The Benefits of Low Code App Development
With low-code app development, mainline workers can create an app based upon their specific knowledge of the task at hand. For example, a sales manager can create their own NetSuite integration with SalesForce, without relying upon a member of their IT team to facilitate the development of the integration. This newfound agility means less time spent waiting for tasks that can now be accomplished easily, even by people who have limited coding experience.
Other benefits of low-code app development include:
1. Lower costs: Freed of the requirement to engage experienced coders, development costs are reduced significantly. Further, individuals with direct experience in the area for which the application is being created can have direct input into the development of the application. This helps get it right the first time. Moreover, with low-code development, an organization can function with fewer developers on staff, which lowers costs considerably.
2. Ready integration with legacy tech: The best low code platforms accommodate the integration of legacy systems as well. This makes adapting to new requirements easier and facilitates a shallower learning curve for employees familiar with the existing system.
3. Faster Deployment: Because low-code platforms empower non-technical people with the ability to assemble solution quickly, they can be implemented far more quickly. Moreover, with the steady demand IT departments face, apps can be created more quickly because there’s no need to wait for IT to have time to work on the solution. This reduced development time means more rapid time to value.
4. Shorter development cycles: Again, freed of the need to wait for IT, development can proceed at the user’s instigation. With low code development, functionalities can be created in minutes, and as the need arises. This removes time from the innovation equation. What’s more, testing, evaluation, and refinement can happen at a faster pace as well. This makes the prototyping process more efficient too.
5. Instant automation: Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not much more. Low code-development enables the automation of an applicable business process within minutes. This is true for customization of existing software, or creating complex applications from a blank screen.
6. Increased productivity: Because the best low-code platforms democratize app development, everyone within an organization becomes more productive, as they can tailor an application to their specific needs to make their workflows more efficient. This means people without a technical background can develop applications and help them get into service more rapidly as well.
7. Fewer maintenance concerns: Standardized, pre-tested and ready-made components take the guesswork out of development. Moreover, they improve reliability considerably. Bugs and integration issues are minimized as well. This frees trained developers up to innovate and create, as opposed to spending inordinate amounts of time seeking to rehabilitate. That said, it is still critical for citizen developers to ensure that strict security protocols are observed, factored in during the design process and not glossed over in the interests of saving time or making an application easier to develop.
8. Entrepreneurial opportunities: Simple apps that previously required a lot of coding can now be easily built. This opens the door for freelance developers to earn a good income working alone. In other words, pretty much anyone with basic computer skills and a degree of patience can use low-code development to start a business offering the service. What’s more, this can be accomplished with limited start-up capital.
In Summary
All told, low-code app development has reduced costs, facilitated ready integration with legacy tech, and sped time to deployment with shorter development cycles. Further, maintenance concerns are reduced, productivity is increased and there are more opportunities for freelance app developers. Long story short, organizations can be more agile and thus more profitable with low-code app development.
With a solid foundation in technology, backed by a BIT degree, Lucas Noah has carved a niche for himself in the world of content creation and digital storytelling. Currently lending his expertise to Creative Outrank LLC and Oceana Express LLC, Lucas has become a... Read more