When it comes to low-source development platform we have to mention zero code development.
The so-called zero-source software development is not a new concept. As early as 1992, the first zero-source enterprise software build tools appeared in Microsoft's Office suite, many companies geeks will remember that the database application is called Access. But, Access of the year just a stand-alone application, data sharing depend on complex corporate networks, and it only provides a visual interface for a relational database, data tables can accelerate the construction business, relationships and forms for input and output and reports.
At the beginning, this category is not recognized and valued by industry. The skilled person, zero code tools seem cumbersome and not flexible enough for non-technical difficulty, although without writing code, but full of technical language interface and abstract objects, let them stay away. The first category of users are non-technical background to attract corporate geeks, they know how to solve specific problems in business management, but also good at using tools such high elasticity.
Any nascent category are bound to go through the development of product maturity trip to recent years, this category of products at home and abroad and have been great strides in product capabilities and interface performance edge, with a low open-source nature of code development platform solutions some restrictions zero code development suffered.
What is a low-source development platform?
Low-source development platform is around enterprise data and business management needs, by visually design data structure, user interaction forms, set access rights and defined workflow platform, is constantly explore upgrading and development on the basis of zero code development platform on come on flexibility improved a lot, while taking into account general business management processes.
Software application characteristics and secondary development co-existence is not a new thing. Build a personal income tax calculator using Excel software, allowing users to enter their wages, you can get tax, but for the user is applied to the preparation of this human Excel file is development tools, but they use It is Excel.
Why enterprise software can achieve a low code development?
Why do low-games and social software code development, and enterprise software market has been low source tools? Because the enterprise software development relatively simple?
当然不是。能够模式化完成一个工作的原因在于这项工作具备可重复性，就像我们会用3D打印制作一两件零件，但如果要生产成千上万个同样的零件，我们宁可花费成本先去制作模具。企业软件可以模式化开发的原因就在于大多数企业管理软件都由非常类似的需求和实现方式来构成，如果不积极利用这些相似性和模型化方法就需要不断重复发明类似的轮子。
当然也并非所有的企业应用都有相似性。在特定行业和职能中总有一些需要专门化设计和开发的应用，这就是低代码开发平台可以拓展的那部分。
为什么低代码开发平台具有难以替代的优势？
1.满足企业的多样化需求
企业软件需求的多样化是定制开发模式的起源。虽然标准软件产品能够满足企业应用需求中的共性部分，但是因为行业、规模和产品内在特性的差异，每个企业的管理方式和流程都有自己的特点，而且它还会根据企业的规模阶段不断演变。这种差异在不同职能中程度不一，一般来说，围绕产品设计、制造和服务履行的核心业务流差异度更高，而人事，财务等价值创造的支持环节差异度比较低。
在这种背景下，用户始终在寻求一种既能保持足够的灵活性，又能够控制开发的成本和复杂度的方法，低代码开发平台基本就是直接针对这个问题而诞生的。
2.从定制开发中需求沟通的痛苦中解脱
企业软件实现过程中的第一痛点还不是贵，而是需求沟通的复杂。有业务需求的人不是开发软件的人，能够开发软件的人对业务痛点并没有切身的体会和经验。于是行业非常依赖专业的企业软件需求分析和实现方法设计能力，但这个能力是非常稀缺的资源。这也难怪企业软件开发需求的提出主体总是五花八门的，他们之间也需要进行复杂的沟通和信息汇总。
更要命的是，很多时候需求在实施之前都无法100%确定，企业自己无法提出一个完整的解决方案。这时候，要么需要求助于咨询机构这样的外脑，要么就只能走一步看一步。这两个方案听起来都不令人舒适。前者绝非普通中小企业所能够承受，后者可能会影响系统的开发和实施质量。
低代码开发平台的出现让走一步看一步的方案变得更加现实。如果整个系统过于复杂，可以先从一个具体的环节开始，局部数字化（比如先把订单管起来）。反正用平台搭建的速度足够快，用户甚至可以利用代码生成器来生成企业应用原型，在实际使用中进行验证，确认了终端用户可以掌握，原先识别的问题可以被有效解决之后，再继续推进更完整的实施。
可以这么说，低代码工具可以让开发者和使用者之间的距离充分缩短。甚至可能在一两个小时的搭建后就能够确认这个方案是不是能够有效地解决问题。
3.在企业内部实现数据互通
在企业IT中，还有一个致命痛点存在，那就是不同业务系统之间的数据相互隔离，不能综合使用，使得企业难以进行跨职能的数据相关性和因果分析，也难以实现跨职能的数据自动化。
比如要分析一个价格调整措施对财务报表的影响，这个工作在任何一个孤立的信息系统中是无法完成的，而如果要做到，就至少需要从采购，销售，营销和财务系统中获得数据。同样的道理，企业也很难在遇到财务目标无法达成的情况下，自动做出最优的价格决策。这些都是影响企业运营水平至关重要的问题。近年来，Gartner提出的Paced Layer架构，以及阿里给电商企业提供的中台方案就是针对这种需求的反馈。
大企业当然可以投入专门的资金来打造数据中台性质的系统，但小企业支付不起，并不代表他们不想获得这样的能力，低代码开发平台以较低的成本提供了这种可能性。
4.突出的成本和效率优势
低代码开发平台和原生代码开发相比到底能够提高多少效率目前还没有精确的计量，但代码量上至少可以节省80%，传统开发模式需要一周完成的工作，低代码开发平台通常一天就可以做到。
5.开箱即用和自己动手的两全
和成型的企业应用相比，代码开发平台看似有一个缺点，就是依然需要“搭建”。这有点像整体家具系统，摆在样品间很好看，但是实际买回家还需要施工人员来拼装才能达到预期的效果。
In fact, this problem is not complicated, as a common platform, beginning naturally impossible to obtain best practices in various industries, so that every business can see the "Open House" effect. However, over time, to participate in user companies and integrators, the showroom will be more and more, more and more powerful, because the latter is provided by a fixed arrangement of the furniture effect, while the former can be based on different types of rooms, provide different combinations of furniture scheme.
Moreover, at a sufficiently clear market segments (such as metal processing and manufacturing process management such as particle size), can be developed on a low-source development platform that is completely out of the box applications, distributed directly to the use of different enterprises, with the open after-the-box capabilities, it can greatly accelerate the adoption of enterprise wishes.
6. computing platforms provide assurance feature
In database applications, there is an underlying computational performance issues, when complex queries and linkage computing, especially in large-scale data table. Today, enterprise data scale in many industries have grown from tens of thousands of records to millions, millions, or even electricity supplier companies can easily reach one hundred million data. In manufacturing and logistics industry, things are bound to bring more technology networked objects, data generated not only huge, but also need to calculate the form targeted to strengthen.
For a custom implementation of systems, respectively, to overcome performance issues through a distributed database, streaming and other advanced computing technology is an extremely expensive affair. Although the code development platform to provide users with an application-level product, but because of its paradigm of unity, calculated on the basis of these have the opportunity to hide, so that users do not care about the background of these transactions will be able to get high-performance computing services.
Scope of application of low code development platform is very broad, small and medium enterprises, large corporate IT departments, traditional software companies can be used, while the number of information-based platform to develop OA, ERP, CRM, BI, HRM, BPM, APP, etc. system, if open source is not wrong, definitely worth trying.
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