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Time is of the essence for organizations in today’s dynamic, digital world, and developers face increasing pressure to deploy new applications and develop code faster than ever, often with limited internal resources.
As companies explore new ways to increase developer productivity and operations, low-code or no-code tools have gained popularity, as the tools offer benefits for citizen developers with little or no coding experience, as well as well as for senior developers looking to recover valuable time and effort. . To help generate and foster developer innovation, low-code/no-code platforms powered by artificial intelligence (ai) promote faster development times and greater business agility, while providing developer teams with the tools and support needed to innovate quickly and more frequently.
Expand the population of people who can create software systems and promote flexibility.
Developer teams around the world face constraints, with market intelligence firm IDC predicting a global shortage of full-time developers. will increase to 4 million in 2025, in less than two years. With this in mind, companies should try to utilize their entire team when it comes to development, even those with limited coding experience.
Low-code or no-code application program interfaces (API) solutions offer a valuable tool for teams with limited resources and different skill sets to accelerate the innovation process and implement solutions and features at a faster pace. With these APIs, non-IT professionals, such as junior product managers or business analysts, can develop a basic prototype, expanding the number of people in an organization who can build software systems.
Today, many companies use customer engagement solutions that operate in natural language and use artificial intelligence along with low-code or no-code tools, ultimately creating smarter, more personalized and automated conversations with customers in their channel. preferred communication mode.
Additionally, low-code/no-code tools are not only for citizen developers but also for more advanced senior developers, allowing even the most senior developer to quickly iterate on innovations and free up time to focus on building higher-code solutions. Using these tools reduces pressure on limited developer teams so that, with basic technical skills and minimal training, deployments can be faster and easier across the board. The automation provided by low-code/no-code and ai enables teams to tackle more pressing problems across the board.
Low-code/no-code deployment also promotes flexibility within a work environment and can help address talent shortages by creating an auxiliary arm of a developer team. In addition to mitigating talent shortages, low-code/no-code tools improve a company’s agility and contribute to cost savings by significantly reducing hiring costs and application maintenance costs.
Take advantage of a new alternative to build versus buy
Low-code/no-code platforms help expand an organization’s ability to rapidly develop new solutions, offer a better alternative to building versus buying, and give companies the ability to avoid having to develop their own ai solutions (such as conversational ai capabilities). ).
When a company purchases a solution, it is often limited and can restrict a team to the implementation capabilities of that solution. Teams are also forced to spend a lot of time looking for other solutions that can work with the purchased one to compensate for missing needs. Buying can be a much more rigid process, may only partially be what a company needs to help a team of developers work more efficiently, and usually forces the company to make a long-term commitment. Alternatively, building is challenging if a team is already short on time and resources, and can be difficult to do successfully from scratch. By choosing to build, a company runs a higher risk of failure because what it builds might not work or requirements might change, causing the entire team to have to start over.
Low-code/no-code APIs offer a much more customizable, powerful, and simple solution. These tools can integrate more closely with what developers are trying to create and help fill in the gaps of features that don’t require high code knowledge.
Time is the only thing a developer can never get back.
For developers, time is one of the most valuable aspects of the work they do, so it’s crucial to take advantage of tools that reduce deployment time and help avoid repetitive text. Low-code/no-code allows teams of varying skill sets to quickly implement core functionality to address a need while providing the adaptability to redesign in the future if necessary. By avoiding early high-code development that pressures organizations to make immediate decisions that are difficult to change when necessary at a later time, teams can buy time with a low-code/no-code solution and transition to a more complex solution with higher code later. a successful proof of concept.
Successfully leverage low-code/no-code and ai across an enterprise
Selecting the right low-code/no-code tools is a critical step, as they are not one-size-fits-all, and organizations should choose tools that are easier to use for both developers and non-developers on a team and that are can be expanded easily. with ai capabilities. The adaptability and flexibility of a platform should also be considered, as the platform should not only adapt to the team’s needs now but also in the future if projects change. Make sure the platform is also scalable, reliable, and fits seamlessly into the existing technology stack without any issues. Checking all of these boxes when choosing a low-code or no-code platform that uses ai is essential to successfully reaping all the benefits.
Savinay Berry is the executive vice president of products and engineering at Vonage.
