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How Low-Code Drives Digital Transformation

ehaidukova — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:55:43 +0000

Businesses are investing in the digital future and many companies are aiming for digital transformation. Maximizing the business is not only about enabling a bunch of tools to automate routine processes. Business owners should also consider implementing a digital strategy fully integrated into business operations at all levels.

Why your company needs digital transformation

Digital transformation is viewed as a way to apply modern technologies for understanding the customers’ needs.

This is one reason, but digital transformation can help achieve much more:

Reinforced data collection
Better resource management
Data-driven insights and decisions

What is low-code?

Enterprises are searching for the easiest and most effective way to empower digital transformation with no coding effort.

The low-code approach utilizes a set of tools. It replaces classical app development with modeling in a graphical interface, skipping hand-coding. It helps to maximize ROI from the currently existing tech stack. Such applications connect data from various sources, and allow non-IT users to act on it and build new features which help businesses to “meet the moment”.

The next question which comes to mind is what is low-code development?

It’s a visual approach to software development. It allows to easily automate each stage of the development lifecycle.

And finally, what is a low-code platform? It’s a framework that provides a programming environment for building and configuring software via graphical UI. The basic elements help detach from the code and “draw” the workflow.

Technical features

Drag-and-drop Functionality is used to create an entire app from scratch.
Visual Interfaces allow quick design and implement a solution using model-driven environments and custom rules. No hand-coding is involved.
Multi-Platform Experience. The desktop version is convenient to build and design an application that afterward can be quickly launched on any mobile device.
Repeatable Applications. It’s possible to efficiently reuse pre-existing apps or their parts to configure similar processes.

Advantages of utilizing low-code

Most importantly, it is a way to accelerate product development. It is vital in the digital era when businesses have to evolve and compete fiercely to meet customers’ expectations.

Low-code tools allow non-IT staff to create customized solutions that cover the everyday needs of the company. On the other hand, professional development teams can adopt low-code to create apps or enrich the existing ones with new features in a blink of an eye.

Now we’ve figured out what low-code development and platforms are. It is clear they have enormous potential but what are the best options for businesses to solve daily tasks? This is where intelligent business process management (BPM) comes in handy.

What is iBPM?

iBPM empowers collaboration through the entire enterprise including employees, partners, applications, and systems.

Let’s take a closer look at the key components of BPM. Intelligence in BPM has numerous forms: setting up business rules, configuring virtual assistants, data mining, and structuring. A proper BPM solution can fully automate recurring tasks.

An iBPM platform is capable of modeling, executing, and monitoring all routine processes.

iBPM is more than just a modern technology or a buzzword. iBPM software radically changes all business processes and fuels digital transformation. The tool guides business process management. Also integrates it with project management, CRM systems, people management, and every other tool the company needs to use. As a result, all operations are tracked and performed on a single platform. All company departments have common standards, pre-defined by iBPM. Thus, the transition to digital is simultaneous.

Conclusion

Low-code is an important part of the innovation agenda. The benefits rapidly change the overall IT strategy. It enables the fast build and deployment of business software. An app can be kicked off in a matter of weeks. New functionality can be deployed much faster with a truly agile approach to software development.

Low-code iBPM systems are meant to facilitate digital transformation. Non-IT personnel is capable to set and optimize processes. Companies can reach business objectives without the support of complicated development.

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Helena Haidu is an Online Marketing Manager at CMWlab. and a passionate advocate for empowering executive managers onward to workflow automation and running their businesses efficiently.

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Low-code Development Platform CMW Tracker

pavel — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:53:08 +0000

Create Low-code apps to support quickly growing business needs. Minimize hand-coding and long IT development cycles. Optimize IT resource and cost spend.

Low-code Application Platform Distinct Features

Capture and Organize Data

CMW Lab Low-code development platform enables drag-and-drop data management including data collection, tracking and change.

Visually design data capture and presentation with CMW Records and Forms
Change and extend your data on-the-fly with no interruption to ongoing processes, tasks or cases
Load, export and synchronize your data using built-in Excel import/export capability as well as open and secure API’s

Configure User Interface

Low-code software enables customization of the UI and the user workspace through mouse click – all navigation elements are fully configurable.

Configure your UI to facilitate data access, task execution and social collaboration
Dynamically assemble role-based user portals customizing functions necessary to perform your work
Allow your users to personalize their portals and workspaces to their preferences

Work Automation through Tasks and Cases

Leverage Low-code work automation and optimize group activities. Use Tasks and Cases of CMW Lab low-code platform for business applications development to quickly set up non-formalized processes.

Unify tasks, data and documents in a single application
Add cases for non-formalized business processes
Use process prototyping to evaluate process management efficiency

Integration and Administration

Low-code applications platform supports enterprise-grade integration and administration scenarios.

Fully open API’s and Enterprise Service Bus
Unified administration and security across all built applications
Management of custom application and system settings within the same environment

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Drive Productivity: Cut Code Down

pavel — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:29:34 +0000

Hand coding usually takes long and invokes lengthy development cycles. Applications never reach their customers on time and most often require modification and change even before users start using them. Another issue is the loose understanding that business users have of the ultimate functionality that needs to be developed. As a result – business users never get what they want and the installed software dictates how work should be done.

For this reason, small and medium-sized companies have long ago talked about business users that in fact become developers and take responsibility on creating their own applications. New wave of rapid application development platforms promise to enable creation of a fully functioning business application without writing a single line of code.

Era of low-code programming

Low-code business application development systems is the latest trend on the app development market. They let business users and non-technical developers create applications they need for daily use with no IT skills required and no coding in order to drive individual and team productivity. These platforms cover the entire cycle of creating a business application for process, workflow, project and task management.

Major advantage is that low-code business application development platform provide a very broad functionality that replace hand coding methods with declarative programming tools. It includes visual drag-and-drop user interface that allows creating forms for data capture, personalized portals, setting workflows for work automation and much more. Besides, it is processes modelers and designers to add and edit objects and forms, as well as other tools to work with unstructured collaboration, ad hoc processes and tasks. We will discuss more detailed how declarative tools affect your business in our further publications.

Consider risks

Rapid application development platforms seem to give the opportunity to create applications for any business need. However, multiple risks and questions come along low-code programming, that include following:

Is it possible to avoid hand coding at all?
How comprehensive are the functional capabilities?
How well the app will function on mobile devices?

For now, mostly all of the questions are subject for future discussions and constant app testing. Except them, there are inevitable features that need to be reviewed carefully every time we talk about low-code programming. They include:

Security – unified security needs to be provided for all developed apps in order to prevent data loss or unauthorized app usage;
Application consistency – proper analysis needs to be made before setting up an application to make sure its functionality won’t be a duplicate of the existing ones;
Integrations – that are the most complicated part of any app development. Unpredictable moments that need hand coding may occur on any business process step. Open API’s are required in order to ensure seamless data exchange and process flow.

A few years ago, development of applications with minimal coding was hardly possible to imagine, but evolution of IT systems runs fast and idea of low-code development slowly but steady moves from myth to reality. Leave your comments below, and let us know if you can predict the future progress.

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Maria Komarova is a Product Marketing Analyst at CMW Lab – a global software company delivering innovative Business Operations Management solutions enabling performance and efficiency optimization.

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Why Implement a Rapid Application Development Platform?

pavel — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:54:36 +0000

So how does it work – building business applications without having any technical or programming skills? And what is most critical in a rapid applications development platform to enable that? Depending on the app specialization – data apps, process apps, request management or mobile apps, the core functional capability is provision of visual declarative tools and drag-and-drop technologies to “citizen developers” in order to avoid hand coding and enable setting up and configuration of data forms, workflows and user workspaces by mouse clicks.

Drag’n’drop interface for rapid application development

The ability to leverage visual tools for application design and launch as well as avoid complex rapid application development methodology significantly extends the app developer pool, ultimately meaning you can get your apps for less, and even more importantly – quicker and in agile “sand-box” projects where business users have the freedom to experiment and come up with solutions just right for their current business needs.

Critical to app development process is maintaining application coherence and data security. Before rolling out yet another application, due analysis has to be performed to determine whether business needs can be addressed by existing software or with minimal configuration effort. This puts IT back in the app development cycle – but in a different role and with different objectives: given that IT will always be interested in keeping lean and minimizing the number of applications they ultimately will have to support, there will be less push backs in terms of providing quick fixes and delivering the change on business time.

Without a doubt, the advent of rapid application development tools open new opportunities for every business and true indeed, every company is becoming an IT company on today’s high tech markets.

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Maria Komarova is a Product Marketing Analyst at CMW Lab – a global software company delivering innovative Business Operations Management solutions enabling performance and efficiency optimization.

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