For many companies, IT transformation is no small feat. Between the technology, process and organizational changes needed, it can take time to see a return on your IT transformation efforts and investments. So it’s no surprise that low-code/no-code is starting to be seen as a compelling solution for some.
With low-code/no-code, you can empower teams of ‘citizen developers’ and enable experienced developers to accelerate deployment and reduce IT backlogs. To gain insights on the ways that low-code/no-code can transform your organization, I asked several DevOps Institute Ambassadors for their thoughts. Here’s what they said:
Brendan O’Reilly, DevOps Specialist, Daysha DevOps
Low-code/no-code introduces urgency into an organization. By removing the bottleneck that is scarce development resources, you can reduce the lead time to value.
Mark Peters, Technical Lead, Novetta
Low-code situations are likely best for highly tailored situations, with clearly defined purposes and minimal changes. Low-code can work when your business depends on scaling rather than creating new code. If the business is good enough, and one is adding microservices or more instances of the same expanded for a larger market, low-code can be perfect. Implementing low-code then allows the next opportunity to move from some code to no-code, providing a graphical interface to change architecture, implement policy or change recurring controls through mouse clicks rather than code. This also provides an excellent chance for improved ops control; if one is scaling the number of users, controls can be implemented to ensure the graphical delivery does not hard-code a password into the system, instead of relying on approval checks within an alternative interface.
Vishnu Vasudevan, Head of Product Engineering and Development, Opsera
When an organization practices DevOps, they continuously expand by team, product, platform and application because of different solutions coming into the market. Incorporating a low-code/no-code approach gives enterprises the ability to speed time-to-market and expand engineering capabilities beyond IT.
If you have a low-code platform that can help manage and provide visibility into technology and security compliance, that’s a gold mine for any developers or any organization. For example, anytime a new application comes in, teams can use a template from the previous application and put it over the new application. The same security quality of the audit governance is quickly established as a baseline, and all the developers have to do is focus on coding.
Shriniwas Sathe, DevOps Chief Architect and CoE Leader at Capgemini
Low-code/no-code tools can help change the way that regular employees interact with technology. With no-code tools, every employee, regardless of their background, can create custom applications, websites, forms, etc. With low-code tools, this can be taken a step further by building upon the offerings of a no-code tool by coding in the unique features needed by the organization. This is much less time-consuming compared to traditional development processes, even though it requires a general know-how of coding.
With every employee able to contribute to new applications and tools, there’s a better chance of obtaining unique insights and unforeseen capabilities. You can also simplify processes to an extent where regular employees can benefit from the freedom from tedious and repetitive tasks. There are low-code/no-code tools for most industries, which gives you a choice of either a ready-made solution or one that can be customized to your particular requirements.
Peter Maddison, Founder, Xodiac, Inc.
Low-code development platforms are great at automating important procedures using drag-and-drop editors that allow citizen developers to create virtual models of an app’s business logic and user interface.
A major advantage of having an enterprise no-code platform is the presence of built-in governance capabilities. No matter what an IT team’s size, a central console offers visibility for all applications and environments so that they can keep track of any issues or vulnerabilities.
Business developers can use the solution to create applications that fit their unique business needs. And more than one developer, or a team of developers, can work on the same module at the same time.
Of course, we need to ensure we are providing appropriate guard rails so our citizen developers are not able to accidentally expose data or create additional risks through the solutions they create.
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