It is reported that in China, rapid development platform has been developed for nearly 20 years, until now has been lukewarm. Until 2019, there was a wave driven by various factors, and many vendors flooded into the low code development platform track. According to incomplete statistics, by January 2021, the low code/no code related vendors had reached hundreds. But the skill industry has specialized, each of the products are respectively what characteristics and good at it?

For the consideration of enterprise information construction planning, the following to check the characteristics of low code development platform manufacturers? For your reference!

1, nail nail should take (domestic)

Dingdingyi is a zero-code business application building platform for business developers. The “visual” interface allows developers to edit and configure pages, forms and flows in a drag-and-drop fashion, and publish them to PCS and mobile phones with one click. It is understood that Dingdingyida in the first half of last year (during the epidemic), Alibaba’s products Dingdingyida open to the whole society for free, only for epidemic prevention related purposes (including but not limited to epidemic statistics, health reports, rework statistics, etc.).

2. Informat (Domestic)

Zhixin is a “Lego-based” low/zero code development platform. Even those who do not know the code can help enterprises quickly build OA, ERP, CRM, personnel and other management systems by means of independent configuration, and cooperate with managers to carry out efficient internal management, so that enterprises can realize all-round digital transformation.

Compared with the enterprise application management system on the market, it has many advantages. Users can customize form style, business process, report statistics and approval process by dragging and clicking. So as to realize the functions of enterprise information system. This method not only greatly reduces the cost of software system procurement, but also solves the problem of data communication between traditional management systems, and brings revolutionary improvement to the efficiency of enterprise digital management.

3. OutSystems (overseas)

OutSystems’ low-code development platform allows software developers and business users to build applications through an intuitive visual interface rather than the traditional way of writing code. Users can flexibly drag various graphical controls in the development platform to build business processes, logic, data models and other required functions, and can add their own code if necessary.

4. Mendix (abroad)

Mendix helps companies improve the way they innovate. Using visual models, building applications on Mendix is simple, fast, and intuitive, enabling many people — developers and business analysts alike — to build powerful applications without writing code. With model-driven development, business leaders and IT departments can share languages to quickly build applications.

5. Kintone (abroad)

Kintone is a cloud service system that allows anyone to easily create and share information. It is classified as aPaaS (Application Platform as a Service) in Gartner Magic Quadrant. It is a rapid development of enterprise information software tools.

6. Caspio (abroad)

Caspio is an all-in-one cloud platform that includes the ability to quickly create tables, reports, and complete business applications without programming.

The advent of zero code development platform simplifies the development process, shortens the development cycle, improves the development efficiency and saves the development cost. More and more are favored by the majority of developers, and there will be more and more developers using zero code development platform to complete their development work.

By taking stock of the low code development platforms above, we know the features and uses of these platforms. However, if we want to judge whether a low-code platform is good or not, it is far from enough to only look at features and uses. We also need to combine the design concept of the whole product, the degree of openness, component abstraction, development support, and the degree of support for complex front and background.

In general, Mendix, Outsystems, and Informat are the most efficient developers in terms of overall capabilities, but they also work well in niche areas, such as developing a form or a workflow system. As a suitable match, after all, is Ali’s own, now a late start, but at least it shows that there are giants have started to pay attention to this track, we can continue to pay attention to it.

At present, I am very optimistic about the development trend of “low code” in China. After all, it liberates productivity and reduces repetitive labor. However, the major manufacturers to do a good job of low code products, at present, the difficulty will be relatively large, still need a long time of accumulation. But regardless of the results, I think we can look forward to it!

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