Summary

This chapter is very useful when working in companies with an ecosystem composed of multiple systems, as well as when working with multiple third parties. The OutSystems platform becomes a much more attractive proposition with these features.

Thus, in this chapter, we saw how to create our own code in C#/.NET to extend the platform's functionalities, and we realized how we can easily connect to external systems databases and how to consume and expose SOAP and REST services.

Here, we realize that the OutSystems world goes far beyond the code we create, allowing a global expansion in the ecosystem in an extremely fast and practical way.

At the moment, a hot topic is missing regarding the platform's potential. We need to talk about the ability to create process flows and sub-processes to guarantee agility as regards our applications. This capability in OutSystems is called BPT (Business Process Technology) and is the topic covered in the next chapter.

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