Using visual building blocks rather than strings of code, low-code has the potential to unlock seamless customer journeys in every industry. Organisations harnessing low-code development can update their solutions 3-5x faster than when writing code.
Systems built using low-code take less time to build, require less testing, and can update rapidly - perfect for the ever-shifting landscape of retail business.
However, not every retailer knows how best to take advantage of low-code development.
In this webinar, industry experts Matt Weaver and David Perks from Objectivity, joined by Schwartz IT’s Zdenek Prochazka and David Miller, IT Business Consulting at Lidl, discuss strategies businesses can use to implement low-code, as well as potential considerations when moving from traditional coded development.
SPEAKERS
- Zdenek Prochazka, Schwarz IT
- David Miller, Lidl GB
- Matt Weaver, Objectivity
- David Perks, Objectivity
- Graham Wynn, BRC
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Introduction
Could your business be using its own bespoke applications? Even if your development team is small, it may be possible through the use of low-code development.
In this webinar, experts from Objectivity and Schwarz IT join the BRC’s Graham Wynn in conversation around low-code, how retail businesses can benefit from creating their own applications, and the role of low-code in the retail industry as a whole.
What is low code?
Low code development is a more accessible way of creating an application. Rather than developing using a coding language, low-code platforms use graphics, allowing you to drag-and-drop elements and make a bespoke application without a deep knowledge of code. This makes creating applications a possibility for more businesses.
Rather than being no-code, which only uses these graphical features, low-code incorporates a small amount of code into development. This strikes a balance between being accessible and having the flexibility of written code. Through this, businesses have the control to make programs that work for them.
What are the benefits of using low-code development?
Business efficiency
Using low code can be up to 3-5x faster than developing using traditional code. This means that applications can be created and implemented more quickly.
This has significant benefits in the retail space. With retailers having to respond rapidly to changes in the market, the applications you use need to be just as agile – and with low-code development, tweaks to your application are simple.
Accessibility
If you’ve not considered creating your own application in your business, why? For many, it’s likely because the time and expense of creating a bespoke application are too great, or you don’t have a development team large enough to maintain it.
With low code (and especially no code), this is solved. Businesses with less time, money and experience in developing can utilise a more accessible platform to make their own application, leading to great customer experiences and growing loyalty.
Learn as you code
With the building blocks of the application visibly in front of you, retailers can gain an understanding of the pieces that connect together to form an app. With this, low-code development platforms can be a tool to upskill your team. Rather than relying on what could possibly be a small team to create and maintain an app, everyone has visibility of its role and function, connecting the dots across your business.
Room for artificial intelligence
As generative AI continues to grow and change, low-code and no-code development platforms leave room for artificial intelligence to assist in the creation of technology.
While ChatGPT is now able to generate strings of code, it takes someone with an understanding of that code language to quality-check its results – when implemented into a low-code development platform, quality-checking AI-generated applications is simpler and easier through the use of simple code and building blocks.
If low-code development already has the potential to be 3-5x faster, then low-code assisted by artificial intelligence could potentially boost that number even further.
Learn more about the potential of low-code development in the full webinar.