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Why Low-Code AI Is Needed Now More Than Ever

By Solomon Ray, Director of Innovation, Strategy, and Special Projects at Iterate.ai

As a business leader and executive, a “low-code strategy” may not be on the top of your mind, but it
presents a valuable opportunity to transform your organization digitally. At Iterate, we take an even more
bullish view on low-code adoption; it will become table stakes for every digitally agile organization in the
near future. The trends have been shifting. Gartner notes “By 2025, 70% of new applications developed
by organizations will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020. The rise of
low-code application platforms (LCAPs) is driving the increase of citizen development, and notably the
function of business technologists who report outside of IT departments and create technology or
analytics capabilities for internal or external business use.” John Selvadurai, Ph.D., VP of R&D at Iterate,
has seen the immediate impact of implementing a low-code strategy. He emphasizes, "Maintaining
enterprise applications long-term is a very costly operation. These enterprises can reduce that
maintenance overhead significantly by having an organizational level low-code strategy."

The relevance of low-code application platforms is not limited to software developers or IT teams. It is
certainly befitting of a top-down business strategy. Low-code adoption is a catalyst for increased

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