SAP
SAP held its annual TechEd event for developers this past week. SAP Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member Juergen Mueller even said every company is becoming a tech company. While it’s not a new phrase, Mueller is correct: Even the most analog businesses have a foot in the digital world, and that creates both a problem and an opportunity in every industry.
Mueller’s point is rooted in the fact that every business, regardless of size, industry, local or other factors has an inherent need for a diverse set of tools and applications to meet its needs. And often businesses create custom applications or build their own custom extensions to commercial applications.
This creates a problem, and in some cases a good problem, that software companies like SAP are hoping to address: No business has enough developers, software development has a high learning curve, and the competition to hire developers is fierce and expensive. In his keynote, Mueller noted that the U.S. alone is projected to have a deficit of roughly half a million software developers by 2024.
No-Code/ Low-Code
This has led the established business software platforms like SAP to embrace the old proverb “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” At TechEd, SAP announced a unified low-code/no-code development experience that allows professional and citizen developers to fill their own needs for business applications and digital workflows.
It runs on SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP), where users can use the AppGyver development environment and SAP Business Application Studio to build out business software. BTP is SAP’s platform where customers can extend their SAP applications and create custom integrations with third party applications. It spans database and management, analytics, application development and integration, and intelligent technologies such as AI.
SAP’s BTP including SAP HANA and HANA Cloud, SAP Integration Suite, and SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP
Low-code/no-code is not a new concept to the industry and several tech players have implemented their own approach to it: AWS has Honeycode; Microsoft has its Power Platform; Zoho has Qntrl, and there are many others. So it’s not unexpected for SAP to have its own low-code no-code development experience on its platform, and it’s better late than never to reduce software development skill gap in software development.
AppGyver is SAP’s development platform for web and mobile applications. Web and …….