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As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series<\/a>\u2014a collection of articles written by industry thought leaders in maturing software categories\u2014<\/span><\/span>Sara Zenner, the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hyland<\/a>, explains how low-code technologies can help companies address shrinking IT teams.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n If your company is like most enterprise organizations these days, you may be concerned about the size of your IT team and the challenges of filling any gaps that may arise. <\/span>If you find yourself nodding in agreement, you’re certainly not alone. According to a recent report by Pluralsight, <\/span>47 percent of IT workers have had to take on responsibilities outside their regular roles, and 65 percent of tech managers surveyed reported increased burdens on their teams.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A solution to these problems may lie in the promise of low-code app development to alleviate the burden on shrinking IT teams. As roles expand and your developers take on additional responsibilities, leveraging low-code and expanding development capabilities outside an IT team can solve these issues.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Low-code app development offers a streamlined approach to building applications and processes, utilizing visual interfaces and logic instead of manual coding.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>By leveraging a\u00a0 low-code platform’s visual development environment, individuals from various business functions can effortlessly configure and customize mission-critical applications. Through intuitive point-and-click interactions, line-of-business (LOB) users can actively participate in building and fine-tuning applications, providing an alternative to traditional software development that relies heavily on developers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Low-code presents numerous benefits for organizations seeking to optimize their developer commitments and assignments. These features are crucial in reducing the strain on development teams and enabling the involvement of other users in the process, thereby creating a more inclusive and collaborative development environment.”<\/span><\/p>\n Speed matters, and line-of-business users may not have the depth of coding experience required to build large, complex apps. With low-code, those non-developers can, for example, drag-and-drop to configure apps at the speed their end-users expect while also meeting regulatory demands. Those easy-to-use functionalities minimize costly, time-consuming, and difficult-to-maintain coding and provide an easy mechanism to modify or improve the app.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If there’s one topic that’s hotter in the industry right now than developer shortages, it’s this one\u2014and the good news with low-code app-building platforms is that they’re designed with security in mind, providing robust measures right from the start. Those security features include strict password policies with configurable requirements; granular rights management; keyword capabilities that can restrict access based on metadata; and more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n By implementing advanced process and workflow automation within low-code app building, you can better anticipate the needs of users and customers and eliminate some of the mundane, repetitive tasks that can often consume your teams’ time, allowing them to redirect their focus to higher-value tasks.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Why strive for efficiency and optimized developer use if you can’t measure and quantify the resulting benefits? Low-code platforms provide reporting and analytics solutions that provide transparency and data you need to act on processes, record completeness, and overall system health. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhat is Low-Code?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Rapid application development<\/span><\/b><\/h4>\n
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Why Empower LOB and Other Users with Low-Code Apps?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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