Everyone is a developer – How low-code changes IT

Imagine this: Staff in every department of a company creates their own internal applications to suit their needs. This all happens in a safe, scalable environment, that has all of the tooling and procedures to ensure appropriate security, testing and sign-off as part of a Digital Transformation program.

Sounds very futuristic? But this scenario is within reach right now: Staff is enabled to become „citizen developers“ by low-code (and no-code) software like Microsoft Power Apps and Power Platform: The software provides a component framework, a so called visual integrated development environment (IDE). Creating apps here works similar to creating a PowerPoint or Excel, without any code writing. This makes low-code one of the most important new technologies. It is the new AI.

To cite Gartner: „Citizen development is fundamental to digital transformation.“ By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity (Gartner) – and for good reasons: Today, IT departments spend more than a half of their time with keeping current systems running. Companies struggle to find IT experts for open positions by now: A challenge that will become even more serious during the next years and endangers the competitive capability of entire locations. This is, where low-code steps in:

• low-code reveals the pressure from the companies‘ IT departments.
• low-code soothes the skills shortage in IT.
• low-code generates more applications.
• low-code enables tailored apps for every company and department, because development ist done with and by the ones, who will use them in daily life.

To unleash full business potential the power of low-code will be crucial to keep our competitive capability and actively form the Digital Transformation. Time to bring developer and citizen together – time to ReThink IT completely new!

You want to dig deeper? I recommend this Forbes-Article from John Everhard.