Of course, the idea of hybrid development is that the benefits of Low-Code are maintained even if the development cannot be done using purely Low-Code solutions, so let's recap the benefits.
- Speed - off-the-shelf platforms enable tangible results to be delivered quickly, shortening projects and speeding up experimentation and iteration.
- Lower costs - as development speeds up, costs stay lower. Ready-made platforms also have an impact on further development and maintenance, as the supplier takes care of platform updates and version upgrades.
However, the more extensive the solutions, the more often there are limitations with Low-Code that prevent you from working with Low-Code alone.
- Interface limitations
- Limitations on authentication and authorisation
- Licensing restrictions
- Data volume limits
- Services for which no support can be found
However, when constraints are encountered and ways to get around them are considered, it is easy to end up developing software using more traditional methods, rather than enjoying the benefits of Low-Code. But don't give up yet! Indeed, it is often possible to find solutions that allow at least part of the implementation to be done using Low-Code solutions, and part to be done using more traditional methods. So let's adopt a hybrid solution. This allows the project budget to be allocated to those parts of the project where it will have the greatest benefit.
The challenges mentioned above can be tackled with approaches such as:
Solution: when there are a large number of internal or external users and you do not want to buy a license for all of them, it is worth making the system's internal interfaces or interfaces for a limited group of data management users Low-Code. Functionally, such interfaces are often a significant part of the system, but in terms of the number of users, only a small part. However, interfaces for broader user groups can be made using more traditional methods, and this allows the very significant part of the application implementation to be done in Low-Code. This leaves most of the budget for improving the usability of these large numbers of users and for the interface design in general.
Solution: low-code solutions can have their own data warehouses with a limited number of users or data volumes. However, quite often with Low-Code solutions it is possible to use separate data warehouses. That is, different connectors are used in the system to connect different views to the data warehouses. In this way, data can be retrieved on the Low-Code side, and various editing and listing views can be performed very efficiently. However, the amount of data does not cause similar limitations here, because it comes from the external data warehouse and thus does not count towards the volume limitations of the Low-Code platform.
We have also held a webinar with our client this spring, so if you want to hear more examples of approaches, download a recording of the webinar here.
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