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OutSystems announced OutSystems Data Fabric, enabling organizations to lay the groundwork to build dynamic applications, harness data across the enterprise, and increase developer productivity.

Aiming to eradicate the poor data practices that can often drain developer productivity, Data Fabric provides centralized data management, accelerated application performance, and smooth data integration across different systems to help data-powered apps harness their full value and empower lines of business with the information they need.

“Data is the rocket fuel for business transformation. Unfortunately, it is often locked away in legacy systems and spread across hundreds of disparate SaaS applications,” said Paulo Rosado, co-founder and CEO at OutSystems. “OutSystems Data Fabric gives organizations a critical view of the full potential of their enterprise data. By unlocking and controlling siloed data, enterprises will surface critical business insights that can drive operational efficiency and improve the customer experience.”

This latest addition to the OutSystems Developer Cloud serves as an integrated, virtual data layer that's usable across the IT ecosystem. With robust security and governance controls, Data Fabric ensures well-governed access to data no matter where it resides, making it easy to build revolutionary, yet reliable applications. These united datasets are then made readily available to use across the entire application portfolio.

Benefits to IT teams include:

- Data virtualization: Teams can easily query, combine, and manipulate data from different sources into a unified data experience, dramatically simplifying the process of discovering and retrieving data via consolidation.

- Trusted data practices: Fine-grained role-based access controls, coupled with a Private Gateway, facilitate secure connections between applications and private data or services, enabling comprehensive security and governance.

- Built-in data caching: Caching ensures the seamless operation of applications, regardless of the location of the underlying data, and guarantees that application performance remains unaffected by service disruptions.

- Pre-built connectors: Out-of-the-box connectors accelerate the connection of data between systems and a library stores those connections for effortless reuse, ready to immediately eliminate the complexity of setting up connections to external databases or systems.

- Limitless data combinations: With the ability to mix and match data from various sources, digital transformation leaders can build applications without constraints.

In tandem with Data Fabric, the newly announced Event-Driven Architecture feature shifts businesses away from legacy architecture and brings them closer to solutions that are more resilient, more responsive, and easily scalable.

Event-Driven Architecture’s future-proof model sets a new standard for application flexibility. It lets enterprise architects eliminate the complexities of traditional, request-driven models, providing all the tooling to build event-based applications in a unified hub. With this centralization, application management becomes easier for architects and less prone to disruption.

OutSystems Data Fabric and Event-Driven Architecture are available now in OutSystems Developer Cloud.