Should You Choose Low-Code or No-Code Development?
In order to understand why a business should choose Low-Code or No-Code development for its project, it is important to spend a little time talking about the benefits of the low and no code tools. When we are exploring low-code vs. no-code, it is important to have a basic understanding of how each of these platforms can help you achieve your goals. Ultimately, you will need to develop a clear set of requirements to define the parameters, features and functionality of your new app or solution.
‘The low-code/no-code market is maturing and platform vendors are improving extensibility and governance and creating more scalable solutions using cloud technology.’
Here, we will review the benefits of choosing a low code and no code development. As you review these benefits, keep in mind that the choice of low code vs. no code will ultimately be made based on the use cases you need to satisfy.
The benefits noted in this section represent both Low-Code and No-Code advantages, and are meant to provide an overview.
A recent survey of businesses revealed several primary reasons for using the Low-Code/No-Code approach.
- Accelerate Digital Innovation and Transformation
- Reduce Current IT Backlog and Increase Responsiveness
- Reduce Dependency on Professional Technology Skills, and Increase Developer Productivity
- Protect Against Technology Churn
- Improve Time to Market
Benefits
Organization
Cost-Effective –The technology research firm Forrester reports that low-code platforms improve developer productivity by more than 10 times the average solution development time, thereby improving return on investment and total cost of ownership. Forrester also reports that low-code, no-code initiatives deliver applications at 50-60% lower cost than those using traditional development initiatives. By leveraging these tools, the enterprise can address gaps and issues with legacy systems without investing in a total rebuild or starting from scratch.
Time to Market– The organization can leverage tools in a responsive development environment to create products and apps and test Minimum Viable Products (MVP) solutions for customer and user feedback, thereby avoiding costly mistakes and implementation of features and functionality users and customers do not want or need.
Resources – The organization can optimize developer time and the time of IT consulting firms by using the low-code, no-code approach, and allow the development team to focus on high-value activities and those areas where professional skills and knowledge are best targeted.
Teams-The organization can easily add Low-Code, No-Code platforms to its technology landscape without costly delays to accommodate extensive training or resource acquisition. Because these tools are easy to learn and leverage, the organization can adapt and improve agility.
Developers
Schedule – Low-Code/No-Code solutions can be developed 5-10 times faster than a traditional solution. The ability to leverage visual modeling and reuse code, and to make changes in real time will speed development.
Innovation – Developers can rapidly create minimum viable products (MVP) and build prototypes to test concepts and ideas. The basic components and tools of the Low-Code/No-Code platforms allow developers to work quickly to create solutions and stay abreast of market changes and enterprise demands.
Upgrades – Developers can quickly and easily use low-code application development or no-code development to upgrade solutions, using a suite of components and tools to add features and functionality and keep the solution evergreen in a changing market.
In order to provide a complete picture, it is important to include some of the challenges of the low-code/no-code approach to development. This overview will give you an idea of the limitations of these platforms and help you decide whether these development techniques are right for your organization.
The low-code/no-code market is maturing and platform vendors are improving extensibility and governance and creating more scalable solutions using cloud technology. As you consider the potential for the low-code and no-code development approach, it is important to understand the tradeoffs and benefits of this decision.
‘As you review the benefits of low-code/no-code development, keep in mind that the choice of low code vs. no code will ultimately be made based on the use cases you need to satisfy.’
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