Published: 18 October 2023
Summary
LCAPs accelerate application development by abstracting common reusable software components and allocating developer effort to tasks closer to business outcomes. Software engineering leaders should use this research to assess their use cases against vendor offerings.
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Overview
Key Findings
LCAP offerings vary greatly in terms of target developer audience and primary application use cases. These impact their industry-specific and general-purpose technical components, developer experience, deployment, scalability and multiexperience support.
LCAP vendors are continuously improving the developer experience and application technology support in their platforms, increasing the overlap with tooling for business process automation, multiexperience development, and integration tools.
For 2023 and 2024, we see a large focus on support for AI in embedding machine learning into applications as well as features like generative AI to assist developers.
LCAP elements of pricing value and ROI — not covered under critical
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- Appian
- Creatio
- Globant (GeneXus)
- HCLSoftware
- Huawei
- Kintone
- Mendix
- Microsoft
- Newgen
- Oracle
- OutSystems
- Pegasystems
- Retool
- Salesforce
- ServiceNow
- Unqork
- Zoho
- User Experience Design
- Developer Experience
- Application Logic and Workflow
- DevOps Practices
- Governance
- Integration and APIs
- Platform Extensibility
- Security
- Quality of Service
- Automating B2E Departmental and Workgroup
- Composing B2E Departmental and Enterprise Apps
- Multiexperience Applications
- Business Workflow Automation With Integration
- Business Digitization, Prototyping and Innovation
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