3 Ways Low-Code App Development Can Help with Immediate Response
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Low-code app development is a new and more efficient approach to building professional grade web and mobile applications. Instead of creating thousands of lines of code by hand, low-code development typically involves a highly visual user experience with prebuilt templates and drag-and-drop functionality.
This enables people with little to no programming experience we call them citizen developers to build their own apps, while making it easier for professional developers to accelerate foundational app development. Low-code app development increases productivity, reduces time and cost to build applications, including web and mobile, and powers innovation by making it easier for any great idea to become a useful app.
60% of all occupations have at least 30% of activities that could be automated.
Low-code app development is not meant to replace traditional app development. Rather, it brings new tools to the table that empower citizen developers to build apps while giving professional developers a simple way to accelerate app development. This liberates highly skilled talent to focus on more strategic, high-value work.
Develop low-code apps for immediate response
There are elements of low-code app development that will no doubt play a big role in the future of app development in general. These are the same elements that make it so well suited for business in a disrupted environment.
Businesses using Power Apps for low-code app development see a 74% reduction in app development costs.
Whether using pre-built templates or creating custom apps, low- code development allows you to deliver apps in hours or days. And when companies need to respond in crisis situations, it’s even more important to be able to quickly build apps that solve emerging problems and give leadership insights into fast-changing, dynamic situations so they can take decisive action.
Because it doesn’t require coding experience, organizations can empower citizen developersthose closest to the business problems to build custom apps to meet their unique needs in an environment that is secure and compliant. By moving app development beyond the confines of the IT department, organizations can alleviate the demands on IT, allowing professional developers to focus on more complex, strategic initiatives.
65% of organizations report an app development backlog.
Low-code techniques are changing the app development landscape, bringing agility and speed to a process long encumbered by time- consuming, expensive development cycles. When conditions are challenging, low-code development is well-positioned to help businesses in three specific ways.
1. Get up and running fast :
The low-code approach accelerates foundational app development and testing cycles so there’s more time to focus on customizing, extending, and deploying solutions for individual scenarios, such as budget tracking, onboarding, asset checkout, or inventory management.
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STANDARD BANK built an app in 24 hours that is used by 100 remote workers every day to inspect ATMs all over South Africa. Standard Bank records 5,000 to 6,000 monthly inspection reports a process that was previously totally paper-based.
Today, the app enables the bank’s inspectors to record faults and capture images of ATMs on company mobile phones, with data automatically geotagged and saved to SharePoint Online, where it’s then routed to the right department using Power Automate
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2. Empower everyone to build their own apps :
Not long ago, a non-technical person wouldn’t dream of creating a website. But now with simple drag-and-drop website-building platforms, it takes much less skill. Low-code application development platforms bring these same benefits to creating software, enabling everyone to build apps and workflows that solve challenges. Low-code platforms empower these citizen developers.
For example, imagine a shift leader on a manufacturing floor is struggling to keep track of people rotating into different positions on the line. The rotations are required for safety reasons. With low-code techniques, she can build a simple app that automatically assigns workers to a new position each day. The app can notify workers the day before of specific considerations for their new position.
She can build this app, deploy it and analyze the data to inform adjustments to hiring plans. She can also work with the IT team to be sure any data storage, security, or compliance issues are properly handled, but IT isn’t required to develop the app that solves her problem.
With Power Apps, citizen developers are able to solve very specific business process problems on their own while professional developers are free to focus on custom solutions that require their advanced skills, as well as other high-value tasks.
Simple but powerful solutions
Volunteers citizen developers with the AMERICAN RED CROSS developed an app to help track shelter availability and other support for people displaced by the Camp Fire in Butte County, California. The app enabled multiple relief agencies to work together to track how many people needed shelter and match families with available space and other support. Within 30 days they had places for everyone to stay and were able to close the shelter.
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3. Use app innovation to drive better decisions :
The strongest decisions are those made with all available information. In a crisis situation, it can be hard for leadership to get visibility into the data they need to make a sound decision. Disruptions in normal business practices can make some data simply unavailable or harder to uncover.
For example, imagine a community bank wants to provide emergency funding for small businesses in the quickest way possible. The amount of federal funds available to the community bank is dependent on the size of their small business clients, based on number of employees. Small businesses with more employees will get more funding. But this data point was never collected from the account holders. Until they can collect this data, leadership at the community bank doesn’t know how much federal funding to request.
With low-code app development, the community bank can quickly build an app for small businesses to use when applying for emergency funding. They can capture the data points that are required to support more informed decision making.
Insight through crisis
SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES in Seattle, Washington, US, developed an app that helps hospital staff monitor critical resources like available beds and scarce supplies like ventilators and masks. Front-line hospital workers use mobile devices to report counts of those who are positive for COVID-19, track equipment and supplies in use, make personnel requests, and other information. The app syncs with hospital dashboards to help leaders gauge activity at five care facilities, two emergency departments, and units in critical areas.
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