1. Which companies are currently using low-code platforms?
(Examples of some large-scale enterprises in various industries)
Manufacturing industry: Schneider Electric, Geely Automobile, HKUST Nengtong, Weixing Group, Far East Holdings, FAW-Volkswagen, Robam, Shuangling Elevator, Junlebao.
Construction industry: China Communications Construction, Zhufu Group, Federal Furniture, Zhongbei Construction Engineering, Easy Home.
Medical industry: Medical Steward, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Kefu Medical.
Education industry: Southwest Forestry University, Northwestern Polytechnical University.
Government units: State Grid, Aircraft Design and Research Institute.
Trade industry: Hema Xiansheng, Youngor, Intime Department Store.
Internet industry: Kingsoft Office, Alibaba Cloud, Xiaodian Technology, e-signature.
Financial industry: Ningxia Commercial Bank, Huaxia Bank.
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2. Is the low-code platform practical?
Through the adoption of the above companies, it has been demonstrated that the low-code platform is indeed a relatively practical solution.
Looking at the current development of low-code in China, some people may treat low-code platforms in an "unreasonable" way.
- Similar to most people saying that Meitu Xiuxiu is garbage after using Meitu Xiuxiu to achieve Photoshop retouching effect after failing;
- Or use Clipping to realize the Premiere video editing effect and say Clipping is useless after failing.
This point of view is similar to expecting mobile phones to achieve telephoto effects like professional cameras, but complaining that mobile phones are an IQ tax. This is an unreasonable point of view.
By the same token, some articles criticizing low-code platforms have similar problems, and they may adopt the following points of view when discussing:
- Low-code platforms are pediatric toys in the eyes of programmers;
- Low-code platforms are considered difficult to implement complex large-scale application systems;
These contents may start from the media's sentence "low code will make programmers unemployed", so as to confuse the concept and spray it.
Therefore, before the formal discussion, we need to clarify a misunderstanding: "development is not equal to writing code". Because low-code products emphasize the concept of "citizen development" in the promotion process, such as "everyone is a developer, you can easily build a system without a code foundation...", laymen may mistakenly draw the following conclusions:
Everyone is a developer = everyone can code = low-code products will replace programmers = false propaganda = bullshit.
However, from a professional point of view, "development is not equal to writing code", it is just a way to build a collaborative process based on business. Even for very professional developers, under the trend of refined technical division of labor (front-end/back-end/algorithm/operation and maintenance), it is difficult for enterprises to independently develop and maintain the entire complex application. The low-code platform can reduce the communication cost between business and technical personnel through a unified language, and enable various roles to collaborate closely on the unified platform. This is the root of the subversive significance of low-code.
3. Which applications are suitable for low-code platforms?
Although low-code platforms are easy to use, they are not "one size fits all", so not all application development and building are suitable for low-code/zero-code platforms.
- Large and complex applications: ERP, MES, PLM, SCM, scientific research and engineering projects and other highly complex core application systems.
- Form application: suitable for page applications such as data collection, statistics, processing, analysis, and reporting.
- Enterprise Portals: Low-code platforms enable rapid creation of arrays of portals with a common front-end or user interface, without the need for manual coding and back-end components.
- Business process/system: used to define the workflow of complex tasks and establish a process to automate operations across multiple departments to implement business process systems, such as CRM, OA, HR, finance, procurement management, etc.
- C-side applets: quickly develop applets/H5 pages through low-code, and can be quickly customized and personalized.
- Data model application: Aiming at the data in the relational database, the application of adding, deleting, modifying and checking based on the database form.
- IoT-based applications: Enterprises can use low-code platforms to build applications and functions, integrate IoT terminals and collect data, send IoT data through back-end computing infrastructure, and provide final data requests to internal or external customers.
Therefore, before choosing a low-code platform, enterprises must first clarify the purpose of using the low-code platform and choose a platform that matches it, instead of complaining that it is not easy to use after using it, but not knowing what they need.
Generally speaking, you can choose a no-code platform (such as Partner Cloud, Mingdao Cloud) for small needs; it is recommended to choose an enterprise-level low-code development platform (such as Zhixin Informat, Movable Type) for highly complex core enterprise systems.
This recommendation is for reference only, and may not be the most suitable one. It is best to compare and understand several companies by yourself.
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