Introduction to low-code platforms (common in China)

foreword

In the low-code market, as early as a few years ago, domestic and foreign giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Ali, and Tencent have entered the market one after another.

With the launch of the DingTalk press conference, "low-code" has once again been pushed to the forefront in the beginning of 2021, and the "low-code" market has become popular again.

1. Alibaba Cloud is suitable

• In October 2021, at the low-code sub-forum of the 2021 Computing Conference, Ye Zhouquan (nicknamed Xiaoyong), the person in charge of DingTalk YiTai, a senior technical expert at Alibaba, released the DingTalk YiTa 3.0 version, which focuses on easy connection, cool data, safer. The number of low-code applications on DingTalk exceeded 1.2 million, of which the number of suitable applications exceeded 1 million. Low-code has enabled more and more companies and organizations to find efficient and low-cost digital innovation paths, and it has also satisfied individual needs. Satisfaction makes the individual feel more fulfilled.

• Yita is a self-developed low-code application construction platform developed by Alibaba. Through the visual drag-and-drop method, it takes 2 weeks to complete the development of an application in the traditional mode, and it can be completed in 2 hours with Yita. In the Yida template market, we have prepared some free application templates for you. You only need to choose a template to modify individual copywriting, and you can build an exclusive application in one minute, and experience the fun of everyone being a developer. The core functions of Yida include:

• Application visualization construction: Yidai provides a large number of graphical development components, and users can quickly complete application construction by dragging and configuring without code or with only a small amount of code. Business personnel who do not understand code, such as HR and finance, can also become developers.

• Tailor-made applications: Build applications that better meet business needs through forms, processes, and data capabilities, and digitize everything around you.

• Integrate cloud-native + Ding-native capabilities: Open up the underlying capabilities and technologies of Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk, connect the original system of the enterprise with DingTalk, and lower the threshold for enterprise digitalization.

• Official website: https://www.aliwork.com/

2. Tencent Cloud Micro Build

• Tencent Cloud Micro Build Low Code is an efficient and high-performance drag-and-drop low-code development platform. Tencent Cloud's low-code platform takes cloud development as the underlying support, provides a highly open development environment, abstracts the cumbersome underlying architecture and infrastructure into a graphical interface, and quickly builds multi-terminal applications through industrialized templates, drag-and-drop components, and visual configuration (small programs, H5 applications, web applications, etc.), eliminating the need for code writing, allowing you to fully focus on business scenarios.

• Tencent Cloud provides a one-stop low-code development service for application development, from the underlying capabilities to industry-level solutions, cloud-native full-link support escorts your application, allowing you to fully focus on business scenarios, Xiaobai can also quickly build mature and professional applications.

• The product advantage of Tencent Cloud Micro-Take is the perfect combination with Tencent's ecology. Based on the underlying resources/technology/ecological empowerment of Tencent Cloud,

• Coupling WeChat ecological capabilities in multiple links, realizing external customer operations and marketing, opening up corporate WeChat capabilities, realizing internal customer accumulation, linking Tencent internal ecosystems such as Tencent conferences, Tencent documents, WeChat payment, and Tencent advertising.

• Official website: https://cloud.tencent.com/product/weda

3. Baidu Aispeed

Baidu Aisu builds a low-code platform as an APaaS application development base that can be deeply connected with Baidu's AI ecological capabilities and enterprise-owned technology platforms. Efficient application construction capabilities and extremely low operation and maintenance costs double the efficiency of development and implementation, break the dilemma of traditional digital practice, and lead the digital transformation of enterprises.

The initial users of AiSudao are Baidu's internal developers, so its most important design concept is "developers first".

We believe that the zero-code platform for non-developers has limited usage scenarios and can only be used for simple office applications. Most of the time, it is not as simple and convenient as online Excel. Therefore, Aispeed is not a zero-code platform, it is for people with certain development experience user. The goal of Aisuda low-code platform is not to replace developers, but to assist developers to complete their work more efficiently. The front end of Aispeed uses the self-developed open source project amis, and the data model of the backend of Aispeed is based on a traditional database.

Compared with other low-code platforms, Aispeed has three distinctive features because of its emphasis on developers:

• High flexibility, we attach great importance to flexibility and functional scalability, so that developers can maximize their use, rather than setting limits everywhere for ease of use, which is reflected in the subsequent front-end and back-end designs.

• Open and transparent, the biggest risk of a low-code platform is technology lock-in and black boxes. As developers, we don’t like closed low-code platforms, so Aispeed takes openness seriously. The front-end renderer is open source, and the back-end is also open. The traditional database technology that developers are most familiar with is chosen, there is no middle layer, and it is transparent to developers, and the backend of iSurveda does not depend on any cloud vendors, and can be deployed in any environment.

• The architecture is loosely coupled. Compared with a large and comprehensive integrated system, we chose a loosely coupled architecture, which allows developers to have more choices. They can choose to use only the front end, only the visual editor, and only the back end. Good integration with existing development.

Official website: https://suda.baidu.com/

4. HUAWEI CLOUD Astro light application Astro Zero (AppCube)

• AppCube AppCube is a low-code application development platform tailored by Huawei Cloud for industry customers, partners, and developers. It provides full-scenario visual development capabilities and end-to-end deployment capabilities. Use industry assets to accelerate industry digitization.

• AppCube AppCube (hereinafter referred to as AppCube) is a low-code application development platform derived from Huawei's application development and digital transformation practices. Complexity improves the efficiency of enterprise development. At the same time, it provides development standards and micro-service frameworks for application assets to help enterprises accumulate reproducible suites, accelerate application customization, and realize commercial realization of suite assets through an open ecology. As the name suggests, the application Rubik's Cube is just like the Rubik's Cube. Various modular elements can be arranged in any combination to create applications with different functions. Through the application of the interface, logic, object and other visual arrangement tools provided by Mofang AppCube, the application can be quickly built in the way of "drag, pull, and drop", so as to realize the rapid application development and construction of what you see is what you get.

• Official website: https://www.huaweicloud.com/product/appcube.html

5. Byte Feishu multi-dimensional table

• ByteDance Feishu Multidimensional Table is a new generation of efficiency application based on tables. It has the lightness of tables and the power of business systems. It integrates online collaboration, information management and visualization capabilities. It can adapt to team thinking and business development needs. It is a business management tool with personalized capabilities.

• Set advanced permissions to ensure the security of table data, down to the permissions of each row and column.

• The intelligent automation process makes enterprise-level business flow efficient, timely and fully automatic.

• Use the intuitive and clear dashboard to summarize the data insights of each data table and sit firmly in the data cockpit.

• Generate a form view with one click, solve various information collection problems, and fully release manpower.

• Connect the powerful API capability with the internal system of the enterprise, let the data drive the business, and help the transformation of the distributed organization of the enterprise.

• Feishu Multidimensional Table: The multidimensional table can present the same data source in 5 types: Table View, Kanban View, Gantt View, Album View and Form View. All the data put into multi-dimensional tables can be converted into different forms in real time, and different views can be switched with one click to meet the query needs of personnel in various departments.

• Official website: https://www.feishu.cn/hc/zh-CN/articles/796815692857

6. Yuncheng low-code platform

• Yuncheng Platform is a low-code development platform based on springboot+vue.js. Using standard cloud-native architectures such as micro-services, front-end and back-end separation, based on tools such as visual business modeling, process modeling, form modeling, page modeling, report modeling, market modeling, mobile modeling, etc., zero-code rapid construction For cloud business applications, the platform can be deployed on localized physical machines or virtual machines, or based on Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and enterprise private clouds. Yuncheng platform is also a professional BPM software, which can be deployed independently to support the implementation of enterprise-level end-to-end processes, and can also be embedded in your OA, ERP and other systems to be used as process engine components. The main purpose of the Yuncheng platform is to allow developers to focus on business and reduce technical difficulty, thereby saving labor costs, shortening project cycles, improving software security quality, and reducing costs and increasing efficiency for enterprise information construction. The core members of Yuncheng's R&D team have more than 10 years of experience in software R&D, focusing on the R&D of middleware products such as low-code platforms and process engines. They can output platform products and components, and can also deliver platform source code. Core competencies include:

• Business modeling: Based on the idea of ​​metadata model-driven development, it provides flexible and stable metadata model modeling and management, and responds to changes in business requirements through metadata configuration such as data entities, attributes, and relationships. Yuncheng platform provides an online database Entity modeling and ER modeling functions support single-table, one-to-one, and one-to-many relationships.

• Form modeling: The online visual form designer can quickly build business-compliant forms for data collection and process approval, online preview, and what you see is what you get.

• Page modeling: Provides visual configuration functions, supports multiple templates such as single table, master-sub-table, tree, etc. Based on the idea of ​​component combination, complex page functions can be built, and page query boxes, operation buttons and other functions can be configured.

• Process modeling: BPMN2.0 specification, visual drag-and-drop process design; various process operations such as countersign, add sign, jump, return, cancel, etc., configuration and use; user, department, role, position, relationship, etc. Various selection The method meets the selection needs of organizations with Chinese characteristics.

• Report Modeling: Report Designer is an online visual report modeling tool that provides summary tables, detailed tables, column charts, bar charts, pie charts, line charts, area charts, radar charts, indicator charts, etc. Commonly used charts can be used in combination and linkage. The designer adopts the drag-and-drop operation style, which is easy to use and can display the configuration effect in real time, which is clear at a glance.

• Portal modeling: Design the homepage by dragging and dropping, no coding required; multiple layout styles, free layout; support multi-role portals, different homepages for different roles; online preview, what you see is what you get.

• Large-screen modeling: no need to write code, online visual design of large-screen, support charts, tables, media and other 20+ commonly used components, support static data, HTTP, SQL and other ways to obtain data.

• Mobile modeling: Yuncheng Mobile APP is a lightweight mobile office software that can design processes and forms online and develop applications without handwriting codes, and can automatically generate mobile interface, which greatly improves the efficiency of mobile application development.

• Data service: no need to develop Java objects such as Controller, Service, Dao, Mapper, XML, VO, etc., one-click can generate HTTP API interface, seamlessly integrate with Swagger, and generate standard RESTful interface documents.

Official website: http://www.yunchengxc.com/

7、ClickPaaS

• Shanghai Aipaisi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ClickPaaS) is an enterprise-level low-code development platform company, with the mission of helping more organizations build key business systems faster, easier to iterate, and lower cost, focusing on domain model drive Development helps medium and large enterprises quickly build core business systems, and at the same time empowers ecological partners to quickly implement customized vertical industry solutions and help them develop new business increments. ClickPaaS relies on a completely self-developed low-code development platform and joins hands with a group of partners to extensively serve the digital and intelligent strategic transformation of leading customers in the fields of engineering infrastructure, cross-border logistics, agile government affairs, innovative finance, and intelligent manufacturing.

• The ClickPaaS platform provides high-performance PaaS, aPaaS, and iPaaS combined products, as well as an application template library based on this, to serve the different IT demands of various enterprises, the evolution of SaaS products, and the needs of IT and management consulting companies for project implementation. The requirements of enterprise digital transformation for technology platforms must be agile construction and increased integration, which is reflected in the PaaS layer, which is based on high-performance PaaS and needs to have the functions of application creation PaaS (aPaaS) and application integration PaaS (iPaaS). Model construction meets applications in various business scenarios, and iPaaS completes data matching, data conversion, and data management between applications through non-coding methods.

• Among them, the high-performance application platform hpaPaaS (High-Productivity Application PaaS) is a highly efficient application generation platform, enabling the IT department to work closely with the business department to quickly deliver applications and efficiently realize the digital process of the enterprise, and quickly respond to business changes.

• aPaaS is a creator, and ClickPaaS provides tools such as business flow designer, model designer, operation and maintenance tool, report designer, page designer, template designer, rule designer, etc., to quickly create and respond to changes.

• iPaas is an all-round integration platform that can connect different heterogeneous systems and provide customers with a unified system integration solution. It also has rich native components, ecological components, and custom components to provide guarantee for personalized complex docking scenarios.

• Official website: https://www.clickpaas.com/

8. NetEase Qingzhou

• NetEase Qingzhou low-code platform helps enterprises quickly build a low-code platform for cloud-native applications, provides powerful data model building capabilities, flexible and easy-to-use visual programming language, and helps build multi-level fine-grained enterprise digital assets.

• Data model: Build a low-code data model through entities, data structures, enumerations, etc. Visually define the relationship between data, and the platform automatically generates database tables and common interfaces.

• Page View: Create a page based on a template or complete page construction by dragging, pulling, and dropping components on a blank page. The platform provides standardized components, as well as component expansion capabilities, and can maintain its own component library.

• Logic editing: the platform provides logic units, which can be used to complete front-end and back-end logic functions such as logical judgment, interface call, and logic call by building blocks.

• Open interface: Enterprise stock interfaces can be quickly imported through the low-code platform and automatically connected to the API gateway. Provides the ability to define interfaces visually, and automatically connects the interfaces to the API gateway.

• Workflow: Integrate the process engine, support the business process development of BPMN2.0 specification, and standardize the model and symbols on this basis. It can support the rapid development of routine processes, such as leave, entry, resignation and other common processes in the enterprise.

• Data statistics: Line charts, histograms, pie charts, and scatter charts can be realized by dragging and dropping components, and the design from data to models to reports can also be completed on several BI products. Low code can directly convert the generated Complex reports are integrated into the application.

• Official website: https://sf.163.com/product/lcap

9. YonBuilder

• YonBuilder has been developed and practiced within Yonyou since 2016, and has continuously accumulated various business components, visual designers, and rule engines. In 2019, YonSuite, YonSuite's cloud ERP suite, was released. YonBIP's core cloud service has completed the migration to the iuap5.0 unified platform base, and this base is YonBuilder, which is its cloud-native development layer and MDD driver layer. Now, YonBuilder provides developers with the ability to fully cover design development, test development, test deployment, operation and maintenance & upgrade. At the same time, YonBuilder will also coordinate with other product lines of Yonyou. For example, the services provided by YonLinker for developers are integrated in YonBuilder for developers, and the results built by YonBuilder can be published to the cloud market YonStore for promotion, forming a closed commercial loop of developer services.

• YonBuilder provides enterprise-level all-round infrastructure to help users build applications suitable for different scenarios through "zero installation, low coding, and visualization"; drag-and-drop development of web applications, mobile applications, and small programs accelerates business innovation and transformation. It also provides wizards and a large number of application templates to quickly and easily build enterprise applications, satisfy user imagination, and activate more business potential. Specifically, YonBuilder is a low-code or no-code development platform driven by data and models, providing support from four levels:

  1. Business management is at the core. YonBuilder provides support from data model definition, page model, process model, business rules, to multi-terminal application publishing. These are all data-driven, and the entire business process can be designed and configured by business managers in a code-free manner; or through The ability of reverse modeling, directly draw the page on the designer, and reversely generate the data model and process through the ability of the designer.

  2. Primary functions aimed at business control. The pages, processes, and rules completed by business personnel realize the basic logic control of the business. If you need more personalized interactive control, data inspection, and calling three-party systems (multi-system association in the enterprise, and services in the enterprise application society), it is up to you. Coding ability development personnel to complete, forming the effect of the baton.

  3. YonBuilder itself provides full scripting capabilities and scaffolding. Script snippets and script wizards can also massively improve developer productivity. In addition, YonBuilder also provides extension mechanisms, such as the component center, which can help developers extend components to make applications closer to business.

  4. YonBuilder combines all the services and applications of Yonyou and provides them to users. From business applications, business reports, data visualization, analysis & forecasting, a set of platforms can provide support through complete metadata.

• Official website: https://developer.yonyoucloud.com/

10. Kingdee Sky Cloud Platform

• Kingdee Cloud·Kangqiong Development Service Cloud is based on the fourth-generation dynamic domain model (KDDM) created by Kingdee. The development service cloud provides dynamic modeling tools, supports visual configuration, low-code development, and easily builds custom applications based on microservice architecture. Provide a series of services and management tools for the development, deployment, operation and operation of cloud applications (SaaS services), covering microservice components, development services, operation services, service management, API service framework, application modeling, cloud support services and operations maintenance services, etc. Kingdee Cloud·Kangqiong Development Service Cloud provides dynamic modeling tools based on dynamic domain models, supports visual configuration, low-code development, and easily builds custom applications based on microservice architecture.

• The dynamic domain model is a set of enterprise business modeling formed by Kingdee based on years of experience in enterprise-level applications, combined with enterprise modeling ideas such as "Enterprise Architecture (EA), Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)" The system and methodology solve a series of problems in enterprise-level software development efficiency, consistency, security, commonality and individuality, and IT capitalization, which is the core foundation of the low-code development platform.

• Official website: https://www.kingdee.com/products/cosmic_development_services.html

11. Pan micro platform

• Fanwei is supported by seven major engines, including "organization authority engine, modeling engine, process engine, integration engine, content engine, portal and message engine", to help organizations create an open and shared low-code application construction platform.

• The rapid construction capability is an important feature of the pan-micro low-code construction platform. Organizations can build personalized application scenarios by dragging and dropping through the background engine configuration method. Flexible form design, process building functions, online debugging, and intelligent modification functions make application building more convenient and intelligent.

• The Panwei low-code platform realizes internal collaboration, ensuring the synergy among internal processes, portals, documents, data, and roles. Click on any field to trace the relevant data and work content, and understand the overall business picture. Through the pan-micro low-code business construction platform, organizations can connect, expand and integrate ERP, CRM, HRM, SRM and other applications on one platform.

• On the basis of platform capabilities, Fanwei provides the operation mode of "application sharing mall" to connect and share application results with customers all the time. And directly obtain the needs and ideas of users, understand the market demand at the first time, further meet the needs of different organizations, and greatly shorten the distance with customers. There are hundreds of applications in various scenarios in the Panwei application store, including shared and reused elements, components, forms, templates, portals, applications, etc. Organizations can freely choose various pre-built applications, search and install them for use.

• Official website: https://eteams.cn/appbuilder

12. Lanling low-code platform

• Founded in 2001, Lanling Software is an ecological OA leader, a professional service provider for digital work, and a top 500 enterprise in Shenzhen. It provides all kinds of organizations with integrated solutions such as smart office, mobile portal, knowledge management, digital management, and financial sharing.

• Lanling Software is a well-known domestic knowledge management and collaborative OA service brand. It has created a high reputation in the collaborative office market, and it is also the earliest and closest old-fashioned collaborative manufacturer to go with the Internet TOB ecology. In 2015, Lanling Software and DingTalk reached a strategic cooperation. Until 2018, DingTalk’s capital injection, Lanling Software and DingTalk’s ecology began to be closely integrated. The low-code service field of "form + process + data" for major customers has built a certain first-mover advantage, forming a market supplement to DingTalk's ecology. The bucket-shaped product features of Lanling Software are relatively prominent. As an old collaborative OA brand, Lanling Software has a stronger tendency to export low-code as one of its capabilities to customers. How to position/balance the productization path of "low-code" will be a key issue for Bluelink One of Ling's challenges.

• core advantages:

  • Rich UI and mobile components, more convenient to call

  • Lanling's low-code platform encapsulates rich UI and mobile components, reduces the dependence on professional artists, and facilitates the unification of the interface style; the call of mobile components makes the mobile application more convenient.

  • Visual form, process design, low threshold

  • Supports two types of process forms and non-process forms. Drag and drop layouts and controls to generate forms; draw custom flow charts according to requirements, and quickly build workflows; business personnel can also quickly get started.

  • Configurable rules to flexibly respond to business changes

  • Based on the rule engine of the platform, it is easy to complete the design of business form relationship, trigger action design, and business operation design, and respond more agilely to business changes.

  • Dynamically generate multiple charts to support data analysis

  • Integrate the native chart engine; support list statistics, chart statistics, chart set statistics, etc.; can dynamically generate various business reports, making application analysis more convenient.

  • Refined permission design to make applications more secure

  • Supports fine-grained management of role permissions, data management, data permissions, and field permissions; ensures data and application security in different scenarios.

  • Support full mobility, application anytime, anywhere

  • Combination of PC modeling and mobile modeling; PC modeling has MK-PaaS mechanism services to deepen business needs; mobile modeling adopts front-end and back-end separation technology, allowing business innovation to play a role at the mobile end at any time.

Official website: http://www.landray.com.cn/static-old/solution/didaima/index.html

13. Jian Daoyun

• Jiandaoyun is a software under Fanruan Software Co., Ltd. Jiandao Cloud provides functional modules such as forms, processes, analysis dashboards, and knowledge bases. Administrators can build business management applications that meet their needs (such as production management, invoicing, ordering, etc.) without coding. Employees can receive Jiandaoyun messages and handle business on computers and mobile phones.

• Data visualization and analysis dashboard is the core function of Jiandao Cloud. The data collected in the form can be viewed, analyzed and processed through the dashboard. The dashboard consists of data components, text components, image components, and filter components. The data components include a wide variety of chart types. Administrators can choose chart types according to actual needs to build dashboard statistics. The dashboard provides a variety of charts, and you can view the details and summaries of form data through detailed tables, pivot tables, etc.; you can process data through columns, polylines, graphs, radar charts, etc., and show the development of data Trends, category comparisons, etc.

• Official website: https://www.jiandaoyun.com/

14. light flow

• Qingliu is a code-free development platform produced by Shanghai Yixiao Information Technology Co., Ltd., and it is also a cloud-based no-code business process management platform; it provides SaaS tools for Qingliu business processes, and can create online business process management systems without development. At the same time, the cloud business process consultant is connected with the enterprise, and the business process solution based on light flow is output. QingFlow has a built-in powerful form engine, process engine, and report engine, which are connected in series through the automated business robot Q-Robot, and provide a wealth of extension plug-ins and open interfaces. The "Lego-style" operating experience lets you think Instantly become a reality. Enterprise informatization · light flow is enough.

• Form engine: Like "Lego", drag-and-drop form design, rich field types, you can also define form styles, set data linkage, formula functions, logic rules, source tags, etc. Powerful, practical and beautiful. Customize your enterprise data entry.

• Process engine: The innovative and powerful workflow engine provides solid technical support for efficient business flow. The visual process design interface is easy to use and extremely powerful. It can easily create, change, and maintain business process applications without code.

• Reporting engine: Through the automation of business processes, a large amount of business data is accumulated, and the reports and dashboards that can be viewed in real time are set up to allow you to understand the current business situation from all aspects at a glance, and the work efficiency is doubled.

• Official website: https://qingflow.com/