At OutSystems One in Amsterdam, Techzine TV sat down with Woodson Martin, CEO of OutSystems, for an in-depth conversation about the company’s evolving platform strategy. From the newly announced Outsystems Developer Cloud (ODC) self-hosted edition to the company’s pivot toward agentic systems, Martin explains how OutSystems is positioning itself at the intersection of low-code development and enterprise AI. The platform wants to compete in the same arena as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft.
Martin walks through the relationship between the established O11 platform and the cloud-native OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC), clarifying that both are actively supported and increasingly unified under a single management model. He shares real-world customer stories, including Travel Essence, Axos Bank, Heineken, and Butler+ that illustrate how organizations are combining agentic AI with existing mission-critical applications built on OutSystems. He also addresses the thorny question of EU digital sovereignty and how the StackIt partnership fits into OutSystems’ European strategy.
Martin also tackles token economics head-on: with AI inference costs spiking 50–500% for some enterprise CFOs in just two months, he argues that the real value of a platform like OutSystems is the ability to swap foundation models in and out, whether to cut costs or improve performance, without re-engineering entire agentic systems. It’s a practical, CFO-friendly argument that goes well beyond the typical AI hype.
Key takeaways:
• OutSystems has launched an ODC self-hosted edition, enabling Kubernetes-based deployment anywhere. This includes on-premise and EU sovereign cloud environments
• O11 is not being retired: it now supports agentic coding tools like Claude, Cursor, Kiro, and Codex, and receives ongoing new features
• OutSystems is running 30,000 agents across 2,000 enterprise customers, with Travel Essence growing 20% year-over-year partly on the strength of 50 AI agents
• The platform supports MCP (live) and A2A protocol (early access) for cross-platform agent orchestration
• EU digital sovereignty is addressed through the StackIt partnership and the ODC self-hosted infrastructure, which is EU-operated and EU-resident
Chapters:
0:27 – OutSystems platform history and ODC explained
2:10 – ODC self-hosted edition and flexible deployment
3:01 – Building agentic applications: Axos Bank and beyond
3:45 – Competing with Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft
8:26 – O11 vs ODC: unified platform strategy explained
12:06 – MCP and A2A protocols for agentic management
13:40 – Token economics and managing AI infrastructure costs
16:50 – EU digital sovereignty and the StackIt partnership
18:22 – What OutSystems wants the market to know
Keywords: OutSystems, ODC, O11, agentic AI, low-code, enterprise software, OutSystems Developer Cloud, self-hosted, Kubernetes, token economics, EU sovereignty, MCP, A2A, Travel Essence, Axos Bank, Heineken, Butler+, StackIt, Woodson Martin, OutSystems One
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