Amid tough competition, businesses are under constant pressure to innovate, adapt, and deliver value at lightning speed. Traditional software development, while powerful, often cannot match the rapid pace required by evolving market demands.
Today, low-code development emerges as a transformative approach to reshaping how organisations build and evolve their digital systems — enabling both professional developers and non-technical users to create sophisticated applications quickly and efficiently, democratising app development.
According to Forrester, 87% of enterprise developers now use low-code development platforms for at least some of their development work. Furthermore, AI integration into low-code development platforms is expected to not just low-code technology but also digital processes — propelling both industries to grow into a US$50 billion market by 2028.
In this blog, we’ll discuss the transformative benefits of low-code development and how organisations can improve their low-code software implementation.
Key Benefits of Low-Code Platforms
Today, organisations are leveraging low-code development frameworks to:
- Automate workflows that streamline operations and eliminate productivity bottlenecks.
- Build customer service apps that enhance engagement and drive satisfaction metrics.
- Create dashboards and reporting tools that transform raw data into actionable business intelligence.
- Modernise legacy systems without the risk and expense of complete rebuilds.
The low-code platform advantages are numerous and pivotal:
- Speed: Reduces time-to-market from months to weeks, enabling businesses to respond to market opportunities before competitors.
- Cost efficiency: Dramatically reduces development resource requirements and technical debt while maximising the value of existing IT investments.
- Agility: Enables rapid prototyping, testing, and iteration based on real-world feedback, which is essential for maintaining relevance in dynamic markets.
- Collaboration: Creates a unified digital innovation environment where business domain experts and technical teams co-create solutions aligned with strategic objectives
- Integration: Connects disparate systems and data sources, breaking down information silos across the organisation.
Maximise the Benefits of Low-Code with Tailored Solutions
To truly harness the potential of low-code, many companies turn to system integrators to maximise their investments by ensuring that low-code platforms are not just adopted but also strategically implemented and scaled.
Despite the “low-code” moniker suggesting simplicity, implementing these platforms effectively within complex enterprise environments demands specialised knowledge; system integrators bridge this critical expertise gap.
Let’s explore how system integrators help businesses succeed with low-code development:
Selecting and Customising Platforms
Choosing the right low-code platform is more than a technical decision — it’s a strategic one. System integrators bring deep industry knowledge and technical expertise to help businesses, helping to:
- Assess business needs and match them with platform capabilities.
- Compare leading low-code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform, OutSystems, Mendix, and Appian.
- Customise the platform to align with existing workflows, data models, and user roles.
They ensure that the chosen platform is not only powerful but also a natural fit for the organisation’s goals and infrastructure.
Integrating Legacy Systems
Most businesses rely on a mix of modern and legacy systems: enterprise resource platform (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) systems, databases, and custom-built tools. System integrators excel at connecting low-code platforms with existing systems, ensuring seamless data flow between new applications and legacy infrastructure. This specialised expertise helps organisations avoid common pitfalls during implementation.
System integrators help in:
- Building connectors and application programming interfaces (APIs) to bridge old and new systems.
- Ensuring real-time data flow between platforms.
- Avoiding data silos by creating a unified digital ecosystem.
This integration is critical for delivering seamless user experiences and maintaining data integrity across the organisation.
Accelerating Time-to-Value
In business, speed matters. Low-code platforms promise rapid development, but system integrators make sure that speed translates into real business value.
They do this by:
- Streamlining development cycles through agile methodologies.
- Rapidly deploying minimum viable products (MVPs) to gather feedback.
- Aligning technical delivery with business KPIs to ensure measurable impact.
By reducing the time between idea and implementation, system integrators help businesses realise ROI faster and stay ahead of the competition.
Implementing Proper Governance and Best Practices
Low code empowers more people to build apps — but without proper governance, it can lead to sprawl, security risks, and compliance issues. With a system integrator managing the guardrails, organisations can balance innovation with risk management, security, and compliance.
System integrators help by:
- Defining development standards and consistent naming conventions.
- Setting up role-based access controls (RBAC) and audit trails.
- Ensuring adherence to industry regulations and compliance requirements.
They create a framework of control that allows innovation to flourish safely and sustainably.
Empowering Citizen Developers
One of the most significant advantages of low code is enabling non-technical users – often called citizen developers – to build their own solutions. But they need guidance to succeed.
System integrators can:
- Provide training and onboarding for business users.
- Create templates, components, and reusable modules to accelerate creation and ensure consistency.
- Set up guardrails to prevent errors and maintain quality.
This democratises development while ensuring that apps are secure, scalable, and supportable.
Monitoring and Maintenance
Building an app is just the beginning. System integrators provide ongoing support to ensure long-term success. They offer:
- Performance monitoring and error tracking.
- Establishment of scalable architecture and integration frameworks.
- Knowledge transfer and enablement for internal teams or managed service providers.
- User support and change management planning.
This ensures that low-code solutions continue to deliver value as business needs evolve.
The Future of Low-Code: Empowering Business Developers
As we look toward the horizon of application development, low-code platforms are poised to fundamentally transform how organisations approach digital innovation.
With low-code platforms expected to incorporate more advanced capabilities, including AI-powered development assistance, predictive analytics, and natural language interfaces, the partnership between organisations and system integrators becomes even more valuable.
AvePoint helps organisations in their low-code initiatives by:
- Modernising legacy applications. We help reimagine and transform legacy software, redesigning applications to better align with organisations’ strategic development roadmap. This also ensures core systems remain agile and future-ready.
- Building cloud-native applications. AvePoint supports the development of cloud-native applications that allow organisations to scale rapidly, enhance performance, and accelerate time-to-market in a flexible, secure environment.
- Seamless system integration. AvePoint ensures that organisations’ multitude of existing systems can work together as they develop new functionalities around them.
- Ensuring security. We help organisations classify data in their environment, identify high-risk information, and implement policies and governance frameworks, allowing them to innovate securely.
- Ongoing support. Our partnership goes beyond implementation and delivery. AvePoint helps users to fully adapt to their new, modern systems to maximise the value of tech investments.
- Modernising user interface and user experience. Beyond functionality, AvePoint prioritises intuitive and consistent user interfaces, delivering engaging digital experiences that boost productivity and user satisfaction across all applications.
By combining the intuitive power of low-code platforms with the strategic expertise of system integrators like AvePoint, organisations can unlock new levels of agility, efficiency, and collaboration.
Learn more about how AvePoint can help empower your organisation with low-code solutions that align with your goals.
