Three Challenges with Today’s Low-Code Platforms
Low-code development platforms have been sweeping the industry promising lightning fast digital transformation to organizations across the globe. In theory, they’re great—you don’t need to get a developer involved to make changes to the system? Sweet!!!
Popular low-code platforms on the market today typically use one of the following approaches, which simply don’t work for large, complex companies:
These approaches may work for small businesses, or even some mid-sized companies, that are able to change the way they do business to “make the system work.” But large organizations which have been around for a while, have home-grown apps, or require acts of Congress to make a change simply don’t fit into these models.
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Many of the all-in-one low-code players look amazing in the demo with everything configured in the same system. Keep in mind though that most demos are shown starting from nothing. In the real world, you already have multiple finance, HR, IT and ops systems in place. It would take a massive project to replace just one of them— let alone all of them. Time and again we’ve seen companies spend millions of dollars choosing the “all-in-one” solution only to fail halfway through the implementation.
There’s another problem with this approach: vendor lock-in. We’ve seen many organizations pricing models increase dramatically when the vendor sees how locked in you are to their product. It happens more often than you’d think, especially at the enterprise level.
Better Option: Take the approach of incremental improvement for a successful digital transformation. A platform doesn’t need to do everything itself. Choose one with the flexibility to work with your existing investments, the strategies to solve the problems of today and the philosophy to work through the challenges of tomorrow.
Let’s face it, the lower the code, the lower the flexibility. There’s simply no way to create every variation of UI widget, page layout, process flow, or integration ahead of time. Why? Because those details are specific to your company.
In the companies we’ve worked with, there’s always a few outlying use cases that require specific UI widgets or page layouts.
