Crowd Machine
Paving a Way for Quick and Easy App Development

As the world transitions to its digital self, the demand for mobile applications is rapidly growing every passing day within the business realm. Given this digital surge and the need to quickly launch an application, organizations cannot just afford to follow traditional application development methodologies that are code-intensive and slow, and linear in their multiple stages. Along with this, retaining in-house skilled developers with proper coding knowledge is not an easy feat and often, costprohibitive. This is where no-code development strategies promise a feasible way forward by streamlining the entire development process through the utilization of ready-to-use options and drag and drop features.

A leader in the no-code space is Crowd Machine.

Crowd Machine is a full-featured, cloud-native, no-code platform that enables the rapid creation of sophisticated, market-ready enterprise-grade applications and highly functional components. Unlike traditional app developers, Crowd Machine developers do not require any coding knowledge and can quickly amalgamate various components using drag-and-drop options to create an app. “We are helping organizations of all sizes across various industries develop their applications with our solution, Crowd Machine Go,” says Malcolm Pinkerton, Senior Application Engineer, Crowd Machine. In fact, the business line can piece together applications specific to their needs through the components developed with Crowd Machine Go.

Facilitating the Experience and Investment

Pinkerton further notes that the pandemic has impelled businesses to make several changes to their legacy systems to stay in the race. Crowd Machine GO provides organizations with the ability to tweak their existing solutions to meet the needs of their current businesses. Its backend model eliminates any possibility of errors and speeds up the application development process and microservices within the platform. “We don’t want organizations to abandon their legacy systems as they have years of experience and investment in these solutions,” adds Laura Pratt, Application Developer, Crowd Machine. Though the platform is capable of building an entire enterprise application from the ground up, providing all the necessary components in a secure and scalable environment to meet all the business objectives, it also enables Crowd Machine developers to add a single element as well.

“We allow them to just develop or update single component of the applications that the business lines want to put together,” says Laura. Crowd Machine developers can show a working prototype of an app to the business line and obtain immediate feedback to quickly move the app to staging and into production during the development process. Meaning, IT teams have complete control over the formation of the microservices and components within the platform that business lines want in an application during the development process. Clients just need to piece together various different components and communicate to various ERP and CRM systems. In other words, the platform allows businesses to bring capabilities from Oracle Cloud, Azure, and Salesforce into a single app and collect data from disparate sources into one unified repository. For example, clients can pull data out of Salesforce, edit it, and redefine it according to their rules, and update it in NetSuite simultaneously. Businesses can also convert their existing applications and other third-party software into Gadgets and integrate them with other systems to create applications according to their needs. In a nutshell, this collaboration between IT and business lines leads to faster and better results.

Intriguing Instances of Client Success

With such a comprehensive offering, Crowd Machine has gleaned a plethora of clients over the years. In one such instance, a client who handles asset management essentially in elevators and escalators space approached Crowd Machine to digitally transform their business. The client wanted to be able to quickly create apps to address their business-specific needs. Crowd Machine assisted the client to create their first app which allows performance surveys to be taken on site and provide instant results for their customers. The company didn’t just deliver the product to the client but also made their team more efficient through continuous training. This helped the client architect their own applications. “It is a great success story as business analysts are now developing all their solutions using Crowd Machine in extremely short timeframe and continually scaling their business,” prides Pinkerton.

Backed by the prowess of many such instances of client success, Crowd Machine continues to evolve its platform and add additional features based on the existing clients’ feedback. This will help clients build their gadgets suite more robustly while designing constructible applications for the business line. “We are currently working with three of our clients to build out applications using our latest version and put those into production within the next six months. Later, we will launch it to a wider range of customers that would enable us to gain more insights and accordingly enhance the capability of the entire platform and gadget suite library,” says Pinkerton.

In a nutshell, the power of Crowd Machine Go is that traditional developers can place their APIs into the Go Gadget library for their internal users. The gadget library essentially allows users to consume those APIs within Crowd Machine and combine them together in any way they wish. “We are not trying to tear apart the IT but work in consultation with them to bring IT to the business lines. Crowd Machine Go really empowers business users to self-service their applications easily and quickly,” concludes Pinkerton.