Month: July 2015

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…

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…