Low-code insights by Flowfactory

Some call it Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ). Others simply refer to it as their quotation process. Whatever terminology your organization uses, how quotations are managed by sales, shared with customers, and converted into paying orders is a critical process for companies large and small.

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.

I just read this very interesting article from MIT Sloan: How Leading Organizations Are Getting The Most Value from IT. My immediate takeaways align with our strategy (warning for confirmation bias) to provide a business low-code platform to let our customers transform their businesses with maximum ability to handle the "unknown, unknowns."

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.

In the age of the connected customer, the only thing that differentiates a brand is customer experience (CX). Increasingly, those experiences are not human, but digital and automated. This puts IT teams in a situation of both opportunity and vulnerability.

The question; "What keeps you up at night?" is a commonly used executive thinking exercise that is revered and reviled in equal measure. Sure, it's a good way to focus attention and conversation on the things that are most mission critical. It's also a demotivating assumption that there are elements of your business that should give you stressful sleeplessness! This question can feel like an attack on our management skills. Perhaps even more frustrating is that for most of us, those stressful projects are real - and really do keep us up at night.

Knowing how much technology drives business performance and customer engagement today, wouldn't it be nice to say YES more often to business growth ideas? Unfortunately, too many pushes for traditional digital transformation fail to account (and budget) for the very real impact on developer resources, harmonization and application portfolio management.

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.