"no-coding" innovation in to an enterprise

"no-coding" innovation in to an enterprise

We know how startups are inherently innovative, thanks to their “fail fast” and “agile” philosophy. Enterprises, on the other hand, move slower as they need to bring a lot of moving parts together to conduct the experiments (projects) required for innovation.

This is where low-code, no-code platforms can help, as they empower the users (who understand the business really well) with tools to conduct very quick experiments.

Such experiments can be conducted by creating and automating business processes and creating mobile and other application interfaces quickly.?

They have a potential to delight customers, save cost, reduce friction and increase operational efficiencies, without going through typical, and inherently slower and costly software development life cycles.

Enterprises can then build upon the experiments (apps & processes) that succeed and dispose off the ones that don’t, without thinking twice or spending much time and cost.

This notion of being able to create disposable, experimental apps can be a complete game-changer on how the enterprise innovates, as this brings an unprecedented agility and free flow of actionable ideas across the enterprise.?

When your users and business analysts have the power to create the apps faster than they can spec. them, it changes the whole psychology of how they approach business problems and design solutions to solve them.

This has the potential of cultivating a culture of “innovation agility” across the enterprise

Such a culture motivates people to take ownership of their business problems and design solutions at a lightning speed, instead of procrastinating or simply living with them. Typically this happens thanks to the sheer bureaucracy, cost, time and cumbersome development life cycles involved with initiating projects and completing them.

The ability to create “disposable” experimental processes and apps opens up the untapped potential of the enterprise to address business problems with an unprecedented agility and positive innovation energy.

Now here’s what makes the real difference!

Most low-code, no-code platforms that promise unleashing the above innovation potential, although show some success, but don’t realize the full potential for one of the 2 key reasons:

1. They are either just “prototyping” tools that can only be used to wire-frame or create fancy UI and not really connect to the real data (and hence the real problems).
2. They are overly complex and essentially cloud-based IDEs targeted at experienced, professional developers re-packaged as low-code/no-code tools.

Most low-code, no-code platforms evolved as the next-phase of the original development tools, built a decade or two ago, and still follow the same development mindset in their DNA. Although they’ve tried their best to make them easy for the business analysts and the users, majority have fallen short.

To bring about the real paradigm shift and benefits of a low-code/no-code platform, a grounds-up rethinking was required to work at a meta-data level, and incorporate at the core of the architecture, the latest and greatest advancements in web and mobile technologies, integration, and cloud-based server frameworks.?

This is what got us started on this journey a few years back, to create a low-code/no-code platform that brings true “innovation agility” to the enterprise.?

Not only does it provide the most modern and robust, progressive web application (PWA) device-agnostic framework, but also let’s the enterprise leverage all of the existing legacy and cloud-based ERP and other business applications, middleware, analytics and databases.?

All this with an enterprise-grade “security” built-in by-design at every level of the app interface, integration end-points, in-flights messages and data sources.?

We named it Swift because this is what truly reflects its DNA, not just in terms of how “swift” it is to design, integrate and launch Swift apps but also how the app experience is for the end-users.?

Since our launch a few years ago, we’ve helped some of the largest and most complex enterprises in the world (ranging from construction, mining, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, life sciences and other industries) to get on their journey of true innovation agility using Swift?

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