OutSystems Mentor: Transforming Generative AI Development at Scale

This IDC Market Perspective explores OutSystems Mentor's core value propositions, including the platform's opinionated development stack, standardized workflows, natural language-driven development, and extensibility to enterprise systems of record.OutSystems Mentor, introduced at the 2024 OutSystems ONE Conference, is an innovative generative AI developer tool designed to simplify and accelerate AI-powered application creation while ensuring governance, security, and scalability. Mentor offers an integrated environment with preconfigured tools, standardized workflows, and natural language-driven development, streamlining the integration of advanced AI capabilities into enterprise systems. It supports extensibility to systems of record and emphasizes governance, security, and quality assurance, making it a robust solution for enterprises. Set to launch in 1Q25, Mentor aims to redefine generative AI development by combining innovation with enterprise needs, positioning itself as a cornerstone for the next generation of enterprise AI applications."OutSystems Mentor has the potential to revolutionize generative AI development by simplifying complex processes, ensuring robust governance, and enabling seamless integration with enterprise systems. By providing an opinionated development stack, standardized workflows, and natural language-driven features, Mentor empowers developers to focus on innovation and scalability. This technology bridges the gap between advanced AI capabilities and enterprise needs that sets a new standard for general-purpose, AI-driven application development technologies for the enterprise." - Arnal Dayaratna, research vice president, Software Development at IDC