “Many thousands of user organizations have adopted an EiPaaS solution during the past 12 months, and Gartner estimates that over 50,000 organizations used some form of iPaaS in 2018.”^*

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“We are excited to partner with Workato to bring their Intelligent Automation Platform to our customers globally,” said Márcio Spínola, vice president of product at OutSystems. “By extending the power and accessibility of complex and technical integration to a broader set of skill sets and users, we believe our customers will be able to slash the time it takes to deliver new innovation.”

“Leading companies use OutSystems to scale faster and create custom apps without resorting to coding by hand,” said Markus Zirn, vice president of business development at Workato. “Workato is a natural partner, also championing the low-code ethos and offering a cloud-native enterprise automation platform. With Workato, OutSystems customers can automate workflows by connecting OutSystems to any combination of thousands of other cloud and on-premises apps. We are the only vendor that provides pre-built connectivity with support for custom schemas in OutSystems. This unique capability accelerates the time to value by 6X-10X. With Workato and OutSystems, customers can launch truly innovative solutions that transform customer and employee experience and deliver business value faster.”

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“Persistent Systems has a long history of delivering business solutions for our customers through our Intelligent Business Automation practice and deep partnership with OutSystems. We welcome Workato to our partner ecosystem. This helps us enhance the combined value we deliver to our customers. The power of leading low-code platform OutSystems and automation platform Workato helps us deploy amazing customer, partner, and employee experiences as well as build enterprise core systems. Speed and time to value are crucial to our customers; Workato and OutSystems allow us to deliver on those exact business drivers,” said Rakesh Rathod, GM, Enterprise Business at Persistent.

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