Case Study: World-leading agricultural research and development company empowers 60 citizen developers to accelerate mobile field data capture and boost efficiency with OutSystems

Citizen Developers Build Mobile Apps for Field Studies Data Capture with OutSystems

A global agricultural research and development leader with thousands of research scientists — many spending half their time in the field — faced a backlog of mobile app requests for experiment and crop data capture. IT couldn’t keep up and scientists were building ad-hoc solutions that posed support and compliance risks, so the company needed a governed, easy-to-use platform to professionalize field data collection.

The company standardized on OutSystems and ran bootcamps to train citizen developers, quickly building a community of 60 scientist-developers in under a year. Today 18+ mobile/offline apps are live (growing at about one per month), delivering major efficiency gains — for example, an image-capture app saves roughly one hour per day for 1,000 scientists — while enabling drone, GPS and barcode integrations and advancing the firm’s cloud-first, data-driven strategy.