Evolving market demands have forced businesses to shorten timelines for completing projects and delivering products. As a result, companies have begun to tap low-code solutions to tighten work cycles and raise their business value for the long haul.
As the name implies, low-code platform solutions provide organizations with tools they can use to develop and deploy customized applications with little or no coding. Compared to traditional software development that involves line-by-line coding, low-code solutions feature a visual interface with pre-built modules and drag-and-drop editors. These components make it quick and easy to make changes during and after the app’s development, so they can suit the unique needs of your company. Moreover, you and your team can tweak the app as your business scales.
Low-code tools positively impact businesses in the following ways:
Most low-code development platforms need little to zero coding experience, allowing line of business staff to create apps according to their requirements. However, assistance from those with programming knowledge may be required when fine-tuning controls or functionalities.
The subscription fees involved in paying for access to development platforms is lower than the cost of hiring developers or designing apps from scratch.
The pre-built frameworks that low-code platform solutions offer hasten app development. This frees up your developers' time for tasks that are more crucial to your growth strategy.
Low-code improves the synergy among front, middle and back office functions:
Taking the following steps can enable your low-code platform solution to enhance your competitive edge:
Evaluate how your current systems are fulfilling your business needs from developing responsive end-user experiences to capturing data needed for growth insights. You can also use analytics to uncover the pain points and bottlenecks in your business operations.
Here are some areas are worth looking into:
List down the data requirements and new applications that you couldn't currently source or develop, whatever the reason—unavailable or inadequate IT skills, limitations of existing app development tools, inefficient workflow, or budget constraints.
Your company's internal users are the so-called experts in the workflows of their respective departments. Thus, their ideas and input are necessary for ensuring the success of apps in live environments.
Find out how you can build an app to solve your data sourcing and productivity needs using low-code technology. Then prototype and test the app, which can sit on top of legacy applications or allow data migration from the old to the new app for more efficient work operations.
The popularity of low-code continues to soar and this technology is expected to power 70% of new applications by 2025.
Low-code business solutions are versatile. You can use them to build a variety of apps from simple tools for your one-off projects to more complex ones, which you can integrate with existing business processes and access from different devices.
Some of the most common types of products generated using low-code development include the following:
This type of app can improve the processing of personal information of new hires, orienting them about workflows, and conducting assessments.
Reduce client abandonment and boost lead capture with an app that can virtually welcome new visitors and buyers to your business. Customer onboarding apps with self-service features can gather information about your clients while at the same time giving them more details about your services and offers.
Energy distribution and banking firms as well as clinics and hospitals can produce similar functioning apps to care for their clients’ or patients’ needs.
You can build an app where you can set targets for your team or entire workforce, view their productivity, ask for and gather feedback, as well as recognize staff for their jobs well done.
You and your team can use low-code tools to modernize either parts of your legacy IT infrastructure or all of it to cover your entire enterprise. You can update in phases or build an app to replace whole workflows with new processes.
Apps can help construction, real estate, mining, and other industries keep tabs on occupational health and safety and the status of properties, equipment, work venues, and tasks anytime, anywhere.
Kissflow empowers you and your company to develop business apps fast with Kissflow Low-Code. It's packed with features that result in:
Fast-track your company's digital transformation with Kissflow Low-Code. You can learn more about it by downloading our free Starter Guide or scheduling a demo with us today.