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In the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry, rising customer demand for innovative digital products and services necessitates a speedier application development process to provide rapid upgrades and a shorter time-to-market for new offers. To deal with this, banks require a new, simple, and safe application development technique that uses widely available frameworks, reusable code, and components. Low-code and no-code platforms fill this requirement, allowing for the use of safer, reusable, and proven components while lowering service and application development costs. They can also assist banks and insurers in introducing new business functions at regular intervals.<\/p>\n

What is No-Code application development?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A no-code development platform will allow programmers and non-programmers to construct application software using graphical user interfaces and setup.<\/p>\n

This application development strategy avoids most of the medium associated with standard software development frameworks and techniques for developing, deploying, maintaining, and updating apps. By continuously enhancing those applications as your business changes, you can deliver business value rapidly and achieve operational agility.<\/p>\n

Challenges in the traditional approach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legacy systems are no longer relevant: <\/strong>These systems are no longer capable of supporting firms’ need to innovate and alter to remain competitive quickly.<\/p>\n

Software developers are in short supply: <\/strong>There will never be enough developers to keep up with the rate of innovation required to stay ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n

Maintain a competitive advantage: <\/strong>Stay ahead of increased competition by driving rapid innovation in what makes you competitively unique.<\/p>\n

Customer contentment: <\/strong>Keep up with consumer needs by refining the procedures that produce excellent client experiences regularly.<\/p>\n

At the cutting edge of innovation: <\/strong>Enable new ways to grow by enabling new operational models that better serve customers.<\/p>\n

Win the struggle for talent: <\/strong>Attract personnel by emphasizing a culture of continual improvement and providing an opportunity to learn and apply new technological skills.<\/p>\n

No-Code vs Low-Code<\/strong><\/p>\n

Depending on the nature of an app platform’s entire range of features, the boundary between no-code and low-code development platforms might be hazy.<\/p>\n

Several significant distinctions, however, distinguish the design and use cases for each platform type.<\/p>\n

App Creator<\/strong>
\nLow-code platforms require developers that know coding languages and can operate within a platform’s limits to speed up the development process. In contrast, no-code platforms are accessible to any end-business user.<\/p>\n

Core Design<\/strong>
\nModel-driven, declarative approaches are common in no-code platforms, where the end-user defines an app’s architecture using drag-and-drop manipulation or basic logic.<\/p>\n

Low-code platforms frequently use a similar development paradigm but rely more heavily on complex code to define an application’s essential design.<\/p>\n

User Interface<\/strong>
\nMost no-code platforms rely on a pre-built User Interface layer to simplify and streamline an app’s design.<\/p>\n

Low-code platforms may offer greater UI flexibility at the expense of increased coding needs.<\/p>\n

Low-code and no-code development in the financial services industry [BFSI]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Low-code and no-code development platforms are perfect for customizing programmers that must be designed from the ground up. For example, BFSI organizations can develop user-facing and self-service applications for customer onboarding, mortgage origination, loan origination and management, debit and credit cards, and campaign management using low-code and no-code platforms. Furthermore, BFSI applications have a longer development cycle and are improved in response to changing consumer expectations, industry demands, and regulatory and compliance requirements. This means that BFSI organizations are continually improving their applications by adding new features and services.<\/p>\n

Built-in connectors embedded in low-code and no-code platforms enable data exchange between functions by gaining access to systems of record from ecosystem partners’ applications, which can aid BFSI firms in developing internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML)-based applications. The key benefit of employing built-in connectors is that they allow applications to be readily coupled with third-party service provider systems and data sources, allowing for the shift to ecosystem banking models. These platforms can also be used for process-based approvals, communications channels, self-service reports, and customer service lowering application development costs, improving time-to-market, and increasing return on investment (RoI).<\/p>\n

Choosing the best no-code or low-code platform<\/strong><\/p>\n

BFSI enterprises must choose the right platform that offers ease of use and flexibility to thrive with low-code and no-code application development. As banking and insurance applications are customer-centric and data-driven, the platform chosen should provide a better user experience and integration support for various digital assets, such as legacy systems and existing enterprise-wide platforms. When selecting a platform, BFSI firms must be careful to avoid vendor lock-in; the platform must provide essential benefits while also allowing them to transition to other platforms quickly and easily.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the chosen platform must allow for smooth integration of third-party products used by BFSI enterprises, avoiding the establishment of bottlenecks and the resulting complex business procedures.<\/p>\n