Five Symptoms That Indicate You Need a Low-code Platform

Ignoring business symptoms can be costly in terms of cost overrun or missed opportunities. Here are five symptoms that indicate your organization needs to consider a Low-code platform for application development.

Have you ever wondered how your doctor addressees your health problems? She listens to your symptoms, diagnoses what troubles you, and then prescribes the right medicine. Right? It’s reactive most of the times. But what if you continue ignoring the symptoms? What if you realize the problem too late? The cost of a delayed diagnosis and treatment can be enormous.

Now, suppose the doctor approaches you proactively and gives a list of symptoms to watch for. You will keep your eyes open and monitor the symptoms early. You will go for advice sooner and resolve the problem before it becomes serious. Sounds better?

Similarly, ignoring business symptoms can be costly in terms of cost overrun or missed opportunities. You should check the health of your business proactively and look for symptoms that need your attention as quickly as they emerge. Can your IT accelerate application development required by your business? Are you still using the traditional development paradigm and spending months in programming, or are you building applications in weeks? Can your business users quickly create small apps with little (or without any) involvement from IT?

All these cases call for a new paradigm of application development – a Low-code application development platform. A breakthrough in rapid application development and delivery with minimal coding.

Traditional lengthy development processes with lots of coding and testing struggle to deliver innovation with a rapid time-to-market. Especially in the modern digital business landscape where everything happens at a breakneck speed and applications need to be ready yesterday. It could result in a missed business opportunity.

There are always symptoms that scream for your attention, but often get ignored. Here are the five symptoms you should look out for that indicate it’s time for you to consider Low-code application development. Spot them smartly, act fast to give your business an edge of innovation, deliver business applications faster, and assert your competitive edge in the fastest way possible!

1. Sluggish Pace of Innovation

Regardless of industry, you need to innovate continuously to stay on top of the game. But any new initiative takes several iterations to get going, and more iterations to get optimized. Throughout this journey, from concept to a fully functional solution, you need to build applications, test them, and keep improving them. If you find yourself constantly stuck in a long loop of design-test-debug-test, you definitely should explore a Low-code development platform.

With visual modeling, declarative programming and drag-and-drop components, the Low-code platform provides you a rapid way to develop and configure applications. Since coding required is minimal, organizations can assemble, update and enhance applications on a dime, test them, and release them in no time.

If you are not able to execute on your innovative ideas quickly, you should consider using a Low-code platform.

2. Lack of Agility in the IT Stack

Responding swiftly to every changing business needs is always a top priority in today’s competitive market. You need to promptly react to and address any changes in the market demand, sales projections, economic conditions, laws and regulations, or technology shifts. This urgency puts pressure on all business processes to maintain business rules and comply with regulations without delay, which in turn demands an agile IT environment.

If your IT is still working with a legacy technology stack that cannot respond rapidly, you need to get a modern Low-code platform that accelerates software delivery and boosts the efficiency of your IT. With a configuration-based approach (instead of coding) augmented by visual modeling tools, Low-code platforms help you build agile applications that can respond to business changes quickly with minimal disruptions.

Read: Here’s how Low-code enables rapid application delivery with minimal coding, setup, training and roll-out. Get High on Low-code >

3. Inferior Customer Experience

Modern customers are experience-driven. If your application falls short of their expectations, they will instantly move to an alternate option. Losing customer to competitors as a result of inferior customer experience (CX) is a phenomenon here to stay. So, if you are struggling to deliver a better customer experience in a short period of time, a Low-code platform should be high on your agenda.

Low-code platform gives you the power to quickly build, debug, and deploy mobile-enabled modern applications with rich user experience. Keep the logic, make CX-related changes to your model, iterate fast, and upgrade your application in a jiffy.

Read: A real story of how poor customer service from a large retailer lost them business. Great apps are not enough, the underlying business processes also need to be top-notch. Here’s how we would fix it with BPM and Low-code >

4. Struggle with Mobile Enablement

Getting on the mobile bandwagon comes late for some companies, as they struggle to implement their mobile strategy. If you find yourselves in this boat, i.e. grappling with the mammoth task of enabling all the legacy applications for mobile, look no further than a Low-code platform.

A shorter development process, on-the-fly testing, no infrastructure required, better data management, and greater flexibility in delivering a good CX. Build once and deploy on a variety of platforms across various device form factors and operating systems. Low-code can help you implement your mobile strategy faster than the next mobile technology in the market!

5. Capex Budget Constraints

One of the greatest advantage of Low-code platforms is its cloud-based subscription model. Unlike legacy on-premise licensed technologies, cloud-based Low-code platforms need no upfront investment, and no associated infrastructure setup. You can sign up and start right away. If your Capex budget constraints are preventing you from your technology upgrade, think Low-code platform and move the expense to Opex. This smart move will speed up your budget approval process, and streamline future upgrades too.

Spot these symptoms early and convert your challenges into opportunities. Low-code is about getting more done quickly. Not just in less time, but also with less cost. Enterprise development teams are adopting Low-code development platforms, and the demands of today’s digital businesses for ever more software ever more quickly is the big driver of adoption.

For over 14 years, we at Princeton Blue have helped our clients accelerate their innovation by leveraging Low-code platforms. See how we can help you >