From the perspective of enterprise informatization, the company’s requirements for software system can be roughly divided into three categories: core business system, non-core daily application and temporary application. The first two are of greater value and higher importance. They are usually developed and implemented by professional IT teams according to the requirements of the software development life cycle to ensure the completeness of functions, accuracy of data, reliability of the system and ease of operation.
But, with the advent of the era of mobile Internet, more and more enterprises begin to information of the delegation to the business department, make business personnel in the role of information technology, with the help of a platform at low code represented by a new generation of software development tools for the application of data collection, questionnaire survey and other non-core scene independent build some simple applications, in order to clear the dead Angle of enterprise informatization. By transferring some of the software development work to the business, the software development pressure of the IT department is significantly reduced, and the business department can meet every corner of the demand. “IT decentralization” has become a trend, attracting the attention of many practitioners.
Low-code platforms can build rapidly developing digital platforms for business units based on finished product software running in the enterprise, often referred to as “systems integration.” By directly connecting to the database or calling API, existing software and Internet services can be connected. From the perspective of business scenarios, data and capabilities from basic software such as ERP, CRM, and OA can be sorted out and encapsulated. The encapsulated WebAPI is business-oriented, independent of specific software systems, and can even operate multiple systems at the same time with one WebAPI. Combined with more comprehensive security mechanisms and logging capabilities, the underlying platform allows developers to reuse capabilities provided by the underlying software by calling these Webapis rather than directly manipulating data from the underlying software, avoiding duplication and protecting existing IT investments while ensuring security and control.
In addition to the bottom-facing integration capabilities, the platform also provides future-oriented visual application development capabilities, often referred to as “application development.” Whether it is building PC or mobile pages, implementing business and data processing logic, calling the WebAPI provided by the base platform, or application publishing and maintenance, visualization covering the entire software development life cycle can significantly reduce the learning threshold, save work, and reduce the incidence of defects in software development and deployment.
The visualization of the application development stage means that non-professional programmers in business departments can easily master the ability to develop various applications on the platform and independently build those non-core business applications with lower technical requirements but more urgent needs. In this process, colleagues in charge of application development in the business department only need to complete the development and release of various applications according to the WebAPI call specifications provided by the IT department, without paying attention to the implementation details of the platform and the underlying WebAPI. When business people run into technical difficulties building systems, IT departments that know the platform well can quickly provide technical support.
In this model, all applications built by the business, including AD hoc requirements, use the same development specifications as all other custom applications, based on the same metadata and underlying capabilities, essentially eliminating the risk of data silos. And, more importantly, is built on the application of digital platforms, from the application to the data are kept in specialized IT department unified management, from access to the data backup, the largest extent, to avoid data leakage, loss, damage of the negative influence on the enterprise, also, enterprise IT investments will not be damaged due to technical reasons.
On low-code platforms, companies can let IT departments build digital platforms and unified development specifications on which business departments can quickly build applications. Only in this way can the software system of the enterprise become a whole, avoiding the occurrence of data islands, so that information truly illuminates every corner of the enterprise.
Wen. Billy