The time will soon come – Release 6.0 is in the starting blocks. The key question is what has changed and what new power features will be available.
A Forrester analyst recently said that digitalization will only be successful if every employee is able to create software. The prerequisite for this is that employees from the specialist departments are also empowered accordingly through a low-code platform. As end users and experts in their department, these so-called citizen developers are predestined to develop relevant software solutions.
In the last release (5.5) in particular, we accommodated the no-coder user group with the new widget groups and live view features for UI creation. This meant that user interfaces (app designs) could already be created without much effort and without writing code. With Simplifier 6.0, we now offer even more no-code functions to support users without programming knowledge in the development of apps.
“Our new release has a lot in store. Simplifier is not a no-code platform, but the features will once again clearly underline the no-code theme.”
Christian Kleinschroth
CTO
The new version now has a number of helpful wizards that guide you step by step through the application creation process. This means that the name of our platform can now be taken even more literally. And we are expanding the range of users in Citizen Development: even no-coders can now integrate a connector, a table or a database using ready-made elements.
Another highlight is the new look and feel of the platform. The dashboard now looks significantly reduced and tidy. The classification of applications into “projects”, to which specific content can be assigned and filtered, also provides greater clarity.
The new widget groups view also demonstrates the focus on user-friendliness in Release 6.0. Similar to PowerPoint, there are around 40 ready-made design elements in the form of icons as well as various layouts to implement ideas directly using drag & drop. This means that users no longer need separate mockup tools to present their ideas in a scribble, but can implement them directly in Simplifier.
Market researchers at analyst firm Gartner predict that the number of citizen developers in companies will be at least four times as high as the number of professional developers by 2023. This is exactly where our new release 6.0 comes in. Because now even more potential citizen developers can act independently of the capacities of the IT department and thus accelerate the digital transformation in companies. Simplifier 6.0 is therefore predestined for the successful implementation of software projects through Citizen Development. After all, this can only work if users have the right methods and suitable tools at their disposal.
That said, it remains to be seen what further innovations the new Simplifier update on 31.01.2021 will bring! We will reveal more about this in our next blog post in the following week. So stay up to date!
The Simplifier Team
Continue in part 2: Supporting the low-code trends
