Build Apps Faster with Low-Code

In this Part Three of ten, we focus on how low-code automation platforms can help organizations build applications faster and more efficiently. This article explains how low-code platforms provide pre-built components and templates, allowing developers to build applications with minimal coding. The blog also highlights how low-code platforms can improve collaboration between IT and business teams, as well as the contribution of citizen developers.

Part 3: Building Apps Faster with Low-Code Automation

"Low-code is about enabling the rapid creation of applications, to support business needs with minimal coding." - Gartner

As businesses increasingly turn to digital solutions to streamline operations and improve customer experience, the demand for software development has never been higher. However, traditional software development methods can be slow, resource-intensive, and expensive. This is where low-code automation platforms come in, offering a faster and more efficient way to build applications.

Bringing IT and Business together

At the heart of low-code platforms is the ability to build applications with minimal coding. Low-code platforms provide pre-built components and templates, enabling developers to drag and drop these elements onto a visual canvas to quickly build applications. This means that developers can focus on higher-level tasks, such as designing user interfaces and workflow logic, rather than spending time writing code from scratch.

In addition to speeding up the development process, low-code platforms can also improve collaboration between IT and business teams. By providing a visual interface and pre-built components, low-code platforms make it easier for business users to provide input and feedback on the development process. This enables IT teams to better understand business requirements, resulting in applications that are better aligned with business needs.

Furthermore, low-code platforms offer a range of other features and benefits that can improve the speed and efficiency of application development. For example, many low-code platforms offer the ability to automatically generate code based on visual components, reducing the amount of time and effort required to write code manually. Some platforms also offer pre-built connectors and integrations for common business systems and databases, making it easier to connect applications to other systems.

Citizen Developers

One of the key benefits of low-code automation platforms is that they enable non-technical users, or citizen developers, to contribute to the application development process. Citizen developers can provide valuable input and feedback on the design and functionality of applications, allowing IT teams to better understand business requirements.

In addition, citizen developers can also help to accelerate the development process by taking on some of the simpler development tasks, such as designing user interfaces or building simple workflows. This can free up IT teams to focus on more complex development tasks, resulting in faster application delivery.

Furthermore, involving citizen developers in the development process can help to foster a culture of innovation within an organization. By giving business users the tools they need to contribute to application development, organizations can create a more collaborative and agile development process, resulting in applications that are better aligned with business needs.

In many cases, minor changes to workflows, or updates to applications can be completed by business super-users, obviating the need for developers to be involved in minor app updates.

Prototyping and Integration: Made for Agile

Another benefit of low-code platforms is their ability to support rapid prototyping and iteration. With a low-code platform, developers can quickly build a prototype of an application and iterate on it based on feedback from business users. This agile development approach enables businesses to quickly respond to changing requirements and market conditions, resulting in applications that are better aligned with business needs.

Low-code platforms also offer the ability to easily scale applications as business needs evolve. With a traditional development approach, scaling an application can be a complex and time-consuming process. However, low-code platforms enable developers to quickly add new features and functionality to an application, or even create entirely new applications, without having to start from scratch.

In Conclusion: Cost Effective Development

Finally, low-code platforms offer a more cost-effective approach to application development. By reducing the amount of time and effort required to develop applications, low-code platforms can significantly reduce development costs. Furthermore, the ability to quickly iterate and scale applications can also result in cost savings over the long term. By bringing applications on line quicker, business benefits are realised sooner, improving the business case and delivering positive Return on Investment faster.

Low-code automation platforms offer a faster, more efficient, and more collaborative way to build applications. By providing pre-built components and templates, enabling rapid prototyping and iteration, and supporting easy scaling, low-code platforms empower businesses to build applications that are better aligned with their needs, and at a lower cost than traditional development methods.