The outbreak of the global epidemic has accelerated the process of digital transformation of enterprises, and low-code platforms have become one of the important means for many enterprises to achieve or accelerate digital transformation by virtue of their unique advantages.
Mendix's survey data on China's low-code market shows that the development trend of China's low-code platforms is expected to surpass the United States and become a global leader.
When it comes to the benefits of low-code for the digital transformation of enterprises, cost reduction and efficiency enhancement have become the most frequently mentioned keywords by Chinese respondents. Among the many benefits, the top three are :
- Helping businesses achieve faster development (48%)
- Respond more flexibly to business needs (46%)
- Reduce software development costs (46%)
So, for domestic enterprises, how to choose a suitable low-code platform to help the digital development of enterprises? Consider the following 6 points!
First, does it support collaborative development and version management?
In the process of project development, the requirements are not static, and sometimes the developed functions are deprecated and then added back. In the face of frequent requirement changes, difficult troubleshooting, version management of low-code platforms, and rollback of specific modules, the value of operations will be reflected.
In addition, in order to speed up the delivery of projects, it is usually necessary to concentrate more people for simultaneous development, and to achieve cloud development anytime, anywhere, only a low-code platform with collaborative cloud development capabilities can make this process manageable and avoid confusion.
Second, does it support system integration?
Data silos have always been the problem that the enterprise informatization industry most hopes to solve. As a new generation of software development technology, low-code naturally cannot allow the developed application to become a new data island. Therefore, whether it is connecting to existing databases or supporting interoperability with other software through APIs, low-code must be open and extensible.
Moreover, many low-code platforms now have the ability to solve data silos, connect multiple systems, and achieve synergies by integrating multi-source data.
Third, does it support privatization deployment?
With the development of the Internet, data security has gradually become a key issue. It can be said that data is the lifeblood of any enterprise, so many enterprises will choose to deploy data locally.
Therefore, when an enterprise chooses a low-code platform, especially an enterprise that wants to apply low-code for a long time and has high data security, it should consider whether it can be deployed privately. The specific deployment method can be selected according to the number of online users and the number of concurrent users. , deploy the platform on the enterprise's own server to ensure the absolute security of the data.
J2PaaS enterprise-level low-code platform , after 20 years of experience and technology accumulation, has developed a large number of financial and banking systems, supports cloud development, and can also meet privatization deployment. The platform has flexible scalability and compatibility, can be connected with other software, and can also support the expansion of technologies such as IOT and artificial intelligence, providing strong technical support for the digital transformation of enterprises.
Fourth, how to ensure the security of the developed application?
In addition to the security of data, the security of the low-code platform itself is also critical. Although it is said that in applications developed using low-code platforms , most of the logic is built by low-code developers, not by low-code platform manufacturers. But the security of the low-code platform will affect the developed application system.
So, how do we assess the security of a platform ? A very simple method: you can see whether the case of the low-code platform has experience in financial banking or military security, because these industries generally have higher security requirements, and they can be used in general industries .
Fifth, does the platform have rich templates and plug-ins?
If a low-code platform wants to develop better, it is essential to have its own ecological planning, and templates and plug-ins are an important part of building an ecosystem.
There are a wealth of ready-made templates, which can allow enterprises to use them out of the box, save a lot of development time, and facilitate rapid second-opening on this basis. At the same time, the existence of the template market can also stimulate developers' enthusiasm for development, forming sharing and co-construction. forward cycle.
The plug-in mechanism allows more developers to encapsulate their own modules, so that the application scenarios of the low-code platform are richer and the functions are more powerful. On the contrary, it can better serve the enterprise, and the enterprise can also use the low-code platform. Play a more powerful development ability.
Sixth, is there flexible expansion?
The needs of enterprises for technical scenarios are changeable, especially for some enterprises that need to apply cutting-edge technologies, they are particularly concerned about the integrated use of technologies such as the Internet of Things, digital twins, and artificial intelligence, and low-code platforms need to meet these requirements. The ability of this kind of demand for rapid docking and expansion. Such as the development of IOT interface, the application of BI data large screen, etc.
If it only has the ability to rapidly develop low-code, but lacks flexible scalability, then such low-code platforms can only meet the basic software development needs of enterprises and have no growth attributes.
Of course, although the above 6 points cannot fully cover the issues that enterprises should consider when choosing low-code, they can provide a certain reference for enterprises. If you are just choosing a low-code platform, you can analyze and choose from these 6 angles. .