Gert Vonck presented this "Low Code and Citizen Development: a Curse or a Blessing for IT?" at "The Future of IT" on Sept. 20th, 2017 in Brussels

1.
Low Code and Citizen Development:
A Curse or a Blessing for IT ?
Gert Vonck (Low-code Enthusiast, Appfie)
Twitter: @AppfieInfo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gert-vonck-600b10/
Presented at “The Future of IT” - Organised by @itworks on the 20th of September 2017 in Parker Hotel Brussels Airport, Belgium

2. Chief dreamer
Gert Vonck
Blessing or a curse?
Low coding

3. Digital
cowboy

4. London
whale
incident
$3bn
Jamie Dimon – CEO JP Morgan Chase

5. Let people experiment,
but within a supported &
controlled environment

6. Let people experiment,
but within a supported &
controlled environment
enables rapid delivery of (mobile)
business solutions with a minimum of
hand-coding and lower upfront
investment in training and deployment
than for ”traditional” application
development.
Typically consists out:
• Business data model
• GUI driven build & automation
interface
• Business driven analytics capabilities
A low code platform…

7. Let people experiment,
but within a supported &
controlled environment
The citizen developer:
Business
knowledge
27%
Low code
platform
27%
Advanced
formulas
18%
Data
modeling
14%
UX Design
14%

8. Let people experiment,
but within a supported &
controlled environment
Role of IT:
• Sanctioning of the platform
• Enterprise architecture
• Master data management
• IT landscape integration
• Overall validation & support

9. Low Code Development
Rapid Application Development
What changed?
RAD is dead… long live Low coding

10. Outsystems
Microsoft PowerApps
Forrester (Low code development
platforms)
MS PowerApps announced
MS PowerApps released
2015
$ 1.7 Billion revenue
2020
Est. $ 15 Billion
Why is the timing right this time?

11. Where is the value?

12. Technology governance
1
Lower shadow IT
Price of licenses
vs. Limited use
IT credibility
More IT capacity &
Faster speed to deliver

13. Business productivity
2
• Functional gap
• Mobile gap
• Recurring tasks
• ‘Forgotten’ teams
• Self-service analytics
• Increased ’connected’
data

14. Organisational risk
3
• Secured data
• Correct calculations
GDPR

15. QAF

16. 1 Can it replace my traditional IT platforms?
2 So low coding is cheap?
3 Our business is not ready for this!
4 Oh boy, my developers will hate this…

17. What to do when your digital transformation roadmap needs
new tires but your business never takes a pitstop?

18. This is a ‘no no’…

19. Expand your
team and
continue the
race with 2 cars

20. 0473/46.68.41 @appfieinfo Gert.vonck@appfie.com