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Drive better decision making with low-code and no-code solutions
Nov. 6, 2024 · Authored by Rob Long, Chris Wagner
Organizations are constantly striving to develop innovative solutions for their customers and internal departments. Application development – the process of designing, creating, testing and deploying software applications – plays a crucial role in this process and having easy access to building custom solutions is essential for organization looking to enhance customer engagement, improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and stay competitive and responsive to market demands.
However, the journey to achieving these objectives can be daunting, particularly when dealing with the complexities of traditional pro-code development. Conversely, low-code solutions make it easy for these daunting objectives to become simpler challenges that anyone in your organization can tackle with confidence.
What are low-code solutions?
Low-code solutions simplify application development by providing a platform where users without extensive technical skills or coding experience can create custom applications, automate workflows and analyze data. These platforms are primarily web-based and feature innovative drag-and-drop capabilities, making them accessible to everyone across the organization – from new employees fresh out of college, eager to make improvements to their workspace, to seasoned professionals dedicated to enhancing project delivery times.
The transformative power of low-code solutions lies in their ability to keep the focus on the end goal. Tasks no longer tasks no longer need to be added to IT’s backlog as the person who needs the solution can be the one creating it. Just like how everyone can use Outlook, Excel or PowerPoint to create documents and perform tasks, these tools are user-friendly and require minimal training before use – democratizing app development by allowing both pro-code and citizen developers to build applications.
What are the benefits of low-code solutions?
Developing pro-code solutions is often a significant undertaking, requiring a large team of specialists and substantial financial investments. This often results in these solutions being placed in months-long backlogs, awaiting the necessary funding and resources for execution. Once the project begins, the back-and-forth communication between the business user requesting the solution and the IT member developing it can extend project timelines, increase costs and make it more challenging for the organization to justify the investment.
