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Gartner predicts that through 2021, market
demand for app development will grow at
least five times faster than IT capacity to
deliver it. As a result of the forces behind Gartner’s
prediction, many government agencies are adopting
low-code development platforms for their ability to
enable a broad range of developers to rapidly build
and deploy custom web and mobile apps without the
need for time-consuming coding. Plus, low-code tools
allow non-technical resources to contribute as well,
further reducing the burden on IT.
With the demand for custom applications increasing
in the public sector, It’s clear that organisations need
a faster way to deliver and low-code development
platforms provide a proven way to shorten time-tovalue
for these new applications.
Forrester has benchmarked low-code at 10 to 20
times the delivery speed of traditional application
development. Additionally, as efficiency, transparency
and flexibility are increasingly important to the public
sector, the applicability for standards-based platforms
is trending high as well. Due to this shift in innovation,
when evaluating a platform to facilitate your IT
modernisation efforts, make sure to add ‘standardsbased’
to the requirement list.
Leveraging a standards-based development platform
removes unnecessary barriers and gives everyone
access to the format’s definitions. The transfer of
information via an open standard is made more
efficient and error-free because no interpretations or
transformations are required and openness increases
adoption. A low-code, standards-based development
platform brings IT and the business together,
enabling more rapid, iterative, and collaborative
development. It is vital to evaluate platforms carefully
and choose the approach that meets your agency’s
needs, now and in the future. •
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