One of the enterprise's biggest problems with building mobile apps is the time and expense required to write them -- a recent survey by Kinvey found that more than half of CIOs say it takes between seven months and a year to write a single mobile app, and the cost of development per app averages $270,000. In addition, enterprise IT staff typically lack the skills to develop mobile apps, which often leads to costly outsourcing. With app developers in short supply, mobilizing your workforce can be excessively costly and time consuming with no guarantee your mobile business app will be well received.
But that's going to change, according to a just-published prediction from Gartner. The analyst firm says that by 2018, more than half of all business-to-employee (B2E) apps will be written by enterprise business analysts using codeless development tools. This is great news for businesses without the budgets to hire application developers to build their apps. IMPORTANT CAVEAT -- SEE LAST PARAGRAPH.
That's particularly important because Gartner says that by that year, people will use their tablet or smartphone first instead of traditional computers when they go online. That means enterprises face escalating demands for writing mobile apps at a time when developer resources are scarce.
This is even more important than you might think. Gartner says that the majority of B2E mobile apps won't be written by developers, but instead by business analysts. That implies that codeless tools may spur a shift away from developer-heavy staffs, and towards a world in which domain experts and business analysts write their own mobile apps, because graphical, codeless tools give them to power to do it without having to learn programming.
Gartner notes that IT departments that want to grow their companies' digital businesses should "provide clean APIs for internal applications and also support codeless tools [to] create a framework that enables and accelerates the growth of reliable digital business."
If they don't, Gartner warns, they'll only hasten their own demise, because "Those that resist will be bypassed and promote shadow IT."ase
The reason being is that real-world IT challenges will very often require something very custom that frequently relates to the way the company does business and could in fact be part of the secret sauce of the business!
In these cases, being able to drop down and inject code on either the client or the server side is critical because, after all - getting 95% of the job done is not what the business needs. Getting 100% of the job done is essential!
So in summary, codeless gives you the productivity demanded in today's fast moving and fluid world and also allows you to empower a broader base of developers -often departmental people with incredibly valuable operational and domain expertise - but lets not forget that the ability to code when needed is a critical capability of any robust enterprise-level development platform. And this is fact the approach that Alpha Anywhere takes and why it is fast getting the reputation of being the complete platform that you can rely on to deliver real-world results.
For key differentiators of Alpha Anywhere which include a video on Alpha Anywhere's low code/ fast learning approach please click here.
But that's going to change, according to a just-published prediction from Gartner. The analyst firm says that by 2018, more than half of all business-to-employee (B2E) apps will be written by enterprise business analysts using codeless development tools. This is great news for businesses without the budgets to hire application developers to build their apps. IMPORTANT CAVEAT -- SEE LAST PARAGRAPH.That's particularly important because Gartner says that by that year, people will use their tablet or smartphone first instead of traditional computers when they go online. That means enterprises face escalating demands for writing mobile apps at a time when developer resources are scarce.
Why Codeless Mobile App Tools Are Important
Codeless tools can dramatically speed the development of mobile apps while reducing costs. Gartner concludes: "Conventional mobile application development platforms (MADPs) are rapidly introducing graphical tools for the design of screens, workflow and data sources to reduce the scope of possible projects. The use of codeless tools for the rapid development of straightforward projects by IT and enterprise business analysts will become an alternative to outsourcing, limiting the use of development partners to more-advanced projects."This is even more important than you might think. Gartner says that the majority of B2E mobile apps won't be written by developers, but instead by business analysts. That implies that codeless tools may spur a shift away from developer-heavy staffs, and towards a world in which domain experts and business analysts write their own mobile apps, because graphical, codeless tools give them to power to do it without having to learn programming.
Gartner notes that IT departments that want to grow their companies' digital businesses should "provide clean APIs for internal applications and also support codeless tools [to] create a framework that enables and accelerates the growth of reliable digital business."
If they don't, Gartner warns, they'll only hasten their own demise, because "Those that resist will be bypassed and promote shadow IT."ase
Codeless Mobile Apps? We Partly Disagree
We think that Gartner is mostly right, BUT we think a more accurate statement might be "largely codeless" or "low code."The reason being is that real-world IT challenges will very often require something very custom that frequently relates to the way the company does business and could in fact be part of the secret sauce of the business!
In these cases, being able to drop down and inject code on either the client or the server side is critical because, after all - getting 95% of the job done is not what the business needs. Getting 100% of the job done is essential!
So in summary, codeless gives you the productivity demanded in today's fast moving and fluid world and also allows you to empower a broader base of developers -often departmental people with incredibly valuable operational and domain expertise - but lets not forget that the ability to code when needed is a critical capability of any robust enterprise-level development platform. And this is fact the approach that Alpha Anywhere takes and why it is fast getting the reputation of being the complete platform that you can rely on to deliver real-world results.
For key differentiators of Alpha Anywhere which include a video on Alpha Anywhere's low code/ fast learning approach please click here.
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