Make app building easier: The benefits of low-code and no-code
Until recently, creating apps rested solely in the hands of professional developers. However, the surge in digital demand across every industry, and rise of low-code development platforms has set the stage for those outside of IT to solve business challenges themselves by making app building easy with drag-and-drop simplicity.
When innovation becomes culture, we can solve old challenges and create new opportunities. Discover how to build strategies for your organisation that connect people, tools, and intelligence to bring ideas to life.
Tools to build an innovative culture
Power Apps
Build apps in hours, that easily connect to data with more than 400+ out of the box connectors. Use Excel-like expressions to add logic, drag and drop functionality for the UI, and run on the web, iOS, and Android devices.
Power Automate
Automate workflows and integrate them directly in your apps with a low-code approach that connects to hundreds of popular apps and services.
5 benefits of low-code and no-code apps for your business
1. Improve agility to respond to business needs
Rapidly build innovative web and mobile applications that meet the unique, evolving needs of your business.
- Infuse apps and processes with AI for deeper insights.
- Build apps in hours or days instead of months.
Connect to your data across your digital estate.
2. Empower your people to achieve more
Democratise app development across your organisation. Create opportunities for individuals and organisations alike to transform the way they work.
- Power Apps uses drag-and-drop simplicity so users can build apps quickly with no/low code.
- Use pre-built app templates to accelerate business processes.
3. Optimise budgets, time and resources to do more with less
The Forrester Total Economic Impact study for Power Apps and Power Automate, commissioned by Microsoft, concluded that organisations that adopt both technologies:
- Realise an ROI of 362 percent.
- Reduce development costs by 70 percent.
- Increase business process efficiency by 15 percent.
- Recoup their investment in only three months.
4. Automate time consuming processes
Power Apps and Power Automate integrate across the core apps you already use. Automate mundane, time-consuming business processes into streamlined workflows.
- Digitise paper-based processes and reduce errors and cost while saving time.
- Use AI to quickly process information, approvals and get smarter insights.
5. Maintain security and customer trust
The solutions you create are secure because they exist within the compliant Microsoft environment.
Get started building your no/low code apps
Now you understand how Power Apps and Power Automate can drive innovation in your organisation, the next step is to get started! You can empower everyone in your organisation to turn ideas into solutions that solve business challenges. Productivity can be boosted by automating manual processes, so employees can have more time to do value-adding work.
Low-code Power Platform lets more people in your organisation build apps and processes required to transform. Whether working solo, or delivering in partnership with professional developers in Fusion Teams, you can combine the best of both to help scale the impact of pro developers in delivering business value together.
We’re sharing a handy checklist on how your people can get started building their apps today:
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About the author
Matt heads up the Digital Transformation and App Innovation team within Microsoft UK’s Solutions business. He leads a team of innovation and development-centred Specialists focussed on helping customers understand, plan for, and adopt some of the most cutting-edge services in Microsoft’s arsenal – from GitHub for developer productivity, managed container offerings such as Azure Kubernetes Services, PaaS and serverless with Azure Functions and Logic Apps, Integration Services, Event Grid, and more, through to engaging wider stakeholder audiences in the development process through adoption of low-code development with Power Apps.
Matt’s background is firmly in engineering for innovation. With a master’s in computing and over two decades of experience from hands on ecommerce, payment and billing systems development in the late ‘90s and early 2000’s, to leading a global consulting team designing and rolling out bespoke Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting products for FTSE 10 integrated energy companies, and on to launching an IoT Pet Tracking start-up, founding, building, and selling a Digital Transformation consultancy before joining Microsoft in 2018.
Consistent to all of Matt’s endeavors is an understanding of what is possible, how it aligns to solving real world business challenges, and always starting with the “Why”.
