It’s amazing how much we can get done by automating business processes. Whether it’s augmenting human labor, reducing risks, or making customers happy, when we do automation right, we can make big things happen in any organization. Perhaps this is why: In other words, falling behind the automation curve could be lethal. Coming out on top means automating as if the future of your business depended on it.

If 2020 taught businesses anything, it’s that being able to turn on a dime and change everything about how you operate isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s a must. The demand for low-code technologies and automation was already climbing, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to re-orchestrate broken processes and reduce manual tasks.

The mainstreaming of low-code development has changed the business automation landscape. And the blistering pace of this fast-moving trend—of combining and scaling artificial intelligence, and low-code—is at the heart of the hyperautomation movement. So says Neil Ward-Dutton in his chapter of the recently published HYPERAUTOMATION, a collection of expert essays on low-code development and the future of business automation.

A developer's primary job is to work seamlessly, rapidly, and accurately to create software, apps, or websites that match business requirements. Unfortunately, there is a huge margin for error if you have to write lines and lines of complex code. Additionally, many basic tasks in the use of data-related software and other solutions, require extensive coding knowledge that many employees simply don't have. One solution to this is low-code software and development.