Code-less and code-less apps are seen as IT-free ways for users to get apps to market quickly. Are they not?
Why do companies not want to adopt pre-coded software modules that can perform basic programming functions required in most software? With such apps, all non-programmers have to do is point and click the various functions they need to create the app.
This ability to use prefabricated software components to build apps does two things: It gets the app to market sooner to end users who have long been frustrated by IT’s inability to develop apps. fast enough, and it has the ability to reduce IT workloads so that other areas of digitization, systems, networking, and security can be focused on by IT.
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However, adopting codeless and low-code application development also presents challenges. Not every low-code and no-code solution can solve all IT problems. Sometimes you have to use several different low-code and non-code packages to perform different application functions, and each of these packages has a learning curve.
Second, not every low- and no-code app builder can do all IT jobs. There are levels of software integration and programming that low-code and zero-code tools cannot deal with.
The bottom line is that IT support is still needed, even as end-user citizen developers gain proficiency with low-code and zero-code app builders.
Codeless IT Support
Users can build their own apps without knowing a single piece of code if they use the codeless app builder.
Complexity occurs when users want to enhance their application.
Here’s how IT can help: By interacting with the user’s citizen developers first before they start developing their own codeless applications. This way, IT has visibility into where applications are likely to grow with improvements. It can help users to develop an application framework large enough from the start so that it can easily accommodate the kinds of improvements the user can envision.
In other cases, not all application enhancements can be developed using a codeless engine. IT may need to do some custom development. This custom work is better if the need for it is known in advance.
Low code IT support
Low code application is exactly: Low code. In other words, some custom code will probably be needed above and beyond the no-code work the user does.
This custom code is usually in the form of integrated code that must be developed by IT to interface low-code applications with other systems, or it may involve a custom-developed software process that is very complex and impossible. developed using a low-code engine.
In these situations, it is helpful for IT to define the initial application requirements together with the end user so that a plan can be devised that illustrates which part of the application or system the user will develop. and what additional functions IT will develop.
Inference
Being able to develop “abstract” applications so you don’t need to know native code will be a major driver of the future of IT and an important step forward for end-user citizen developers.
However, as organizations move to codeless and low-code application development, it is important for IT to create a supporting strategy that can enhance end-user’s development of low-code and zero-code applications. .
This will enable IT and user citizen developers to develop more powerful applications faster.
