D'n'd development with RPA, hpaPaaS, mBaaS and ESB (iPaaS)

Posted on January 11, 2018 in Develop
Updated: February 20, 2019

Low-Code

Development using Drag'n'drop (Low-code development platforms - LCDP) is also taking a share in development pipelines with test/prod environments and version control.

Some of the areas are

Automated Business UI Process development - RPA. Automated frontend using existing UI as data transfer channel are created in this category.
Application development - hpaPaaS. Apps, Webapps (frontends) and APIs (backends) are created in this category.
Application APIs - mBaaS. This is backend exposing APIs to receive/produce data.
Application integration - ESB / iPaaS. This is middleware/backend using and exposing APIs to transfer data (B2B).

1. RPA

Top RPA players are

2. hpaPaaS

In 2017 Microsoft Access RAD tools are called High Productivity Application Platform as a Service (hpaPaaS)

In the top quadrant there are only 3 players

Salesforce
Mendix - C# + Java
OutSystems - C#
Microsoft Azure Mobile Apps or Power Apps (+ Flow + Logic Apps) + Functions

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According to Gartner, by 2020, at least 50 percent of all new business applications will be created with high-productivity toolsets

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