Role of no-code apps in scaling and implementing digital transformation

Low code and no-code platforms entered the market in efforts to free the development teams from more time consuming menial tasks, giving them more time to focus on coding where human ingenuity is required and necessary.

This resulted in projects gettings launched faster and more efficiently. Soon enough organizations started adopting these platforms to get more productivity out of their workforce, cut down IT backlogs, break the silos, innovate and reduce costs.

To top that, the world also started to shift to a mobile-first approach of interacting with information. It was not long after that that businesses started adopting low code/no-code tools and shorten development cycles to create innovative apps for their customers as well as their workforce.

Building apps has always been an extensive process, whether done traditionally or using drag and drop technologies. From just an idea to a viable product, the journey can be smooth or a rollercoaster ride.

There are following perspectives to scalability

1. Scaling apps to cover more use cases/ more functions/ processes

2. Load balancing - dealing with a huge influx of users or a sudden decrease or constantly resizing user base

3. Scaling apps to increased user base can also mean incorporating localization, changes in business rules such as different holidays in different geographies

4. Integrating apps to multiple other existing systems, for example, HR payroll, geolocation, etc.

After successful completion, hitting a dead end would be the last thing on mind. However, dead ends are more common than one would think. While robust enough to handle dynamic information and navigate through complex workflows, apps often have limited capacity to handle the explosive growth in numbers of users, data or upgrades.

To enable the all-time capability of your app you need an able developer to maintain the app at all times. An unscalable app would require custom coding to make it flexible and run smoothly. The development process should commence with scalability as a priority so that there is zero downtime even with a huge influx of users and data.

Scalable LC NC

Low code/ no-code tools empower users to quickly build minimum viable products and deploy apps on the fly, learn of the response and optimize. They enable continuous innovation as well as scalability regardless of the starting point.

SaaS-based low code/ no-code tools run on flexible EC2 structures. That means that the end-user who is designing apps on their platform need not worry about the managing or provision of servers for the app. The platform takes care of load balancing. All the customer needs to do is license for the increasing user base/ app complexity/ storage and keep on going with the app just as they were.

LC, NC tools make it really easy for designers to make changes in-app for a diverse userbase.

With organizations looking for ways to break the silos while innovating and reducing costs, low code and no code tools have come to the forefront to help them do all of those. Low code and no-code tools empower continuous innovation and scaling regardless of the starting point. They enable users to quickly build minimum viable products (MVPs) and deploy apps on the fly, learn from the response and optimize.

Scalability is a word heard so often in business- particularly in regard to the future growth of the organization. The term is as essential to large organizations as it is to any small business. It is the enablement of a product or service to adapt to changes over time, usually involving growth, expansion or upgrade.

While it is used to refer to technological systems, it often ends up determining the adaptability of a company as a whole- as the scalability of one function can be tied to that of another. Scalability also means a growth in the number of customers, data and resources which makes it crucial to have a system that handles increases data efficiently, or the quality of the product or service takes a hit eventually impacting the organization’s reputation.

By Divyesh Kharade - CEO, DronaHQ