The State of Low-Code Development

GEORGE V. HULME | May 16, 2019 | 202 views

As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises but still, only a minority are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems released its sixth annual “State of Application Development Report.” The report is based on surveys conducted in March of 3,300 IT professionals. The report found that a sizable minority (41%) of respondents are already using low-code platforms, while another 10% stated they were about to start using a low-code development platform. For comparison, in the 2018 report, 34% of respondents said they were using low-code development platforms and 9% said they were about to start using these platforms. Clearly, interest in these platforms is rising, if not modestly.

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Iterate.ai Brings Generative AI Capabilities to Interplay, the Low-Code Platform Accelerating Customers’ Digital Innovation

Iterate.ai | March 21, 2023

Iterate.ai, whose innovation ecosystem enables customers to build production-ready enterprise applications, today announced that its low-code Interplay platform now includes integrations with Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, and other OpenAI tools across the fast-moving generative AI landscape. Interplay goes beyond what’s available in the industry today by enabling enterprises to fuse their custom AI models with generative AI systems to serve numerous use cases across industries. Interplay’s new generative AI capabilities unlock even faster digital innovation while— importantly—enabling companies to always own their IP with custom AI models. Paired together, Interplay’s low-code environment and generative AI give customers what they need to rapidly implement the most cutting-edge AI capabilities that would otherwise require significant resource investments and complex coding. Organizations can now leverage Interplay and generative AI to enhance and automate their existing product descriptions, create personalized product images on their retail sites, personalize ad campaigns with users' images and themes, build intelligent FAQs, and offer new conversational experiences, among other possibilities. Interplay and its generative AI integrations are applicable across industries, from retail to banking to insurance to healthcare. Some of the world's largest and most innovative companies—including Ulta Beauty, Circle K, and Pampered Chef—use the Interplay low-code platform to develop, scale, and iterate applications at a fraction of the time and expense it would take to hardcode and launch similar capabilities. The platform has continued to add cutting-edge, pre-coded technologies that customers can implement with drag-and-drop simplicity, including AI, machine learning, IoT, API data connections, and other capabilities. Iterate.ai believes that generative AI is one of today's most exciting and promising emerging technologies. Combining the power of generative AI with the Interplay low-code platform promises to further accelerate the pace that businesses can build differentiated, compelling, and modern digital experiences for their customers, employees, and partners. Interplay’s generative AI integration enables organizations to immediately leverage three capabilities from within the low-code environment: Text-to-code generator. Built on OpenAI, Interplay’s new text-to-code solution makes low-code application development faster. Users can generate code by entering a prompt for the desired functionality of the script from within the Interplay platform. Akin to GitHub Copilot, Interplay’s code generator actively assists developers with AI-generated low-code suggestions across the development process. Branded image generation. Interplay enables brands, advertisers, and designers to generate images from text prompts based on a set of training images already within the brand’s intellectual property. Merchandisers can fuse their custom data into Stable Diffusion models to generate customized product images, colorways, and lifestyle images based on customers’ known preferences. Brands can upload brand images, color palettes, and other assets, enter text descriptions, and rapidly produce new images to enhance their applications and customer experiences. GPT-3-powered training and support. Conversational experiences created by Interplay now will have the ability to answer questions and interact with customers via custom AI models and, for general queries, be able to tap into GPT-3 and other large language models (LLMs). “Like low-code itself, generative AI promises to multiply organizations’ productivity and eliminate even more of the traditional roadblocks to harnessing powerful technological capabilities,” said Brian Sathianathan, CTO of Iterate.ai. “The potent combination of the Interplay low-code platform and generative AI now allows developers (including those without any AI expertise) to rapidly build and iteratively perfect applications that deliver the features and experiences that set their companies apart. We’re proud to place some of today’s most powerful generative AI tooling in the hands of Interplay users, and excited to see what they create as they explore its possibilities.” About Iterate.ai Iterate.ai is the simplest, safest, and quickest way to get innovation done. Iterate offers Interplay: a low-code enterprise development platform with built-in capabilities for AI, IoT, big data, and a host of startup API connections. Iterate’s platform has three patents granted and nearly a dozen more pending. The company’s solutions appeal to executives and corporate innovators who seek low-risk, systematic ways to scale in-house, near-term digital innovation initiatives. Iterate has a global presence in North America (Silicon Valley, Colorado), Europe, and Asia (India/Sri Lanka).

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Recur Introduces RECUR Builder to Help Firms Manage All Aspects of Web3 at Scale

RECUR | January 06, 2023

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VISUA | October 18, 2022

Leading Computer Vision (Visual-AI) company, VISUA has launched two new ways to integrate Computer Vision into any workflow without the need for developers. VISUA enjoys a broad customer base comprising leading global companies like Brandwatch, TVEyes and GearLaunch, covering sectors as diverse as brand monitoring, brand protection, cyber security and print-on-demand marketplaces. All these companies make use of VISUA’s API to send media for processing and to control the numerous options available during processing. Finally, the API delivers the results back to them in JSON or XML format. The data can then be integrated into their own data sources to deliver a combined dashboard of data to their clients. However, in recent years, new sectors have begun to take an interest in how Computer Vision can help them meet their business challenges, often driven by regulatory requirements that demand controls and oversight on the sale of counterfeit and trademark/copyright infringing products, or simply to moderate harmful content, such as hate speech on their platform. Many of these are not ‘high-tech’ companies and have relatively small developer teams focused on development of their core business requirements. As such, they either have no ability to work with an advanced API or simply have no need to integrate the results of processed media into their platform. Having identified API-less access to its suite of Computer Vision technologies as a key opportunity, VISUA has worked to deliver workable solutions and now announces the launch of two new ways to leverage the power of Computer Vision: No-Code Computer Vision Clients can place media to be processed in an authenticated repository. VISUA’s engine will collect the files and process them. Extracted data is then placed in a VISUA dashboard for the client to interrogate. Where the client needs to link the findings of a specific image or video back to their platform, they simply add the listing, order or post details into the file’s metadata, which is then converted into a link that points to the relevant page on the client’s site. This implementation is ideal for clients with lower processing volume requirements and/or have no developer resource to work with the API. Low-Code Computer Vision Clients use the API to send media to our engine and provide corresponding listing/order/post details. Once processed, the extracted data is presented to the client via the VISUA dashboard. This is ideal for clients with higher volume processing needs and/or some resource to use the API, but have no need to integrate the extracted data into their platform. "APIs are the key to accessing the best external systems and technologies across the world, but their use is not for everyone. Our No-Code and Low-Code implementations now put the power of VISUA’s Computer Vision stack in everyone’s hands, no matter their size or development capabilities.” VISUA, co-founder and CTO, Alessandro Prest Luca Boschin, VISUA, co-founder and CEO, adds: “We have seen a growing demand for computer vision by marketplaces and content platforms. Perhaps because perceptions and attitudes towards platforms that allow the sale of fake & copyright/trademark infringing goods, and harmful content continues to grow ever more negative. Or that new legislation, like the Digital Services Act in Europe, are forcing platforms and providers of intermediary services to deal with these issues. When it comes to detecting and blocking visual content, the only way to do it effectively is using computer vision. But many of these companies have limited development capabilities, so our No-Code and Low-Code options have been developed to allow any company with a need to harness Computer Vision with a means to do so. About VISUA VISUA boasts best-in-class Visual-AI that powers the world’s leading brand and sponsorship monitoring, brand protection, and authentication platforms. VISUA delivers technologies such as logo/mark detection, text detection, object & scene detection and visual search, that are used by world leading companies for applications as varied as sports sponsorship monitoring, social listening, and phishing detection, to holographic authentication and counterfeit product detection. Its Visual-AI technology is proven to deliver the highest precision with instant learning, at unlimited scale, and is adaptable for any use case. VISUA believes in People-First AI, they see a world where Visual-AI will lift humanity out of the mundane, empowering a society that focuses more on creativity and collaboration and less on binary tasks, and empowering services and solutions that humans alone simply can’t deliver.

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Iterate.ai Brings Generative AI Capabilities to Interplay, the Low-Code Platform Accelerating Customers’ Digital Innovation

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