Building business applications and scaling them using traditional methods is unpredictable and time-consuming. There are many ways in which the application building process can go wrong, and that can result in a variety of business and technical consequences.

Low-Code can solve the problems caused by following traditional methods.

Low-code focuses almost exclusively on the requirements without the need to worry about a whole lot of “plumbing” to put those requirements into applications. This eliminates the need for expensive and time-consuming custom development.

In traditional methods, your team can have limited resources that impact the speed of building applications. With low-code, you can build an application very quickly and have instant feedback on whether it is working or not.  In addition, if the course needs to be adjusted, you can do that almost immediately.

Other benefits of low-code

Ability to make your business agile and cost-efficient:

Many low-code providers have their cloud platforms that allow you to scale your application quickly. This ability to scale fast improves agility.

Low code enables you to achieve cost-efficiency by providing an ability to build more apps in less time, thereby decreasing costs. For developing applications, it becomes a matter of following the requirements correctly and using the best practices for tools given to low-code developers.

Using low-code for application development also reduces hiring costs by minimizing the need for more developers.

Quickly build applications:

When your business requires new applications, you do not have to custom-build everything. With low-code, you can instantly leverage pre-built frameworks to build applications needed by your business.

Connectivity to cloud-database and scalability:

Many low-code providers have their cloud platforms with auto-scaling infrastructure in place. These platforms will scale with your application in terms of how many users are concurrently using that application.

For developing applications, it becomes a matter of following the requirements correctly and using the best practices for tools given to low-code developers.

Read about all the benefits of low-code here.

Low-code and the Appian cloud solution

Appian allows you to build apps efficiently for scaling or accommodating additional demand. With the Appian cloud platform, you can have a fully managed infrastructure to build out your low-code applications. Appian is one of the leaders in the low-code marketplace, and they have one of the most full-fledged solutions.

Appian provides a drag-n-drop low-code integration. These drag-n-drop features reduce a lot of development complexity. They also make integration as easy as filling a few parameters and then connecting to a different system.  All these features can transform your business.

AVIO can realize the benefits of low-code and Appian cloud solution in the following ways:

1. A rich process background:

AVIO has a lot of experience in BPM type engagements; this experience allows us to make decisions quickly. We can help existing companies modify their processes and make them more efficient.

Here are some real-life applications/examples of AVIO’s BPM background

• For a private bank loan process: AVIO can help improve highly specific loan review processes via the management and optimization of the overall process. This results in improved turnaround time, enhances visibility to the customer relationship managers and increases capacity without additional expense
• For the Oil & Gas – Regulatory Compliance Process: The Oil and Gas industry has regulations that change often and require Oil & Gas companies to adapt and comply. With AVIO’s solution for regulatory compliance, organizations can manage and adapt to the ever-changing regulations quickly and effectively.
• For Accounts Payable (AP) Processing for Healthcare: High-volume AP processing, organizing, vouchering, and exception processing can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and costly. AVIO standardizes vendor invoice approval and exception processing by eliminating the paper chase to provide quick and easy access to content from your ERP system.

2. A strong presence within MuleSoft:

We were a partner of the year for MuleSoft. We are highly experienced with MuleSoft and this expertise lays the foundation for building a low-code application.

3. Quickly build and scale new applications using the combined Appian-MuleSoft capabilities:

Appian works together with MuleSoft with Appian powering the front-end and MuleSoft the back-end. At the back-end, MuleSoft components can unify an enterprise’s API infrastructure into a consistent format. Appian serves as front-end consumer of these unified APIs and without the need to create every aspect from scratch, it speeds up the whole development process.

Sometimes it takes longer for the business-side of an organization to come up with the requirements than it takes us to build all these integrations. We have it down to a science, for some clients, we can complete the process in 2-3 days.

Scaling a new application can be done by AVIO while leveraging the APIs that MuleSoft has provided.

Because of the ability to quickly build and scale new applications, in the future, low-code is going to be the primary software development platform. In fact, by 2020, 75% of all applications will use a low-code platform.

Contact us to learn how low-code can help to transform your business.