Low Code

The market for low-code platforms is expected to grow exponentially in the years ahead. In fact, among respondents to a recent ServiceNow survey, more than half of companies have already adopted low-code tools. Let’s take a look at what’s driving businesses to make the jump from traditional coding techniques.

What’s Driving Low-Code Adoption?

Low-code application platforms can help cut development time by at least half.

Accelerating Time to Market

Average Application Development Time Saved:

2.63X

Traditional Coding Applications

Low-code Applications

Source: “Welcome to the Low Code Revolution,” ServiceNow and Radar Media, 2021.

Businesses that have adopted low-code tools rank the following as top benefits:

Supporting IT Teams

75%

72%

Freeing professional developers to focus on specialized projects

Automating cross-enterprise workflows

Accelerating mission-critical app development

Businesses using low-code also rated their performance highly in areas including:

Delivering for Customers

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

90%

80%

70%

60%

Anticipating and Meeting Customer Needs

Providing a Consistently Good User Experience

Low-code platforms allow citizen developers to get involved and provide valuable assistance to their colleagues.

Powering Collaboration

Businesses With Citizen Developer Programs Agree These Initiatives:

100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0%

87%

80%

Improve Innovation

Reduce Shadow IT

Empower and Engage the Workforce

79%

Enable Business Agility

100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0%

Improve Innovation

Reduce Shadow IT

Empower and Engage the Workforce

87%

80%

of businesses say now is the right time to adopt low-code solutions.

The Next Step for Business Leaders

79%