What is low code?
The term “low code” comes from a 2014 report by Forrester, a world-renowned market research company, which proposed a development platform that can quickly generate applications without coding or with a small amount of code. This kind of platform is for IT experts or civilian programmers, in order to quickly deliver applications, to solve the problem of long cycle and high cost brought by the traditional software development mode, the customer group is mainly software development companies or medium and large enterprises with IT experts.
Low-code: A software system for rapidly designing and developing applications that provides a graphical development environment for efficient application development through visual drag-and-drop and configuration (or minimal coding); The platform also provides one-click deployment and running environment for applications, enabling seamless and rapid deployment of applications to the production environment.
What is no code?
No-code development (NO-code) : Based on a low code development platform, IT is aimed at business people, not IT experts. Business personnel can design and use applications according to the actual requirements of the business. New requirements can be added independently without relying on IT experts. There is no strict design-time and operational boundary.
Who is advocating low code?
1, Gartner
According to Gartner, the demand for application development will reach five times the capacity of all IT companies in 2021. This is an awkward situation that enterprises face as they become increasingly digital, with more and more business needs far outstripping THEIR IT development capabilities and seemingly endless projects to complete. Low code, no code development is almost the only solution to this huge supply and demand gap.
2, nailing
On January 14, 2021, Dingding officially released version 6.0, emphasizing that low code platform will play an important role in the future enterprise digitization process. Zhang Jianfeng, president of Ali Cloud intelligence, believes that “low code development” based on the integration of cloud nails will become a new generation of software development. It hopes to grow 10 million nail apps in the next three years, allowing digitization to quickly turn into productivity.
Iv. Low code/No code Industry development history:
1, 2000
“Low code” sprouted. Salesforce, OutSystems, Mendix and more are coming to market.
2, 2008
The concept of low code was introduced to China, and some early teams in Grape City and iVX began to develop low code, mainly for project delivery.
3, 2015
New “low code” development platforms have emerged with higher visualization, mainly serving form information and office collaboration. Such as clear cloud, light flow…. (This refers to no code, which is a new form of low code)
4, 2020
The wave of enterprise internal digital transformation and “cost reduction and efficiency increase” makes the market attention to “low code” platform explosive growth. Weave letter Informat was born.
V. Disadvantages of traditional software development compared to low code/no code:
1. Not being flexible enough
When the enterprise has new requirements or changes, the new requirements still need to strictly follow the traditional software development mode, and the pre-planned steps of requirements analysis, design, coding, integration, testing and maintenance should be carried out in sequence. In this way, it greatly exposes the shortcomings of its low flexibility, resulting in a low degree of structure of the system, it is difficult to lock the functional requirements in the early stage of development. And the development cycle is long, difficult to adapt to environmental changes.
2. Information islands
The decentralized development and introduction of traditional systems make the information stored in different application platforms and databases, and the definition and collection are independent of each other, thus forming many information islands. A large amount of useful information is scattered in each “dead corner”, which cannot be effectively used and shared. The first premise of establishing an efficient office automation environment is to ensure the unimpeded and efficient use of information.
3. Application islands
The system developed by traditional software is difficult to integrate closely with other business systems of the enterprise. As a result, each business system within the enterprise is independent from each other, data is inconsistent, information sharing degree is not high, governance is scattered, tools are backward, governance and maintenance workload is large, and each part of the system often forms an “application island”. Enterprises need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources switching between different application systems in order to obtain the corresponding information for analysis, resulting in resource extravagance and repeated labor, the operation efficiency of enterprises greatly reduced.
4. Resource islands
Synergy between the various parts of the enterprise, as well as between internal and external resources, including customers and partners, has become increasingly important in this new information age. Enterprises must establish a dynamic, controllable, identical, fully integrated and collaborative information application environment. Make enterprise internal resource thereby (controller, employee) and external resource (client and partner) can share information highly on an identical platform, cooperate to complete all sorts of complex business processing, the scientific system that forms knowledge to accumulate, face the change of market environment jointly. However, the system developed by traditional software can not well establish such a cooperative operation environment because of its relatively old architecture.
Therefore, the traditional software development model has been unable to fully meet the growing needs of enterprises, enterprises urgently need a new development model that can be moved at will and matched on demand, and have efficient information system that can integrate internal and external resources of enterprises, so as to promote their governance level.
Finally, under the continuous attempts of many IT enterprises at home and abroad, the low code/no code rapid development mode has gradually emerged and become the most popular rapid development mode at present.
Vi. What can we do with low code/no code platform? What are your special skills?
The first stunt:
1. Help enterprises to achieve “self-built ecology”;
2. Cooperate with enterprises to realize multi-system integration and become the “middle stage” of data;
3. Become an efficient “development tool” for enterprise R&D team.
Second stunt:
1. Solve the “digital dead spot” of enterprises for companies in the early stage of digital transformation;
2. Quickly realize the development of enterprise “personalized needs”;
3. Provide mature professional industry “general system” for enterprises without digital foundation.
The third stunt:
As a “Lego-type” enterprise system construction platform, Wexin Informat can help enterprises quickly build different management systems through independent configuration, cooperate with managers to carry out efficient internal management, and enable enterprises to achieve all-round digital transformation.
1. Help enterprises improve development efficiency, management efficiency and collaboration efficiency by 70-80%;
2. Help enterprises reduce development cost, personnel cost and communication cost by 60-70%.
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