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TECH TRENDS gap between business teams and IT teams . The low-code platform improves collaboration across different teams , bringing together the business teams , which understand the industry and the customer , with the IT teams which understand the technologies and frameworks .
Secondly , low-code can add value to any digital initiative through the speed of delivery . As the name suggests , low-code is all about the ability to develop enterprise applications with minimal code and enables the development of applications much faster . We have seen that with low-code , organisations are able to deliver applications at least five to six times faster , even sometimes 10 times faster .
flavour , industry knowledge and customer knowledge , and that helps to make the application development process much better .
Within most enterprises today there is the concept of a ‘ citizen developer ’, which is becoming more and more popular . This is someone who understands the business and industry . With a low-code platform , we are essentially empowering the citizen developer to become a more active participant in the entire process of software development or application .
What are the key benefits of adopting low-code platforms for developing enterprise apps ?
How does low-code empower business and IT and improve collaboration across the organisation ?
Low-code focuses a lot on collaboration between business and IT . Typically , in any organisation the business wants to develop new solutions or bring new ideas to market . They are looking at solutions that will improve the experience of customers , partners and vendors that they may have . But when you look at the IT side of the equation , the IT teams are usually overloaded . There is very little collaboration that exists between the two .
With a low-code platform , we focus a lot on collaboration between these two teams so that the business teams can bring in their domain
The obvious benefits are that , with low-code , you can reduce the cost of development of enterprise applications and you can get to market much faster .
But another important and related element is application velocity , which means you can do a lot of work in a very short period of time .
We have seen customers who have adopted a low-code platform successfully develop 100 + applications in just about two years .
Another benefit is around the ability to build secure and scalable applications . Sometimes people think you can only build simple applications which may not be secure . But with low-code ,
Sudhama Vemuri , Director , Mendix Channel Sales at Siemens India
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