Low-code has the potential to empower more people to automate tasks by creating computer programs.

Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. On my 12th birthday I got my first computer: an Amiga 500. And at 17, I founded my first company, making software that helped photographers serve their customers. As I reflect on my decades of coding, I'm reminded that low-code technology started with tools enabling users to build custom reports and applications with very little coding. When I started coding, low-code was somewhat analogous to the position artificial intelligence holds today: exciting, much hyped and poorly understood.

Hordes of companies are remaking how they do business to stay relevant in a technology-driven world. But hiring great software engineers who can pull off a digital transformation or artificial intelligence project is hard. Enter a growing legion of "citizen developers," empowered by companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Salesforce and ServiceNow. These ordinary business people create apps using software that technology companies call low-code or no-code software development tools. To use these tools, all you need is a web browser.

The past two years have seen radical digital transformation. Companies and industries that have traditionally been hesitant to adopt new technology suddenly embraced their digital transformations--they needed to find new ways to work. Interestingly, many experts believe that these radical shifts are only the beginning. In a recent Deloitte survey, three-quarters of executives stated that they expect more changes in the next five years than there were in the past five years. The rate of change only increases as organizations are more open and willing to make the changes they need to keep up with the competition. Digital transformation (DX) encourages business organizations to adopt new technologies in order to deliver better value to their customers.

In the span of a few years, low-code and no-code platforms, which reduce the burden on professional developers to create certain apps, have matured vastly. They have become resources large enterprises increasingly explore to speed up app development, but can that carry over to new, more intensive needs such as AI app development in a substantial way? Gartner predicts that by 2025, some 70% of new apps developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code resources. In 2020, less than 25% of new apps were developed through such means at enterprises. Further, Gartner also projects 75% of large enterprises by 2025 will use at least four low-code tools for IT app and citizen development.

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Half of business technologists now produce capabilities for users beyond their own department or enterprise. That's the top finding in a new report from Gartner, which cites "a dramatic growth" in digitalization opportunities and lower barriers to entry, including low-code tools and AI-assisted development, as the core factors enabling this democratization beyond IT professionals. What's more, Gartner reports that 77% of business technologists -- defined as employees who report outside of IT departments and create technology or analytics capabilities -- routinely use a combination of automation, integration, application development, or data science and AI tools in their daily work. "This trend has been unfolding for many years, but we're now seeing a tipping point in which technology management has become a business competency," Raf Gelders, research vice president at Gartner, told VentureBeat.

It looks like no-code and low-code tools are here to stay. Today, Gartner released new predictions about technology products and services, specifically who will build them and the impact of AI and the pandemic. The research firm found that by 2024, 80% of tech products and services will be built by people who are not technology professionals. Gartner also expects to see more high-profile announcements of technology launches from nontech companies over the next year. "The barrier to become a technology producer is falling due to low-code and no-code development tools," Gartner VP Rajesh Kandaswamy told VentureBeat.

Panel Extracting Insight to Accelerate Your BusinessECM has long-promised to be the key to streamlining your critical business processes, but with content-aware artificial intelligence and low-code tools, customers are seeing the possibilities. Join Nuxeo's Chris McLaughlin and Sean Baird for an interactive discussion of how low-code tools are making it possible to unlock key information from content to automate manual tasks and gain new insights that improves decision-making. We will demonstrate the recent innovations that are enabling organizations to find new efficiencies, rapidly adjust to changing conditions, and differentiate themselves to win new business. We will end the conversation with a lightning demo on our AI service, Nuxeo Insight.

No programmer wants to spend hours aligning HTML elements or playing with complex CSSs. This is why any low-code tool will generate the User Interface code of your application for you. The problem is that they generate rather basic interfaces, mostly oriented to typical data-entry forms and grids. Anything more complex than that and you are back to tuning the CSS by hand. On the opposite spectrum, we have a variety of visual mockup/wireframe tools to quickly build a prototype of your desired graphical interface.

No programmer wants to spend hours aligning HTML elements or playing with complex CSSs. This is why any low-code tool will generate the User Interface code of your application for you. The problem is that they generate rather basic interfaces, mostly oriented to typical data-entry forms and grids. Anything more complex than that and you are back to tuning the CSS by hand. On the opposite spectrum, we have a variety of visual mockup/wireframe tools to quickly build a prototype of your desired graphical interface.