Considerations for CIOs When Using Low-Code and No-Code Tools

CIO Applications| Tuesday, August 03, 2021

CIOs should also ensure that someone from IT is a sponsor for low-code/no-code projects to avoid business units repeating efforts and take advantage of existing centralized assets such as Single Sign-on (SSO).

FREMONT, CA: As CIOs look for ways to help their teams maximize software delivery efforts, low-code/no-code solutions may be an appealing solution. Low-code/no-code tools can enable competent developers to maximize outputs and scale and empower "citizen developers" with little or no programming experience.

Organizational difficulties, risk management, and DevOps team requirements influence the CIO's decision to choose low-code/no-code. However, there are a few things CIOs should think about when it comes to low-code/no-code adoption.

Implementing low-code or no-code should be based on risk management activities throughout the company.

[vendor_logo_first]Experts believe that other business elements, rather than the CIO, favor this adoption since they want a better knowledge of some complex ideas and skillsets. Businesses can do things differently with no-code, but the code still runs the show.

The decision to use no-code is based on the business value relationship with development. If your business hinges around custom-fit applications with quick releases and cutting-edge technologies, no-code is generally not the ideal option. Developers and operators are further removed from the technology that delivers business value with no code.

If the system depends on security, testing, or even compliance, generating change with visual representation might be extremely valuable. No-code implementations have also been found in service desk scenarios, where dashboards and reports can be customized individually by selecting responses without having to dive into the SQL language or options that the no-code option simply creates.

When working with an IT sponsor, avoid duplicating efforts

If an organization has urgent non-mission-critical demands and limited development resources, consider using low-code/no-code. If company demands are simple and can function without fundamental systems, low-code/no-code is also a viable choice.

CIOs should concentrate on enhancing the overall developer experience

If manual, repetitive, tedious, and non-mission-critical processes are moved to a low-code/no-code platform, engineering teams will have more time to focus on more value-add coding activities and develop products based on their company requirements.

Low-code/no-code platforms, on the other hand, can help companies respond to product needs more quickly. Still, different criteria should be considered first to address the best levels of governance, supervision for various types of apps, data access, security policies, app performance, and integration dependencies with these app platforms.

If a CIO has confidence in the DevOps platform they've chosen to handle security and quality, they'll be able to release software more quickly, improve the developer experience, and get to market faster.