For an IT leader, when faced with a budget that does not increase but decreases, he is still required to produce more work faster, which may be suffocating. In order to cope with these difficult tasks, if the focus is shifted from “projects” to “products”, various challenges can be solved more strategically on a large scale. In fact, many people do turn to low-code development in order to solve overwhelming problems.
The low-code market is booming. According to the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms report, “By 2024, 75% of large enterprises will use at least four low-code development tools for IT application development and citizen development activities.” Because of this, Gartner currently It is tracking more than 300 low-code vendors from various business areas that claim to be able to solve “all problems” for users. So how do you select a suitable low-code platform from so many vendors and information?
In fact, Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms can help Screen suitable low-code platforms and understand which vendor is best at providing the functions your organization needs.
5 key use cases for a successful low-code platform
When talking about what a true low-code platform should provide for enterprises, many of these 300 vendors even failed to pass the sampling test. Although some of these manufacturers claim to be “leaders” in this field, few can prove this.
It may be a feasible way to think through reverse thinking and consider which use cases will use low-code, so as to determine a low-code solution suitable for the enterprise itself. We must consider not only the present, but also the situation in the next one to five years. In this way, five specific product/solution use cases can be summarized in order to discover where differentiation can be achieved.
The following categories may be different from the assessment categories of some companies, but the functions are the same as the five key use cases recently summarized in Gartner’s 2020 Enterprise Low-Code Application Platform Key Capabilities Report:
・ Business sector IT application use cases: This category measures the functional strength provided to users who seek to build new enterprise applications in network, mobile, data, business logic and external services, and is specifically targeted at B2B and B2E scenarios and expected delivery goals The time is about eight weeks. Mendix received the highest score of 3.9 points (out of 5 points) in this category.
・ Mobile and web application SaaS/ISV use case: This use case is used to determine the capabilities of vendors’ low-code products and their effectiveness in building mobile and web SaaS/ISV applications and providing rich user experience for B2B and B2C scenarios. Mendix received the highest score of 4.03 points (out of 5 points) in this category.
・Integrated team composable application use case: The basic principle of this use case focuses on the functions provided by the manufacturer in order to realize the application experience from the combination of “building modules”, which will be used as a customized application experience for a specific end user role/person. Mendix received the highest score of 4.0 points (out of 5 points) in this category.
・ Citizen development: Low code is an ideal way to improve capabilities by involving citizen developers in the application construction process. The specific evaluation content of this use case is: citizen developers use code-free tools in B2E scenarios to build data-centric network business line applications within two weeks. Mendix received the second highest score of 3.8 points (out of 5 points) in this category.
・ Enterprise IT business process application: This use case checks the ability of a low-code platform to automatically execute complex business processes, workflows, case management with complex business logic, external services, and multiple end-user roles in B2E scenarios. Mendix received the third highest score of 3.98 in this category (out of 5 points).
In addition to Gartner’s key capability report, Mendix’s leadership in the low-code market continues to be verified by third parties.
Carefully selected
In the list of key features, you can see Mendix’s outstanding performance in every aspect. It is the first and only all-in-one low-code application platform for enterprises. With this, Mendix has extended the principles of low-code accelerated development through abstraction and automation, and extended the agility of enterprise organizations to new areas, including native mobile development, process automation, data integration, cloud portability, and more.