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Flow chart how to determine which low code platform to use?

Low code is getting somehow much attention recently, and I am looking for hard, fact-based decision criteria for which platform to choose for which purpose or industry.

I found a flow chart at stackify compiled by Ben Putano in 2017 which is a step in the right direction: Flow chart to choose low code platform

The chart references only Appian, outsystems, kony, mendix, agile point, caspio, salesforce, PowerBI, but does not talk about platforms like. LabView, UiPath, Pega, Camunda, Blue Prism.

I would appreciate some theoretical, scientific input on the whole story of low-code and how to classify the different platforms.

Solution

  • We've built no-code platforms classification based on these 4 questions:

    1. What are the skills your team is good at? (Sales, design, product management, programming, etc).
    2. What is your app front-end? (Responsive web app, native mobile app, static website, API, chatbot, etc).
    3. Type of app you want to build? (Dashboard, directory, marketplace, communication app, community, social network, CRM/ERP, etc).
    4. Do you plan to accept payments? (Yes/No).

    We use this classification in our no-code tools advisor service: https://www.nocodesetup.com

    Based on its performance, we see that ~80% of people finish such survey to get a personalized recommendation about the right no-code tools to build their app.

    To choose the right low-code/no-code platform, other questions might be very useful too. But the more questions you add, the more chances people will get stuck answering them.

    Another great example of no-code platforms classification by Aron Korenblit (Head of education at airtable.com): http://read.aatt.io/issues/no-code-is-not-a-monolith-207566

    Hope this will be useful.