Low code market is more and more popular today, with the progress of technology, the development of the 5 g technology, software technology matures, the continuous improvement of the design idea, the authors advocate efficiency is the main melody of each enterprise management, promote enterprise internal information to digital transformation, choose a similar to the development of the Swiss army knife tools rapid fall to the ground, Accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises is the demand of every enterprise.

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Traditional custom development line by line code, not only time-consuming and laborious, the introduction of low code for the market into a new concept; Here’s a brief look at building low-code platforms and industry information

Low code system planning

Common low code platform capability framework

Representation of a set of development tools (i.e. low-code development platforms) and methods (i.e. low-code development solutions) that can help developers create applications intuitively with drag-and-drop operations.

Low code development is a way in which developers can quickly generate applications by writing little or no code. We sometimes use “low code” as a noun, when we think of it as a “thing” like Python and C#. We also sometimes use “low code” as a verb, when it means what it literally means to develop an application in a way that requires much less hand-written code than normal, and in some cases no code at all.

Low code platform building techniques

Based on data and workflow, the platform is built through IDE or model driven implementation

Users can usually use table structure, view, statistics, custom page, user role permissions, workflow six components, based on data management and workflow, through IDE development environment driven or model driven two technology path to build a low code platform. A rapid development platform based on an IDE framework is one that fully visualizes the traditional integrated development environment (IDE), allowing developers to use configuration panels and consoles instead of a significant percentage of code writing. The IDE model is more flexible, but the management of the application development process is complex, so IT is mainly targeted at IT professionals. Typical vendors such as Outsystems in the US and Bettyblocks in Europe adopt this technology path. Model-driven development platform further reduces the workload of code development, but sacrifices the freedom of application implementation to some extent. Domestic manufacturers such as Aozhe, Lightstream, Mingdao Cloud, Partner cloud and so on all adopt this technology path.

Low code ecology technology

Supply Angle

Improve the underlying architecture model, enrich application templates, expand product application capability circleCopy the code

From the perspective of the supply side, the low-code ecosystem is mainly concentrated in the cloud computing industry chain, and multiple deployment modes of private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud can be realized at the bottom level to meet the needs of customers in different industries. At the APaaS layer, the core of the low code, product-related applications involve middleware such as various engines, databases, and services such as DevOps and monitoring security. At present, more and more underlying frameworks adopt more flexible microservice architecture, which makes the secondary development and application expansion of low code can be better completed. SaaS layer products such as ERP, CRM, HRM, etc., can meet the requirements of cross-industry and cross-department universality. In the future, with the increase of APaaS layer engine types, the improvement of the underlying layer architecture model, and the enhancement of the richness of application templates, low code will give more capabilities to SaaS applications.

Demand-side Angle

Work with channel partners to increase application penetration of low code productsCopy the code

The ecological construction of the low code demand side mainly lies in the expansion of application customers. At present, the low code application customers are more concentrated in IT developers and some business personnel, and many scenes still rely on the services of the implementation party or low code manufacturers. Low permeability lower overall in the client application code, according to Forrester predicts that low permeability code to achieve a third in the world, China’s overall application penetration is still low in about 5% or so, on the one hand is because of a lack of education market, manufacturers for low code awareness needs to be promoted, ecological imperfect on the other hand because of the demand side, The number of channel agents and professional trainers is insufficient, and the penetration rate among customers is slow. But as the core value of low generation code is perceived by enterprise customers, overlay channel side all-round publicity, the form of software development will certainly produce qualitative changes, the industry demand ecology will also be enriched.

Low code vendor profile

Both generic and vertical vendors empower enterprise application developmentCopy the code

The current domestic industry competition pattern mainly divided into universal low code producer, other low code development platform, vertical three types, including universal manufacturers have low code native manufacturers, mainly application development software vendors and SaaS or cloud transformation of low code manufacturer, overall layout fragmented market.

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