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Why every CIO should invest in Low Code in 2023?

Picture a world where your development teams can rapidly and flexibly create robust applications, freeing up resources to focus on high-priority initiatives. With low code, this vision becomes a reality. In this article, we will explore why low-code platforms have become an essential investment for modern Chief Information Officers (CIOs). Advantages of Implementing Low-Code CIOs have long struggled with project delays, limited budgets, extended time to market, and a lack of business flexibility. It's no surprise that they are increasingly seeking solutions that enable them to keep pace with the demands of the business. Here are five reasons why embracing low code is crucial for streamlining your company's digital transformation. Accelerated Development: Visual techniques and DevOps automation allow for much faster delivery of comprehensive solutions. Intuitive visual interfaces, pre-built components, and drag-and-drop functionality shorten development schedules from months to weeks or even days. This ag...

Banking approach to document generation

Is it possible to easily automate the complex process of generating large numbers of highly complex and multi-variant documents? Especially in cases where each document has to contain personalised information and be delivered to the customer in a paper version? Let's look at how such a process might work using the example of the Bank's handling of debt collection cases. Debt collection in a bank Every bank daily launches hundreds of actions related to unpaid loan instalments or unauthorised overdrafts on an account. Already at the first stage of its debt collection activities, using soft methods, the bank sends reminders to its customers in the form of personalised text messages or emails, and then, in the absence of results, it sends appropriate reminders by registered letter containing information about the overdue liability and legal sanctions. In the next stage of debt collection, e.g. field collection, the bank, proposing an amicable solution to the case, produces further documents containing a sett...

Is it possible to process 1.5 million cases in 47 minutes using a low-code platform?

When building complex management and decision-making solutions, we often need to download customer data. This includes, for example, information about the products they own and the transactions they perform. Simply downloading the data for solution is only the first step in the process. Next one is to verify the received records, interrelate them and calculate the relevant aggregates (indices, sums, etc.). Dedicated tools are used to streamline data feed and processing, for instance, receivables monitoring systems in a bank, based on the daily processing of tens of millions of data about customers, their payments and contact history. Streamlining feed processes works well if data processing is reliable and scalable as the business grows. When data is not processed within the set timeframe, a sequence of events, sometimes hard to manage quickly, begins. These range from a delay in operating units to generating outgoing correspondence based on outdated data and sending it to customers. As a result, the...

Data migration in 4 minutes and 30 seconds with the VSoft archITekt platform

Today, IT companies do not exist without specialised tools. These can be commercial solutions, open source, as well as those created internally. At VSoft, when creating systems for our customers, we rely on the internal low-code platform VSoft archITekt. This helps us to implement solutions faster, in a more flexible and optimal way. Over these 26 years, we have created dozens of systems for a variety of industries. A major success is that we create many of them together with our customers. We have developed procedures for working on projects simultaneously, so that such cooperation accelerates the intellectual and business growth of both teams. When executing dedicated projects, we practically always have to deal with data migration. It takes place once or iteratively several times - depending on the type, quantity and quality of the data. This time it was not easy, we migrated several thousand insurance policies from the old system to our VSoft Insurance Platform. The data to b...

Unusual logistics processes in a manufacturing company – how to deal with them?

Unusual logistics processes have long been a challenge for companies whose business model is to make short batches of bespoke products. Until now, most companies have had to manually handle every step of the process. Rapidly developing technology and low-code platforms, which are gaining in popularity, come to the rescue in such cases. They provide the possibility to create applications tailored to the individual needs of a manufacturing company and map the actual processes occurring in logistics. Thanks to their use, order processing can be performed considerably faster and more efficiently. Which logistics processes may be challenging? The main task of logistics in a manufacturing company is to optimally manage the flow of raw and semi-finished materials and the resulting final products to be delivered to the customer. This involves a number of various stages, such as the organisation of procurement, warehousing, distribution of goods and handling of returns. All of this requires extremely careful plann...

How can low-code help a manufacturing company?

Regardless of what area a manufacturing company operates in - almost all seem to face similar challenges. Whether it's the food industry, heavy machinery manufacturing or perhaps a pharmaceutical company - evolving systems, computerisation and process automation affect the way a business operates. To keep up with the technologically developing world, you might need to hire a professional and constantly learning, and preferably a large team of IT specialists. Manufacturing companies rarely have a vast pool of such specialists, they are usually individuals. Fortunately, today's low-code solutions offer assistance that proves almost invaluable given the high demand for IT workers and relatively low supply of them. What is low-code? Using a low-code development platform (LCDP) consists in replacing traditional programming by a manually typed code with the possibility of applying tools that are mostly (but not entirely!) available in a graphical form and allow for software development by the ...

Low-code: does performance matter?

"Begin with the end in mind" that’s the second one of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. Does it apply when implementing a low-code platform? In my opinion, yes, and very much so. I have recently had a talk with a potential customer who is having problems with a system based on low-code. The very construction and implementation of the system took place without any problems, but over time it turned out that the platform used is completely not adapted to the size of the business and is not able to support the required amount of data (although from the perspective of "traditional" systems, these volumes are nothing extraordinary). Unfortunately, this pattern is repeated relatively often. There are many manufacturers of low-code platforms who have focused only on the fancy user interface and the speed of building small applications. However, they often lack experience or an idea how to approach more complex systems that appear in large organizations. They promise nirvana and u...

VSoft archITekt now available in the cloud

Our clients, in particular financial institutions, pay special attention to data security. For this reason, until recently, most of them preferred to store data on their own servers. Therefore, VSoft archITekt was used primarily in the on-premises model. In recent years however, the perception of data storage has gradually changed. Companies not wanting to deal with maintaining their own servers are increasingly choosing to use cloud services. To meet these needs, we have provided a service that allows you to run applications built on our platform in the cloud. Thanks to Microsoft Azure, it is possible to meet the highest standards in terms of availability and security. Companies already having an Azure subscription, can now purchase archITekt from Azure Marketplace just like any other service. Users can conveniently install and run applications in the cloud, directly from archITekt Studio. Our partners and clients appreciate flexibility, therefore archITekt is still available free of char...

Low-code solution for complex, high-performance systems? Sounds impossible. Or is it?

There is a stereotype that low-code platforms create software that is slow and limited in functionality. As with any stereotype, there is some truth to that, but not much. To find out what the reality is, at first, we need to start with how high-performance systems are built using general-purpose programming languages. Let’s get to the bottom of this and then confront it with what low-code has to offer. Is custom programming really such a great advantage compared to low-code solutions? Or is it a drawback? What makes software “slow”? What does "slow" really mean in terms of a typical enterprise application? By "typical" I mean a 3-layer classic: Web UI + service backend + databases. "Slow" can come from: Database queries being far from optimal - missing indexes, outdated statistics, bad join strategies etc. Unnecessary queries - missing caches or “chatty” algorithms assuming that fetching more data from database or external services is free and i...

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