What is Low-Code?

What is Low-Code?

In short, low-code development is a modern way of developing software, aimed at reducing manual programming work.

Low-code replaces the traditional methods of custom software development. Such as custom business software tailored to the needs of the client or organization. With low-code development, applications are designed and implemented using standard components, instead of writing old-fashioned code line by line.

Why Do Companies Use Low-Code Development?

Low-code development emerged from the need for faster development cycles and, due to a shortage of skilled developers, reduced dependency on programmers. With low-code development, developers and even non-IT personnel can quickly build applications and maintain them easily.

“Low-code benefits providers, IT departments and business users alike, as it enables them to build, test and deploy solutions faster and more efficiently.”

Low-code software also offers a wide range of functionality, including integration with external systems, reporting, analytics, and mobile app development. They also offer the option to integrate with legacy systems and custom software solutions. This makes low-code ideal for organizations that want to future-proof their existing systems, a need that often comes up in companies that have existed for some years.

The Financial Aspect of Low-Code

Not only is it possible to build custom systems with low-code, the costs of this method of development are often many times lower than traditional software development. This is an important consideration for companies, especially in 2025.

How this is possible? Low-code minimizes the need for a large IT department, as low-code providers develop software to meet the specific needs of each business. In addition, the internal development and maintenance of these standard systems is not or less necessary, which saves companies time and money.

In addition, by using low-code development, companies can respond more efficiently to the changing needs of their customers and the market, for example by realizing new processes more quickly. This saves companies valuable investments in long development processes. On average low-code development speeds up time-to-market for software about 2 to 10 times.

The Silicon Low Code platform

With our Silicon Low Code platform we develop screens and functionalities up to 10x faster than with traditional programming. By combining software generation with standard components we save our customers valuable time. To create software even faster we also use software products and components we have developed over the years, for example, dynamic forms, workflow and document generation.

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