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5 Low Code Trends Shaping the 2023 Application Development Landscape
By Anurag
Shah, Head of Products and Solutions, Americas, Newgen Software
This is the era of digital
transformation. To thrive in this era, businesses now need to reform and
reinvent their operations. They need an application development platform that
can help them achieve faster time-to-market, and maximize customer satisfaction
while minimizing cost and time. And this is what has sparked the rise of low
code platforms.
The deployment of low code in businesses has become
a game-changer for the application development market. Many business leaders
have been embracing low code to transform their processes as they embark on
their digital transformation journey. But how can business leaders maximize the
benefits they receive by leveraging low code? For that, they will need to
precisely track and make sense of the latest low code trends and the changing
low code market dynamics.
Low Code Trends for 2023 to Keep
in Mind
As the application development
landscape undergoes its share of ups and downs, many business areas have been
challenged and transformed. Let's understand the trends that have been shaping
these areas:
Conquering Challenges of Software Talent
Businesses in today's world have a fast-paced and
economical approach toward application development. But maintaining this
approach brings its own set of challenges, especially when it comes to software
talent.
The Great Resignation in 2021 brought on one such
challenge, which has led to the industry witnessing an inevitably high employee
churn rate. Changing language paradigms became another tricky challenge
resulting in project delays. There has been a gradual shift towards an
affordable application development approach.
According to a Forrester Research survey, "70% of
organizations found low-code platforms to be more affordable than the
traditional development platforms." Low code platforms can seamlessly integrate
on-prem systems with modern cloud-based applications and bring down direct
migration costs.
Achieving Speed and Security
Competition is high and customer expectations are
even higher. A speedy and agile service is now expected. To match these expectations
businesses need to rapidly develop hundreds of applications while ensuring that
they fit the compliance and security specifications. Additional time spent on
extensive coding can no longer be afforded.
This has diverted the business focus from how
to when and why, thereby paving the path for an era where
business users are placed at the helm of development projects. Deploying low
code empowers these users to speedily develop these applications.
Time to Rapidly Deploy, Evolve, and Become
Cloud-Friendly
Businesses are constantly driven by the need to
evolve and grow. They now need complete control of their production environment
with a platform that can offer analytics-based process discovery, connected app
development, and deployment in a single click.
We can also witness growing demand for
cloud-friendly applications amongst business leaders for their added benefits
of simplified operations, improved security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
This has prompted a legacy migration of businesses towards cloud-friendly
platforms with native-microservice architecture.
The Hyperautomation Trend
To accelerate business processes at a larger scale,
business leaders will need a range of different technology sets. From data
management, analytics, and business processes, to RPA, businesses now demand an
application development platform that can integrate all these technologies
within its umbrella.
Business leaders have recognized low code
application development platform as the answer. Low code can help businesses
develop complex business applications by using cutting-edge technologies,
including AI/ML, data science, and IDP, which can help them accelerate manual
tasks.
Headless Architecture is in Demand
Transferring data and content from channel to
channel can be a complex process. But a platform with headless architecture can
make it simpler. For the end user, a simplified and curated UI layer is a top
priority.
Therefore, businesses now need a platform, like low
code, that can decouple their front and back-end layer and offer a process
orchestration layer that is independent of UI to maximize customer experience.
In Conclusion
Business leaders need to understand the dynamics of
the application development landscape and embrace all the benefits that low
code platforms offer. Low code can enable businesses to maximize their speed
and security and minimize costs while enabling the rapid development of
applications. It is believed that in the coming years, we will witness a
monumental increase in the demand for low code platforms.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anurag Shah heads Newgen’s Products & Solutions Division in the Americas. He has been with Newgen for over 22 years. In his previous role, he led and managed delivery and professional services for enterprise customers.