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How to Use a Business Rules Engine to Your Advantage
In this "key considerations" installment, I'll cover why a Business Rules Engine should be a key consideration when choosing a low-code platform. In my prior blog entries (first, second, third), I mention other helpful tips and considerations. Business Rules Engine...
2 Considerations When Selecting a Low-code Platform
Last week we talked about the first key consideration when selecting a low-code development platform - Application Frameworks. This week we'll continue with two additional key considerations which are Any-to-Any Integration and Unlimited Depth and Reach. Any-to-Any...
Why the Application Framework in Low-code Platforms Matter
Investing in low-code development platforms is like playing the stock market. If you do your homework and invest wisely, you can achieve an incredible return on your investment for many years to come. Choose unwisely and it can be devastating. With that in mind,...
The Ugly Truth About Traditional Application Development
Gartner predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least five times faster than the available skills and resources to enable IT to deliver it through 2021. Why? Because the complexity of application development is at an all-time high. The...
RAD, 4GL, MADP, RMAD, MXDP, LCDP, hpaPAAS . . . . What the?
Without turning this into a lecture, below is a short overview of low-code, hpaPaas and other Rapid Application Development platforms that we have seen in the last few decades, more-or-less in chronological order. What are the overlaps and differences between all...
Getting Started With a Low-code Solution
The right low-code software development platform will significantly reduce costs over the entire software development lifecycle. They also shield developers from having to worry about how their project will be deployed across various devices, interfaces and platforms,...
Intro to Low-code: The Transformative Potential for App Dev
Low-code development platforms enable the creation of software applications using far less program code than would typically be needed versus traditional computer programming languages. Software development is often a lengthy and complex process so low-code’s promise...
Low-code – not your uncle’s RAD
Low-code development platforms can make application development simpler and deliver better quality applications faster. But, wait a minute, haven’t we heard similar promises before? Since the eighties we had CASE, 4GL, RAD and more recently MADP, RMAD, MXDP, DXDP,...
On the Road in Europe
I’m just back from a week traveling across Europe with my colleagues, delivering an update to our customers on the latest release of Visual LANSA (version 14 SP2). As a new member of the team, it was a valuable opportunity for me to meet so many customers in London,...
Frank Sarnelli named IBM Systems Magazine “Fresh Face”
It’s not surprising Frank Sarnelli joins the list of young professionals who have been named by IBM Power Systems Magazine as a “Fresh Face” to the IBM computing community. Frank has a burning desire to push the boundaries of technology to solve enterprise business...
How Low-code Can Slash the Cost of Software Maintenance
A commonly known rule of thumb in software engineering, which seems to hold well for systems of record (SOR), is that maintaining software comprises between 60 to 80 percent of the total cost of ownership. [This same rule might well apply for the systems of engagement...
GDPR – The journey has only just begun
As a marketing professional, this week has been quite unlike any other. The implementation date for GDPR has really focussed minds and although some say, "it’s not a deadline", the reality is that it has been treated that way by many. As has been the case for many of...