Recently, there’s been a surge of interest in visual programming models, all with varying degrees of user-friendliness. These low-code platforms utilize drag-and-drop elements to help citizen developers stitch together applications, avoiding the complexities of hard-coding connections. Such platforms are crucial amid a developer drought and shine in their usability. But, how usable is too usable? […]
APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?
As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […]
Appian Infuses Low-Code Platform With AI
Appian this week released an update to its low-code application development and deployment platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend best next steps, including how to address cybersecurity issues. In addition, the latest version of Appian also makes it easier to incorporate robotic process automation (RPA) modules to automate rote tasks in addition to […]
Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences
The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […]
Quick Base Makes Free Low-Code Platform Available for First Responders
Quick Base, a provider of a platform for building low-code applications, announced this week that it is making its platform available for free through Sept. 30 to first responder organizations that need to build applications quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer for Quick Base, said it’s apparent first […]
Low-Code Meets DevOps: A Smart Way to Manage Modern App Delivery Demands
In a fast-moving and often fiercely competitive marketplace, companies need to embrace technology to stay relevant and drive growth. To this end, the business community is increasingly placing a high priority on digital transformation. In fact, more than 80% of organizations believe that digital transformation is crucial to business success. Digitally driven processes can power […]
Low-Code Has Taken Development by Storm. Why Not the Web?
For more than a decade, development tools increasingly have made their way into the hands of less-technical people. On the web in particular, we’ve eliminated the webmaster as the middleman with content management systems and moved progressively toward a model where non-technical users could assemble their own sites with little to no coding experience of […]
Low-Code Providers Continue Enhancing Their Development Platforms
Enterprise low-code development continues to grow in popularity as software vendors continue to unveil tool enhancements designed to help business users and non-developers build functional applications and business processes. The help from low-code platforms (and other platforms that are integrating low-code capabilities) couldn’t come at a better time, as enterprises continue to struggle to digitize […]
The State of Low-Code Development
As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises—but still, only a minority—are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based […]
Citizen Developer Movement Gains Steam
It’s been about a year since we covered how the rise of the consumerization of IT had extended beyond cloud services and devices to application development and the advent of the Citizen Developer from rarity to mainstream. The momentum of citizen developers in the enterprise has only increased in the past year. And the move […]