How to Choose a Low-Code Development Platform?

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How to Choose a Low-Code Development Platform?

Kovair Software

@kovairsoftware

January 7, 2022

IT Services

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What is a low-code application development framework? The low-code application development depends on graphical user interfaces or GUIs. GUIs can increase the possibility of designing complex applications without using complicated computer languages. The low-code development is welcoming numerous nontechnical employees into the IT department. As a result, organizations can reduce the time required for development cycles as they won’t have to send new development requests to busy or over-worked IT departments. Rather, individuals throughout different teams and departments can develop their applications while freeing up time for vital and IT tasks.

Low-code application development ensures that IT teams are agile, small, and focused on complex and innovative tasks. By assigning tasks to talent across all departments can eradicate the IT department’s responsibility of backlogging applications. More importantly, this development framework will help IT departments endorse specific development projects to other teams while transforming consumer and employee experience. This will be done by dedicating more time to innovative processes like IoT, AI, conversational interfaces, and machine learning.

Low-code development can minimize the skills gap. With the advent of new technologies, traditional developers can’t keep up with the pace. New operating systems, devices, or browsers, which can require excess coding training, can be integrated within the framework. Consequently, the users can jump into the development stage right away. Low code development platforms maintain the cloud services to back up new technologies and keep developers ahead in the trend.

What are the factors you must consider when selecting a low-code application development framework?

The advantages of low-code development can allow businesses to cut on the money, effort, and time required to develop applications. However, all frameworks can’t offer the same kind of support.

Data Centered

A custom application’s capability can vary as per the data it is established on. Low code application development platforms based on a reliable database and can be integrated with all kinds of data easily can facilitate the creation of several data-centric apps. This offers an entirely new level of experience to the connected app users while offering them contextual and relevant information in real-time. Successful organizations depend on the tasks of accessing huge amounts of data quickly. Frameworks that revolve around data make it easy to embed low code developers into applications. These frameworks use click-and-point integration tools- which implies more connected and better applications that are delivered quickly.

Cloud-based architecture

Apart from a UI, the building requires more important tools. You must-have services that can support business integrations, authentication, security, logic, APIs, and the skill to bring together microservices for technologies like maps, Bluetooth, RFID, push notifications, and so on into an application. Besides, the low-code application development framework offers such services in simple componentized formats. This can allow the non-coders to assemble the application instantly, even without deploying a single line of code. The low-code application development framework is powerful due to the presence of an out-of-the-box UI plus and model-driven cloud service.

Cross-platform support

A business that uses a single and all-purpose framework of application development rather than using a certain web application development framework for designing applications can benefit in the long run. If a business is willing to beat out its competitors across different media, it will require a cross-platform solution. Cross-platform solutions can be used for building web, mobile apps, desktops, or application architecture or device- native or web.

Drag-and-drop tools

The major advantage of a low-code development framework is that it allows non-coders to develop high-quality applications rapidly. Advanced drop and drag tools can take the step a bit ahead. It will enable users to control the development GUI with the help of intuitive and advanced mouse controls. Besides, users can select and add elements to the application template by clicking a button while configuring the business logic by choosing actions and data from the drop-down list. The specific drag-and-drop tools can reduce the gap between daily users and application design.

Flexibility

To develop apps that can meet the business’s unique requirements, organizations must use open, scalable, and flexible. All programming languages must be enabled if an organization is willing to extend the application development framework like HTML5, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. Moreover, a flexible framework should be included to scale the process back and forth and up and down. It is usually done based on the transaction volume arriving from the user’s side. These can involve built-in services required for deploying these applications, testing, and analytics.

A low-code application development framework is pivotal for an organization that’s willing to match the requirements of the digital era. The low-code application development platform can fulfill all the innovative needs of an organization.