Rapid Application Development Platform | How a RAD Platform Works?

How a RAD Platform Works

RAD is a modular approach. Developers and end users work together to develop the app feature-by-feature, making changes on the fly–perfect for evolving requirements. This is based on James Martin’s technique from 1991.

Construction

Business users make improvements that they understand better than the average programmer.

Requirements Planning

App stakeholders (end users, programmers, management) discuss the need for the app, the solution, and limitations.

Cutover

Like the ‘implementation’ and ‘maintenance’ stages of SDLC, users get trained and adopt the new app.

User Design

As the users state the needs, app creators make modular working models that solve each of these needs.

Improved Collaboration

App designers and stakeholders work together without silos evolving requirements.

Creating an App Using a RAD Platform

Developing your app on a RAD platform like Kissflow is almost child’s play. Kissflow uses handy abilities like low-code development and a visual approach to let users and/or IT teams build apps the RAD way.

You use the simply visual-based layout to decide how to collect the data, using the easy WYSIWYG form creation technique. Then, you determine the path this data will take, and how the app will handle the data, also through a simple visual layout.

With the RAD approach, creating apps goes from being a month-long affair to a days-long one, sometimes even taking mere hours!

Features To Look For in RAD Platforms

What you should be searching for when picking the right RAD tool. Look for these features, and you’ll quickly find the right RAD tool.

Visual editors

This lets you, the RAD platform user, design modules of your app with ease in a short time. Simplicity translates to speed and ease of use.

Deploy apps quickly

Creating apps alone won’t cut it with RAD. That’s why RAD platforms can release apps as soon as you create them. This is crucial for a quick ‘time to market’.

Low-Code/ No-Code

Any RAD platform that offers true app-creating power to business users who may not have coding abilities, is a winner.

Relational databases

These help you use data contextually. For instance, you can pull up the number of leaves an employee is eligible for on a leave request app.

Deployment-specific features

Multi-device previews to let you see how end users will ‘see’ the app on various platforms, cloud deployment, and release and lifecycle management abilities.

Continuous deployment

RAD app modules need to be modified and deployed as and when each feature is developed or modified.

The Benefits of Using a RAD Platform

Choose the right RAD platform, and reap the six-fold benefits every good one offers.

Enjoy Assured Quality

Rapid application development platforms also assure better quality, as business users are involved throughout the development of each app.

Downsize Risks

RAD platforms also offer risk control, as unmitigated disasters that can happen through the dated waterfall method are completely avoided.

Launch Apps Faster

RAD also speeds up launch times, letting you launch your apps four times faster than a legacy platform–that’s a commendable time to market.

Quicker App Development

Imagine if you could shorten the application development process by up to 75%! Good RAD platforms are built to enable quicker app development.

Reduce costs

Save expenses as fewer resources are allocated to custom coding, scripting, bug-fixing, maintenance requirements.

Increase Adaptability

Gain the flexibility to quickly and easily adapt new solutions according to changing business needs

Considering a RAD Platform? This Is All You Need to Know.