From excellence to excellence: low code boosts enterprise digital transformation

“Companies around the world are using low-code development to accelerate the digitalization process. Low code has many advantages, such as improving IT’s ability to meet and exceed application requirements. Through the visual modeling language, professional developers can use the same language to speed up development and quickly create applications that meet the needs of enterprises. Experts in the business domain can also participate in it with the help of visual language and collaboration tools, and put the work of optimizing the user experience ahead. In addition, a suitable low-code platform can also enable enterprises to achieve the same rich experience in various mobile and other channels.

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Nowadays, it is generally believed that the demand for software is surpassing the delivery capacity of the development team. Although this is indeed the case, this status quo is not unchangeable.

Companies around the world are using low-code development to accelerate the digitalization process. Low code has many advantages, such as improving IT’s ability to meet and exceed application requirements. Through the visual modeling language, professional developers can use the same language to speed up development and quickly create applications that meet the needs of enterprises. Experts in the business domain can also participate in it with the help of visual language and collaboration tools, and put the work of optimizing the user experience ahead. In addition, a suitable low-code platform can also enable enterprises to achieve the same rich experience in various mobile and other channels.

Mendix and its integrated low-code platform are leading this trend. According to the “Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platform for Developers, Second Quarter of 2021” report, Mendix has the highest scores for all options among the low-code vendors that entered the evaluation. Companies can use the Forrester report to find the most suitable low-code development platform in the complex low-code market.

Automated process

The benefits of low code to process automation are beyond doubt. According to the Forrester Digital Process Automation Survey Report for the First Quarter of 2020, more than 70% of companies still complete work related to key business processes in paper. A global study shows that manual process automation can help every employee in an enterprise save nearly four and a half months of working time each year. Therefore, the faster the digitization and automation of manual and paper processes, the better. Low-code development is very suitable for such tasks, and a low-code platform with built-in process automation tools is a better choice.

Companies can use appropriate low-code platforms to create consumer-level applications that automate end-to-end processes. Compared with using business process management software or robotic process automation tools, companies can deploy and use these solutions and iterate more quickly by creating applications that manage these key processes.

The right low-code platform

There are many low-code products on the market, but not all of them are suitable. Because some functions may be inconsistent with expectations, or not fully applicable to some enterprises and businesses. In order to quickly meet the increasing demand for software, companies should choose a low-code platform that can provide a total solution for the entire software development life cycle.

Create better business process applications

The basic principle of the Mendix platform is to provide a visual collaborative development method for business and IT. For example, the Bank of Canada BDC used the Mendix low-code rapid development platform to strengthen the cooperation between IT and business teams and successfully rebuilt its loan application process. Herman Geldenhuys, a Mendix technical expert at BDC, said that Mendix enables business and IT teams to communicate and develop in the same language. “The biggest change that Mendix brings is the matching of business language, which greatly reduces our time and energy spent on technology.” The IT department is responsible for building applications, while business experts have to communicate the specific steps involved in simplifying the workflow. This method is especially useful at this time.

Companies can easily define workflows using Mendix’s workflow editor and add process logic to applications. The flowchart-like visualization language can be fully integrated with other visualization languages ​​in Mendix’s two IDEs (such as microflow and page editor), thereby reducing the complexity of application logic expression, integrating other systems, and updating and adapting to market needs as needed .

Improve development speed

Low code is simple and clear, which can help companies speed up development. A suitable low-code platform can not only help professional developers develop applications faster with reusable components, but also allow non-professional developers to create applications with simple and easy-to-understand visual languages. Mendix provides Studio Pro for professional developers and Studio for non-professional developers. It helps developers of various technical levels to develop applications through multiple IDEs.

Better data integration

The speed of development depends not only on the development environment, but also on data integration and management that slow down the entire process.

If you want to develop an application that needs to be integrated with multiple systems, such as a business process application, it is best to find a low-code platform that can make integration easier. Mendix’s Data Hub can integrate corporate data into a metadata database that can be integrated and abstracted through drag and drop, and can be better searched, understood and used in Mendix Studio or Studio Pro as needed.

Easy deployment

Of course, faster speed means easier deployment. A suitable low-code platform should not lock the enterprise in a specific cloud scenario, but can be deployed in any cloud. Enterprises must be cautious when making this choice, because as needs change, applications need to expand, and the cloud chosen will vary according to these changing needs. Through the Mendix platform, companies can deploy applications to public, private, or hybrid clouds with one click.

The low-code market is now ushering in an explosive period. In this year’s “Forrester Wave™: Low-code Development Platform for Professional Developers, Second Quarter 2021”, Mendix is ​​honored to be named a low-code “leader”. And get the highest score in the current product category. Forrester praised Mendix as an “advanced collaboration platform for many roles and use cases.” In the future, Mendix will continue to meet the current and future needs of various enterprises with outstanding solutions.

background

Subject to the global impact of the epidemic, software nowadays has become the new lifeblood of our daily lives and connecting the global economy. However, traditional software development takes too long and often fails to meet business needs and provide users with a high-quality experience. Even before the outbreak of the epidemic, the number of personnel with professional software development capabilities could not meet the global demand for software. The global epidemic has made the software and business crisis even worse. In the era of low-code software development, Mendix provides a powerful enterprise-level visual development method through low-code, so that ordinary and professional developers only need to use an intuitive graphical user interface, and with the help of drag-and-drop components and model logic. It can increase the speed of implementing cloud-native applications on the web and mobile devices by more than 10 times.