By Joe McKendrick – Current forced work-at-home mandates have scrambled and scattered enterprise endpoints in a million different directions. Never before has there been such intense pressure on information technology teams — both inside and outside the organization — to keep things running, communication open, and everything as secure as possible. IT teams are triaging tasks, in many cases also working from their homes, to juggle priorities, and hold it all together. There simply isn’t time to respond to new requests. In short, end-users are basically on their own for the time being. 

Which is likely to accelerate demand for low-code and no-code solutions, a trend that has been building for years. Low and no-code approaches are especially popular within the startup and disruptive technologies sectors, as illustrated by participants at the recent Fintech Belgium Low-Code Digital Conference, who advocate for enabling people with little or no coding experience to be able to implement the applications they need at the time they need them.  “No-code is a movement that is coming up quite strong,” says Cris Carvalho, managing director of Global Smart Processes. “People with very little that IT background are trying to develop applications and trying to enter the world of applications, bringing their own ideas and programming.”

Developer provocateur Mike Williams also advocates no-code approaches for disruptive startups, employing tools such as Makerpad, Shopify, and Webflow to quickly build apps and get them out to budding markets. “No-code allows you to take your idea, using minimal time in your resources, to launch a live product very quickly,” he says. “Those products can be job boards, community based kind of websites, marketplaces, and even some kind of lightweight SaaS tools.” This offers a less-costly alternative to “building a team internally of designers and developers, or outsourcing it to an agency, making it very costly to take your idea to a live product. Using no-code allows you to jump ahead of that, and use minimal time and resources.” Read On: