Recently, “low code” fire, Tencent, Ali, Baidu, Kingdee, UFIDA and other well-known enterprises have entered the board, low code or will usher in a period of high-speed development.
Overseas: According to the latest forecast from Gartner, the global low-code development technology market will reach US $13.8 billion in 2021, an increase of 22.6% from 2020.
Domestic: According to the data of Haibi Research Institute, in 2020, China’s low/no code market size reached 1.9 billion yuan. Moreover, the compound growth rate is expected to reach 49.5% in the next five years, and the market size will reach 10 billion magnitude in 2024.
From the above data, we can predict that in the future, less development, lightweight trend is unstoppable. Low code/zero code is likely to be the industry leader. At this point, one might ask, what exactly is low code development? Why is it so popular with capital?
Low code development, as the name implies, uses very little code to achieve rapid development, essentially is the transformation of the traditional development mode, the application scene is abstracts and through the visual language or component template, once development, multiple reuse, can help enterprises to improve the development efficiency, reduce the technical threshold, save development costs.
Why can low code development be popular in the market? In fact, low code can be popular in the market, mainly to solve the difficulties faced by enterprises in the process of digital transformation.
1. The traditional development mode has a long cycle and low efficiency, and the internal system iteration speed can’t keep up with market changes
Traditional information construction, often long cycle, high cost, more and more difficult to respond to the needs of enterprises in time. However, in the context of the rapidly changing market, enterprises need to accelerate the pace of digital transformation, internal systems need to respond quickly and iteratively, and enterprises hope to quickly build an information platform with the lowest cost and the most agile way to deal with the uncertainties of the market. Driven by the high demand for development efficiency, the low code development market is ripe.
Low code development can abstract common application scenarios, modularize requirements through visual languages or components, realize module reuse, greatly improve development efficiency, and help enterprises quickly realize digital operation with agile and flexible development.
2. Low code development reduces the technical threshold and solves the problem of scarce talents
Low code development is the product of technology development to a certain stage. From the perspective of industrial development, low code development can reduce the threshold of software development, and tilt from professional development teams to ordinary people. This reduces the distance between the developer and the user, freeing up execution and creativity.
IDC’s Dayaratna has said: There is a strong belief that successful companies will evolve into a model in which everyone will be trained in software development, whether as a professional, a low-code developer, or a business unit that is good at providing requirements.
It can be seen that the emergence of low code development solves the problem of the scarcity of high-end development talents in the market. People with certain development knowledge, and even in extreme cases, business personnel with no technical knowledge, can quickly build and deploy applications by dragging and dragging, accelerating the process of enterprise innovation and digital transformation.
3. Enterprises bear more and more heavy costs in the process of pursuing digital transformation
High implementation and development costs, late maintenance costs that require change or iteration… For enterprises, the increasing labor cost and time cost are more and more heavy, which makes many enterprises who want to transform prohibitive.
As mentioned earlier, low code development modularizes requirements through visual languages or components, like building blocks, by simply arranging “building blocks” according to requirements.
On the one hand, the mode of low code development avoids a lot of code writing, greatly reduces the workload, shortens the development cycle, and effectively saves the development cost and time cost;
On the other hand, the “building block” construction is conducive to the expansion and iteration of the system. If there are new requirements or changes in the later stage, it is only necessary to “reorganize” or modify some modules instead of completely rebuilding, which greatly saves the maintenance cost.
II. What are the application scenarios of low code development platform in enterprise services? Low code development platform is widely used, such as: ERP, OA, CRM, MES production management and so on can be developed quickly. Low code has long been used in enterprise data services.
In the past, most of the enterprises when doing data analysis, the general process for: from business unit to the IT department requests for data analysis, by scheduling a report made by the IT department to develop the understanding deviation will occur as long as there is communication problem, so there may be a repeated modification, and the status of the rework, in the long run, this way lead to report development efficiency is extremely low. Also, when the market evolves or the needs of the enterprise change, the report needs to be recoded or completely redeveloped (time consuming and laborious)…
Development platform, and using the low code can easily implement multiple heterogeneous system data integration, data platform, bulk import to low code through setting up relationships for each data object, break the barrier of the data between the system, by business people by simply dragging drag form, report development and the use of visualization.
What are the main aspects of the value of low code? In my opinion, the value of low code is mainly reflected in three aspects: integration, form, model, intelligent analysis, etc.
1. Integration: low code/zero code docking data sources
Previously, China Software Industry Association released the “Ten Trends of China’s Low Code Development Platform”, pointing out that: to break through the data island, the integration ability of low code and business system will be paid more attention. Similarly, in data analysis and application, enterprises need to get through various business systems to achieve data integration. ETL in the traditional BI implementation process is very tedious, and the time consumption accounts for about 80% of the whole project.
Low-code platforms save a lot of work:
By presetting mainstream data extraction scripts, it can assist enterprises to realize data extraction quickly, which greatly saves the time cost of understanding business and exploring table structure, saving time and effort! Moreover, it can also realize the data collection of online forms through the form connector and zero code, dynamically create views, real-time table diagrams and semantic models, and realize automatic modeling. After the report is completed, the data is automatically extracted at regular time without manual intervention. The lightweight application can be immediately collected and analyzed.
2, form: zero code to achieve data supplement
Excel data sheet serves as a common tool to compensate for business system functions and make large statistical query tables. Therefore, the need to quickly import Excel data into the database and realize real-time data analysis and display through modeling is increasingly strong. In terms of Excel data, the low code platform has realized such a function.
Business personnel only need to import Excel data through the low code platform, can realize the perfect integration of the filled data and system data, no longer need to export the system data, and then to Excel for data analysis, manpower from a lot of repetitive work liberation, greatly saving labor costs. The whole process of zero code to achieve data update at any time and automatic processing.
3. Models: Preset models out of the box
Taking the OA collaborative office model as an example, the low code platform can quickly build financial, personnel management, performance management and other models based on the enterprise system, and realize the multi-dimensional and graph-based analysis of the system across departments, modules and documents. Further enrich the data analysis applications of customers, and realize the lightweight analysis of data.
4. Intelligent analysis: drag and drop to achieve visual analysis
In the traditional report design, most of the time is spent on the development of report style, while the low code platform presets various visual charts to realize data analysis quickly through dragging and dropping. The report style can be modified on demand and the whole process of visual editing. Proficient in business process but not good at programming business personnel, zero code to achieve flexible, agile, efficient report development.
The use of visual charts to build a management center can transfer data information in a more beautiful and intuitive way. With the visual parameter definition, it can realize the drilling and penetration of reports and mining more data value.
Conclusion:
In the era of digital intelligence, enterprises have higher demands for digital transformation plans. Low code development can make enterprises more agile and efficient to respond to a large number of demands initiated by business departments, and help enterprises to make great progress on the road of digital transformation.
The low code development platform enables the rapid implementation of data analysis results, builds an agile data analysis application for enterprises, and greatly promotes the pace of data information mining and digital transformation and upgrading of enterprises.
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