2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low Code Application Platforms: Main Gains

The editors of Solutions Review highlight the main gains for 2020 Magic Quadrant of Enterprise Low Code Application Platform And provide report analysis.

Analyst Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2020 edition Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. Many IT leaders are facing challenges related to application delivery. Skill challenges and a shortage of developers affect the ability to provide business automation quickly and reliably. As a result, low-code application platform (LCAP) providers improve their products by providing a wider range of features that require a smaller and less professional team of developers.

Gartner defines LCAP as “an application platform that uses declarative, high-level programming abstractions (such as model-driven and metadata-based programming languages) and one-step deployment to support rapid application development, deployment, execution, and management. LCAPS provides and supports users Interface, business processes and data services.” The main goal of LCAPS is to improve the efficiency of application development while reducing the skill requirements of developers.

As a strategic planning assumption, Gartner predicts that by 2023, more than 50% of large and medium-sized enterprises will adopt LCAP as one of their strategic application platforms. This prediction reflects the growing interest in the development and development of “low code” applications. Other applications related to applications, such as integration and AI services. Buyers should consider their use cases when choosing LCAP. Gartner pointed out that some typical use cases of LCAP are citizen development, business sector IT applications, enterprise IT business process applications, composite applications developed by fusion teams, and SaaS independent software vendor mobile and web applications.

Gartner added: “The characteristic of LCAP is that it uses model-driven or visual development paradigms supported by an expression language, and may write scripts to solve use cases, such as citizen development, business sector IT, enterprise business processes, composable applications and even SaaS applications. Programs. These platforms are provided by vendors who may be known for their SaaS products or business process management (BPM) capabilities, as well as professional vendors for rapid application development.”

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner assessed the strengths and weaknesses of 18 providers considered the most important in the market, and provided readers with a chart (Magic Quadrant), which is based on the supplier’s execution capabilities and completeness of vision. Painted. The chart is divided into four quadrants: niche market participants, challengers, visionaries and leaders. In the “solution review”, we read the report, Available here And came up with the key points.

With the development of the software market, Gartner adjusted its evaluation and inclusion criteria for the “Magic Quadrant.” As a result, AuraQuantic and Newgen were added to the report, while K2 and Kony were deleted.

The niche player quadrant is the most populous quadrant this year and includes ProntoForms, TrackVia, Kintone, Newgen, AuraQuantic (formerly known as AuraPortal), Creatio, Quick Base and AgilePoint. ProntoForms’ customers are involved in multiple industries, but focus on field service and front-line work, which may illustrate its location. TrackVia’s roadmap closest to ProntoForms includes better support for offline use, UI updates, and enhanced workflow support. The newly added AuraQuantic hopes to add AI-based decision management, RPA and AI assistance to developers in the future.

Newgen is another new supplier in this year’s report and has recently shown increasing influence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and North America. Kintone is also committed to using AWS infrastructure to further expand in the United States and make improvements for citizen developers. Creatio plans to enhance its functionality by adding UI based on the Angular framework and further providing AI support for process and application development. By targeting more complex application use cases and corporate IT organizations, Quickbase has begun to go beyond its citizen deployment focus. AgilePoint is located closest to the Y axis. The provider provides pre-built libraries (such as popular process patterns) to help developers.

The only challenger in this year’s Magic Quadrant is Oracle (APEX). The supplier enjoys a good reputation in the database and business application market, and its APEX solutions are mainly focused on data-oriented applications created by Oracle SQL developers. Its location may be due to the added high-performance user experience for data searches across large data sets, and the ability to access data from any REST-enabled external source to APEX.

Four visionaries were nominated this year: Betty Blocks, Oracle (Visual Builder), Pega and Zoho. Oracle (Visual Builder) is placed in the foresight quadrant closest to the Y axis. Gartner pointed out that for new use cases, Visual Builder is easier to access than other platforms because its pricing is based on resources. It is expected that Zoho will add RPA in the future, more collaborative development functions, test automation suites, and AI-enhanced application development support. Pega demonstrated its innovation by introducing Process Fabric, a business portal used to coordinate user access to processes and applications. At the end of this section, Betty Blocks differentiates itself by enhancing its container deployment, developer environment and extension mechanism.

The six leaders in this year’s Magic Quadrant are Appian, ServiceNow, Mendix, Microsoft, OutSystems and Salesforce. Appian differentiates itself from other vendors by providing a complete stack of low-code automation tools that can handle complex workflows, business rules, and case management. ServiceNow is one of the first providers in this report to provide LCAP users with an integrated platform and provide asset management and real-time monitoring. Mendix scored the highest in visual integrity and is one of the few LCAP vendors with advanced and multi-experience development capabilities.

Industry giant Microsoft is suitable for citizen developers and business sector developers for its simpler design-time tools in Power Apps. OutSystems has enhanced its DevOps and data management capabilities by adding workflow builders, which can be attributed to its position in this year’s report. Finally, Salesforce scored the highest in execution capability. Salesforce may get this position due to its partner ecosystem, which provides a strong impetus for the adoption of the supplier’s LCAP products.

Read Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise low-code application platforms.