Understanding Enterprise Application Development Platforms

Close your eyes and imagine… just kidding! Don’t close your eyes. You need them to read this blog. With your eyes open, imagine working for an organization that has zero IT backlog. As soon you request IT or identify requirements, the IT organization fulfills them without painful processes requiring extra time, extra resources, and additional budget. Also, imagine the applications and technology IT is delivering are flawless. Everyone in the organization works together in a collaborative utopia where end users have a big hand in fulfilling their own IT needs, quickly completing processes, scaling automatically for great performance whenever needed, and the business can just focus on, well, the business.

While IT may never achieve this exact utopia, organizations adopting enterprise application development platforms are one step closer. That’s because easy development platforms save a lot of time, money, and headaches in managing your enterprise application portfolio.

Such a development platform provides a development environment to create application software through graphical user interfaces with little to no traditional coding. They typically feature drag and drop and other visual tools to develop applications. Also, they typically incorporate built-in enterprise architecture like rules management, security, communications, and job scheduling—all things that most application developers need to use, but don’t need to be concerned with developing.

This means: More people, including non-IT resources, can be more deeply involved in creating and evolving software applications at your organization.

Your organization can build high-quality software applications quickly, to meet business needs when the business demands them.

One of the main reasons organizations are adopting such platforms is how quickly high-quality applications can be delivered. These platforms are easy to use and most heavily emphasize the user experience.

Also, these platforms encourage highly reusable, standard functionality and attempt to automate a lot of work that traditional coding requires. 

Finally, such platforms takes the complexity out of building applications even for technical resources. The days of developing a simple CRUD application are gone. Now, even a simple business application must interface and integrate with a multitude of applications. Once considered peripheral activities,  application developers are now overwhelmed by all these needs. This has significantly increased the design density of even simple business applications and requires significant talented manpower when using traditional application development. These development platforms helps bridge the gap and allows organizations to focus on the business—the platform takes care of the rest.

You can drive application development and other IT costs down without sacrificing!

The biggest reason to reduce heavy reliance on technical skills and build high-quality software quickly is to save money. Traditionally, organizations have spent an absorbent amount of money to support IT needs. But, if you can do something faster and with fewer skills resources, you can reduce your IT spend or spend smarter, all without sacrificing what the business needs.

Sagitec’s development platform, now called Xelence, has helped clients build customizable solutions since 2004. Xelence helps organizations focus on reaping benefits for enterprise-grade applications. Since its inception, our platform has had a singular focus: making development as easy and high-quality as possible so that our implementations are efficient, effective, and meet our clients’ needs.