“Because low-code platforms focus on giving professional developers the ability to build applications more quickly while minimizing the need to hand-code, traditional development backlogs become less about features and tasks and more about applications – improving both the productivity and morale of the developers as well as the customer-centricity of the apps themselves.”

~ Jason Bloomberg

Businesses today are standing firm on a platform built with numerous apps which cater to the requirements of the service providers as well as the consumers. In the market of coded tools and applications, are the low code apps revolutionizing the role of the IT industry in business development?

What is Low Code?

A low code platform allows the user to design and develop applications without using codes at all or with fewer codes. It is gradually being considered as a tool that empowers a business to build customized solutions as per their requirement.

The low code platform can be used in creating the following:

• Customer engagement applications- From lead management to business executive tasks, much of the load is resolved with low code apps for CRM or BPM for efficient process management.
• Business Applications such as supply chain management, accounting, and financing, operations management, etc.
• The applications at the workplace such as appointment booking, asset management, task management, and more.

Low Code vs Traditional Coding Platforms

Development and coding have always walked hand in hand until the low code or no-code platforms appeared and shook the traditional coding system. While the war between the two sought platforms persists, let us look into the spheres where one scores over another:

• Traditional programming has always needed well-trained and knowledgeable developers with expertise in development languages such as Javascript, Python, C++, CSS, etc. On the other hand, the low code programming makes it effortless for the users to create applications with the intuitive drag and drop interface.
• Traditional platforms call for heavy investments involving expenses in the form of developer fees, maintenance fees, infrastructure setup, and more. Contrary to this, low code being a license-based platform allows the users to pay as they grow.
• The applications developed in traditional coding platforms need to be created separately and are Android and Ios specific. The low code applications are multiplatform apps.
• Manual configurations are required to ensure data safety in traditional platforms, while these are automatically updated in apps developed in the low code platform.
• The traditional coded apps might get tricky during integration with newer technology. Post-deployment, it is difficult to integrate the coded apps across the business channel. Whereas, in a low code platform, the tools regularly prompt regarding the latest updates or features.

Benefits and Disadvantages of Low Code Platform

As per the latest research, the low code market is accelerating towards growth by 50% every year. According to the Gartner studies, by 2024 low code platform will be taking over nearly 64% of the application development activities.

Even though the low code platform empowers the developers and helps in a quick app deployment in the market, yet, it has a long way to go and it is perhaps too early to question the capacity and capability of the traditional app platforms.