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Code Development: The Low-Code Imperative for Agile Businesses
Increasingly, new applications and systems, especially cloud-based ones, are rolling out low-code or no-code tools that let customers quickly setup and visually configure both system settings and the overall user experience. Examples of low-code application tools include configuring data models and laying out forms and workflows.
Clay Richardson and John Rymer, principal analysts at Forrester, wrote in a report on low-code development, that “low-code platforms are rising as an alternative for developing customer-facing apps. Initially targeted at speeding all projects, these platforms are finding traction in the age of the customer’s heightened priority for customer experience software. Hand-coding is too slow to develop and deliver many of the applications that companies use to win, serve and retain customers.”
Richardson told SDTimes that “Forrester began highlighting the need for workflow and process-change platforms to become more lightweight and nimble. We decided to bring these two streams of research together in 2013 to focus on speeding up development for customer-facing applications, which is where the term ‘low-code’ really stuck. Through dozens of interviews with companies, we found that the low-code imperative was strongest for teams trying to quickly build apps in response to customer demands and customer needs.”
Dion McCormick, director of customer solutions for Alpha Software, in an interview with SDTimes, noted that the benefits of low-code programming include:
- Productivity
- Responsiveness
- Reliability
- Time and Cost Savings
- Focus on High-Value Development
