A rising number of application development tasks are being carried out by organizations and service providers utilizing low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms, according to a new research study released today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a prominent worldwide technology research and consultancy company.
According to the 2023 ISG Provider Lens global Next-Gen ADM Solutions research, LCNC systems provide a larger variety of roles in the development process and improve development activities' simplicity of use, speed to market, and flexibility. The number of citizen developers has increased dramatically as a result of the platforms that allow non-technical staff members to construct apps using drag-and-drop methods.
According to Shafqat Azim, an ISG Partner and Americas Lead for Digital Transformation, "Democratizing application development makes enterprises more agile because it lets business users contribute to solutions that meet their needs. They can get software into production faster by relying less on specialized IT teams."
According to the research, an LCNC component is anticipated to be included in around two thirds of applications developed by businesses and service providers in the near future. The majority of platform providers use AI and generative AI to offer capabilities that enable businesses bring software to market even quicker, which is encouraging rapid adoption among LCNC suppliers and driving them to innovate.
LCNC systems' ability to accelerate development varies depending on the application's complexity, according to ISG. While bigger programs, like e-commerce platforms, may need weeks or months to build due to their complicated processes and interfaces, companies may launch simple software with easy requirements and limited functionality in a matter of hours or minutes.
AI-based Platforms
According to the survey, financial services, business services, and manufacturing are the top three sectors using the tools. Organizations in the public sector, who are only now starting to use LCNC, are now interacting with suppliers who are creating platforms for this industry.
According to the paper, AI has sped up the adoption of LCNC by making it simpler to employ prebuilt frameworks and code blocks. Prebuilt components, readily customizable templates, and prompts are available from vendors, and some LCNC testing systems use artificial intelligence (AI) to create knowledge maps of the IT environment for activities like application maintenance. Growing integration with ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies facilitates natural language processing-driven aided development.
"The number of users is growing exponentially because AI-based platforms make it so much easier to build applications," said Jan Erik Aase, worldwide leader and partner at ISG Provider Lens Research. "We anticipate that this trend will spread to more use cases."
Data integration and administration are becoming more of a worry due to the emergence of LCNC platforms, which enable many more people to create software, according to ISG. The IT staff must closely manage access to corporate data when various users begin to utilize it to develop apps. In order to enable customers to integrate numerous legacy systems, LCNC platform suppliers are combining virtualized data layers with data access restrictions.
The study also looks at other international trends in LCNC development, such as the use of LCNC in process optimization and the effects of businesses establishing global capability centers.
