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By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

In today’s digital landscape, organizations are constantly faced with a critical decision: should they purchase commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software or invest in building custom software tailored to their specific needs? While the choice might seem straightforward, with COTS software often appearing as the quick and cost-effective solution, a closer look reveals that this route may come with hidden costs and limitations that merit serious consideration. 

The Hidden Costs of COTS Software

COTS software, at first glance, promises a world of convenience—quick deployment, lower initial costs, and the promise of reliability. However, beneath this veneer of efficiency lie several hidden expenses and constraints that can

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

Discover how low-code development is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry, helping businesses enhance supply chain resilience, streamline processes, and reduce costs. Explore real-world use cases and the benefits of leveraging low-code platforms for increased efficiency and collaboration.

According to a survey published by Supply Chain Dive almost 90% of companies are experiencing significant cost increases due to supply constraints, with more than 60% predicting this trend to continue into the fourth quarter of 2023.

In today’s challenging business landscape, companies are grappling with significant cost increases and supply constraints that threaten their operations. To overcome these hurdles and bolster supply chain resilience, businesses need to shift their focus from efficiency to modernization. Low-code development has transformative power in manufacturing as it streamlines processes, enhances collaboration,

By Peter Tiszavolgyi, CIO of Lowcono Inc.

In the digital age, businesses must prioritize security to protect their sensitive data and documents. Low-code development platforms have become increasingly popular as they streamline and accelerate operations, but they also necessitate a thorough evaluation of associated security risks. A security breach can lead to severe consequences, including reputational damage, financial losses, intellectual property theft, and compromised customer data. As a result, businesses must develop comprehensive strategies to safeguard their digital assets, focusing on infrastructure, application, and data security.

In this three-part article we explore the critical aspects of maintaining robust security in low-code development platforms.

Infrastructure Security

When evaluating low-code platforms, businesses look for a hosting solution that best suit their overall needs. Most platforms are hosted on major cloud service providers like AWS, GCP,

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

Low-code platforms are transforming the way businesses develop and deploy software. For startups, taking advantage of low-code can be a game changer, giving them a faster, more cost-effective and more flexible way to build launch new technology solutions.

While it is true for every business, it is uniquely advantageous for startups to have quick, agile and efficient development methods. Low-code platforms offer visual tools that allow users to plan, manage and create applications using easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interfaces. No need to write code from scratch, they can create and maintain software by using and customizing pre-built modules. This not only reduces the amount of code required to build an application, but also

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

Low-code is everywhere, and there is plenty of reasons why – businesses are flocking to these platforms at an exponential rate. Low-code business application development platforms offer unparalleled speed advantage in development and delivery of services; they make digital transformation of legacy business processes a simpler task by offering pre-built building blocks. They offer flexibility and a level of easiness that allows non-programmers to develop, deploy and even maintain their own application, within weeks or even days, instead of months.

What is a Single Platform Solution?

Most commonly businesses start with a few disparate, single-purpose cloud applications which are connected through “integrations”, often provided by another cloud service, acting as an intermediary between these platforms. When you look at these

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

Low-code development tools and platforms have created a new industry in the last few years, and the growth of this industry has accelerated since the workforce started working remotely. This brings up new concerns, understandably, both about its decentralized development process, and citizen developers creating enterprise-level business applications in general.

Traditional software development relies on several systems and processes to implement the development, like style guide, source control, backups, development and management methods, deployment automation etc. Developers and other engineers expect these standards to be present and followed.

Low-code, and especially no-code development, representing a completely opposite paradigm, prides itself on writing minimal code or not having to write code at all. A low-code platform comes with everything above built-in, there’s very little protocol to worry about, or even to

By Attila Ambrus, COO of Lowcono Inc.

As digitizing business processes became widespread in the past couple of decades, so did the need for custom development to turn business processes into applications. The origins of today’s low-code development platforms are not recent, they were born out of the rapid development approach of the nineties, building on the software design principles laid down even earlier during the eighties. Then came the computing boom of the 2000s, and the arrival of omnipresent online services sparked the current revolution of the “extraordinarily disruptive” low-code/no-code development platforms, as Forbes called it, starting about a decade ago.

Speed of Development and Delivery

The biggest issue in software development has been, and still is, the speed of development and delivery. This is where low-code platforms change application development radically.