Companies are increasingly investing in low-code, a visual approach to software development, to help support their business post-Brexit.

Research from Mendix revealed that 58 per cent of financial services leaders say that low-code has helped them develop new applications to support their company post Brexit.

70 per cent of insurance leaders believe using a low-code approach has allowed them to implement new applications to support their company post-Brexit.

While nearly half of public sector organisations are already using low-code to implement new apps to support them moving forward.

The study found that the boom in low-code adoption is a direct response to IT teams’ need to work more closely with other departments in response to both COVID-19 and Brexit.

“The double whammy of Brexit and the COVID pandemic has forced British businesses to radically change the way they operate,” said Nick Ford, vice president of product and solutions marketing, Mendix. “Digital transformation initiatives can no longer be put on the back burner while the IT team solves immediate problems – they are the immediate problem to solve.”

He adds: “Yet, with a talent crunch that’s unlikely to go away anytime soon, businesses need to ensure they tap into all their digitally savvy talent. This is why so many businesses have been adopting low-code. While 2020 was a good time for them to experiment, we will see this new approach to software development come to its own in 2021 as businesses juggle their need for resilience and innovation. Mendix has been pioneering this approach for years; we are very excited to see how far low-code developers take our platform to create solutions to problems that would otherwise have defied the imagination.”

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