What is low-code?

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What is low-code app development?

Low-code is a software development approach that helps tech and business professionals collaborate and deliver digital transformative solutions faster by minimizing the amount of coding. More specifically, low-code largely replaces the need to create custom code with a collection of ready-to-go UI components, boilerplate scripts and integrations, solution blueprints, visual workflow automation tools, and other user-friendly features. For enterprise-grade application development, low-code platforms, such as Creatio, combine these features with other advanced tools for application lifecycle management, low-code governance, security, and AI/ML decisioning and offer the ultimate workspace for digital innovations.

“By 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020.”

Visual modeling tools

Cut software development time in half by using a wide range of pre-built system components. To create modern UIs, workflows and data models, you need to drag-and-drop a component to the working area and configure it in a proper way. No-code is required, no risk of syntax mistakes, just instant cross-platform accessibility, total reusability and easy updating. Add hand-written code for further customization and your digital solution is ready in days or weeks instead of years

Integration and APIs

Connect your systems and centralize data to create a digital ecosystem. Use ready-made connectors to enable seamless bi-directional integration with third-party applications. Create custom integrations using API protocols like REST, SOAP, or RPC to retrieve data, automatically handle their structure and database updates, and launch workflows based on events or predefined business rules. Open API combined with visual modeling tools make it 10x faster to create new digital experiences and modernize legacy systems.

Artificial intelligence

Discover customer insights instantly and make data-driven business decisions. Use built-in AI capabilities such as classification, scoring, next best offer (NBO) and next best action (NBA) recommendations to ensure a better customer experience. Build machine learning (ML) models to generate accurate predictions without writing code or hiring a data scientist. Create chatbots and conduct sentiment analysis using natural language processing (NLP) tools.

Governance tools

Eliminate shadow IT by inviting your business users to participate in the digital transformation journey. With the right low-code governance tools in place, this will fuel innovation and citizen development growth across the company. Create user roles and manage access rights, set up application approval processes, and use built-in application and infrastructure monitoring tools. Use auto-generated recommendations to optimize apps and workflows for better performance.

Security

Build secure apps and ensure compliance with industry standards. Configure security at all application levels using out-of-the-box security tools. Leading low-code platforms have the highest level of certifications accreditations, such as SOC, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR. Built-in security tools provide visibility and insights into all activities on the platform. Your vendor will conduct regular penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, so you can develop solutions at a faster rate.

Application lifecycle management

Simplify and streamline application management processes – from business requirement analysis and development to maintenance. Unify all development environments in a single view to gain end-to-end visibility and ensure security. Manage requirements and teams, create user stories and collaborate on MVPs, automate quality assurance and deployment processes in one place. Collect more in-app feedback using built-in feedback mechanisms.

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Low-code use cases

Create omnichannel customer-facing applications to efficiently and quickly address a variety of customer issues. Improve customer acquisition, retention, and loyalty by delivering faster, more reliable, and more personalized digital experiences.

Streamline a wide range of daily corporate tasks, including employee management, request management, audit management, as well as internal service and support. Increase the productivity of HR and administrative teams with highly automated workflows and consolidated, up-to-date information about employees, assets, documents, and more.

Build and integrate applications to automate enterprise-grade operational processes for a variety of business domains. Replace time-consuming and manual processes with highly automated, intelligent workflows to increase efficiency, improve cross-departmental alignment, and decrease costs.

Modernize, extend or completely replace legacy systems unable to support new complex processes using a modern, open, and highly-customizable software ecosystem that is free from code. Make sure that the process of transition to a new ecosystem will be quick and smooth, without adversely affecting the current critical processes of the enterprise.

Build an application where you can communicate, collaborate, share content, schedule tasks, and manage reviews – as simply, quickly, and conveniently as possible. Boost employee productivity and efficiency with built-in automated workflows, and access to consolidated information, content, and essential productivity tools.

Build applications to streamline operational and customer-facing processes specific to your industry and business domain. Apply highly automated, vertical-specific workflows based on the best practices of your industry – be it the financial sector, manufacturing, IT and high-tech, healthcare, etc.