5 Benefits of Rapid Application Development Platform You Should Know About in 2017

By William Spencer

With the world migrating to the mobile, social media and the Cloud, the demands for business applications have reached an unprecedented level. However, a study by HBR suggests that one in six projects costs overshot budgets by more than 200%. While schedules overshot by about 70%. Moreover, more than three-fourth of these businesses failed in their attempts. These statistics only prove the importance of a rapid application development platform for SMEs and large scale organizations alike.

The need of the hour is to invest in a RAD platform to reduce friction in app delivery and in workings of businesses that they currently suffer from. Here are the 5 benefits of rapid application development platform:

1. Align Business and IT Departments

   A recent survey submits that 80% of IT professionals spend more than 50% of their time on rework. The major factor for this development is that business and IT work as individual units which influence numerous stages of mobile app delivery. While business departments drive production phases and requirement analysis, IT department deal with development phases of conventional software lifecycle.

   There is a large gap that needs to be filled and rapid enterprise application development can bridge the gap by creating an ecosystem at each and every stage of app creation. The ecosystem created simplifies traditional complexities of the app development process by bringing together IT software developers and business executives onto one platform. An added benefit is that business users gain domain knowledge to validate the implementation of the app, as it is being developed. In this way, rework for IT staff gets reduced while cost overruns are brought down to a bare minimum.

2. Rapid App Delivery and Minimal Waste Cycles

   The RAD approach brings to the fore a linear approach which present noteworthy opportunities to reduce waste while creating, testing and deploying the app at rapid speeds. HokuApps uses the technique called value chains to analyze mobile app delivery, thereby finding gaps in task switching, wait times, defects and handoffs to contribute time-saving to the app development cycle time.

   RAD tools offer visual development, instantaneous testing, data integration and deployment to help businesses greatly reduce time and costs wastage. The result is swift app creation and deployment, ready to use in a matter of weeks and not months, as is the mobile app development culture.

   

3. Built the Ideal Business Structure

   The current culture recommends that businesses look at the benefits of rapid application development platform at just the application level, and not any further. HokuApps though would like to tell you that the rapid web application development benefits perforate operations from end-to-end. Gartner’s Pace-Level App Strategy encapsulates the idea perfectly by referring to three app layers to distinguish app types based on their rates of change.

   Take a closer look and we can observe that layers also represent the level of focus and budget allocations by enterprises. The three tiers are systems of innovation, systems of differentiation and systems of record. The competitive edge though resides with those organizations that concentrate on the top tier, i.e., the systems of innovation. The system suits those organizations that are open to change and experimentation.

4. Change with Advancing Technologies and Customer Expectations

   The end user’s expectations are at a peak with mobile device proliferation and IT consumerization for applications. End users expect maximum agility, scalability, and speed at the lowest cost of ownership. For developers, however, an explosion of front-end technologies and a prolific explosion of tools have multiplied their burden.

   With Hoku RAD platform created apps, organizations can stay on top of new technologies by delivering apps at speeds that organizations demand.

5. RAD’s Impact on Time and Costs

   The benefits of rapid business application development reflect directly on schedule and costs of creating and deploying the enterprise application. In fact, HokuApps’ clients tell us that they have experienced close to 70% faster app development than conventional enterprise app delivery. They add that they save on around 75% of maintenance costs than traditional app life cycles.

   We know that our products require only about 20% of coding in comparison to conventional methods.

   

Here’s a short story on Hoku RAD model advantages:

• Rapid Delivery: Since our template is made of modules and as we treat each module as a distinct prototype, the app delivery time is greatly reduced. Each distinct module is tested as an individual app and all components are glued together and further testing is done to deliver the mobile app with fewer bugs.
• System Integration: All required modules are integrated at the very beginning so that there are fewer problems in the final integration process. This makes sure that all integrations occur smoothly and all data is synchronized immediately.
• Quicker Data Analysis: As each end-user uses the app, surveys can be created for improvements and suggestions. Also, data can be collected based on the usage of the app and executives can understand the analysis via our visual dashboard to make changes accordingly. Any change that may be decided upon can be incorporated easily and the app will not experience any downtime.
• Stay Ahead of Competition: In conventional app development platforms, the ability to adapt to change results in late delivery and improper functioning of the app. In this time your competitors may scurry on ahead while you lag behind. With collated and analyzed data executives can understand consumer psychology and demands. This way the business can adjust itself to suit market demands and trends.

When Should You Invest in a RAD model?

Rapid application development requires less time and costs far less in comparison to traditional mobile app development models. This model suits not only large scale businesses but also small and medium sized enterprises. No matter the complexity of the workflow, the app development projects are split into multiple modules for faster delivery of apps.

And if you are at that stage where you think that digital transformation is a necessity and you require mobile app delivery a rapid speed, then HokuApps can help you with your enterprise mobility requirements. For more information on HokuApps RAD model, contact our experts here.