By Darryl K. Taft
Honeycode breaks from low-code/no-code tradition
The tool’s spreadsheet interface is somewhat unusual, as most low-code/no-code tools follow a workflow or mobile UX metaphor, said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx,
in Suffolk, Va. “As such, AWS is targeting it at the Excel power user — not necessarily a professional developer, but someone who is adept at working with Excel formulas.”
Honeycode is “within the reach of the power user to be sure, but awfully code-like for the average business user,” he added.
The tool enables users to create components such as dashboards that are updated in real time as the underlying data changes, he said. And as a fully managed service on the Amazon cloud, users do not have to deal with servers or other hardware or software infrastructure even as apps scale to the point where their apps scale up to 100,000 rows in each workbook of the spreadsheet interface.
