Case Study: Honda boosts efficiency and democratizes app development with OutSystems

Honda improves operational efficiency by 30% with OutSystems

Honda, the global vehicle and engine manufacturer, faced the "2025 Digital Cliff," a critical challenge driven by Japan's severe IT talent shortage and its own dependency on outdated legacy systems. To avoid massive economic losses and modernize operations, Honda launched a company-wide digital transformation initiative aimed at improving operational efficiency by 30%. They chose the OutSystems platform as a universal development solution to support this initiative, beginning with a pilot project to overhaul their inefficient, Excel-based accounting processes.

Using the OutSystems rapid application development platform, Honda built a new accounting system for real-time visibility and established a Center of Excellence (CoE) to democratize development across IT and business units. This solution enabled Honda to run 10-20 projects in parallel and deliver approximately 10 applications annually. OutSystems helped Honda improve development productivity by 30-50%, resulting in an estimated cumulative saving of 360 work-months in development time and an annual reduction of approximately 130,000 operational work-hours, successfully meeting their efficiency target.

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