HokuApps Enterprise RAD Platform for Rapid Application Development

By William Spencer

For the purpose of an argument for the HokuApps RAD Platform, let us consider the following two scenarios:

• Your company is building an application for the first time. You have done your research, but do not have much in terms of practical experience. You realize that to truly support the overall business strategy, the app must satisfy a number of functions and meet user expectations at the same time. With traditional development tools, this means a long round of intense planning, following by hours of hand-coding. If changes have to be made after product completion, you can expect almost an equal number of hours being spent on reworking the code. The costs involved would be nothing short of formidable, at the very least. If all goes well, your IT team will be spending about 1000s of hours to create an app with the potential to add value to users’ lives and boost your profits.

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• Your company has built apps before and needs to keep modifying them in accordance with user feedback and the emerging technologies. You have to keep adapting them for newer devices with their newer screen sizes, while also considering compatibility related issues with newer versions of everything digital. On top of that, you have to build a new app to support new products and services, serve a new customer base or a customer preference or for a number of conceivable reasons. Your IT team is probably buckling hard under the constant pressure of changing demands and deadlines.

Both the above-mentioned scenarios are common for most companies in the changing business landscape today. Since it is no longer possible to make profits in the increasingly digitized markets without deploying a robust app, it is safe to say that a good app development platform would make lives much easier for everyone involved.

This is where the HokuApps Rapid Application Development Platform (RAD Platform) comes in. Developed to address the most pressing challenges pertaining to app development across industries, this rapid application development platform does not simply develop an app but also streamlines planning, implementation of the plan, deployment and post-deployment management. Whether your situation falls under scenario number 1 or 2, the opportunities that open up by creating apps on our RAD platform are more-cost effective and provide fast time-to-market.

The following aspects of our RAD Platform do much to benefit the process.

Faster App Delivery

The reason RAD Platforms have outperformed all other modes of development is clearly Speed. Our RAD Platform is low-code, which encourages closer collaboration between business and IT concerns. Not only that, it is easy to upgrade and make changes after the app has launched already. Each of these aspects, which we’ll explain in detail below, contribute towards cutting down project completion time by creating apps in days or weeks, and not months.

A Low-Code Approach to App Creation

The speed of developing apps on traditional platforms is extremely low, primarily because the non-RAD models involve a whole lot of manual coding. The HokuApps RAD Platform generates much of the app’s HTML, CSS and Javascript code via its automated tools. This means that developers using our rapid application development platform can spend significantly lesser time on writing the front-end code as most coding is automated. Instead, they can focus on making the platform more aesthetically appealing by tweaking its code to ensure better responsiveness for mobile devices.

A low-code enterprise RAD Platform like that offered by HokuApps offers more flexibility and creates less drain on the resources. Another distinct advantage is that the HokuApps approach does not include scarce talents like developers with specific programming language skills. Rather enterprise rapid application development is accomplished by app builders who may not possess advanced technical skills but understand their way around the business by working on a common programming language that suits all OS platforms.

Increased Business and IT Collaboration

Our RAD Platform lets IT collaborate more proactively with business interests. This helps not just to make better apps, but also by offering advice to executives on where they can make better IT investments. In fact, the rapid application development platform begins the entire process with a planning mechanism that needs inputs related to business goals and strategies. By involving stakeholders and business leaders in the app creation process, the HokuApps rapid application development environment constructs apps that are better aligned with commercial interests and user preferences.

Hassle-Free Operations

Without a RAD Platform, programmers would have to spend most of their time in gathering expertise on multiple programming languages to keep pace with the multiple technologies that keep emerging. This would also make it necessary to recruit developers possessing a variety of skills to create a single app. It also entails high, sometimes alarming expenses. Having to hire separate front-end and back-end developers also complicate things. With the HokuApps enterprise RAD Platform, however, the need for expertise in multiple programming languages can be avoided. The platform is built to deliver apps for multiple platforms – web, cloud, mobile – with a drag-and-drop method of app development. Again, since the code is generated automatically, you don’t have to worry about developing apps compatible with disparate platforms. Our platform takes care of that itself.

Post-Deployment App Maintenance

After being launched, a company needs to spend an enormous amount of time for maintaining it. This is especially true because the business needs to keep it compatible with the newly emerging technologies and software upgrades. The HokuApps RAD Platform is equipped with a number of features that make it possible to implement changes without using too much time or resources. Our enterprise RAD Platform is designed to extend the reach of the IT team so that they can bring about the highest possible impact.

Back-End Development

Back-end development is possibly the most time-consuming part of application development. The HokuApps RAD Platform enables our developers to configure rather than hand-code this part of the app. This not just reduces the total time to finish a project, but also cuts costs enough to gain budgetary approval.

An Overall Increase in Effectiveness with HokuApps RAD Platform Solutions

When a business leader collaborates with IT, incredible results emerge. Once a company witnesses the positive impacts of this exchange via apps created on the HokuApps RAD Platform, it reflects the same for processes outside app development, i.e., within the organizational workflows.

Moreover, since users spend a significant amount of their daily routines on looking at their phones comprising a myriad of applications, one must be taken several factors into consideration during the development phase. The popularity of apps primarily owes to their ease of use and the presence of features that meet the current user expectations. HokuApps options make for incredibly easy rapid application development, while constantly capturing user expectations during and after development.