Present applicant with digital form X
Ingest relevant financial information from bank Y after customer authorization
Calculate risk using all relevant customer data in custom algorithm
Yes and no. From the perspective of the user building the application, there is no code, because they only need to access the visual UI. In many no-code systems, users don’t even have access to the editable codebase. But on the backend, the application is still very much running on code; otherwise, the computer would have no way of understanding what to do! The codebase is automatically generated and updated by the platform based on what the user does in the UI. With no-code, users can focus on UX and application logic and never have to think about syntax.
No-code isn’t a new technology breakthrough. WYSIWYG web editors from the 90s were technically no-code. However, until recently, most no-code tools were focused on helping users with limited coding expertise build basic digital creations (e.g., static “brochure” websites) or to streamline niche business tasks (e.g., simple integrators).
Today, a new generation of enterprise-grade no-code application platforms such as Unqork have radically expanded the scope and capabilities of no-code. These platforms empower large organizations to rapidly develop and effectively manage sophisticated, scalable solutions without writing a single line of code.
There are a variety of no-code tools on the market. While they all allow users to develop software without writing code, they aren’t necessarily suited to developing robust enterprise software.
Products like Wix, Squarespace, and Webflow all make it possible to build seriously great websites without any previous knowledge of engineering, code, or software development. These tools are great for getting a message across simply through a website, but they cannot incorporate advanced functionality and business logic for enterprise-ready applications.
Various productivity-minded “super spreadsheet” applications empower users to build internal applications without writing code. Applications such as Airtable can help organize teams and basic internal workflows, but they cannot deliver the complex business logic (certainly not the type that would be necessary for dynamic, heavily regulated industries that Unqork services).
Integration tools such as Zapier and Workato make it easier for users to pass data from one system to another using a library of APIs. These platforms can, without coding, ingest data from one application using a series of rules and pass that information on to other applications and perform an action.
The final type of no-code platform is the no-code application platform. These platforms help users build more classical web applications with logins, multiple screens of functionality, and in many cases, complex logic routing data, workflows, or other functionality.
A new class of cloud-based development platforms, such as Unqork, have been specifically designed with the needs of the enterprise in mind. In an enterprise no-code platform, developers (or “Creators'' as we refer to them at Unqork) build robust solutions by visually connecting configurable components representing both user-facing elements and back-end business logic. Applications are developed completely visually from start-to-finish and run entirely from the platform after it’s deployed.
With no-code, the process of taking a custom enterprise solution from ideation to production is measured in weeks, or even days, rather than months or years. No-code can be used to accelerate both initial builds and subsequent updates.
No-code lowers the cost of developing and managing enterprise solutions by 300%. When you build with no-code, you stop creating new legacy code that will have to be updated and stop falling deeper into technical debt.
While modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, etc.) can take a year to learn and a decade to master, no-code can be picked-up in a matter of weeks. Furthermore, Creators can rapidly build functional prototypes to ensure business requirements are correctly addressed early in the process.
No-code-built applications can reduce the occurrence of bugs by more than 600x compared to those built using code.
Because projects can get ramped up quickly and with lower costs, your organization can experiment without the built-in risk of a traditional development approach.
Focus experienced engineers on complex solutions by amplifying business-led teams’ ability to address routine (but still important) development projects.
Security, compliance, RBAC, & infrastructure are all maintained and monitored out-of-the-box, allowing you to focus on other areas.
With no-code, organizations can rapidly append and amend their digital infrastructures to address business disruptions of any scale.
Modern enterprises are under increasing pressure to drive operational efficiencies, meet rising consumer expectations for digital experiences, and fend off digital disruptors. However, it’s becoming more difficult for technology leaders to keep up with these demands. After decades of improved efficiency, developer productivity has decreased over the past 10 years. In fact, it took 20% longer to develop enterprise software in the 2010s than it did in the aughts.
Modern enterprise ecosystems include multiple teams around the globe and integrate with legacy solutions and external third-party services. Time must be spent effectively tying all these elements together.
Modern organizations dedicate an increasing amount of tech resources to managing legacy systems (some of which may be decades old and built by programmers who have long since moved on) and paying down technical debt (i.e., workarounds that must eventually be addressed to keep systems functioning).
At the enterprise-scale, business solutions must comply with an evolving patchwork of regional and industry-specific oversight. Compliance is particularly challenging in highly regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government.
Organizations are forced to compete for developers within a limited pool of talent—and competition is particularly fierce when it comes to advanced fields like machine learning and data analytics.
The technological status quo is no longer able to keep pace with the needs of today, which is why organizations from a wide variety of industries have turned to no-code to streamline development and evolve their digital infrastructure at the speed of business.
