From 2017, when the government included "digital economy" in its work report, to this year's two sessions, which listed the digital transformation of enterprises as a key issue, the slogan of digitalization has been shouted for 6 years. The policy support for digitalization is becoming more and more firm. What is gratifying is that more and more far-sighted companies have made digital construction their focus.
However, digital transformation is not an overnight task. All discussions will come back to a very basic question:
Typically, companies make the following choices:
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Established an internal IT information department
This method allows enterprises to have a higher sense of control over the project , to know the real progress and risks of the project, and to adjust the direction according to business development in a timely manner. In addition, the self-owned team has a more comprehensive understanding of the company's cultural identity and business details, and the coordination and communication across departments is smoother.
But at the same time, the high cost of the IT department has stopped many companies. Even the most streamlined development team is divided into architects, front-end and back-end, testing and other positions, and the annual expenditure can easily exceed one million.
Moreover, a fixed team means "fixed" knowledge , and the professional growth of the team may not be able to keep up with the pace of business development of the enterprise, which is also a hidden cost for the enterprise.
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Cooperate with external software information technology service providers
Cooperating with software service providers is also one of the popular ways to help enterprises achieve digitalization. Software service providers usually provide manpower outsourcing, project outsourcing, mature product sales (including SaaS, etc. ) landing.
However, the qualifications of suppliers vary , and if the choice is wrong, it is easy to cause investment failure, and changing suppliers midway will also affect the quality of the project. More importantly, relying too much on external providers will reduce the sensitivity of the enterprise itself to new technologies and applications, and lose the flexibility to respond to future changes. Moreover, enterprise digitization requires not only a separate digital system, but A complete set of digital solutions. If the enterprise only builds or outsources some systems independently, and the data between these systems cannot communicate with each other , then the overall value of digitalization will be difficult to be reflected.
The above are several common choices in the digital transformation of enterprises, and they each have their own advantages and disadvantages. In the short term , the cost of cooperation between enterprises and professional software companies is relatively low, which can speed up the software launch cycle. But in the long run , self-owned teams have higher flexibility and controllability.
In fact, many large and medium-sized enterprises will carry out digital practice in the form of a combination of multiple methods at the same time. So is there a way to give an option to:
With the rapid development of the digital wave and the new generation of information technology, the emerging "low code" related technologies and concepts in recent years are also bringing more choices and possibilities for the digital transformation of enterprises.
What is low code
Haibi Research Institute gave a clear definition in the "2022 China Low-Code and No-Code Market Research and Selection Evaluation Report" ( pay attention to Wanying low-code, and reply to "Industry Report" in the background to get the low-code industry report ):
Low-code is an application software development platform for professional development groups, using visual programming technology, and using software development thinking as the underlying logic.
Compared with self-built traditional IT teams, enterprises using low-code can retain the advantages of building IT teams to deeply integrate enterprise needs and independent development without spending excessive labor costs ; compared with cooperating with software companies, enterprises using low-code can Keep the fast landing speed of the project and maintain the agility of using cutting-edge technologies without falling into the trap of collaboration between Party A and Party B.
As a representative of efficient and agile technical development productivity, low-code allows developers of different experience levels to quickly build digital applications that meet business needs with a small amount of code or no code, reducing the professional years of developers . The visualization of its development process can also allow more business personnel to participate, effectively lowering the threshold for enterprise digitalization and improving efficiency.
At the same time, model-driven low-code products, such as Wanying Low-Code , can provide full-stack development and operation and maintenance capabilities required for software lifecycle management, allowing front-end and back-end organizations to optimize collaboratively and improve overall efficiency.
In an environment full of uncertainties, agility and innovation are related to the survival of enterprises. Compared with the digital construction cycle that often lasts for several years, low-code uses visual programming technology, allowing developers to use graphical interfaces to Drag and drop operation, quickly develop software applications in the way of "building blocks", reduce repetitive basic construction work , greatly reduce the difficulty of application development, and keep enterprises agile:
First , in the early stage, low-code can quickly build multiple minimum viable products , helping enterprises to conduct A/B testing and find out the best practice plan;
Second , in the middle and later stages of the project, even if there is a major change in requirements, low-code can also support the timely transformation of the project based on its fast speed ;
Third , low-code is essentially a development tool, but it is different from a programming language. Low-code provides integration capabilities and links to IoT, AI, payment and other capabilities (in Wanying, we use the connector function to achieve integration) and being integrated), enterprises use low-code as the entry point, which can break the "curse" of fixed teams and fixed knowledge, and use various advanced technologies quickly and at low cost .
In addition to reducing costs and improving agility, Wanying low-code can also deposit various data to the middle platform for unified processing , and then form unified data, which can then be called by various systems, which will effectively change the current internal data chimneys of many enterprises Lin Li situation. Moreover, the copyright of the application developed by the enterprise based on Wanying low code will belong to the enterprise itself, and the front-end source code can be exported, which effectively solves the problem of later operation and maintenance of the software.
In this ever-changing era, the key to the digital transformation of enterprises lies in whether they can have sustainable IT service capabilities that keep up with changes. The low-code development platform, as an efficient and flexible development tool, is undoubtedly a choice worth trying!