Low-code insights by Flowfactory

För ett par veckor sedan arrangerade Gartners sitt årliga IT Symposium som även i år blev ett virtuellt event. Ett av de mest intressanta uttalandena kom från key note speaker Mbula Schoen, som menade att ”Skugg-IT är ett dött koncept”. Jag är den första att hålla med henne.

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!

No business is safe from digital disruption. Even if you have embraced cloud and on-demand systems in your IT organization, your business is still vulnerable to market and competitive pressures to stay connected in real time with customers and partners. Technology is pervasive - and that means employees and customers want to work on the go, connect seamlessly and have up to the minute data at their fingertips. Their expectations are high. Oh, and did we mention that this all needs to be secure, reliable and flexible?

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.

Most IT projects fail. A study by Standish Group across 50,000 software projects found that only 29% of projects were successful, defined by on time, on budget, within scope and of value to the end user. Another 52% had major challenges. And 19% failed completely.

Do you and your organization come up with great ideas?

Three things that low-code can do for your digital business journey. Low-code is a fast evolving area right now and often referred to as a revolution in the IT-sector. And it comes timely: the global business climate has never been as tough as it is today, in our customer-oriented society. To meet the augmenting demands of the market, and to keep up with (or better stay ahead of) the competition, businesses are challenged to develop applications faster and better than ever before. This is where low-code comes in.

The pressure is on both sides.