Enterprises are now turning to low-code app builders to keep up with the internal demand for more mobile apps.
Mobile apps are helping companies increase efficiency, expand operations and increase revenue. As users increasingly turn to their iOS and Android devices during their workday, customers, partners and employees are demanding more and more mobile apps across a range of business processes.
Unfortunately, companies struggle to respond due to an overall shortage of mobile developers, and due to the high costs of outsourcing app development. As a result, many enterprises are now turning to low-code app builders to keep up with internal demand for more mobile apps. With low-code app builders, applications can be developed quickly without the need for highly trained software developers.
By 2020, 70% of enterprise mobile apps will be developed without IT involvement. How? With low code app development builders. Here’s why…
In a recent article from TechTarget, “No mobile application developers? Turn to low-code tools,” Jake O’Donnell explores the growing category of low-code app platforms, and highlights Alpha Anywhere, Xamarin, SAP, and Red Hat’s FeedHenry as leading low-code app platform vendors in this emerging category. O’Donnell discusses how the lack of available mobile app developers available for hire has led enterprises to rethink how they get these apps developed in a timely, affordable way. He explains:
“For those lightweight B2E apps, organizations can turn to low-code or codeless app development platforms that many vendors now offer. These [low-code] platforms are meant for non-developers: IT staff with no coding background and, in some cases, line-of-business employees with no tech backgrounds at all.”
The article features quotes from John Jackson, Program Vice President for Mobility Research at IDC,, who is very familiar with the space. Jackson comments that it is unreasonable for companies to outsource every app and spend up to $350,000 to build and maintain “the perfect app.” Low-code app platforms make more sense, according to Jackson, because they are a cost-effective way for companies to quickly build enterprise apps and keep the company innovation moving forward, particularly as the Internet of Things evolves and makes the development process more complex.
At Alpha Software, we agree with O’Donnell’s assessment. Through low-code app development, IT and business users don’t have to be coding experts to build great enterprise apps. In fact, since business users are tied closest to the business processes needing to go mobile, and can offer the most help in crafting business apps. Smart enterprises that bring IT and business users together through low-code app builders will find themselves efficiently and cost-effectively building enterprise apps.
Read John Jackson’s low-code app platforms and mobile application development predictions from IDC.
Read a related blog on why low-code app development platforms are in your future.
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