By Amit Gharai, Solutions Marketer, Vuram
In recent times, the business landscape has witnessed disruption in the way enterprises work and how fast they can accommodate a change. While ever-changing technological development had put businesses on the track to digitization, the pandemic further necessitated and accelerated this need. They had to adapt to the new normal and still operate with velocity, build resilience, and gain control.
One method of digital transformation at a faster rate was empowering line-of-business employees to build business applications without having to write a single code. No-code tools are valuable to any business undergoing a digital transformation as they empower a wide range of workforce to contribute.
In this article, we will explore how business enterprises can unlock a wide range of benefits by democratizing app development to drive faster innovation.
Reducing complexities
Traditionally, app development takes 4 to 5 months and about a similar time to gain value from the application. The slow process often results in enterprises pushing problem-solving business applications to the backlog. The need for coding skills limits app development for IT teams.
With features like a single dashboard, intuitive user experience, easy integrations, real-time visibility, and configurable workflow, the right no-code tool can eliminate complexity from the app creation process. However, it doesn’t compromise on quality, security, governance, and customer experience while fast-pacing digital transformation. Simpler flow helps in democratizing the process to accelerate app development. A faster app cycle means a significant cost reduction.
Removing overload from IT teams
Digital transformation involves modernizing various business processes. While building business apps to solve the problems in the process may be the need of the hour, it may strain the IT resources bandwidth. Business users may often struggle with effectively communicating their problems and ideas to the IT team. Difficulty in communicating business app requirements reduces the focus of both IT resources and business users from their core tasks.
No-code business app development solutions provide a simple framework to business users, providing people with the knowledge of both challenges and processes – for example, finance analysts, administrators, and marketing specialists – the capability to build apps. When the ability to build business apps extends beyond the IT teams to the business users, it reduces the burden on the IT team and increases the speed of digitization.
In addition, no-code tools facilitate a user-centric approach, allowing enterprises to adapt to customer needs by improving their internal processes, eliminating errors, and improving quality. These tools act as scaffolding for faster prototyping. Not only do they allow business users to contribute innovative solutions but also help pro-coders reduce their workload.
Fast-pacing innovation
As no-code tools have a simple workflow, such as a requester-approver workflow to create apps, it enables anyone from the business without previous technical experience to become an app developer. While it takes the pressure off IT resources, as discussed earlier, it facilitates innovation come from all departments and teams of the business.
It also solves a crucial problem every enterprise faces today – silos in digital transformation. Usually, enterprises depend on IT teams to find a solution to issues or bottlenecks in different processes. Thus, business users have to communicate their requirements to IT teams which is time-consuming and full of gaps. With no-code tools, business users closest to the issues or bottlenecks and who have the most knowledge about the process can resolve it without learning to code. No-code app development tools also allow enterprises to reduce offshoring needs in some cases.
Conclusion
Enterprises across the world felt the urgency around digital transformation in 2019, and it continues to be the focus in defining the path forward post-pandemic. Doing more with less, optimizing existing resources, and adapting fast to changing conditions are no longer good-to-have imperatives but rather must-haves. They can also directly impact business operations, revenue, and sustainability. No-code tools empower enterprises to democratize app development beyond dedicated and specialized IT resources. This helps business modernize their processes faster. Not just improving daily operations but also driving innovation for a robust and resilient future.
