Building mobile apps presents numerous challenges, especially to developers more comfortable with more traditional enterprise applications – especially given the shortage of savvy mobile developers. To address these issues, several vendors have rolled out low-code and no-code platforms for simplifying and accelerating mobile app development.
In spite of this crowded, dynamic market, one vendor stands alone: OutSystems. Its new OutSystems 10 addresses each of the challenges with mobile app development in turn, delivering remarkable capabilities that check all the boxes for enterprise mobile applications.
Low-Code for Mobile App Development
Analysts like Forrester lump low-code and no-code platforms together, but in reality, these two capabilities are at opposite ends of a spectrum.
Low-code platforms like OutSystems accelerate the work of developers, improving both quality and time to value. In contrast, no-code platforms are more for nontechnical business users to assemble applications following ‘drag-and-drop’ techniques.
In spite of the terminology, the primary difference between the two is more about a basic understanding of systems architecture than the ability to type out lines of code.
There are several no-code mobile app tools on the market, but they generally focus on basic capabilities like forms entry and simple workflows. OutSystems, however, took a different approach, looking at the capabilities that state-of-the-art enterprise mobile apps should exhibit and building those capabilities into its platform.
As a result, OutSystems not only automates the easier tasks of building mobile apps, but excels at the more difficult ones – the more difficult, the better.
In fact, OutSystems raises the bar for all other low-code mobile development platforms. “OutSystems brings automation to things that were very difficult to automate, but shouldn’t be,” says Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2016/10/09/outsystems-10-sets-high-bar-for-low-code-mobile-app-development/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, OutSystems is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. OutSystems covered Jason Bloomberg’s travel to its NextStep conference, a standard industry practice. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.
