Increasing business demands for modern multichannel applications to drive competitive advantage is creating tremendous pressure on development teams to produce more apps, which in turn keeps businesses on a constant search for developer talent to meet the demand. In response, high productivity application development platforms are growing in popularity to accelerate delivery of business applications, both internal and customer-facing, to deliver better customer experiences.
Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) recently surveyed 5,565 web and mobile application developers to explore how development teams are delivering innovation, their challenges, and how those professionals feel about low-code platforms that are being increasingly relied upon by organizations. Low-code platforms are evolving to increase developer productivity, but there is still some confusion distinguishing between low-code platforms for professional developers that streamline and simplify their work, and no-code platforms for “citizen developers,” enabling them to build functional but limited apps without having to write code.