Author: karljeffery

Consider this story of a typical software implementation for business specialists (in this case, an oil and gas company information management system) – provided by software company KADME of Stavanger. [This is based on an article by Gianluca Monachese, Director Business Development, KADME AS and Vasily Borisov, Director of Technology, KADME AS, to be published…

  One possible ‘back story’ behind (or obstructing) low code is the desire of coders to build stuff themselves. The story of the person who built a piece of custom software and then got easy money for the next 10 years supporting it (and naming their price – because they are the only person who…

Forrester has some advice for company ‘enterprise architects’ (IT system designers) on how to use ‘low code’ in its paper “Five Customer Facing Scenarios Shape Low code Platform Choices”. It says Low Code platforms can work better on small / individual projects, but not so well on massive company wide applications. So often Low Code…

Forrester’s report “Five customer facing scenarios shape low code platform choices” includes a section on how low code platform companies are working together with big cloud companies. It says that Microsoft’s long term priority is building platforms for coders to use (like .Net). Microsoft does not do much ‘low code’ platforms. So there could be…

This is how Forrester classifies low code platforms in its report “Five Customer Facing Scenarios Shape Low Code Platform Choices”. DATA TRACKING AND GATHERING: Alpha Software, Alphinat, Avoka, ClaySys, TrackVia BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND CASE MANAGEMENT / WORKFLOW (or more complex systems for data tracking and gathering): AgilePoint, Appian, Bizagi, K2, MatsSoft, Nintex, Software AG,…

Here are some pointers on how the low code software market works, stealing ideas from Forrester’s report “Five Customer Facing Scenarios Shape Low Code Platform Choices”. The five ‘scenarios’ which Forrester identifies are Simple customer self service apps (eg an online form or succession of online forms connected to a database) “Dynamic” customer self service…

Understanding the software landscape is an enormous challenge – there is a lot of terminology, some of it overlaps, and some has more specific definitions than others. “Business Process Management” can mean literally managing business processes – or software to help manage business processes. (You get the impression that some people don’t think there is…

Here are some sorts of domain expert software which we have thought of so far, and examples For sorting through the company’s data (which it probably has tons of, in various databases and spreadsheets), we suggest Maana (www.maana.io). This software automatically indexes, classifies, and statistically analyses, all of the company’s data it can find (even…

Here are some ideas about how software can help in urban transport planning, gaining from reading a few chapters of this book “Urban Transport without the hot air”. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UQYS1MO An underlying theme of the book is that urban transport planning is extremely difficult – but there are large bodies of data which can help guide…

Let’s start with this vision – that every domain expert / specialist has all the right information in front of them to make a decision – they know what is happening and they know what the organisation did last time the situation was like this, and how well it went.They can analyse the data and…