The Application of Low-Code Platforms
“There’s an app for that” is the answer to so many of the challenges we face today. This mentality has generated an enormous demand for apps, with an estimated 750 million new apps needed globally before 2025. Amidst a massive developer shortage of 4 million engineers worldwide, companies struggle to find tech talent.[1]
Facing this developer shortage, companies can enable other collaborators to develop solutions with formula-based programming. Through development in a frame of governance and security, power users can accelerate app and processes development, taking some of the load off of your developers so they can work more efficiently.
The solution software industry has been evolving low-code platforms for exactly this purpose. With simple development languages based on formulas, drag-and-drop apps, and easy layouts, these tools empower non-developers to craft solutions so developers can optimize their workflows. Your organization can create more apps in less time. With these solutions, you can:
With low-code solutions, your company will benefit from:
- Improved Employee IT satisfaction – More solutions that meet the business requirements, faster.
- Development Cost Reduction: Up to 45% reduction in development costs.[2]
- No More Data Silos: No need for bulky, inefficient, unmanaged information silos in programs like Excel. With low-code solutions, IT can govern the security of applications and their data.
Power Platform: Microsoft Low Code Platform
At Tero by Nearsure, we have worked for the past five years with Power Platform, Microsoft’s low-code services suite. This platform solves business challenges using solutions familiar to Microsoft users, like Excel-based formula language, PowerPoint-based screen editors, and conversational artificial intelligence.
Is Power Platform an Intelligent Solution?
Microsoft has been a leader in Artificial Intelligence for years now, and in recent months has collaborated with Open AI, the creator of Chat GPT.
Power Platform is part of this revolution with the introduction of Copilot. Copilot, powered by Chat GPT, lets you:
- Create an app using a natural language description. Power Apps will generate the code.
- Create applications from images and design files.
- Create a Natural Language Bot inside your application, so users can ask the app for help.
- Use natural language to create, edit, or extend flows.
- Connect Virtual Agents (bots) to data sources like company websites, to answer fundamental questions immediately.
- Use pre-trained AI models inside your solutions.
Can Power Platform solutions connect with my data?
Power Platform was developed with your data in mind. You can develop applications, processes, and data dashboards from your existing systems and data using connectors. With more than 1,000 connectors available and the option to customize your own, you can link your apps and processes to cloud and content services, databases, and APIs. If these options can’t connect to your application, you can use Robotic Process Automation.
Microsoft Power Platform Solutions
Power Apps: Low-Code Application Development Platform
Power Apps let you effortlessly create internal, web, and mobile front-ends and applications with a simple drag-and-drop user interface. With Power Apps, you build once and can deploy with a single click on iOS, Android, Windows, and web browsers.
Power Apps lets you create applications connected directly to your systems with the use of connectors, and can create applications from scratch with the use of Dataverse, the Microsoft low-code platform service.
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Power Automate: Low-Code Automation Platform
Power Automate is a complete low-code automation solution. Using connectors, you can create flows through your different systems. With Power Automate you can develop: Digital Process Automation (DPA), Business Process Automation (BPA), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and enhance your workflow with the use of pre-trained artificial intelligence solutions.
Power Pages: Low-Code Web Development Platform
Power Pages enables anyone to build low-code, external business websites, so everyone in your organization can design and launch engaging websites in minutes without any code. With advanced web design tools, your designers can take your corporate presence to a whole new level. You can add dashboards, document sharing, automation, chatbots, and more for a more complete experience.
Power Virtual Agents: Low-code Bots
With Power Virtual Agents you can scale your service by developing intelligent voice and chatbots that engage in personal conversations with customers and employees. Power Virtual Agents comprehends the native language and syntax of users. You can extend the reach and power of these agents through connectors with other applications, to create a complete service experience. And with the use of Copilot, you can connect to the most current and useful data sources in minutes, right out of the box.
Power BI: Low-code Dashboards and Reports
Power BI is the ultimate low-code data analytics and visualization tool. You can connect to hundreds of data sources and personalize reports for your business KPIs with visualizations and branding options. And thanks to artificial intelligence, you can answer questions using natural language.
Conclusion
Low-code solutions let you solve business challenges faster and easier, reducing development times up to 74%, decreasing human errors up to 27% through automated processes, and can shorten your solutions’ time to market up to 33%. [3]
Microsoft Power Platform is a worldwide leader in this service, and Tero by Nearsure is the perfect guiding partner, with a complete offering of services for each step of your low code adoption journey.
Contact us and start succeeding with low-code solutions.
References
- [1] DORA, Black Duck, ISC, IDC, Forrester, AppAnnie, Microsoft, IDG: Big Data Survey, McKinsey
- [2] Forrester TEI of Microsoft Power Platform Premium Capabilities August 2022
- [3] The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Power Platform Premium Capabilities
