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Trending Tech Why Low-code/Nocode Platforms are the Most Disruptive Trend of 2022? Programming Made Easy The Emergence of Low-code/No-code Technology.

Cypress Hu Founder ClickPaas

editor Nurturing Code, Bolstering Coders!

ode! from being 'a secretive synapse of a highvalue prospect to a dense syntax,' evolved into an era of software-mediated business solutions. As known worldwide, technology has played a vital role in easing out human eﬀort, and the world of coding has successfully scaled itself to top the leader board.

Managing Editor Bhushan Bhad

Knowing these marvels, technology leaders have scoured the globe by introducing software programs that support business workﬂows and strengthen the customer-centric approach in the cutthroat competitive market. But, ever imagined the hardships encountered by a software developer, tester, coder, or system administrator?

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As one nose dips inside the life of a software developer, one will step into repetitive code, variables, comments, language overload, complicated coding timeline, manual testing, syntax error, cumbersome tasks, lengthy codes, and many more. The list goes on if one investigates critically. This poses a huge impact on software development and workﬂow productivity and the gallons of expenditure consumed in the context of time.

Solving the age-old misery of the coding community is Low-code/No-code Platforms! This novel platform facilitates a visual software development environment while assisting coders, developers, testers, administrators, and consultants to drag and drop application components, connect them together and create mobile and web apps with a hassle-free experience. This comforts a developer in software or system developments and eradicates the tedious task of writing the code script line by line.

Our new edition, "Top 10 Low-code/No-code Development Platforms," acknowledges these advancements in the coding ecosystem that bolster mirabile in developers' life. While you ﬂip through the pages, do make sure to read the insightful articles crafted by our in-house editorial team. I wish you a happy read! - Bhushan Bhad

Today, a software developer need not necessarily The world of coding has understand the programming language and the intricacies revolutionized the world in every involved in software walk of our life and acknowledging development. With Lowcode/No-code Platforms, one the novel coding innovation might can utilize the graphical user be the least we can do! interface, marry components, and third-party application interfaces while the application builder rearranges and tests modules that meet the developer requirements. With these developments, the repetitive tasks are done and dusted. Focusing on enterprise productivity, organizations can invest more time in conceptual development, providing the developers and coders with new challenges to hop on. These technological advancements have assisted enterprises with productivity timescale and changed the way coders code!

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Trending Tech

Why Low-code/Nocode Platforms are the Most Disruptive Trend of 2022?

Programming Made Easy

The Emergence of Low-code/No-code Technology.

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EasySend

The Fastest Enterprise Digital Transformation Solutions Provider

EvoluteIQ

A One-stop Shop for Your Organization’s Hyperautomation Needs

FlexRule

A First-Rate Decision Management and Automation Services Provider

Newgen Software

Business Application Developers on Cloud -based Platform with Low Code

OneBlink LcS

Streamlining All Aspects of Creating Activity-centric Mobile and Web apps

Orangekloud

A Speedy Solution to Build an Enterprise App

Pillir A Platform for Developing SAP Apps 20 Times Faster Than Traditional Methods

Vantiq A Real-time Low-code Software Development and Deployment Platform

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Editor-in-Chief Sumita Sarkar Senior Editor Anish Miller Managing Editor Bhushan Bhad Assisting Editors Trishika, Vishal Visualiser David King Art & Design Head Rohil Shinganapurkar Co-designer Paul Belin Art & Design Assistant Mrunalinee Deshmukh Business Development Manager Sherin Rodricks Marketing Manager Joseph D'souza Business Development Executives Kelly, David Sales Executives Mark, Alice Technical Head Jacob Smile Assistant Technical Head Amar Sawant Technical Consultants Prachi, Rajeshwari Digital Marketing Manager Alina Sege Assistant Digital Marketing Manager Renuka Kulkarni SME-SMO Executive Gemson Research Analyst Eric Smith Circulation Manager Tanaji Fartade sales@insightssuccess.com

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ClickPaaS clickpaas.com

Cypress Hu Founder

ClickPaaS is an innovative technology platform company dedicated to the development and service of the highly productive aPaaS platform, providing fast, high-quality technology platforms for government companies, consulting companies, startups and professional partners.

Code2 code2.io

Aysu Özer Marketing Specialist

Code creates frictionless, pixel-perfect designs with its visual editor and turn them into a fully functional web app — without code.

EasySend easysend.io

Tal Daskal CEO and Co-founder

EasySends builds a no-code platform, understanding the unique needs of the industry, and creates custom solutions. The organization makes it easy for enterprises to turn complex manual processes into full digital experiences at a fraction of the cost and time.

evoluteIQ evoluteiq.com

Sumit Gupte Co-founder & CEO

EvoluteIQ was carved out of a global technology group. The core platform has been built with a vision to simplify application building and accelerate integrated automation.

FlexRule ﬂexrule.com

Goli Tajadod Co-founder

FlexRule is the leading provider of both end-to-end decision automation technology and the decision-centric approach, as its methodology to guide organizations through the journey of adapting to changing business requirements with eﬀective and eﬃcient decision automation solutions.

Newgen Software newgensoft.com

Anurag Shah Vice president, Head of Products and Solutions

Newgen Software is a globally recognized provider of Low Code Automation Platform for Digital Transformation. The company has been recognized by distinguished analyst ﬁrms including Gartner, Forrester, Frost and Sullivan, and IDC.

OneBlink LcS oneblink.io

Darren Besgrove CEO

OneBlink's LcS is a Low-code Suite of tools and managed services that is ideally suited to Mid-large Enterprise and Government Agencies seeking to digitally transform or optimise a range of business processes.

Orangekloud orangekloud.com

Alex Goh CEO

OrangeKloud draws from multiple years of experience and expertise in the ERP industry and have helped partners and customers create customised mobile enterprise applications to help achieve the bottom-line results.

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Pillir enbles organizations to develop mission-critical apps 20X

Pillir pillir.io

FASTER and leverage the power of SAP’s digital core from any Irit Gillath device - with or without connectivity. SAP customers at any stage of Chief Marketing Oﬃcer the SAP journey can innovate quickly and easily, with little-to-no programming, by rapidly moving custom development to the Edge.

Vantiq vantiq.com

Marty Sprinzen CEO

Vantiq is the brainchild of industry veterans in the software and application development world. Its founders have led multiple successful software companies on the evolution of business application technology from relational databases, to internetenabled, to distributed, and now to real-time event-driven.

Cypress Hu Founder ClickPaas

ow-code platforms are gaining prominence each day with the advancement in digitization. Gartner predicts that by 2024, these low code platforms will account for 65 percent of all application development. Developers and enterprises are switching to low-code development platforms for a variety of reasons.

journey since inception, the current industry scenario, and his vision on the future of the company.

These platforms have significant advantages over traditional development tools and allow for the rapid production of rich, enterprise-grade programs. With the increasing demand for digital solutions, low-code platforms are gaining traction like never before. The benefits they provide result in significant cost reductions and assist businesses in sticking to their budgets.

ClickPaaS is a low-code application platform provider based on domain model designer and is committed to helping more and more middle and large-sized enterprise customers, consulting ﬁrms, SaaS enterprises build critical applications and complex core systems in a faster, easier-to-be-iterated, and lower-cost way.

It is amazing that how low-code development tools can serve a variety of business domains. Because low-code platforms are still evolving, there’s a significant chance you’ll see them improve in the future, offering many additional advantages over standard development platforms. Hence, the race of advancement has already started, and many companies are leading the way with their innovations. ClickPaaS is one of the prominent names in that list which offers updated services around the entire life cycle of application design, development, deployment, and maintenance. In the following interview, Cypress Hu, the Founder of ClickPaaS shares valuable insights into the company’s

Please brief our audience about ClickPaaS, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space.

ClickPaaS empowers partners to rapidly design vertical industry solutions and to meet business digital demands.

Meanwhile, ClickPaaS built collaboration with United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Shanghai) and offered them a commonweal project. ClickPaaS adopted domain model-driven technology in the product that is composed of the domain model, data model, UI/UX, flow management, integration model, business intelligence, and instance management. In 2021, ClickPaaS has received a Series B Plus funding led by Sequoia Capital and co-invested by BAI, SIG, Future Capital, and 5Y Capital. Also, more than 20 industry prizes were obtained in last year. What other solutions does your company offer, and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? ClickPaaS has various tier1 clients and offered solutions and services primarily to public sector, international logistics, construction, banking, manufacturing, and energy industries.

This system consists mainly of customer master data management, transaction record management, customer rating management, rule management, etc., which meets customized requirements as well as the regulation from the government and helps realize digital transformation for banking customers.

Take a customer from the banking industry as an example, ClickPaaS and our partner PWC developed a risk management and control system—an internal clients rating management system—to connect with internal banking systems, set rating standards, and reduce ﬁnancing risk.

Cross-border logistics is also one of our focused industries. We build an enterprise MSDI digital marketing platform for our customer and help them establish customer-centered marketing organizational structure and process, enhance the collaborative work of all departments, carry out detailed

management of the sales process, realize orderly tracking and monitoring, and provide a complete set of inquiry and quotation system. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche, and what more could be expected in the near future?

Microservice, container, cloud-native, and open-source technology have made low code development solutions more stable, ﬂexible, agile, and super automatic. And cloud computing technology has entered the mature stage providing a solid basic foundation for LCAP development. Since 5G technology has been deployed in the world, a large number of new IOT application scenarios will be blooming. More cutting-edge technology, like AI, multi-experience, hyper-automation, and data fabric, is going to be combined with low-code technology as a new generation composable platform so that low-code development solutions could oﬀer a better user experience and realize more complicated scenarios. As some reports showed, more and more enterprises will adopt LCAP for their digital transformation in the future because of its convenience and low cost.

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In my opinion, low code development technology is a very hot topic right now. Since Forrester proposed the concept of low-code and no-code in 2014, many companies have entered this niche market. Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Mendix, etc. have gained huge success in the global market, and ClickPaaS also grasped the opportunity starting from China market. Although some authoritative reports pointed demands of purchasing low-code application platforms will dramatically increase, this market is becoming more competitive. In the future, low-code technology is probably integrated with other emerging technologies. So, I would suggest if entrepreneurs would like to venture into this space, they should consider their diﬀerentiation compared to other vendors and consider how they can utilize emerging technology to improve current low-code productivity. What’s more, remember to be brave, be responsible, and not be afraid of failure once you decide to do that!

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges that knocked at your company’s doors and how did you pivot from those challenges? In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot of things and many enterprises shut down because of that. As an IT start-up, ClickPaaS gained more opportunities rather than challenges, though employees have to work from home for a period. By switching to online work model, ClickPaaS team built a global pandemic management system for a state-owned enterprise with worldwide coverage within one week helping control the virus infection risk successfully. By the end of 2021, the system has covered 47 country offices, 64 overseas projects, and 18,000 staffs. In addition, ClickPaaS offered an enterprise operation management system for a Shanghai municipal governmental to have an economic eagle-eye of those large enterprises registered in Shanghai. Then the government is able to proactively provide corresponding supporting solutions and help for those companies in trouble based on the information collected in the system. So basically, ClickPaaS opened up more markets during 2020. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space?

How do you envision scaling ClickPaaS’ operations and oﬀerings in 2022 and beyond? From the perspective of industry, we will keep focusing on our targeted vertical industries, provide more professional industrial solutions and components for our customers, and improve the ecosystem with our partners. We have established a new cooperation with some companies in the 2021 ClickPaaS ecological conference we call it ClickDream Conference to enable partner to build dreams, and we welcome more and more organizations to join our ecosystem in the future. We are considering a few emerging technologies to make breakthroughs, enhance user experience, and satisfy more customer requirements. In 2021, we made an important improvement in the underlying technology and published a platform called Grid Pro which could deal with million transaction rows with zero latency. A data ﬂow automation platform was published as well. Next year, a professional design platform with a new UI/UX called Designer Pro is in the plan, which enables designers to customize the system interface.From the perspective of marketing, we aim to build a complete branding system to raise brand awareness and image globally. Besides the domestic market, we also plan to enter overseas markets. Although the competitiveness is intense, there are still lots of global demands.

Top 10 Low-Code/No-Code Development Pla orms

The Fastest Enterprise Digital Transforma on Solu ons Provider

o overcome these turbulent times, enterprises must go live, as fast as possible. Though, earlier, it was easier said than done. For too long, it seemed that nothing could be done to transform the customer experience and employee experience around customer data collection. That was the trend until came EasySend, founded by the three financial and tech industry veterans, who experienced first-hand, the adverse effects of clunky paperwork-based processes and decided to do something about it. That is how EasySend was born – a no-code development platform, for building and optimizing digital customer journeys in insurance, banking, and financial services. The company is led by a young thought leader, Mr Tal Daskal, CEO and Co-Founder. In an interview with Insights Success, for its ‘Top 10 Low-Code/No-Code’ edition, Mr Daskal shared with us his amazing insights about the future of no-code digital transformation in general, and about how EasySend is temerging as a leader, in particular. Highlights of the interview are given below for your delight. Please brief our audience about EasySend, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. EasySend is a no-code customer experience platform for building and optimizing digital customer journeys. EasySend helps enterprises go digital by converting paper, PDFs, and manual processes into fully-branded customer journeys for any use case. With the platform, users can design, build, and launch digital customer processes in days, and continually optimize with advanced analytics. The EasySend platform improves the customer experience, cuts operational costs, and drives revenue growth. If you could make your five-year digital transformation plans, only take three months, what would happen? Your entire business is changed. You can stay ahead of your

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The no-code digital journey market is primed for explosive growth. EasySend is best positioned to become the clear leader in this emerging space.

competition, innovate, create remarkable customer experiences, and harness the power of technology to grow exponentially and generate new revenue streams by serving customers in new ways. This is the power of EasySend's no-coding digital platform. EasySend's impact goes far beyond boosting customer experience and cost-saving; it changes the entire business by allowing organizations to leapfrog into the future. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that EasySend oﬀers, and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? Our services include, • No-code platform-smart tools, custom roles, custom themes • AI Builder-turn your PDF into digital consumer journeys • Integration- Automate data collection with integrations • Analytics- Optimize every step with analytics • Co-Browsing- Create that in-person experience • EasySign- Signed, sealed, delivered—online! Our solutions include FNOL templates, auto-claim template etc., in the industries ranging from insurance, real estate, automotive, banking and ﬁnance, healthcare and pharma, to retail.

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As far as the impact is concerned, we raised over $71.5M in just two years in our series A funding. When you look at other no-code digital journey platforms out there, available tools are an inverse reflection of high-code environments: they either allow customization but at the cost of slow, expensive, complex implementation (still requiring heavy IT support), or are simple to implement but solve only one part of the digital journey, lack flexibility and are difficult to integrate with other systems. We have instinctively stumbled upon an unfilled gap in the market. We stand out with a different take on what's possible: we offer self-service, end-to-end digital journey capabilities (from the front-end to the back-end), a simple way to integrate with any platform, tools, or apps, as well as sophisticated data management tools in a simple to use platform, creating a holistic, but user-friendly offering. The need for flexible, lightweight solutions that business users can own has never been greater. EasySend is a full, agile, and low-friction solution, fitting right in the gap between the "functional, but difficult to implement" and "simple, but limited" tools at the other end of the spectrum. Please brief us about the featured person(s) journey in the industry, and how they have contributed towards the company's success. I handle all the operations at EasySend. I have a first-hand expertise in all aspects related to digital transformation in insurance and banking. I also passionately advocate for the paradigm shift towards no-code application development in the financial sector. During the initial stages of my career while working at one of the largest insurance companies in Israel, I noticed the extent of the problem that paperwork and manual processes create in insurance. To combat this, along with my Co-Founders, Omer Shirazi and Eran Shirazi, I incepted EasySend in 2016. COVID-19 led to a massive shift in the way people interact with businesses online. EasySend helps enterprises accelerate their five-year digital transformation plans in just three months, making it simple for them to offer exceptional online customer experiences. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche, and what more could be expected in the near future? The digital journeys market is at a tipping point. Every department—marketing, sales, service and support, HR, and

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call centers —is experiencing exponential growth in the number of digital customer-facing touchpoints. At the same time, companies can no longer aﬀord to wait for months on end, before seeing their digital experience projects come to life, as is the case with code-driven IT projects. But launching digital journeys is only one piece of the puzzle: maintenance is equally (if not more) challenging, especially in the age of fast-moving digital interactions. The sheer amount of digital journeys is quickly snowballing into an unmanageable mess: enterprises today spend a ridiculous amount of time and resources on maintaining and updating digital front-ends. Analytics is the third essential component. It is not enough to simply launch digital experiences anymore; businesses should be able to measure their pulse, identify points of friction and act accordingly. Only by understanding the end-to-end customer journeys can you boost revenues, reduce costs, and make the experience better for everyone using it. That is where the emerging no-code digital journey platforms come into play. The idea is simple: give nontechnical users tools to create customer-facing digital journeys via Drag & Drop interface rather than code, allowing organizations to bring sophisticated digital experiences to life 100x times faster. We are talking about shortening the time to market from 612 months to only 3 weeks. No-code platforms allow businesses to launch, update and monitor their digital touchpoints easily, without having to dedicate eﬀorts and resources to coding, maintaining, and analyzing hundreds (or thousands) of digital journeys. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by EasySend and how did you pivot from those challenges? During the COVID19 pandemic, digital capabilities suddenly became the number one priority. Forward-looking insurers, who have already invested into developing stateof-the-art digital customer experiences, are in a relatively good position. But what should the less digitally mature organizations do? According to our research, an average US insurer still

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maintains 91 PDF forms on their website. The so-called "digital experiences" for many insurance companies amount to the clunky PDFs, that the customers are required to download from the insurer's website, fill it in, scan it and then send it back via email. As back-office employees are working from home, the servicing of clunky and manual processes in a timely manner becomes high but impossible. Unless you are using a no-code platform. The time-to-value we could demonstrate is so short that the expansion we have been seeing was faster than expected. One of our biggest success stories is the customer who was able to turn around a 5-year project in just 3 months. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space? The need for flexible, lightweight solutions that business users can own has never been greater. The next couple of years are shaping up to be a gamechanger for building customer-facing digital experiences. Today, only 5% use no-code. In 5 years, this number is predicted to hover over 65%. As more companies are looking to deploy no-code platforms to transform the customer experience, there is a huge potential to grow. As a result, I expect a wave of funding in this space over the next few years. One of the lessons learned during this year of accelerated growth was that focus is key. Going forward, we will continue to focus on our vision for no-code digital journeys. How do you envision scaling your company's operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond? On November 16, 2021, EasySend announced a $50.5 million Series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT. Existing investors Vertex IL, Intel Capital, and Hanaco Venture also participated in the round. The company also secured $5 million in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank. The announcement follows a year of accelerated growth -the company expanded its US revenues by ten-fold. As it supported digital transformation for leading insurance, banks, and credit unions such as Cincinnati Insurance, NJM Insurance Group, PSCU, Sompo, and Petplan. The funding

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will accelerate EasySend's growth in the US and other geographic regions, as well as support expansion into new verticals and product use cases.

Testimonials Chad Dull, Claims Director, PetPlan It was amazing. We went from verbal discussions to live with our first process in less than three weeks. It was so easy. It was so fast. It was actually the fastest partnership integration project I've ever worked on, and I've been in this industry and call center management support for about 20+ years. Florian Rohkamm, Chief Distribution Officer, Real Garant by Zurich Ever since we started working with EasySend, we have noticed an improvement in our sales onboarding process. EasySend is reliable, transparent, and completely digital, which is exactly what we need in the current times. Scott Hagberg, Application & Automation Architect, VGM Group Inc. When we went to production, we realized that we had moved past the major point. We built our processes software around PDFs and now we're building processes and then defining the PDF. We're no longer tied to the questionnaire, so we can branch out. We've got five, six, seven different enhancements going, and three months later, live in production.

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odern-day technologies like Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Low Code or No Code (LCNC), Cloud Computing, etc., are rapidly making their marks in various sectors. These technologies are redefining the way work and process flow happen in modern businesses. Nonetheless, in many cases, these technologies are used separately to achieve automation in numerous organizations. Due to this, enterprises have to adopt different packaged automation tools from different technology vendors. But what if you could use all these technologies in one place and, by merging them, achieve hyperautomation? EvoluteIQ's e.IQ platform has all the advanced technologies available to use on a single platform to achieve your organization's hyperautomation goals. It is an integrated platform that offers combined capabilities of low-code or no-code, iBPMS, AI, ML, Analytics, IoT, RPA Integration, OCR, Blockchain, and data processing. EvoluteIQ's objective is to be the enablement platform of choice for all hyperautomation programs worldwide. The company intends to execute this through the simplicity of e.IQ technology, which can be used by regular nontechnical citizen users. In the following interview with Insights Success, EvoluteIQ's Sameet Gupte (CEO and Co-founder) talked about the company and its new-age technology solutions that are redefining organizational automation processes. Please brief our audience about your company, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space.

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EvoluteIQ is a Nordea and Confidus Venture Capital backed technology company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a presence in the UK, US, and India serving enterprise customers across the globe. At the cutting edge of technology, we aim to simplify end-to-end automation and accelerate its adoption across the enterprise with our hyperautomation enablement platform - e.IQ. Unlike other platforms whose solutions are limited to specific facets of automation at steep costs, our unified platform allows enterprises to build automated business applications in a scalable and cost-effective manner. We want to make end-to-end business transformation through hyperautomation affordable with faster delivery and break the barrier of it being a premium solution. At the core of our organization, we believe in transparency and growth as a larger ecosystem and want to enable citizen developers, business technologists, and specialists to collaborate effectively in driving digital transformation initiatives.

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Top 10 Low-Code/No-Code Development Platforms

The Prime Mover

Sameet Gupte

Co-founder and CEO EvolutelQ

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Awards and Recognition Ÿ EvoluteIQ has been recognized in the 2021 Gartner® market guide for

Business Process Automation tools. Ÿ EvoluteIQ has been featured in the HFS Hot Vendor Analyst Report for

Q3 2021. Ÿ EvoluteIQ is the only LC/NC automation platform company amongst

the eight that were selected from over 700 rms to be part of the PwC 2022 Scale FinTech program. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company offers and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? Our core offering is the e.IQ Hyperautomation Enablement Platform, which combines the capabilities of process orchestration, data and event processing, AI/ML, enterprise connectors, and front-end application development to build seamless user journeys using a simple, low-code, or nocode interface. Effectively, we provide a single hyperautomation enablement suite with integrated capabilities, all at the price of a few RPA bots. Our enterprise customers and partners are building transformative solutions across industries like banking, insurance, and healthcare and across domains such as finance and accounting, supply chain, and sales and marketing. These are mission-critical applications and the e.IQ platform provides a secure and scalable foundational layer.

The LCAP or low-code application platforms trend is only expected to grow further in 2022. In fact, Gartner estimates that "by 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 70% of application development activity". I feel that low code and hyperautomation have proven themselves as a credible and realistic way for organizations to develop new digital solutions much faster and stay a step ahead of their competitors without drowning out in complexities. As this market slowly converts to an enterprise automation market, the need of the hour will soon be and is already an end-to-end hyperautomation platform. And that is what we solve with the e.IQ platform. Our platform is the only low-code or no-code platform that has capabilities of frontend development, data processing, cognitive capabilities, and enterprise connectors – all in the same consistent drag and drop interface.

Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche and what more could be expected in the near future?

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company, and how did you pivot from those challenges?

Everyone knows that low-code development has established itself as a frontrunner in the software industry, especially since the pandemic. Enterprises and organizations have begun the shift towards low code applications to build applications faster, stay relevant, have a competitive edge while continuing to digitally transform their business to sustain in this evolving space.

The pandemic hit us at a point when we had not even completed a year in operation. It was sudden and unexpected, as most crises are. After the ﬁrst couple of months where we adopted the lockdowns and remote working, we were able to win multi-year subscriptions with enterprise customers in 2020 and more than quadruple that in 2021.

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Words of Appreciation from the Clients “We spoke to customers that felt no other current platform offered the same breadth of capabilities for business process transformation.” – David Cushman, lead analyst for HFS OneOf ce “Medtronic in Asia has different ways of reaching out to our customers. One of them is direct supply to the healthcare providers. There is a lot of complexity involved in this, like managing the inventory, associated purchase orders, consumption metrics, etc. The integrated capabilities for handling work ows, data, dashboards, and web application front-end enabled us to streamline the overall operations effectively.” - Ganga S, IT Director, APAC Emerging Markets and Leader Data Analytics Digital Health COE at Medtronic

We were able to demonstrate the simplicity and accelerated deployment capability of the e.IQ platform, which enabled our customers to realize their business KPIs much faster and at a signiﬁcantly lower cost. This allowed them to adopt e.IQ faster and scale new processes on the platform at a much more rapid pace than they had done before. Today, the work we are doing at EvoluteIQ is more relevant than ever in this digital-ﬁrst world. The technology we provide is increasingly becoming an integral part of people's lives, and the way I see it will continue to do so in the future, too, because hyperautomation will be an integral part of any enterprise in this post COVID world.

How do you envision scaling your company's operations and oﬀerings in 2022 and beyond? The year 2022 is set to be much more exciting and rewarding for us at EvoluteIQ as we continue to work together on multiple initiatives to deliver the best technology. The world is moving towards Enterprise Automation, and we believe we already have pole position given the integrated feature-rich platform we have. Our focus through 2022 and beyond will be to maintain that leadership and scale our go-to-market eﬀorts.

What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space? It is a very crowded and also evolving space with many Low Code platforms in the market. If you are planning to venture into this solutions space, then LCAP is just "table stakes." You will need to do more in terms of technology features and have a clear diﬀerentiator that will demonstrate business results quickly.

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Goli Tajadod,

Co-founder and VP of Customer Success, FlexRule

Arash Aghlara, Founder and CEO FlexRule

Since its inception, continuous improvement is in FlexRule's DNA that drives us to develop and provide future-ﬁt products and services.

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aking well-informed and timely business decisions is one of the most important factors for attaining profits. Businesses have become dependent on the data that is generated by their customers. Because of the rapidly changing data landscape, organizations must also keep up with it and adapt to the current market dynamics in order to stay ahead. Business decisions need to be frequently updated based on the present market situation. This is dependent on the data that is processed by each department, process flows, and analysis. Automation in businesses has made decisionmaking easier. The benefits of introducing automation into the decisionmaking process are numerous. It helps businesses make efficient and timely use of data while remaining a customercentric organization. FlexRule is the next-generation endto-end decision management and automation platform. It provides first-rate decision management and automation services that allow organizations to make enhanced, situation-aware, and customer-centric decisions. We interviewed FlexRule's Arash Aghlara, the Founder and CEO, and Goli Tajadod, Co-founder and VP of Customer Success, to get a deeper understanding of how their platform is changing the way decisions are made in organizations. Below are the excerpts from the interview:

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Please brief our audience about your company, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. FlexRule was founded to help companies improve the effectiveness and efficiency of operational decisions that are influenced by infinite and frequent changes in data, processes, and rules in regulated environments. FlexRule is the leading provider of end-to-end decision management and automation technology and the DECISION-CENTRIC APPROACH™, as its methodology to guide organizations through the journey of adapting to changing business requirements with effective and efficient decision automation solutions. Our mission is to empower all the leaders – business, technology, and operation leaders to improve the speed and quality of key business decisions in any changing environment. With an innovative and future-thinking approach, FlexRule reduces the complexity of technology and makes these advanced decision-making technologies more accessible to everyone in the organization. Since its inception, continuous improvement has been in FlexRule's DNA that drives it to develop and provide future-fit products and services.

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Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company offers, and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients. FlexRule provides the full-scale platform for end-to-end decision management and automation - FlexRule™ Advanced Decision Management Suite. It is a powerful, unified platform architected for organizations to make optimized, customer-centric, and situation-aware decisions by orchestrating, automating, and managing business decisions using business rules, processes, data, analytics, and robotics. With the platform's low-code and intuitive user interface, business, technology, and operation leaders can quickly utilize decision-making technologies and make quality decisions! With customers ranging from start-ups to large enterprises to government agencies, FlexRule has delivered gamechanging business results across many industries such as finance, lending, banking, accounting services, insurance, healthcare, energy, and supply chain and logistics. With our end-to-end decision management and automation platform, organizations can offer customized financial products, insurance policies, or health regimens and make quality decisions for product configuration, credit approval, patient diagnosis, and many other applications. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche, and what more could be expected in the near future? Modern technologies made the low-code paradigm a practical approach to building many types of Line of Business (LOB) applications; for internal and externalfacing applications. As technology becomes more accessible and there is a new entrant to the low-code app development market every day, the required investment in building the LOB applications is reduced significantly today. However, the generic purpose low-code app builder that can address LOB applications will not address many typical enterprise challenges, particularly in regulated environments. However, as we see in today's disrupted business landscape, building the apps, whether hard or easy, lowcode or pro-code, will not take away the day-to-day decision-making activity from the staff, operations, and

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domain experts. Consistency and accuracy of operational decisions are more concerning and degrading because of supply-chain challenges, staﬃng, etc. Therefore, I do anticipate that decision automation tools with a low-code approach will soon become a necessity rather than a good-to-have priority for any organization dealing with any change, either regulatory requirements or market dynamic in a comparative landscape. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company, and how did you pivot from those challenges? For us, it slowed things down a bit and warranted transforming the usual way of working. The business-asusual approach would not have worked perfectly as we liked, especially in day-to-day operations and team collaboration. We improved our day-to-day operations with streamlined processes and productive systems that cater to customers and the internal team. We embraced reality and continue to deal with it (weaknesses, problems, and mistakes). We improved team collaboration and full visibility of the planned projects as per the set goals and priorities, empowering the team with collaboration tools to deliver value.

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The Prime Movers Arash Aghlara, the Founder and CEO of FlexRule, has led FlexRule to become a pioneer and the most innova ve company in end-to-end decision management and automa on. With a vast experience of over 25 years in architecture, design, and implementa on of enterprise solu ons for automa on. He has also developed the DECISION-CENTRIC APPROACH™, a methodology that brings People, Data, Rules, and Processes together to ensure organiza ons can consistently make op mized, customer-centric, and situa on-aware business decisions while they meet the objec ves on revenue, costs, and mi ga ng risks. Goli Tajadod, Co-founder and VP of Customer Success at FlexRule, has helped organiza ons champion digital and decision transforma on ini a ves across diﬀerent industries. With the tremendous focus and 15+ years of experience in product innova on and customer success, she has helped FlexRule's customers accomplish successful project implementa ons with a pragma c approach and game-changing ideas, end-to-end customer support, and leading a high-performing and talented customer success team. Quality Guaranteed We believe FlexRule is a truly innova ve company. The FlexRule helps improve the quality and speed of key business decisions. It democra zes AI and enables leaders to use the right AI technology for the right problem, thus ensuring success, maximizing the ROI of automa on ini a ves, and delivering real business value. FlexRule eﬀec vely closes the gap between the belief that new technologies can drive be er decision-making and the idea of what those decisions really are. With our customerfocused approach, con nuous improvements in our products and services, adaptability, we provide a futurethinking technology to make organiza ons future-ready.

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How do you envision scaling your company's operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond? As mentioned earlier, FlexRule democratizes decision management and automation while ensuring the use of the right AI technology for the right business decisions. And we aim to continue evolving and delivering on the changing requirements and expectations of our customers while growing our business globally. We have created specific roadmaps for product development, marketing and sales, and other operations. With all our endeavors to gain scalable business growth, customer-centricity, and adaptability, we are working towards customer relationship and response, product innovations, resource expansion, allocation, efficient project handling, internal and external communications, and team collaboration. We streamline our operations with complete visibility of work and progress to accomplish OKRs set in the company, group/team, and individual levels.

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nterprises have been in the midst of a digital transformation process in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically increased the demand for the complete digitization of business. Companies nowadays are required to add various applications and features to their underlying systems continually to digitally enhance their operations and customer service. As we all know, conventional software development requires time, planning, and understanding of major programming languages. For this reason, developers have to start everything from scratch in order to create software or new upgrades. In addition, complex codes keep citizen developers from participating in the software development process. Considering the various limitations of the traditional software development process, the IT industry has come up with a disruptive way of developing enterprise software or app solutions. It is known as Low-code or No-code Platforms (LCNC) development. How Do Low-code/No-code Platforms Work? Going by the deﬁnition, the Low-code concept is a selfdescribing one. That is to create a software or app solution with minimal coding addition. The technology industry has compressed complex programming lines into methods or objects that can be easily called by simply typing their names when coding.

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Like Low-code, No-code is also self-explanatory. It's a further extension of the low-code concept. The only factor is that one can just drag and drop ready-to-compile tools on to the screen to create software applications. The Low-code and No-code (LCNC) services are provided over the cloud-based platforms. That makes the IT industry a more democratized one where citizen developers with little or no understanding of coding can participate in the software/application-development process. With the dynamic nature of business and the ability of LCNC technology, companies are rapidly modernizing themselves in order to have an edge in the consumer market. Below are the reasons why low-code or no-code platforms are becoming the most disruptive trend of 2022. Digitization Wave The COVID-19 pandemic fueled the digitization waves within organizations to the next level. During that time, businesses had to provide a work-from-home option for their employees. That led to the need to have various cloudbased technologies for companies to carry on their operations. The cloud-based LCNC platforms proved to be simple and speedy solutions for companies to get their business going.

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Several industry studies suggest that the future of technology development will be majorly concentrated on availing the LCNC platform-based services for software development. According to a research survey by Gartner, "By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity.” Services for Reliable Cloud Integration As businesses are progressing rapidly in their digital voyage, they will need to add different and new technology features into their software. With cloud computing-based LCNC services, companies can integrate as many software features as they would like in one place to collectively work on them. The technology solutions created on these LCNC platforms can easily be integrated with the existing databases and processes of the company. One can migrate them completely to the cloud when needed. Also, the process of importing and exporting large data files is easier and can be done in a few steps. Moreover, with an internet connection, companies can have secure access to their software anytime and anywhere, 24x7. Enhanced Interactivity Low-code or no-code technology has facilitated companies to have one central system where multiple software or application services can be seamlessly integrated. Due to this, the data flow between the internal departments is processed and proceeded within a matter of seconds after it is entered. This enables company executives to look into the status reports on each lead, opportunity, and client with a few clicks.

Boosting Automation Processes The automation drive within organizations is at an all-time high. Credit goes to advanced technologies like Artiﬁcial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and many more. The LCNC platforms provide the opportunity for companies to have access to as much of the latest technology as possible for their client businesses. They enable them to be more secure, dynamic, and visual. Client companies can integrate these modern technologies within their LCNC software or app solution to enhance their business operations. Wrapping Up The capabilities of low-code and no-code platforms are giving businesses across all sectors a much-needed digital breakthrough. The digitization wave which got further acceleration due to COVID, is a sign that we are in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0. For the years 2020 and 2021, it was about discovering and adapting to these LCNC platforms. Now that the trend is getting wider recognition from corporate teams, the year 2022 will see a further rise in its acceptance from worldwide businesses. Overall, the LCNC trend is here to stay and is enabling companies' digitization processes, a smooth ride. - Vishal Golekar

Empowering Citizen Developers Using low-code or no-code platforms, non-IT professionals can also start building software systems of their choice. Due to their familiarity with work and business challenges, they can instantly start creating a software or application solution that suits their requirements. In addition, those with coding and development knowledge can enhance the abilities of the LCNC software solutions to make them more valuable. They can also spend more time strategizing to make the apps more suitable for the organization's business objective.

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Business Applica on Developers on Cloud-based Pla orm with Low Code

igital transformation has gone to the next level when computers and smartphone devices are playing vital role in human life. Daily organizational workﬂow got digitized at a fast pace. With this advancements into the business world, the need of digital application was rising but the number of developers were not available to do that work. So, the platforms are made to create the applications where a company person can abstract and customized with automated steps as per the requirements. This made organizations to do their daily work very eﬃcient and less time consuming. Newgen Software is Low Code Automation Platform that is globally recognized to create business applications that manages process, content, and communication with the customers of their clients. Not everyone knows how to code that is why this platform makes it simple for the organizations. They have IT professionals and developers available in their team who constantly upgrading the platform to make it more friendly, even for the person who does not know how coding works. Recently we took an interview of Anurag Shah, Head of Product and Solutions at Newgen Software to know more about the organization and his participation in it.

Anurag Shah Head of Products and Solu ons

Innova on is at the heart of everything we do.

Read the following conversation: Please brief our audience about Newgen Software, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. Newgen Software is a result of the vision of Mr. Diwakar Nigam, our Chairman and Managing Director. He wanted to build a world-class software product company. And today, Newgen is a leader in contextual content services, low code intelligent process automation, and omnichannel customer

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communication technologies - transforming the way enterprises service their customers, enable their employees, and collaborate with their partners. We have combined all three platforms to offer the most comprehensive and complete digital transformation platform for enterprises – NewgenONE. NewgenONE is a result of 30 years of passion and entrepreneurship, especially in document management and process automation, keeping customer success as the topmost priority. It is a unique offering that started with humble beginnings in India to establish itself as a leading platform for Fortune 2000 enterprises globally. Its natively built products and platform deliver a synchronized and connected engagement for its users, thereby simplifying experiences. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. To date, we have filed 44 patents, out of which 22 have been granted in India and the US. We invest 9-10% of our revenue annually in research and development activities. We have a dedicated team of about 500 people with deep domain expertise, who conduct extensive studies into the needs and challenges of the market, from banking to insurance, to manufacturing, and more. This initiative enables us to address the market needs by continuously upgrading our solutions to remain relevant in the current scenario and help enterprises tackle any uncertainties. Newgen has more than 550 customers in 72 countries across banking, insurance, government, manufacturing, media, oil & gas, and other industries. Newgen Partners ecosystem spans across more than 350 partners worldwide, including leading consulting companies (likes of Deloitte, PWC, and EY), global system integrators (likes of Infosys, TCS, and Wipro), and value-added resellers. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that Newgen Software offers, and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? Enterprises need to manage their processes, content, and communications – as they develop business applications – solving for end-to-end customer journeys. Some of these business applications are simple, ad hoc, and with limited customer interactions. While there are other business applications that are mission-critical, complex, contentdriven, and involve sophisticated, omnichannel customer interactions. Our cloud based NewgenONE Digital Transformation Platform with low code capability is for automating the latter set of business needs. The platform "unlocks simple" in business operations, making it easier for all stakeholders to participate, utilize information, make

decisions, and service its customers (internal and external). The platform has been consistently recognized by leading industry analysts for its low code, content management, and customer communication capabilities. NewgenONE empowers professional IT developers with speed and agility. It allows enterprises to develop and deploy customer-facing applications with a consistent user experience across multiple channels. Furthermore, it facilitates seamless integration with various back end and third-party systems and applications. Anurag, tell us about your journey in the industry, and how you have contributed towards Newgen Software's success. I joined Newgen right after post-graduation in 1999, and my journey started in the product management group (PMG), working on workflow and document managementbased solutions for banks and financial services customers. As part of PMG, I was intrinsically involved in the development of the first version of Newgen's low code product iBPS (erstwhile BPM - OmniFlow) and managed the initial few implementations of Newgen BPM and ECM products for BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and insurance customers for their mission-critical enterprisewide use cases. Starting early 2000, I started taking a more extensive and leading role in delivery and helped implement Newgen products, especially BPM & ECM, in the banking, financial services, and insurance verticals. Towards the end of the decade, I was heading delivery for the US, Caribbean, and West India. From 2010 onwards, I was entrusted to lead the products and solutions division to expand Newgen's footprint and grow business in North America, South/Central America, including the Caribbean, LATAM, and Brazil. I helped set up the products and solutions practice intertwined with delivery methodologies in Newgen US. Soon, the results started pouring in with a couple of back-to-back breakthroughs in the US community banking and credit union segment. Towards the end of the last decade, Newgen strategized GSI (Global System Integrator) partnership-led sales motion in the US, and I led the initiative. Today I head the products and solutions division and GSI relations for Americas and continue to be an active contributor in product development. I also actively collaborate with marketing for analyst engagements and more.

Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche, and what more could be expected in the near future? Several leading-edge technologies are being stitched into the low code development suite. However, true digital transformation is achieved only when these modern technologies are used in the context of the business, keeping customers and employees in mind. Here is a classic example of how a low code platform is being complemented by new-age technologies to deliver a seamless customer experience: Consider a home equity loan solution that is built on a low code platform. It includes content services, NLP, AI/ML Cognit, and RPA. And then, it integrates with several internal and external systems to collate the information and unify it before presenting it to knowledge workers. These systems include bureaus for credit report, agencies for appraisal reports, core banking for customer information, to name a few. All these technologies work in tandem to deliver a seamless customer experience. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by Newgen Software's doors, and how did you pivot from those challenges? Like any other business, we too had to respond to the unprecedented situation quickly. We implemented business continuity measures and extended our development network via VPN connectivity, enabling our employees to work remotely. This helped us maintain our operational resilience. And we also oﬀered our solutions on the cloud, which made deployment possible within hours and in line with the regulatory requirements of every geography. Having mentioned the challenges, the pandemic also presented tremendous opportunities for us as it accelerated the need for digital transformation across industries globally. We were able to anticipate the business and the market changes, and we quickly responded by shifting our employees and customers to a remote working environment. There was no business disruption, and the quality of our services remained top-notch. Our NewgenONE platform was a great enabler in ensuring that our customers were able to transition to the new normal of a digital working environment without any hiccups. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space?

There are two aspects of low code solutions—citizen developer and professional developer-based solutions. While citizen developers utilize low code for departmental and simple to medium complex information processes, professional developers combine several tools and technologies to deliver mission-critical and complex business automation solutions. For low code enthusiasts, I urge them to look at it from the perspective of revitalizing the business case for content and collaborative services, as your business imperatives change in today's uncertain times. Keep the business case fresh as priorities continue to change and the maturity level of low code platforms keep rising. Align the business case to the top corporate priorities to help obviate failure Get executive support – it leads to sponsorship Show quick wins Set performance metrics aligned with the corporate priorities you identiﬁed, and decide how to recognize the desired outcomes Address change management and user adoption issue iteratively. It is not a one-time project Gather and use data and feedback to plan for continuous improvement. How do you envision scaling Newgen Software's operations and oﬀerings in 2022 and beyond? NewgenONE, our low code-based digital transformation platform, continues to enable enterprises globally with rapid and agile development and deployment of complex business applications. The platform will continue to inherit current and future enhancements of its underlying platforms for content services, process automation, and customer engagement. In 2022 we will focus on improving the developer experience, strengthening functionality with AI/ML and RPA, enhancing the deployment and application governance experience, improving integration between Newgen's products and third-party systems, and building a consistent, new-age UI/UX across all products. To make our solutions future-proof, we will continue to further enhance our solutions with new-age technologies like AI, ML, process analytics, intelligent content services, contextual automation of business processes, mobility, and digital sensing.

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one are the days when creating complex apps required employing multiple developers, spending huge capital, and then waiting for days. With the introduction of low-code or no-code platforms, building applications has become simpliﬁed and quicker. What's more easier and quicker is OneBlink's Low-code app development Suite (LcS) that enables business users to create sophisticated applications to support their business processes without the need for the IT department to get involved. OneBlink has been developing mobile apps in Australia for 15 years and has earned the trust of businesses as well as several state and local government regulatory agencies. It caters to many industry segments, including Transport & Logistics, Local/State Government, Construction, Education, Financial Services, Utilities and Healthcare.

We at Insights Success caught up with Alan Williams, the CTO, and Darren Besgrove, the CEO of OneBlink, to learn more about the company and its top-notch oﬀerings. Below are the highlights of the interview: Please brief our audience about OneBlink its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. OneBlink is a 15-year veteran of the Australian mobile app development sector and now enjoys a trusted position among enterprises and many state and local government regulatory entities. OneBlink originally began life as BlinkMobile and evolved from intelligent SMS solutions to providing rapid mobile development tools for SI's, developers, and IT teams.

LcS (Low-code Suite) empowers an organisations' business users to conduct their own development via No/Low-code Tools, while also providing services that increase the productivity of IT Teams as they undertake custom development.

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The company changed its name to OneBlink 5 years ago following the evolution of its powerful no/low-code offering and is now regarded as the leading Australian owned and operated No/Low-code Development Platform. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company offers and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? The OneBlink Low-code Suite (or LCS) increases the velocity of an organization's digital transformation and allows them to respond more quickly and reliably to changing social, health, or legislative demands on their business processes. OneBlink's low-code platform is unique in its capability to equally serve the needs of citizen developers, in-house IT teams, and external SI's, removing the need for these groups to duplicate or port work to other toolsets. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 75% of organizations will run at least four low-code tools for IT app and citizen development. The impact that OneBlink is making is that our customers can reduce or completely remove their need for other low-code toolsets. The OneBlink combination of no-code, low-code, and pro-code capabilities in the one product reduces our customers' subscription costs, the time and expense of new product evaluations and procurement, plus reduces their support and training overheads. It also means different levels of users within organizations can more effectively collaborate on projects - as business users can build their V1 solutions and pass them within the same platform to internal or external IT teams to further enhance them into mission-critical solutions. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche and what more could be expected soon? There are many aspects to the no/low-code sector. Some tools and vendors focus on supporting the needs of professional developers, while others look more exclusively at business-level users or citizen developers. OneBlink is somewhat unique in that we effectively support the differing needs of both sets of users. The other distinction is those low-code vendors that act purely as 'pass through' solutions, i.e., their technology is designed to interface into existing (often legacy) systems of record, versus those that provide for data storage as retrieval, so they can be used to build complete stand-alone solutions.

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Soon we are seeing the requirement to incorporate AI – both to further speed up the low-code development experience but also within apps and workflows themselves to supersede some of what is done currently with conditional logic and data/regular expression verifications. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company and how did you pivot from those challenges? OneBlink has survived the COVID-19 pandemic relatively unscathed. Yes, there were problems in terms of rent being paid on office premises that we couldn't use during lockdowns. But our development teams were well versed in working from home as we encouraged this flexibility many years ago. We did find it hard to secure new customers during this period as many were distracted by the disruptions of the pandemic, but again as a SaaS vendor, our existing customers dramatically expanded their use of our software in new and interesting ways, increasing their usage and their average spend. The pivot now is more about adapting to a new way of hybrid working that suits our people and customers. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space? While some predicted a few years back that the sector would experience significant consolidation, the number of new players continues to grow. If you were to venture into the space now, my advice would be like entering any other software sector, understand what you're good at, identify the pain points that people are willing to pay to address, and find your niche. How do you envision scaling your company's operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond? A key aspect of our strategy to continue scaling is our recent strategy to partner with other ISVs who don't have their low code capability and stand to be marginalized as their customers look to other 3rd party vendors to provide this capability.

infrastructure, and we take on the engineering effort to ensure that their product version is unique, with dedicated connectors into their products and meaningful customizations in line with their customer needs. This model is already operating with a North American ISV and another global SaaS vendor, and we expect to expand this service to more partners over the next few years. A Prominent Name OneBlink has not sought out awards for its core technology but instead has focused on the accreditations needed to cement its position with larger customers and prospects. This includes OneBlink achieving AWS accreditations and competencies for MOBILE, GOVERNMENT, recognition as an AWS Public Sector Partner, and inclusion in the AWS Marketplace. Other Awards in the last year recognize the global scaling initiatives discussed in the question above, with the company being a finalist in the NSW Premiers Export Awards and a featured company in the NSW Government International Trade Statement. OneBlink was also a recent finalist in The RegTech Association’s 2021 Exporter of the Year Award. Beyond many local government agencies, our key reference customers are NSW Primary Industries, NSW Forestry Corp, and SafeWork NSW. What Clients Have to Say? “OneBlink was a great solution to our requirements, their support team is well versed in their product and extremely helpful which made the move to OneBlink a very smooth process.” - Benjamin Evans, Greater Shepparton City Council “The biggest gains are occurring when we carry out audits. Today, staff can conduct audits more efficiently, so while we're undertaking more audits and inspections, we're also able to spend more time with our customers.” - Debbie Brookfield, NSW Biosecurity and Food Safety.

Under our low-code ISV Partner/White Label program, these ISVs can oﬀer their customers a mature and robust platform under their brand at a fraction of the time and cost it would take to develop themselves (assuming they even had the capability). Further, we ensure their White Label version of our software runs in its dedicated cloud

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echnology has drastically improved to the extent that it has started multiplying itself on its own. Times have changed. You can now use a mobile application to do many day-to-day tasks for an organization. These days, because of low-code or no-code application development platforms, you do not necessarily have to depend on coding to make a mobile application. Orangekloud provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to help you build a no-code app on your own. Its eMOBIQ® product does not necessitate any coding knowledge in order to create the application. Anyone can make use of this to build an enterprise app. We interviewed Orangekloud’s Alex Goh, CEO, and Kevin Patrick Tan, CTO, to understand more about their platform’s innovative no-coding solutions. Below are the excerpts from the interview: Please brief our audience about your company, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. Orangekloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider and technology enabler for the mid-level market segment who are considering digital transformation with mobile applications. The company was incorporated in 2015 and had offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and the USA. Our vision is to empower both professional developers and citizen developers to build simple-to-complex crossplatform Enterprise Mobile Applications using no handwritten code. Our platform solutions will allow them to go to market in the quickest possible time with a fully functional mobile application. Product: eMOBIQ®: No-Code Cross-platform Enterprise Mobile Application Development Platform. Target market: Mid-level market segment of developers and citizen developers. Primary benefit: Anyone can build Enterprise Mobile Apps without writing a single line of code. What makes it unique? Building online-offline enterprise mobile apps smarter, faster, and secure.

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Ø Smarter • A Uniﬁed Development Centre (UDC) allows you to design, develop, debug, and preview on the ﬂy on both browser as well as on the mobile device. It also allows compiling and publishing the app on eMOBIQ® Stores or other public stores with legitimate enterprise accounts. • Using a Visual Logic Flow (VLF) builder allows you to add and modify functional logic with drag and drop options. • Backend Data Integration is seamless with ready-toconnect Smart Enterprise Connectors (SEC). • Building complex B2B mobile apps without any handwritten code. • Work Lean on Resources – One developer can develop for both Android and iOS with low learning curves.

Ø Faster • Build once and deploy across multiple platforms rather than building separately for different platforms. • Reduce development time by half compared to a native developer with wizards and visual logic flow builders. • UI/UX Design simplified with pre-defined templates. • Ability to compile the mobile app into React native mobile apps or use the default Cordova frameworks.

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The standard mobile applications to diﬀerent verticals and user personas are like below:

Our vision is to empower both professional developers and citizen developers to build simple-to-complex cross-platform Enterprise Mobile Applications using no hand-written code.

Ø Secure • Keep your apps private and locked on eMOBIQ® Stores. • Applying SSL and data encryption to mobile applications. eMOBIQ® has been featured for two successive years in 2016 and 2017 as a promising Rapid Mobile Applications Development Platform (RMAD) in Gartner® Market Index Guide Report. Being an enterprise mobile application development platform, we offer a competitive edge to all ERP partners to extend their services and the capability of the ERPs they implement to the end customer with the option to create their own ISVs and microservice mobile applications. As part of our ongoing product strategy, eMOBIQ® will be one of the unique platforms that will enable both full-stack application development and mobile application development with no-code. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company offers and how they impact the industry and your clients. As a Global ISV to principal ERP vendors like Microsoft and Acumatica, we have built standard mobile solutions integrated to MS D365 BC and Acumatica, respectively, that can be bought off the shelf and deployed right into the customer instance.

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Field Sales (MS D365 BC) Customer Self Ordering (MS D365 BC/ Acumatica) Field Services ((MS D365 BC/ Acumatica) Van/Truck Sales (MS D365 BC) Warehouse App (MS D365 BC) Delivery App (MS D365 BC) Merchandising App (MS D365 BC)

Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low-code development solutions niche and what more could be expected in the near future. “The Future of Coding is No Coding” – The CEO of Github had rightly mentioned this growing trend when enterprise application development is leaning favourably at Lowcode/No-code (LCNC) application development strategy. To support this Gartner® has predicted that more than 65% of enterprise application development by 2023 will be on LCNC development platforms. Mobile app development trends for 2022 have constantly updated from the optimum usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Wearable Devices, Augmented Reality (AR), and ondemand apps to designate teams and develop productive mobile application solutions. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company, and how did you pivot from those challenges? In retrospect, the pandemic has created an urgency for companies to adopt digital transformation with a ‘mobilefirst’ strategy. Using the No-code mobile application development platforms enhances the ability of the developer to build design-thinking mobile apps that enhance the user experience to a large extent, unlike the Mobile ERP Apps provided by major ERP vendors, which end up dumping the entire ERP screens onto a mobile device and confusing the user, who would rather prefer to see a mobile screen pertaining to his operations based on his persona. The mobile application with the offline capabilities developed with eMOBIQ® for our customers allows the required data to be downloaded onto the mobile device when there is internet connectivity and allows the user to

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continue to work in an offline mode by referring to all the data records on the mobile device. Once the Internet connectivity is restored, the data with all the attachments and reports is synced back to the backend seamlessly. In summary, we have used the pandemic as an opportunity spinner and have ridden the wave with more mobile projects for us and the development partners. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space? As a budding entrepreneur, this is the most opportune moment to use the current trends and growing demands based on the following advantages: a. Work Lean – Use existing resources to develop crossplatform mobile applications b. Low Learning Curves – Rather than having two different specialized programming skillsets (Android and iOS) to develop applications, with a low learning curve developing Enterprise Mobile Applications will enable the entrepreneur to build faster and go to market faster. c. Save Costs on Infra and Maintenance – With the platform offered as a cloud-based SAAS model, costs any upgrades on the device operating system (OS) is free for a lifetime.

About the Author Kevin Patrick Tan, who has risen from the ranks of Technical Developer to a CTO, leads a technical team that focuses on strategizing the product development and roadmap. His experience with the eMOBIQ® pla orm has provided a shot in the arm in fulﬁlling the company's overall product development and deployment.

How do you envision scaling your company’s operations and oﬀerings in 2022 and beyond? With the growing needs of enterprise applications development leaning heavily towards the LCNC application development strategy, we are gearing up to scale up the platform capability as a development accelerator both as a Full Stack Developer Tool with No-code and with the existing Mobile Application Developer Tooling capability with No Code. Since a major bulk of software application development requirements are in the North American region, we are now focusing on enabling distributorships in North America and Europe to leverage the capability of churning out simple-tocomplex enterprise business mobile applications using a No-code Development platform. Along with the professional services and solutions that Orangekloud oﬀers to the partners, we are hoping to

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increase our brand to North American and European markets in 2022. Plans are also underway to build a bigger team based out of the USA in 2022, based on the growing

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hese days, technology seamlessly merges with every sector of the business world. This integration enables companies to simplify their work operations and speedily serve their customers. With time, business requirements upgrade; technology too and have to level up with the scale. Today, businesses need to have their own Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, various applications, websites, and much more. This means that the necessity for technology upgrades has become proportionate to the dynamic market demands that businesses have to provide. Shortcomings of the Conventional Technology Development Process For technology to match up with the space of market demands, it has to have the ability to speedily create the solutions. However, going by the traditional coding method, achieving a fast technological product is next to impossible. Due to the complexities that are involved in planning and coding the technology solution, it may take months to develop a technology product. Furthermore, even if the developers keep writing lengthy code to build new tech products, their capabilities are centered on hovering over the process repeatedly. This usually results in their exhaustion. In addition, the time lost cannot be recovered. It is imperative that developers use their skills to strategize rather than repeat the same processes every time.

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Additionally, one has to be efficient in one or many programming languages to start developing technology. Because of this, the average citizen or enthusiast cannot actively participate in the software or app-making process unless they are well versed in programming/coding. The Low-code/No-code Solution It is known that technology can be a solution to numerous business problems. As it turns out, it can be a solution to its own challenges too. Big and small tech companies globally have found a way to compress the programming process significantly. The solutions that these companies establish need less coding knowledge or no coding knowledge at all for one to begin developing. The platforms that provide such solutions are known as Low Code or No Code (LCNC) platforms. As the tech experts put it, "the Low-code No-code is a visual and hassle-free approach to software development. Basically, it creates enterprise-level applications using visuals and basic skills without proficient programming knowledge or skills." The LCNC platforms allow business software or application development in such a way that one does not have to follow all the conventional software development methodologies. Using these modern software development platforms, one can start creating the technological solution within a matter of minutes. Also, the software can be deployed in the shortest time window.

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Moreover, the LCNC platforms are quickly becoming a booming trend in technology and business enterprises. As reported by the research of the KPMG platform, low-code is the future of application development and automation. They can easily integrate with the company's existing information system to allow businesses to create sophisticated enterprise-class applications by incorporating complex business logic. Below are a few but major benefits of the LCNC technology. Offering Rapid Technology Solutions Businesses are becoming stronger each day with the help of technology. So much so that it is now nearly impossible to imagine a company without technology at its core. But, it is also true that businesses need to be dynamic these days based on market sentiments. In such a scenario, they need to keep innovating new ways to improve the existing system and simultaneously come up with new solutions. The LCNC platforms efficiently fulfil this requirement as they assist businesses by speedily developing technology. This can be done much faster and more effortlessly than conventional software development methods. An Effective Solution for Automation A whole lot of organizations worldwide are looking to introduce automation in their business operations. This will allow them the opportunity to automate repetitive tasks efficiently. With the help of LCNC solutions, companies can build a whole range of software or other technological features that can add different repetitive tasks within their purposes. The speed offered by the LCNC technology can enable an enterprise to get as many solutions deployed for the automation process as they would require.

However, for smaller businesses or new startups, time and money are important resources that cannot be afforded to be lost. The LCNC technology platforms provide a great deal of assistance for such organizations. With just a small budget allocation, they can employ the services of LCNC platforms and start developing with little or no assistance needed. Participation of Citizen Developers Building software or apps using LCNC technology platforms has become much easier. Any educated person with little or no coding knowledge can start developing the software they need. The technological concepts on these platforms are made as easy as possible for anyone to grasp. A person can start the development process by dragging and dropping the needed buttons, processes, flowcharts, and many other options to design a business solution. In addition to this, software developers can spend more time planning and strategizing in order to develop the best possible solutions using low-code technology. The Concluding Words All things considered, one can say that LCNC is becoming the next emerging technology trend in the business world. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered many businesses to digitize their businesses rapidly. To accomplish this objective, instead of relying on lengthy conventional software development and deployment processes, businesses are finding LCNC platforms to be the easiest and most cost-effective solution. Furthermore, it has also given software developers more time to spend on software planning processes to come up with the best possible technology solutions. - Vishal Golekar

A Cost-eﬀective Solution Nowadays, the competition within businesses has risen extensively. Be it a small or big organization, one has to ensure that it is delivering the best possible products and services to its customers. For big businesses, it is easier to rely on the resources available to build technology solutions that best suit their needs to fulﬁll internal and external demands.

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early every organization in today's time is constantly facing the requirement to upgrade its operations based on dynamic market demands and feedback. Most of these operations are performed using software applications. The traditional approach of building apps based on market requirements takes too much time, as well as it is difficult to make them more agile when the market changes. This issue can affect the profit numbers of the organization and also its ability to face the competition more effectively. Low-code or no-code cloud-based platforms are making their marks in the IT industry due to their efficiency in rapidly adapting to clients' requirements. Pillir is a low-code or no-code, cloud-based platform that enables companies to build customized apps 20 times faster than traditional methods. It leverages the power of SAP's digital core from any device, with or without connectivity. It enables organizations at any stage of their SAP journeys to innovate quickly and easily, with little-to-no programming requirements, rapidly moving custom development to the edge. We interviewed Pillir's CEO and Founder – Vaidya Aiyer, to get detailed insights about the platform's usefulness for organizations to become more efficient. Below are the excerpts from the interview: Please brief our audience about your company, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space.

chains. These include functions such as warehouse management, inventory management, procurement, and asset management. This is most valuable for asset-intensive companies that maintain large warehouses and store and transport inventory or supplies. That includes companies in industries such as manufacturing, retail, logistics, automotive, energy, utilities, mining, and oil and gas. We particularly work with companies that maintain SAP environments. On top of the out-of-the-box, tailor-made applications, we provide our customers with a low-code platform that enables them to build any business function they need. We enable companies to 'software-ize' their unique, competitive business processes in hours or days, with little-to-no development and maintenance effort. This is opposed to companies having to adapt their unique processes to conform to out-of-the-box software applications from existing ERP solutions, which could cause them to lose their competitive edge. The new software-based processes increase efficiency and give these companies immediate visibility into their unique operations. Our vision and the value we provide is to allow companies to modernize their supply chains more quickly, more easily, with less risk, and for less cost. This way they can focus on more efficient operations and respond faster to market needs, allowing them to focus on their core business.

Pillir offers a suite of applications based on its-award winning low-code platform that allows companies to operate better, to conduct business more efficiently, and to respond faster to market needs by modernizing the software applications that their employees use to conduct business, making those applications accessible through the cloud and/or via mobile devices. We offer a way for enterprises, especially larger organizations who use ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, to quickly manage their operations and supply

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Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company offers, and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? In the current market, these larger enterprise environments are facing rising costs in their supply chain and a shortage of IT talent, yet they are looking to modernize and increase efficiency. Their legacy IT environments address their unique and differentiated business processes but are often overly complex. They have also typically been updated, patched, and customized over many years, making it difficult for companies to then convert them to cloud-based versions. Once moved to the cloud, companies are able to have greater mobility, and visibility of their data and processes, especially regarding various supply chain functions like inventory, logistics, and warehousing. Pillir provides supply chain solutions built on a cloudnative low-code/no-code platform. Enterprises can quickly deploy those pre-built applications and integrate them into their existing ERP/IT applications environment, as well as tweak them quickly to accommodate the company's unique business processes, all without having to write a single line of code using our low-code/no-code platform. In addition, we provide a unique capability to automatically transform their legacy ERP/SAP customizations into cloud-native applications on our no-code platform. This enables these companies to retain their unique, custom business processes and leverage the IP from legacy applications instead of dumping them and either restarting or, worse, losing their competitive edge by standardizing their unique processes. This has also increased efficiency by allowing them to use any device (desktop, tablet, mobile phone, or hardened handheld devices) anywhere regardless of the status of connectivity in their locations, as well as utilize new and improved processes and mechanisms (adding scanners, images, or new locations, etc. to their systems). Customers gain different business benefits from these new processes. For instance, we have a customer that alleviates certain safety hazards in industrial settings, where workers previously had to physically transport data through busy warehouses. With their new, modernized applications, employees no longer have to walk through areas where heavy equipment such as forklifts are in use in order to check inventory data. Operators in the warehouse can now scan, view, and change that information from their forklifts without having to get

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down and walk through the aisles. That not only decreases safety risks but improves productivity. Another customer reduced the amount of manual labor involved in materials management by 30%. Yet another reduced data entry for field teams by more than 95%. And a fourth client shortened payroll processing from three days utilizing five people to two hours utilizing only a single person. Please brief us about your journey in the industry, and how you have contributed towards the company's success. In terms of my personal journey, I have been devoted specifically to the custom development of business applications in SAP environments for a very long time. I began programming in the early '90s, specializing in integrations back when that area was first emerging. But my industry focus was always manufacturing and supply chains. Custom development at that time was–and still is today–a very tedious process, especially when it comes to ERP. It is expensive and requires many people, who are often hard to find. I developed Pillir to solve such problems, to expedite innovation in the world of ERP through the use of a lowcode platform. When we solved the problem for ourselves, we realized that many other companies were having the same issues, and we knew we could address that for other enterprises. We, therefore, became a start-up in the rapid application development market, so we could help organizations build new applications and innovate their business applications more quickly and easily using less personnel. That is what we bring to the table. We reduce the complexity of innovation in ERP environments. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low code development solutions niche and what more could be expected in the near future? Low-code or rapid application development has been with us a very long time, although we may not realize it. I can argue that Microsoft Excel is among the early, successful pioneers of low code. Technology has come a long way to automate much of what programmers do in traditional application development. Elements like cloud, mobility, big data, machine learning, and various open-source initiatives have helped drive the automation of application development towards low-code and no-code platforms. Low-code and no-code now encompass complex enterprise application development; integrations to multiple enterprise applications; and even

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the transformation of legacy applications into modern, nocode-based applications. Low-code/no-code is now making a generational leap forward with what we call "transform-code." For example, no matter how easy low-code/no-code may be, large enterprises have tons of legacy applications, making it near impossible to document all that tribal knowledge. Those complex legacy applications need to be redeveloped using a low-code/no-code platform. A "transform-code"-based platform takes LC/NC one step further. It decompiles and understands the ins and outs of legacy applications and transforms them into new, modern applications through advanced automation, accelerating modernization. These powerful platforms will help deliver modern capabilities on various form factors such as the web, kiosks, mobile, ruggedized devices, and more, so workers have all the data and market intelligence of their unique business right in their pockets. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company's doors, and how did you pivot from those challenges? There has been a developer shortage in the market for many years now. Once the pandemic hit, a labor shortage set in across-the-board. Companies do not have the people available to deliver modernized business processes, putting a dent in digital transformation. Pillir has stepped in to provide pre-built solutions that address diﬀerent business needs like inventory and warehouse management, including diﬀerent suites and application packages that are customized to each business' unique needs. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low code development solutions space? Low-code/no-code is to application development what cloud is to infrastructure. A few years ago, businesses had to procure and maintain infrastructure in order to conduct business. Cloud turned that upside-down. Dependence on infrastructure personnel is gone. Employees simply log in with a cloud provider and provision the infrastructure they need in minutes. Similarly, LC/NC platforms are democratizing and removing the dependency on expensive application programmers.

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Businesses will always have a need for custom business processes. But soon, just like what happened with cloud infrastructures, developers will be able to log into their favorite LC/NC platform, pick a business process, customize it to their unique needs, integrate it with other applications in their corporate IT fabric, and deploy within hours or days. That also means when the time comes to change or tweak that business application (e.g., an unforeseen event like the pandemic), these companies will be able to change their processes and streamline their operations to address market conditions faster than ever. My advice to budding entrepreneurs is to take advantage and ride this wave sooner rather than later. How do you envision scaling your company's operations and oﬀerings in 2022 and beyond? Pillir has one of the most advanced low-code/no-code platforms in the industry, especially for ERP-based and asset-heavy industries. We are taking it a step further by launching applications on our award-winning low-code/nocode platform to streamline and modernize supply chains globally. This year and beyond, we will launch hundreds of applications that enable companies to leverage their competitive, unique business processes by simply picking these applications and integrating/customizing to their unique needs without writing a single line of code. We are starting with the launch of a new suite of applications for goods movement across sites and warehouses. This suite will have 16 individuals but integrated, pre-built applications that address the full range of functions involved in goods movement in a warehouse setting, including inventory and warehouse management tasks. This makes it easier for customers who are struggling with the time requirements of innovation or just have a shortage of talent to learn and implement low-code platforms. We will be expanding with new suites and products going forward to address a more comprehensive range of business tasks that enterprises must undertake in ERP environments.

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oftware/Application coding is a complex matter. It takes significant effort and time to plan and code the software based on organizational necessities. The process is difficult for non-IT people to understand. Even after having the software at your service, it needs to be flexible to the changing business and market circumstances. If it is not customizable, it could cause stagnancy in the organization's business processes. Today's businesses demand a much faster, real-time, flexible, and cost-effective software solution. Meeting these requirements is compulsory for any business to thrive in today's highly competitive globalized markets. Traditional software does not provide such a luxury. This is where lowcode platforms can come in handy. Vantiq is a low-code software development and deployment platform that empowers companies to digitize their businesses. It enables the rapid building of real-time event-based applications by hiding complexity, enabling applications to be built that might otherwise be too costly or risky. Also, Vantiq's applications can be easily evolved as

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the business requirements and technologies change inevitably. In an interview with Insights Success, Vantiq's Marty Sprinzen (Co-founder and CEO) discussed the modern low-code solutions provided by his company to revolutionize today's business operations. Below are the excerpts from the interview: Please brief our audience about your company, its values, and how it is positioned as a leading player in the software development space. Vantiq was founded in 2015 to remove the inherent complexities of building modern software systems for burgeoning digital businesses. CEO Marty Sprinzen joined forces with Paul Butterworth, with whom he co-founded Forte Software in the early 1990s, to leverage their decades of experience and build a next-generation application development environment that simpliﬁes the creation and deployment of real-time distributed applications.

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Today, Vantiq oﬀers the leading low-code platform to develop real-time solutions that connect people, devices, and business systems to create smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, and other digital business solutions. Built on modern event-driven architecture, the Vantiq Platform hides the inherent complexity of building realtime distributed applications through low-code tools that allow developers to focus on the business logic and not the underlying software. Elaborate more on the solutions and services that your company oﬀers and how are these making an impact on the industry and your clients? Enterprise digitization is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Organizations are leveraging advanced technologies like AI, Edge Computing, and IoT to connect the physical and digital worlds and create "smart environments" to improve decision making, increase customer satisfaction, and become more aware of and responsive to what is happening in and around their business. Yet developing such real-time hyperconnected solutions is incredibly challenging. It requires very advanced software for real-time data processing, event brokering, peer-to-peer communication, data security, fault tolerance, and many more requirements to enable this to work at an enterprisegrade scale.

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The traditional, three-tiered, database-centric approach to software development and deployment is no longer applicable to this new hyperconnected environment. Vantiq is a new class of low-code, an agile application development platform based on a modern, distributed, event-driven model. It senses, analyzes, and takes immediate action on the events that are occurring across the enterprise. These capabilities are critical in today's digital landscape. Building, deploying, and operating such systems with realtime data integration across highly distributed environments is significantly complex. Many companies have tried, only to discover after a months-long process that their efforts were fruitless. The low-code, agile functionality of the Vantiq platform helps companies in industries like oil and gas, energy and utilities, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and others overcome these obstacles and quickly develop innovative solutions and bring them to market quickly to deliver real business value. Share your opinion on how modern technologies have transformed the low-code development solutions niche and what more could be expected in the near future? The low-code movement is real and offers many benefits when it comes to simplifying application development and visual programming. However, much of the low-code www.insightssuccess.com

movement has been focused on enabling non-technical, citizen developers to have autonomy and ownership in the creation of back-of-office solutions such as RPA, BPM, and workflows. We believe low-code technology is ready to expand its footprint in the software industry, where all levels of technical skills and developer expertise are able to use lowcode to become more productive and decrease project risk. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global economies, what were the challenges faced by your company, and how did you pivot from those challenges? Agility and the ability to pivot when market conditions change are at our very core as a company because it's at the core of our technology platform. As a result, we have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic well. Our mission is to enable companies to monitor what is happening across their physical and digital environments and adapt on the fly when problems arise before they become bigger problems and cause instrumental damage. While the pandemic slowed down many digital transformation initiatives as companies focused on their core business, it also accelerated the development of solutions to enable them to ensure the health, safety, and security of their employees and customers. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs aspiring to venture into the low-code development solutions space? In our industry, the more integrated and digitized different parts of a business become, the companies go beyond being digitally enabled to being digitally dependent. As that dependency builds, the harder these systems are to manage, and the potential for business failure grows. This means that the speed and agility needed to develop advanced business systems are rapidly increasing, and thus low-code tooling is going to be increasingly necessary. The low-code industry needs to move away from primarily addressing the non-technical domains in the business to one in which all parts of the technology landscape are benefited by low-code. How do you envision scaling your company's operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond?

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Based on recent sales activity and our current pipeline, 2022 is already proving to be a year of significant growth for Vantiq. We are scaling the company through two different go-to-market approaches. First, we have strategic partnerships with telecom providers in different geographic regions who use Vantiq to build out next-generation networks and sell innovative products and services to their business customers. For example, smart retail shopping environments, smart buildings, and smart cities are a few ways telecom companies are extending new revenue-generating offerings to their customers with Vantiq. Our second approach is by working with large product makers, such as heating and air conditioning manufacturers, large battery suppliers, device manufacturers, and producers of smart grids (to name a few), whose products can be far more advanced without significant time or expense by using Vantiq. Ultimately, our goal is to enable telecom providers to build out their networks for cutting-edge services and applications and enable product companies to quickly build and deliver next-generation solutions—all of which can transform companies and industries and improve day-to-day life for individuals.