BrainBlog for OutSystems by Jason Bloomberg
Low-code platforms and tools are transforming application development in organizations of all sizes. These tools provide visual development environments for professional developers that accelerate and streamline their work, while also making it easier to collaborate with business stakeholders.
A separate category of tools has also come to market – no-code tools – that specifically met the needs of such ‘citizen developers,’ empowering them to build a range of different types of business applications without the need for professional application development skills.
However, no-code and low-code capabilities are converging. Many of today’s low-code tools are adding no-code features, making them simple enough for non-technical business users to work with. And while modern no-code tools focus on the creation of relatively simple, departmental-level apps, the vendors of these tools are adding increasingly sophisticated capabilities to them as well for those ‘power users’ who are able to leverage such capabilities.
