Organizations are increasingly adopting application development via low-code platforms, in order to optimize the entire software development and delivery process, allowing solutions to be offered more quickly and thus modernizing business capabilities.
Low-code application platforms are used to develop and deploy custom applications by abstracting and minimizing manual coding, in a more agile way.
A low-code platform should include capabilities such as a graphical or model-based programming approach with scripting, including user interfaces, business modeling logic, workflow, and data services.
According to Gartner estimates, by 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020.
Low-code development platforms can be used to create business applications that require features such as high performance, high availability and scalability, disaster recovery, enterprise security, APIs for access to third-party services, application usage monitoring, service level agreements (SLA) and technical support from the provider.
Some advanced capabilities, offered by the market's leading low-code development platforms, currently include:
User experiences beyond the web user interface (UI)
Automation and management of complex business processes
Event-driven architecture
AI-augmented development techniques