If 2020 taught businesses anything, it’s that being able to turn on a dime and change everything about how you operate isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s a must. The demand for low-code technologies and automation was already climbing, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to re-orchestrate broken processes and reduce manual tasks.
The mainstreaming of low-code development has changed the business automation landscape. And the blistering pace of this fast-moving trend—of combining and scaling artificial intelligence, and low-code—is at the heart of the hyperautomation movement. So says Neil Ward-Dutton in his chapter of the recently published HYPERAUTOMATION, a collection of expert essays on low-code development and the future of business automation.
A developer's primary job is to work seamlessly, rapidly, and accurately to create software, apps, or websites that match business requirements. Unfortunately, there is a huge margin for error if you have to write lines and lines of complex code. Additionally, many basic tasks in the use of data-related software and other solutions, require extensive coding knowledge that many employees simply don't have. One solution to this is low-code software and development.
In retrospect, 2020 was a year of unprecedented change. Noone could have foreseen what the last 12 months would bring. But in Europe and the Middle East, we’ve adapted to make the most of the situation, building solutions to help our customers keep their customers and staff safe and engaged. Here’s a recap of our top 10 moments from a year like no other.
Whether or not you know it, your organization is at a tipping point. On one side, siloed and inefficient business processes represent the status quo, and on the other, your organization needs to leave this status quo back where it belongs–in 2020–and rethink and reshape your business. Digital transformation is the Emerald City we’ve been marching towards for years, but the yellow brick road has been far more perilous than expected.
At AppianGovernment, a record number of government customers and partners participated in 49 sessions with government executives, Appian technology experts, and partners. Leaders from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Marine Corps, Health Canada, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Education, and other innovative organizations described how low-code automation is accelerating and simplifying the modernization of their mission systems.
For healthcare and life sciences organizations, 2020 began like many other years. They looked to the year ahead and focused on how to best serve their patients, members, and other constituents through their latest innovation. As we now know, nothing about 2020 was ordinary, especially for leaders within these industries.
Nucleus Research recently released its 2020 vendor evaluation for Low-Code Application Platforms, in which Appian is ranked as the clear leader against 15 low code application platform (LCAP) vendors.
