The Essential Guide to Low-Code Development
Discover the fastest way to build custom applications.
What Is Low-Code?
Low code is a revolutionary software development approach that empowers non-developers to quickly build custom applications. It allows you to unlock your creative potential through easy processes and user-friendly visual interfaces that require little to no coding. Whether you’re a citizen-developer or an experienced coder, you can greatly benefit from utilizing low-code to efficiently achieve your objectives.
In a low-code environment, app creators use visual development tools to design and build databases, applications and workflow automations. This approach significantly reduces the time, effort and skills required to turn ideas into cloud-based solutions, enabling agile development sprints at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional development.
Who Can Leverage Low Code?
Citizen Developers
Business users, or citizen developers, leverage low-code platforms to actively participate in the app development process. Low code makes it easier to drive digital transformation through powerful end-to-end solutions that automate processes or solve specific business problems — even without a background in programming.
Professional Developers
Professional developers can utilize low-code platforms to build MVPs fast and launch them without the need for coding routine tasks. These platforms streamline the development process and enhance collaboration with stakeholders. By embracing low code, developers can expedite time-to-market and more effectively address business needs.
Business Leaders and Executives
Business leaders and C-level executives can use low-code platforms to drive digital transformation throughout the organization — without hiring additional personnel or exhausting IT budgets. With low code, leaders can make informed decisions and quickly execute in areas that directly impact the bottom line: improved customer experiences, optimized workflows, faster go-to-market, KPI tracking and custom solutions that are purpose-built for their unique market or industry.
Top Benefits of Low-Code Development
Accelerated Development
Create custom apps fast with intuitive visual development tools. This allows you and your team to simply point-and-click or drag-and-drop instead of manually writing long strings of code.
Improved Agility
Reduced reliance on traditional coding helps your team improve the pace of iteration and testing, increase overall productivity, shorten time to market and respond quickly to industry demands.
Reduced Complexity & Cost
Abstracting much of the intricate coding and technical details associated with software development allows your business to realize savings in setup, maintenance, training and other related expenses.
Robust Security & Governance
Ensure the integrity and protection of your business workflows with security protocols, identity management systems and built-in features that allow for more transparent oversight.
Better Customer Experience
With those closest to the business equipped with low-code tools, they are empowered to build tailor-made solutions that cultivate positive experiences and earn customer loyalty.
Business & IT Alignment
Foster a strong collaborative environment where business users and IT professionals in your organization can effectively work together on standardized, user-friendly interfaces.
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Why Companies Choose Caspio
Unlimited User Model
Say goodbye to the convoluted ‘per user’ pricing of other low-code vendors. Caspio’s user-friendly model supports unlimited users and app builders, making it the most cost-effective low-code platform to support business growth as your application usage increases over time.
On-Demand Scalability
Caspio offers unparalleled scalability, effortlessly managing millions of records and simultaneous transactions on demand. Our enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure ensures optimal performance and reliability, even in the most work-intensive use cases.
Flexible Deployment
With Caspio, you can custom-brand your public or internal applications and seamlessly embed them on any customer-facing website, company intranet, portal or CMS. You also have the option of sharing direct links to specific interfaces you build.
Security & Compliance
Caspio provides your data and applications with industry-leading security and compliance across regions and industries. Gain access to our best-in-class identity and access management, experience built-in HIPAA compliance, process PCI-compliant payment transactions and so much more.
Standards-Based Extension
Complementing Caspio’s guided development process with step-by-step wizards and built-in guardrails, we support standards-based code extensions using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL. No need to learn another proprietary language from scratch to extend your solutions.
24/7 Support & Services
Collaborate with a team of Caspio experts to develop your applications. Benefit from 24/7 support, free online training, dedicated onboarding and managed application services. With our comprehensive support, you'll have a dedicated full-service team committed to your success.
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Your Low-Code Questions Answered
No-code empowers business users eager to bring their ideas to life using guided visual tools. On the other hand, low code allows technical users to quickly build applications with minimal coding for most use cases, with the option to extend their apps with scripting when required.
If you have a development team, adopting a low-code platform would accelerate their production. But if you have technical-minded business users who do not have a programming background, then your organization would be better served by a no-code platform. While not requiring any coding knowledge, Caspio’s no-code platform allows for customizations via industry-standard extensibility, giving you the best of both worlds.
Low-code platforms enable programming professionals to create applications faster than traditional software development. They abstract code segments into components that can then be put into place on a (mostly) visual interface.
Low-code and no-code platforms help users visually choose and connect components containing abstracted code. These components represent specific steps or capabilities that users can order together to create the desired application workflow(s).
Most low-code solutions today charge per-user license fees, resulting in hampered collaboration within teams. Caspio allows unlimited app creators, making it possible for teams to participate in the development process. Promote collaboration and data sharing between teams and stakeholders by inviting them to work on cross-functional apps. With this, you democratize app development in your entire organization.
Yes! If you already have your application requirements but aren’t too keen on building and testing it yourself, schedule a free Project Consultation session with a Caspio expert today. We’ll help you get all the IT talent you need to build custom solutions for your business.
With Caspio, you can easily download any information you’ve stored on the platform by scheduling automated data exports or exporting data on demand.
Yes! Link Caspio with over 5,000 cloud-based services like Office 365, Salesforce and Mailchimp using our built-in integration with Zapier. It’s also possible to sync data between systems using tasks that automatically transfer data across popular cloud repositories such as Box, Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive.
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