All about Low Code: Build fantastic apps without much coding!

The world of digital transformation is full of buzzwords and low code development is one such trend that’s gripped the attention of the business community. So, what is low code development and how can it improve your business?

Is it just a fad or a truly transformative development approach that can save time, costs, and effort for your developers? In this article, we will uncover the answers to these questions and unravel the concept of low code development, so you can go ahead and leverage it to drive business growth!

Low-code is quite simply an application development method that elevates coding from a tedious textual process to a rich visual experience. As opposed to a technical coding environment that boggles your mind, low-code operates in a model-driven drag and drop interface.?

People of all development skill levels - professional developers, novice developers, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, and decision makers can use low code to build valuable enterprise business applications.?

Let’s took a look at some of the components of low code platforms:

Visual modeling: Drag and drop functionality and an intuitive visual UI enable professional developers to boost their productivity and allow citizen developers to build a variety of applications. Model driven development allows you to visualize how the app works as it is being built and confers the ability to launch with one-click deployment.?

Reusable components: Build cross-platform applications with pre-configured modules, logic, templates, and more. Components of a low-code application can be customized and extended by skilled developers.

Collaboration tools: Develop collaboratively with built-in tools for feedback loops, revision tracking, messaging, and more. The visual nature of low code ensures everyone speaks a uniform development language.

Scalable environments: Deploy new applications and enhance existing applications spontaneously to meet changing customer demands. A cloud-based low code platform provides flexibility, support for continuous delivery, and scalability on demand.

Data integration: Safely integrate data and logic from any source, system, or service including your core legacy systems.

Application lifecycle management: Low code supports all phases of the application development lifecycle with tools to streamline project management, requirements management, testing, deployment, etc. Holistic low code development platforms also incorporate Agile practices and DevOps tools to enhance the development process.?

Here at Hakuna Matata, we use Zvolv, a revolutionary low-code platform that offers everything from bots that automate tasks and assist in decision making to business process management and workflow automation.?

That being said, let’s explore the key features and benefits that you can reap by using this platform:

Orchestrate activities, automations and decisions across teams and tools

• Human and Bot task coordination
• Approvals and role based routing
• Graphical visualizations via process diagrams and flow-charts

Sit back and delegate repetitive, mundane and error-prone data-driven tasks to bots

• Growing library of self-help Bots configured with no-code builder
• Interactive bot builder with developer pane to build custom automation via Python code
• Extensive set of pre-tested functions in Python library to speed up bot building
• Bot examples and templates ranging from simple API interfaces to complex AI/ML bots

Drive time-synchronized delivery of well-aligned goals across teams

• Adaptive vs predictive project tracking
• Critical path computations and Gantt/Pert charts
• Stage-gate based planning and approval options
• Task, resource and efficiency milestone tracking

Prioritized task lists for every individual and contextual access to information

• Templatized or computed timelines for delays and escalations
• Role based task assignments and re-routing
• Status change, activity and data logs, management summary reports
• Email and calendar integrations, email digests

Efficiently manage all project related documents with versioning, access controls and more

• Project based document dockets, sharable link generation
• HTML document builder to dynamically generate PDFs and CSVs
• Document tagging, keyword extraction for search
• Integrated approval and version control mechanisms

Collect data and status updates from distributed teams with structured forms

• 50+ form field types, mobile friendly layout options
• Auto-search fields integrated with databases
• Inter-field dependencies and visibility controls
• Per field access controls, custom bot based validations

Intuitive, summarized and drill-down access to information as required for various roles

• Multi-dimensional tables, charts, KPIs, Map views and control tower visualization options for dashboards
• Sort, search and filter options at field and global levels
• Pivot tables, complex math functions and analytical operations controls
• Drag and drop configuration and contextual access to information and widgets

Keep your teams in the know for every project and task progress, delays or critical escalations

• Email, SMS, In-app notifications with role based customisation
• Templatized and system defined message options
• SMTP and SMS provider integration
• Daily/weekly email digests, EOD summary reports, weekly management reports

Make smarter decisions with real-time actionable data

• Self configurable via intuitive GUI
• Variety of graphical visualizations
• Data analytics and statistics functions
• Large scale data export and import

Seamless integrations with 3rd party interfaces

• REST/SOAP API and web services based integrations with other tools. Support for JSON, XML and other formats.
• Extensive library of pre-configured integration widgets for commonly used SaaS tools and ERP/CRM tools
• Options to integrate at a database layer, or via file based interfaces
• Extensive set of push, pull, scheduled, data-driven and on-demand trigger options

From improved productivity to lower development costs and improved customer experiences, low code development offers a plethora of game-changing benefits to your business. If you’re ready to use low code development to build the next big thing, we can help you!?

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