These days, every organization is a software company, whether they like it or not. To keep up with increasing customer demand for agility and speed, businesses have to digitally transform and innovate. And with a shortage of IT developers, businesses need the help of no-code platforms to give power to their innovation department. These platforms remove the need to write code, so any tech-savvy employee can use them to contribute to this cause. We call these empowered business users Citizen Developers.
Instead of business users creating their own workaround solutions via Excel sheets and Lotus Notes -- activities that are sanctioned outside of the IT department, no-code platforms are centrally governed by your IT team. This decreases the risk of runaway software that might impair the existing IT structure. No-code platforms facilitate a partnership of IT professionals and Citizen Developers, which will drive the innovation of your organization forward.
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