SD Times magazine called 2021 the year low-code and told why programmers are afraid of these solutions, how low-code tools help businesses in a pandemic, take the burden off IT departments and turn an ordinary employee into a developer. There were also some drawbacks - such systems are not suitable for all companies. We offer an adapted translation of the article into Russian.
A year ago, no one thought that a business would have to urgently switch from offline to online. People left offices and started working from home - companies needed new applications to manage projects, fulfill orders, and work with clients. New applications were urgently needed, and conventional development could not keep up with demand. Helped by low-code platforms, where you can build applications without code.
Low-code platforms have been around for many years, but they are just beginning to be taken seriously. In the past, these solutions were looked down on as if they were not suitable for mission-critical applications. Someone still considers them to be a business toy, and programmers are afraid that marketers, accountants and managers will take their work.
Over time, views changed, and businesses began to use these services. Developers and employees alike saw what low-code tools are capable of.
Due to the pandemic, offline processes very quickly went digital
Everything would have happened in a few years, but a pandemic intervened. When people work from home, you cannot approach a colleague, consult or sign a paper. Demand has grown for applications that transfer offline processes to digital. But since April 2020, low-code platforms have been growing twice as fast.
The Gartner agency estimates that by 2023 50% of medium and large companies will make strategically important applications on low-code.
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Low-code and no-code solutions are only now being taken seriously. Due to the pandemic, business went online and needed the right tools. While they were building regular applications, companies could go bankrupt. But with low-code, development has become several times faster and cheaper. Now any employee can solve problems for which programmers were previously hired. Therefore, in 2021, the demand for low-code and zero-coding platforms will only grow.
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