Low-Code Development Platforms and the Future of Digital Innovation
Now more than ever, organizations must race to transform. They must create better software and do it faster. And they must satisfy seemingly insatiable old audiences while still creating new ones.
In short, they need to behave like digital natives.
Streamlining software development by blending development, security and IT teams (DevSecOps) fuels such innovation, but that's only part of the story. The future of digital innovation is about team-based planning, sourcing and distribution. But the ability to innovate and iterate on a dime isn’t just about teams. It’s also about tools. That’s where low-code development platforms come in.
Low-code development platforms give organizations a way to design and develop software applications with only minimal hand-coding. They let skilled employees throughout the organization deftly deliver value. Visual modeling helps these developers rapidly assemble and configure applications, skipping a lot of hassle around UI design, databases and infrastructure. Whether for internal apps or outward-facing customer software, the result can be increased efficiency and faster time-to-market across the board.
Some 40% of Asia/Pacific organizations tell IDC they’ve begun to adopt low-code development tools and other visually-guided systems. Mostly they're using them to ease the creation of sleeker, more intuitive internal-facing apps. They’re also using them to build outward-facing apps that help them react to customer feedback faster than ever before.
In the end, after all, creating evocative software is what the future of digital innovation is all about.
Watch this space for our continuing series on digital innovation. Click here to find out more about our Asia/Pacific 2020 Software Survey.
Based in Hong Kong, Gina Smith, Ph.D. leads DevOps research for IDC Asia. She is the author of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak's biography, iWOZ: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Doing It. Email her at gsmith@idc.com