Case Study: Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation achieves faster app modernization and reduced tech debt with OutSystems

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Tackles Technical Debt to Accelerate Digital Innovation

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia’s lead digital economy agency, needed to reduce technical debt and delivery delays caused by more than 50 legacy, cloud-hosted applications maintained largely by third parties. To improve user experience and support new digital initiatives, MDEC turned to OutSystems and its low-code platform to modernize and consolidate its app landscape.

OutSystems helped MDEC bring development in-house, upskill its team, and rapidly build new portals and apps. In less than four months, MDEC replaced MSC with the Malaysia Digital Platform and consolidated part of its application portfolio; it also streamlined the Saya Digital platform and delivered additional projects like a grant approval app. Overall, MDEC has replaced more than 50% of targeted applications, and development is now at least 2x faster on average, with some projects delivered up to 10x faster.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation

Mahadhir Aziz

CEO