SERVICENOW
“ The productivity gains of low code are game changing . It ’ s changing the mission of some companies and their ability to do business ”
GREGG ALDANA GLOBAL AREA VP , SERVICENOW
His parents sent him to computer camp as a child and he still fondly remembers the first piece of software he ever wrote : it helped him manage his childhood baseball card collection !
“ As a lifelong app developer , I ’ m excited about this . I ’ m not intimidated ,” he says of increasing automation and use of generative AI . “ Quite the opposite . I think about the sophisticated and impactful systems we ’ re going to be able to create in the future that would ’ ve taken years to build before . These are exciting times !”
Indeed , based on Gartner ’ s latest research , he anticipates that society will need over 750 million new apps in the coming years – many multiples of what we already have available on the Apple App Store (~ 2.5m apps ) or Google Play Store (~ 3.5m apps ). To meet these needs , professional developers will need to be freed up and need help with the smaller stuff – and this is where citizen developers come in . Gartner predicts that 75 % of apps will be built on low-code platforms by 2026 , representing a US $ 45bn economy .
ServiceNow makes app development three-times faster compared to other platforms . End-users are 50-75 % more cost-efficient when using ServiceNow ’ s low-code App Engine , and customers get a 230 % return on their investment on average .
70 August 2023