Rise of No Code Platforms

Organizations are increasingly exploring no-code platforms as they wanted to offer their business teams the ability to innovate and adapt to rapidly changing business environment. Covid-19 pandemic has not only disrupted businesses and their continuity but also challenged the core workings of organizations. With organizations looking to create applications to enhance their processes and improve customer experience without overworking their IT department, many are relying on no-code platforms to build applications, especially startups and small businesses.

Overworked IT departments coupled with a shortage of skilled software developers is creating challenges for organizations and decision makers. In Australia, a recent study by Deloitte predicts that employers will demand over 520,000 more qualified ICT staff in 2026 compared to 2019.

No code development platforms offer a clear, easy-to-navigate graphical interfaces, giving business users the power to build applications within the platform itself and launch these applications instantly without every needing to write a single line of code.

Empower Business Teams

Empowering their business teams to self-serve using these no-code platforms allows the broader members of an organization to develop new digital experiences and applications. This is an appealing idea to both SMEs and large organizations as it fosters an organization wide innovation.

Toyota saw revenue growth of about?$10 billion dollars?from 2017–2019 and saw another 44% increase in stock value from July 2020-21. The company claims their persistent growth is from increased agility across all business units. In effort to practice more agile approaches, the company began exploring no-code solutions. In 2020, Toyota had over 400 applications created using no code platform.

With deep knowledge on business processes, these users aka new age developers aka citizen developers when they build applications, actually bring a unique skill set and a unique perspective, and something that a professional developer may not have.

Here are some numbers to crunch,

• $21B?— The dollar amount companies will spend on no/low-code development platforms by 2022.?Source: Forrester
• 450M?— The number of apps to be built in the next five years using a no/low-code tool.?Source: Microsoft
• 50%?— The percentage of enterprises that will be using no/low-code app development platforms by 2023.

?Source: Gartner

Early adopters of these no-code platforms like Toyota are already seeing their digital transformation programs bear fruit and help them stay competitive in the age of digital transformation.