Software Engineering Factory: Low Code/Rapid Development.
The world needs great solutions in these unprecedented times. Building and releasing software applications faster is the new normal.
Low-code/Rapid application development is replacing traditional methods and off-the-shelf products. With the rapid development framework approach, engineering teams could quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures. Applications are better structured, offer better functionality and integrations, shorten time-to-market and become more affordable.
“Gartner report says — By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity”
“Forrester says that more than 50% of Software Developers will use a low code product in 2021 and beyond.”
What is Low-code development?
Low-code is a software development approach that requires little to no coding in order to build applications and processes. A low-code development platform uses visual interfaces with simple logic and drag-and-drop features instead of extensive coding languages.
What is Rapid development?
To rapidly deliver enterprise-grade applications that businesses need in weeks and months rather than years, by bringing in the best of low code business process and workflow creator tools, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), iPaaS (integration platform as a service) tools driving accelerated development at tremendous speed.
Development Approach
Low-code and rapid application development (RAD) solutions are platforms typically designed to solve two different problems. The first is to make building software more accessible to non-developers (or citizen developers). This approach lets standard COTS ERP or CRM systems be enhanced or customized by writing as little code as possible. RAD is used when a UX-first approach needs to be combined with custom development by defining core application elements quickly and easily including functional as well as non-functional requirements.
RAD Platforms Collective
Delightful UX
Deliver app experiences that are relevant today — and ready to scale into the future. Visually design context-aware smart applications, that deliver exceptional user experiences across a range of touchpoints and modalities.
Accelerated Development Through Visual Tools and AI
AI-powered development by default.
Build Anything to Run Anywhere
Build the applications you want and need — exactly the way they should look — and run them wherever you need them to run.
Cloud-Native
Build and deliver portable, scalable, and resilient applications without specialized expertise. Deploy anywhere in one click.
Collaborative Development
Bridge the traditional gaps between business, development, and operations, solving business challenges as an integrated team.
Quickly Integrate Everything
Apps, data, infrastructure, and cloud
Automate Intelligently
To cut costs and eliminate complexity by bringing people, processes, and systems together to deliver value fast.
Artificial Intelligence
Embrace smart applications; seamlessly connect AI and cognitive services to elevate your solution.
DevOps made easy
Integrate out-of-the-box DevOps capabilities with existing tools.
Data Integration
Integrate data and logic from any data source, system, or service.
Why Rapid Development
- Combines reusable software components, packaged applications frameworks, and automation tools.
- Accelerates business application rollout tremendously
- Accelerate automation of repetitive tasks
Example Toolkit
- Rapid UX — Adobe XD, InvisionApp, Sketch, Figma, Framer, AxureRP, Marvel
- Rapid Development Platform — PowerApps, Outsystems, Pega Systems, SQL Alchemy, jHipster
- Ecommerce Platforms — Opencart, Magento, Miva, E3, Shopify, Odoo, Drupal, WordPress
- Salesforce Platform — Customer 360 Platform, Experience Cloud
- SharePoint — SharePoint Online, Moden WebApps
- Boomi Enterprise iPaaS — AtomSphere Platform — Integration, API Management, Flow, Master Data Hub
- RPA — UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate
- AI-ML — Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, QubitAI MLTK
- Zoho — Zoho Creator, Low Code Platform
- Flutter — Google’s UI Toolkit
- Infrastructure — Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud Platform
Conclusion
Being the early adopter of rapid development techniques even before it became the trend, OSI’s rapid delivery solution offerings
- Help quickly generate, develop, and deploy modern applications & microservice architectures.
- Cultivate design thinking guided by lean principles and enabled by intelligent automation.
- Power Agile-DevOps practices with effective collaboration tools.
OSI Solution Streams/Possibilities
+Agile UX — Rapid prototyping for realizing user experience design vision quickly
+Portals & Integrations: Rapidly develop and deploy industry-specific and purpose build delightful experiences
+Mobile Apps: Cross-platform mobile applications that will work on any device or platform built using a single codebase
+Integrations with iPaaS: Boomi cloud-native, unified, open, intelligent platform get to market faster, operate more efficiently, and differentiate.
+Conversational AI/ML-powered apps: Reusable, pre-built components and frameworks
+Salesforce Implementations: Rich visualization and analytics powered dashboards and community portals
+SharePoint: Modern portal applications across enterprise use cases
+DevOps: Release Management and Automation, Containerization and Orchestration, DevSecOps
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