Low-code is a visual approach to software development that optimizes the entire development process to accelerate delivery. With low-code, you can abstract and automate every step of the application lifecycle to streamline the deployment of a variety of solutions. By breaking down traditional silos of business and IT (promoting continuous collaboration), your organization can develop solutions that meet the needs of your business
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Anyone with an idea can use low-code to build applications. With dedicated development environments for business users and professional developers, low-code is designed to augment and synchronize the work of multiple developers.
A recent Gartner survey states that 66% of low-code development platform users are professional developers from an enterprise IT department. At their core, professional developers want to build creative software solutions to solve complex problems. Low-code provides developers with a dedicated IDE and a sophisticated toolbox that is tailored to meet their development needs. Then be that to extend apps with custom code, consume data from multiple sources, build mobile apps, or leverage microservice architecture.
According to a recent Gartner report, 61% of organizations either have or plan to have active citizen development initiatives. Rather than waiting for IT, business users prefer to build their own apps. Instead of risking shadow IT, business and IT can partner together to build a formal citizen development initiative on a low-code platform. Low-code’s simplified development environment for business users — a nocode IDE — allows them to build basic productivity apps, while IT still has the visibility into the company’s app landscape.
Great software solutions create immense value for the business. They can help organizations drive new revenue, enhance customer satisfaction, mitigate risks, cut costs, and more. But constantly delivering impactful solutions is hard.
of business and IT stakeholders agree IT involvement adds value
of business stakeholders say less than half of their IT ideas are implemented
of IT and business stakeholders agree their organization would benefit from the capabilities offered by low-code platforms
new annual revenue delivered by a UK-based waste management company via an eCommerce portal built on low-code
Source: Digital Disconnect: A Study of Business and IT Alignment in 2019
Transform ideas into applications that deliver business value through abstraction, automation, and openness.
Leverage a shared visual language to support the interchange of knowledge and ideas between business domain experts and developers.
Manage the full enterprise application development lifecycle with agile workstreams to eliminate bottlenecks, support iterative delivery and achieve shortest time-to-value.
Cloud enables the ease and speed of application deployment that customers demand.
Anything can be integrated with an agnostic enterprise application development platform — this removes limitations on what can be built.
Multiple developers should be able to work on an application at the same time. The platform must support and synchronize their work streams.
Development tools need to be affordable and nimble so innovators everywhere can experiment, explore, and create.
Robust governance and control processes and protocols are essential.
A platform without a community is no platform at all.
