At the core of our low-code platform there’s great emphasis in the concept of extensibility. Extensibility is, in broad terms, freedom to do as you please and develop intricate pieces of software that can add all kinds of functionalities and answer to all kinds of specific business needs. With our platform, one of the ways you can achieve this is using web components.
One of the main challenges of developing a business web application is in the adaptation of business language into a set of rules that can be programmed. Economic concepts such as agents, resources or events are not easy to translate into software. Typically this challenge is battled using code-centric approach and, more recently, different model-centric solutions start to appear. We believe we’ve improved the model-centric approach.
System connectivity is a core principle of our low-code platform. No matter the number of systems, or the environment their placed in (on-premise, cloud, etc), you can connect virtually any and all of them to our OMNIA Platform, making use of whatever functionalities they serve. This possibility opens up a huge range of modelling and development scenarios, that would otherwise be impossible, or extremely cost ineffective. In this post, we’ll detail how full system connectivity can be achieved with OMNIA.
In an ever more interconnected world, different languages and markets are closer to us than ever before. With a click of a button, people from all over the world can visit your website or web application, making a good translation system a very important feature for a multi-market strategy.
As we’ve seen in our part 1 of this series about Web Components, they are not only a highly recommended development tool, but also an immensely powerful and flexible one. These reasons, coupled with its element of reusability, made for a simple and logic decision to include them in our platform.
In complex web application development scenarios, we often need more complex tools than simple boolean or procedural logic. Needs like the creation of auxiliary structures, or centralized calculation logic, are only a few examples where the need for project specific code dependencies exist.
From a business stand point, data analytics is one of the most important aspects of the decision making process. With the ever growing variety of business software available, it’s increasingly common to have multiple separate systems to manage different business areas of a company, but one problem rises from this: data decentralization.
With OMNIA, this stops being a problem.
With the advance of technology and the ever growing increase of screen types and sizes, layout flexibility (or responsive web design) and browser compatibility are a big concern when developing software.
At the same time, UI extensibility is of the utmost importance for development platforms and those were two of the main focus points of our decision to embrace Web Components.
