While this so-called “citizen developer” approach is helping many organizations address the unprecedented demand for application development and the gap in IT talent, it is also radically accelerating product delivery, leading to the commodification of low-code/no-code technology. Employing graphic user interfaces or minimal basic coding instead of large strings of complex coding, low-code/no-code technology provides visual drag-and-drop or point-and-click user interfaces, allowing workers with no formal coding education to create applications software.
For their part, customers are increasingly unwilling to accept anything less than a digital-first experience.Ĭonfronted with this shortfall in IT expertise, many businesses are turning to low-code/no-code platforms to enable employees with little or no IT training to handle the crushing demand for application development. IDC estimates more than 500 million apps will be developed before the end of this year alone. Globally, t he size of the application development software market, valued at $197.2 billion in 2021, is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 24.3 percent over the next five years. All of this comes when the demand for application development has never been higher. businesses will face a deficit of over half a million software developers by 2024. According to Linux Academy, two-thirds of employers now say they cannot find qualified candidates to fill their open IT positions.
The United States is facing an IT crisis. As part of Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series-a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories- Irina Lunin, the Vice President of Research & Development at Blueprint Software Systems, outlines some of the pros and cons of low-code/no-code technologies.
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