If you don’t fully understand the two different paths of low code and zero code, I believe this article will help you to establish a preliminary understanding.

This document is shared in the huawei cloud community section “Zero code or Low Code in Different service scenarios”. , author: A quick wit.

Author: You Yue, system architect of Huawei Cloud Application Rubik’s Cube Low-code platform, with years of experience in architecture design of enterprise-level software solutions, successful experience in telecom business, smart city, smart park, enterprise digitization and other fields.

The difference between low and zero code

We see low code technology and zero code technology as two different paths.

Zero code users, primarily targeted at business people. But the current stage is actually business people with some IT experience. Low code consumers, primarily targeted at developers focused on business logic implementation. Note: The user of zero code is currently difficult to achieve by any business person. The logic involved in “application building” is difficult to understand for people with no IT experience at all. You don’t need programming experience or knowledge to build applications with zero code, but you do need logical thinking.)

Zero code is mainly aimed at the problem of enterprise informatization, that is, to fill the lack of informatization through extremely low cost; Low code is aimed at the problem of enterprise digitization, that is to support the sharing and innovation of enterprise resources with low cost; High code will mainly be used to build unique competitiveness in specialized areas, requiring high cost input.

Zero code technology applies to different business scenarios from low code, and is mainly suitable for building simple applications for short-term use in the segmentation scenarios within the enterprise. Low-code technologies are better suited to building complex applications that can be reused over time in a wide range of scenarios within and outside the enterprise. Applications built with zero code tend to be more fragmented, and applications built with low code tend to be more suite.

Value of zero code to enterprise at different stages

In fact, even in different stages of the enterprise, there are still many pain points in the information construction, it is zero code to solve the problem.

1) Small and micro enterprises: start-up stage; No or very little IT staff; There are many missing IT systems supported by operations, and many business processes rely on offline form management. The pain points facing such enterprises are: the lack of many support systems that can match the current business, but it is cost-effective to buy commercial kits, and it is costly to find outsourcing personnel to develop them. Therefore, it is a good solution for business people to build their own just-right support system from zero code based on the current business.

2) Small and medium-sized enterprises: rapid development stage; Have IT department but not development function; The necessary IT systems have been built. Such enterprises are faced with the following pain points: insufficient IT department development capacity, the speed of existing IT system construction can not keep pace with business development, the lack of a large number of internal operation process applications, team operation is not efficient enough, and the mobile office level is low. Therefore, the business personnel directly through zero code to build a variety of collaborative applications, can solve the current operation of collaboration problems at a very low cost.

3) Large and medium enterprises: digital transformation stage; There’s an IT department, there’s a r&d team, and most of the support systems have been built. The pain points are: there is still a lot of data and processes managed through offline tables; The cost of communication between business departments and IT departments is high, and the cycle from project establishment to completion of IT systems is long; Existing support systems cannot flexibly respond to business changes, and existing data is difficult to use quickly. Such enterprises can also use zero-code technology to enable business departments and IT departments to participate in system construction and accelerate the elimination of information breakpoints of business departments.

AppCube is dedicated to providing solutions for enterprises of all stages

Zero code applies to business scenarios

Zero code technology is only suitable for internal business scenarios in the enterprise, and functional departments build for their own use. Low-code technologies are better suited to building applications for others (both internal and external customers). The applicable business scenarios of zero code technology probably include simple and auxiliary scenarios such as operation support, office information and production assistance.

In addition, the same business scenario adopts different methods to build applications under different life cycle requirements. For example, for the registration management of group construction activities, the applications constructed by business personnel with zero code only meet the registration requirements of this time, while the applications constructed by IT personnel with low code can meet the registration requirements of different departments in different periods.

Zero code technology and low code technology, product design and technical requirements are very different.

We see ** ease of use (agile), flexibility (diversity), and reusability (governance) as an “impossible triangle” from a product design pursuit perspective. If the same application building mechanism is targeted at both business and developers, it is likely that the threshold of product usability will not be lowered, and the flexibility will not cover business scenarios. Therefore, we believe that zero code and low code are better suited to evolve separately as different product capabilities.

Zero code and low code may look similar, but in fact they are very different, and AppCube supports both platforms. Whether you prefer low code or zero code, you can find solutions to practical problems in AppCube. AppCube provides developers with both low code and zero code operating platforms to help them deal with a wide range of disparate business scenarios.

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