The editors at Solutions Review have partnered with the team at LANSA to outline a few of the most significant ways professional low-code solutions can reduce development costs and lessen the burden placed on developers.

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the software development market has caused major waves in everything from hiring to return on investment (ROI), development pipelines, and more. Building and maintaining enterprise applications has always been expensive, slow, and resource-intensive, and challenges like the ongoing developer shortage or modernization roadblocks are only adding to the struggle.

Thankfully, low-code technologies can help. With tools like Visual LANSA, companies can equip their developers with an integrated environment that combines low-code speed with traditional development’s power and flexibility, enabling teams to deliver tailored business solutions more efficiently. To help educate developers on the value professional low-code can provide, Solutions Review has partnered with the team at LANSA to outline a few ways these platforms can reduce development costs, maximize productivity, and more.

How Does Low-Code Reduce Development Costs?

1) Accomplish More With Less

Professional low-code can enable development teams to maximize and improve their productivity without increasing or overexerting their current staff. Low-code functionalities like this allow developers to build and maintain an ongoing library of custom components, workflows, and templates they can reuse across projects. Once created, these assets can save time in the future by eliminating the need to develop components from scratch every time.

Low-code platforms can also automate tasks that otherwise take up valuable developer time. For example, low-code empowers teams to automate tasks like infrastructure provisioning, database scaling, system scaling, maintenance, deployment pipeline management, and testing. Without requiring users to do these tasks manually, low-code lets them focus on building features instead of managing complex deployment processes or writing extensive test suites.

2) Accelerate Development Timelines

Another perk of professional low-code development is the ease of use it provides. Instead of coding everything manually, teams can use pre-built templates, connectors, and reusable parts to save time, remove time-consuming roadblocks, and allow each developer to focus their skills on more important matters. Low-code platforms also facilitate faster prototyping and iteration by helping teams gather feedback faster and adjust applications without extensive recoding. That acceleration doesn’t come at the cost of quality or flexibility since these low-code platforms support custom code when needed while ensuring routine development tasks are completed efficiently.

3) Easier Upgrades

Thanks to their component-based architecture, professional low-code platforms offer significant system maintenance and upgrade advantages. When developers create or modify a component in the central repository, those changes will automatically propagate to every instance where that component is used. Suppose a team updates a user authentication module to implement new security requirements. In that case, all applications currently using that module will immediately benefit from the enhanced security features without the need for any additional development work.

Developers no longer have to refactor significant portions of code when new features or improvements are needed. Instead, they can modify existing components (or create new ones) that seamlessly integrate with the existing architecture. Approaches like this save time in the immediate term and reduce technical debt by making systems more adaptable to future changes and requirements.

4) Seamless Integration with Existing Systems

By design, professional low-code platforms come equipped with pre-built integrations for enterprise software, databases, and services to help developers quickly establish connections with the existing systems in their tech stack. This means that, instead of writing integration code from scratch, teams map data flows and configure connections with easy-to-use visual tools that significantly reduce the time and expertise needed to bridge different systems.

Modern low-code platforms also support industry-standard protocols and authentication methods, making it far easier to establish secure connections with existing identity management systems and whatever corporate security frameworks a company complies with. When custom integrations are needed—as they often are—low-code platforms provide flexible APIs and extensibility options so developers can build custom connectors while maintaining the benefits of the low-code environment’s management and monitoring capabilities. This ensures that new applications seamlessly fit into the existing technology landscape while preserving investments in established systems.

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