Accelerating digital transformation with no-code

Opcito Technologies
4 min readSep 18, 2020

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The business landscape is transforming rapidly, thanks to the accelerated development processes and advanced applications. This transformation has played a significant role for organizations by streamlining services, achieving high productivity, and maximizing revenues. Not only this, but this shift has drastically changed the competitive landscape, and not all organizations are able to cope with this changing landscape. It is essential for them to re-work and adapt to the continuously changing markets in the fast-paced digital world. These changing markets have imposed the need for more and more applications and software. And believe me, it is going to be impossible for your IT teams to fulfill these demands. Organizations need to understand the market and accordingly change the business process to meet these demands.

Most of this adaptation focuses on speed and agility in the development approach in the software domain. Let me explain that to you with an elementary example of data entry processes in any organization. The simple work like data entry can, at times, become very tiresome if we don’t adopt the transformation process, then it may lead to many errors when done manually. Excel, on the other hand, facilitates the data upload. But at the same time, it isn’t easy to maintain accuracy in excel, and it won’t be easy for everyone to use. So, what will you do? You can create an application that will automatically arrange the data for you according to defined fields. But again, if you need to code the application, then what’s the point? And this is precisely where no-code comes into the picture. With no-code, you can create an application only by drag and drop of required components. All you need is understanding the logic behind the application you want to build. Automation will replace most of the manual labor involved in the data entry process, which will add speed and efficiency.

So, what exactly is no-code?

If you want to create applications but have very little knowledge of coding or don’t want to code, then a no-code platform is for you. Many organizations that are not purely into an application development or are not very sound when it comes to technology can quickly build their complete application with no-code. You can develop and deploy web and mobile apps without even writing a single line of code with no-code. All you need to do is define flow and logic behind the application, build a layout, drag & drop the components required, and you are good to go. A no-code platform is a perfect choice for small businesses that cannot hire developers or do not want to outsource their development due to budget constraints. The workforce from different departments, usually non-programming, can quickly fulfill the faster application delivery requirements and develop applications by themselves.

How-no code software development is useful?

Let’s find out how no-code development helps speed up the delivery process and, in turn, in digital transformation.

  • Reduced design times: Traditional coding takes a lot of time and is a long process. A project usually requires thousands of code lines followed by testing, which is a long process. The most critical decision to make is regarding the language choice for writing the program. The next important step is code writing. And let’s not get into the code errors, one single colon or click here and there, and numerous complicated code lines appear.
  • The no-code software speeds up the planning and preparation stage. It becomes easy for software developers to go through the numerous lines of codes in a short period when they use no-code platforms. And if you talk about errors, the probability of compiler error reduces to a great extent with these platforms.
  • Reduced implementation issues: It is common for us to spend much time resolving implementation problems while building an application. There are many issues faced by the IT teams like programs don’t respond as required, questions related to hardware’s communication, and then there are a specific set of users who find it challenging to grasp the complex procedures during application creation.
  • Keeping all the above-mentioned problems in mind, no-code can significantly increase the team’s productivity, especially the IT team. Most of the no-code platforms are intelligent enough and have a predictive feature that can determine the areas where an implementation issue may occur and take care of them even before they occur…read more.

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Opcito Technologies
Opcito Technologies

Written by Opcito Technologies

Product engineering experts specializing in DevOps, Containers, Cloud, Automation, Blockchain, Test Engineering, & Open Source Tech

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