Faced with talent shortages in many industries, and especially in specific positions related to system and application development, companies are paying increasing attention to low-code and no-code platforms and solutions. To the extent that low-code has already become a very important part of their business for a majority. This has been reflected in a survey of the provider of software platforms for companies Mendixwhich reflects that 69% of those who have participated in it have gone from using low-code as crisis management technology to consider it a core technology for your business.
556 technology and business executives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands participated in this survey. They all belong to one of the following sectors: manufacturing, financial services, insurance, public sector and retail. Of them, 90% have assured that if their organizations had not used technology, among which is low-code, to adapt to the circumstances that existed in 202 and 2021, which were changing rapidly, they would have had to close. And 10% point out that low-code has become the foundation of their company.
The types of apps that are developed with low-code platforms and systems have also changed. Approximately 40% of survey respondents say they now use low-code to develop mission-critical solutions, especially enterprise software, productivity apps, and customer portals.
By 2024, companies surveyed plan to use these types of platforms more than other traditional coding options, and 87% intend to accelerate software development two years from now. In addition, low-code has been adopted as a facilitator of digital transformation, because it simplifies the digitization of internal processes and those that are carried out facing the client.
One of the sectors that have benefited from this simplification of tasks that low-code has brought to companies is manufacturing. Thus, 63% of manufacturing companies have already used low-code or no-code to solve transport, logistics or supply chain problems.
Other sectors, such as banking, finance and insurance, have used platforms of this type to automate appointments and create easier digital purchase processes. The retail sector has already used low-code to launch hybrid commerce, and to optimize product collection. In general, all sectors have the same problems to adopt low-code: security and complexity for the organization.
The The sector that is furthest behind in low-code adoption is public organizations. Only 22% have implemented them, although another 57% have already taken the first steps for their implementation, or are in the middle of the process that will lead them to adopt them. More than half, in fact, have already verified that low-code improves identity authentication.
