Author: karljeffery

One of our basic ideas here is that low code built software tools could be used to help domain experts make decisions. That’s an idea which not many people seem to have thought of yet. Most “Low Code” software companies are in the realm of online forms, data collection, lightweight business process management (re previous…

Forrester has an interesting report on Low Code software (available for free download on the Scribe Software website) The general thrust of it is that low code is usually used by large corporations developing online tools for interacting with customers (online forms, including complex application forms such as for credit card applications) or interacting internally…

EXTRA BENEFITS EMPATHETIC SOFTWARE – by ’empathetic’ we mean ‘software which works the way you do’ (the term ‘user-friendly’ is over-used to the point where it is meaningless). There are two ways to make empathetic software – one is to spend billions of pounds on research, testing and refinement (as Amazon, Google and Microsoft do)…

Small companies + low code = better domain expert software + great business opportunity. This is our idea, we invite you to explore it with us. “LOW CODE” is a new term for software development platforms which don’t require developers to write much code (because all the coding is already done), often hosted on the…

There are actually some tasks in life which are still better delivered by personal service. It isn’t true that everything is delivered better by machine, or a big corporate. As many business gurus will tell you, a company should only get big if there is a business reason for it to get big – ie…

Here’s an idea. Could better software make large parts of the world much nicer to live in – and can it be built with ‘low code’ tools? The world has a big and growing problem with some parts of the world being much more attractive to live in than others – and too many people…

Here’s a business idea, UK company Senceive Ltd specialises in wireless infrastructure asset condition monitoring, and says it has thousands of units deployed, particularly in rail (including tunnels, track bed, earthworks, bridges and structures), and construction projects. The sensors have 15 years of battery life and can report at 15 minute intervals, and it is…

Government professionals have to work with enormous amounts of data and have complex workflows. Is there anything low code tools can do to help them? In the UK there have been well publicised IT disaster stories – particularly with the National Health Service – attempts to build monstrosity IT systems which turned out to be…

A common frustration among domain experts in many fields is that their software is rubbish. Or more to the point, it doesn’t do what they want. Anyone who can offer them software ‘which works the way you do’ should have an advantage. The mass market software, such as Microsoft Office, has had a lot of…

.. and how can we make this easier? Probably the first step is to identify a business opportunity – and to do this you’ll probably need to either already be a domain expert in a certain field (for example, someone who knows the shipping industry very well), or work together with one. The needs for…