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Enterprise Software: Businesses Arm Citizen Developers with Low Code
Rob Cameron, CEO of KnowlegeLake, in a Forbes Council Opinion piece calls ‘low code’ a ‘Game Changer’. “This is a massive trend,” said John Bratincevic, analyst at Forrester.
Low-code software development combines highly visual user interfaces, allowing users often to simply drag and drop capabilities into a flow of commands, to build applications and processes. No programming is necessary.
Josh Bersin, an HR industry analyst, said that “what low code means is that you don’t have to hire a software engineer to change something. If I am the learning and development manager or a recruiter and I have a platform and it does not do quite what I want, with a low-code platform I can reconfigure and change it to do what I want it to do, and that is a massive disruptive trend.”
Gartner predicts that by 2024 more than 65 percent of new apps deployed will contain ‘low code’ components. A survey by IDC found that the desire to bring innovation in-house was a significant appeal of low code to many managers.
The global low-code development platform market size is estimated to grow to $35.2 billion by 2030, growing at a rate of 22.9 percent annually from now until then, according to Grand View Research.
How is low code primarily used today? (According to Gartner)
- Within forms and data-collection apps (58 percent)
- Within business process and workflow apps (49 percent)
- Within email and spreadsheet apps (42 percent)
- Within the UI of newly-built apps (22 percent)
Three reasons why the popularity of low-code apps is soaring:
- To compensate for worker shortages and traditional development costs
- Consolidation of multiple digital design tools
- To more rapidly grow the volume and scope of projects
Low code is all about empowering citizen developers within an organization with the tools to create software that resonates with the flow of the business. John Bratincevic, analyst at Forrester Research, said that “how to establish, govern and scale citizen development is our No. 1 low-code inquiry question from Forrester clients.”
