On January 14th, Dingding officially released version 6.0 and revealed the new evolution direction. One of the most frequently used words in this direction is “low code.”
Zhang Jianfeng, president of Ali Cloud Intelligence, said at the conference that the future of software development must be fragmented, and low code development will be the key word of the industry in 2021.
What is low code?
Low-code refers to the substitution of non-code, such as visualization, for coding in most cases. It is possible to involve non-technical people in the configuration and development of enterprise digital systems through some tools.
At present, the tools on the market, such as foreign Airtable, domestic appropriate, Informat and Mingdao Cloud, all belong to the category of “low code”. Their common feature is to help enterprise managers to quickly build enterprise-level applications through visual system configuration.
Ii. Why low code is recommended for digital transformation?
(1) Reduce procurement costs
Traditional enterprise digital system often needs to find multiple suppliers for procurement because of different business modules. For example, OA, CRM, BPM and other systems cannot be satisfied within one supplier. However, if the low-code platform is purchased, the requirements of customers’ OA, CRM, BPM and other systems can be realized only through configuration. Can save more than 90% of procurement costs for enterprises.
(2) Fit business scenarios
Low-code systems support visual configuration of the system’s data base, process specifications, and operating interfaces. The program development and design threshold is lowered, so that managers and even front-line business personnel can personally participate in the configuration and development of the system, which can reduce the cost of communication between business requirements and technology research and development. Improve the system demand reduction degree, to create a more suitable application system for business scenarios.
(3) Flexible expansion
Low code development platforms have better scalability. Different from traditional management systems, from the design of data tables to the creation of processes, low-code development platforms only need to complete operations in the user interface, without entering the code level to modify. The benefits are more flexible system changes and fewer new bugs. Low code development platforms enable rapid iteration, helping organizations adapt to rapidly changing market environments.
What are the current low code practices?
(1) Traditional dairy enterprises break data barriers through low codes
A traditional manufacturing enterprise needs to manage equipment, production, personnel, products and other aspects in the production process. The management mode and process of each system are greatly different. Therefore, the overall management and control of project information is faced with no small challenge, and all departments need to spend a lot of manpower and time to summarize and report data. Low code development platforms can play an important role in this area.
System construction, low code according to different business scenarios, flexible construction of management system. From equipment maintenance to production control, from product storage to employee performance. Can be easily covered.
Data center, low code development platform with its own flexible database structure advantages, can easily connect with all kinds of production management systems, and can also carry out secondary processing of data. Provide managers with more valuable data information.
(2) Financial industry leading enterprises to introduce low code to improve internal development efficiency of 80%!
As the R&D department of the group, it receives a large number of development requirements submitted by each branch every day. Although these requirements are relatively simple in process, a large number of basic program design and development also cause great pressure to the r&d team inside the company. With the promotion of cost reduction and efficiency increase within the enterprise. Then a low code development platform is undoubtedly the best solution. With a low-code development platform, technicians can save a lot of repetitive work and quickly build routine applications for business units with drag-and-drop configurations.
Low code outlook
(1) Front-line management personnel become the backbone of system construction
With low code development platforms, the barriers to application development have been lowered. Front-line managers only need to master basic system operation rules and complete the construction of most processes according to their own understanding of business processes. Modular componentization greatly reduces the risk of bugs in the configuration process. If a fault occurs during system application, administrators can adjust the fault in a timely manner. The low code development platform transfers the final voice of the application to the user, so that the front-line management will become the core force of the future enterprise application construction.
(2) Achieve one-stop management and break data barriers
When low code development platform can provide enterprises with various business scenarios of management applications, the advantages of low code development platform can be immediately reflected in the “one-stop”, through simple system association, can realize the data dependence and interoperability between applications. For example: the customer relationship management system performance, directly related to the administrative management system performance appraisal. Data flow does not need to be exported and imported repeatedly in various systems, breaking data barriers and greatly improving work efficiency.
(3) Expand into more areas of low-code scenarios
As technology continues to advance, low-code development platforms have moved from imitating Excel forms scenarios to building process management with workflows to joining in
(4) Visual drag components to build static pages
The low code development platform is also working on implementing more scenarios and services to achieve low code throughout the company.
V. Conclusion:
According to Gartner, at least 500 million new applications or apps need to be developed to meet all the digital transformation scenarios of Chinese enterprises. This huge demand, if according to the traditional product research and development mode, not only the cost is high, product output and supply are also limited.
The emergence of low code development platform can not only solve this problem, but also give play to the characteristics of low code configuration flexibility and high reuse, and provide enterprises with more high-quality and high-quality application services.
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