(Commonwealth Union)_By 2024, people who are not full-time technical specialists will have created 80% of technology products and services. Gartner highlighted this as one of its results at its annual Symposium in Barcelona.
The fact that CIOs may need to rethink how and where they allocate resources to support digital business initiatives was on the takeaway menu at the Gartner Symposium, along with robotic process automation (RPA) and the concept of composable business, in which teams across IT and the business implement composable applications. Gartner senior analyst Daryl Plummer invited delegates to evaluate what the concept of creating code means to them in a talk titled The New Economics of Technology. “Is it about writing code or something else?” he asked.
Low-code and no-code tooling makes it possible for nearly anybody to “programme”, which, according to Plummer, means that businesses must discriminate between jobs that can be completed by workers using such tooling and those that require professional developers. Using eBay as an example, Plummer proposed that low-code and no-code may be considered typical work activity. Although eBay provides a platform for auctions, all of the real work – from uploading product photographs to writing descriptions and postage – is done by eBay consumers themselves.
It is the concept of “bring your own” application and data analytics, in which employees are responsible for developing the apps and analytics required to execute their jobs. Professional developers are then free to create the necessary IT integration and governance to support this ecosystem. Such an application development policy could provide IT leaders with a solution to the ever-growing IT skills crisis and work backlog caused by the business’s thirst for digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and RPA.
Mendix, a provider of low-code technologies, has a customer in Dyson. Mendix was used to create native web and mobile applications that may be utilised at the point of manufacture or in a distribution centre.
“Low code is a tremendous capacity for helping business react in a secure and safe environment,” stated Tom Wilmot, strategy transformation manager at Dyson, while discussing the opportunities of low-code solutions. “It enables us to work with IT in a safe manner without the need for a full project lifecycle.”
