Low-code insights by Flowfactory

If you’re familiar with low-code development, you’ve undoubtedly already heard of no-code. Why? Because they’re almost always mentioned together in the same breath – and they’re both trendy. Gartner states, “By 2025, 70% of new applications developed by organizations will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020.”

Where is low-code heading? And how should you use it in your business? A recent Gartner report* sheds some much-needed light on the future of low code. According to Gartner®, “Low code has emerged in the last five years as one potential tool in both enabling business transformation and scaling these initiatives cost-effectively over time.” But is it right for your business right now? Read on to find out.

If you’re a change agent, an innovator, someone who sees opportunities to drive your organization forward and then seizes them – there’s never been a better time to make an impact. Thanks to new application development technologies like low-code, anyone at an organization – whether technical or not – has the power to create highly functional business applications.

Low-code är den superheta megatrenden inom applikationsutveckling som alla pratar om. Enligt Gartner kommer low-code att stå för minst 65% av världens applikationsutveckling år 2024.

Recently I was honoured to speak at the CIO Innovation Summit Nordics in Stockholm, hosted by IDG Sweden. I'd like to take the opportunity here to share some of the core ideas we discussed, and some of my reflections since then.

Listen in on this short chat between Dr. James McCabe, an award-winning Oxford scholar, and Flowfactory CEO Fredrik Lindqvist. They talk about how Flowfactory think differently to the rest of the market - a discussion that leads them into the topic of natural evolution and digital literacy. Quite a leap in a chat of only three minutes :) Get inspired!

The first thing business users want is to avoid any mention of the legacy system. "Can't we just work around it?" they ask at the start of every project. There is a perception that legacy systems somehow prevent innovation by standing in the way of rapid product development or quick fixes to address customer requests.

Welcome to one of the most powerful opportunities in app development: Low-code. The low-code movement is gaining momentum because it addresses one of the greatest modern business challenges: Efficiently responding to customer need. What would you do if you could literally bring new ideas to life for applications - in a matter of days or weeks rather than months or years? Go ahead. Take a moment and think. We'll wait. Yes, we too have lots of ideas. Most businesses do.

There is almost no company where digital transformation is not a top strategic priority in 2017. On the agenda of most business units, you’ll find digital initiatives for new ways to interact with the market or to work more efficiently. The specifications are seldom very exact, but what’s clear is that the development needs to happen quickly if not to lag the market. Business teams are clamouring for quick releases, and IT teams are overwhelmed.