Low-Code Platforms: Unleashing the Power of Digital Transformation
Blog: Appian Insight
Low-code platforms have opened up a whole new chapter in the digital transformation narrative. Imagine a JK Rowling’s movie, where the low-code wizard comes to town with a magical platform, and discovers that the throwback, no-low-coders are fearfully hiding from the frightening dark forces of digital disruption.
It turns out that this wizard’s platform is one of those way-way-way-faster, low-code app development platforms. Which helps the no-low-coders unleash the power of digital transformation to defeat the digital disruptors.
There are two sides to the digital transformation story. There’s the bright side, where low-code platforms allow businesses to innovate up to 10x faster than no-low-coders. But, the unleashing of this kind of transformative power has also sparked a parallel explosion in digital disruption, with ripple effects that can be more unsettling than the original disruption, according to Forrester.
Back in the day, making your product or service incrementally better and cheaper was a sure-fire formula for business success. But those days are long gone. Today, there is a constant acceleration in the pace of innovation and expectations.
Fast-moving disruptors can take away market share, in no time flat. Shake up entire industries. Not to mention go from bupkis to billions, with little more than a website and a proprietary algorithm. In other words, no matter your line of business…How large your brand…Or how long you’ve been in business… You are a potential target for digital disruption.
Which may explain why 90% of business leaders expect their industries to be disrupted by digital trends, according to researchers at MIT Sloan and Deloitte. If this sounds familiar…If you find yourself worrying about digital disruption, then perhaps it’s time to step up to a low-code platform, and unleash the power of digital transformation.
The alternative is to end up on the wrong side of the digital disruption curve. But where’s the security in that. Better to take a low-code approach that enables you to innovate faster, work smarter, and move at digital speed. Imagine the value you could create, if you could harness the power of a low-code platform to accelerate time to market, speed time to revenue…outthink and outmaneuver your competitors.
It almost doesn’t matter what your digital transformation challenge is, low-code platforms are fantastic at helping you crush digital transformation goals. Like the major wireless carrier that wanted to put 5,000 vehicles on the road across 30 major cities, and bring the retail experience directly to customers. There was a real sense of urgency about this story. Company officials wanted to conjure up — and scale — an innovative retail program before competitors got wind of it.
Powered by the Appian Digital Transformation Platform, the program accelerated from concept to implementation in just three weeks. One week later, it was expanded to two cities. Then, to 30 cities shortly after that.
Unlike the old-fashioned no-low-code approach, this is the kind of digital transformation you need to compete and win in the digital economy…to overcome the challenges, threats and risks posed by digital disruption. Of course, there will always be the skeptics, naysayers, and wait-and-see’ers? Those who will continue to seek refuge in throwback, no-low-code systems, designed for yesterday’s economy.
The opposite of this is the story of a major Life Science company that wanted to accelerate the speed of clinical trial start-ups, a key competitive advantage for getting new drugs to market. With the help of the Appian Digital Transformation Platform, the company reduced clinical trial startup times from six months to just two months.
Back to the low-code wizard allegory.
If you are not set up to defeat the disruptors… if you fear the constant acceleration of expectations, then you are on the wrong side of the digital disruption curve. Where no business model is safe.
Of course, there is no escape to the world of wizardry. On the other hand, you can conjure up the bottomless benefits of a low-code platform… unleash the power of digital transformation… and make your future that much more secure.
Roland Alston
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