Low-code automation platforms enable businesses to rapidly automate their applications and workflows. Basic low-code tools can create applications that help users perform simple tasks. But rapid app delivery is only the beginning of what low-code can do. The most advanced low-code automation platforms deliver powerful business process automation capabilities.

There’s no question that the benefits of hyperautomation are potentially limitless, with nearly endless ways to optimize efficiency, cost savings and competitive advantage.

Since pneumatic tubes streamlined the transfer of documents across banks and mainframe computers revolutionized back-office processes, automation has been a driver of innovation and progress in financial services for over a century. In today’s digital world, automation’s latest iteration has the power to transform operations across departments and use cases: customer onboarding, underwriting, compliance, and more.

Our announcement that Appian has acquired process mining innovator Lana Labs is a turning-point in automation, and more importantly, for our customers. The addition of native process mining makes Appian the world’s most complete Low-Code Automation Suite. We are coming together to create a unique offering with tremendous value.

IT and development teams are embracing low-code for many reasons: It reduces technical debt. It improves collaboration with business users. And it makes you vastly more efficient by keeping things simple—including your application teams. Unfortunately, even as IT organizations embrace low-code, many still rely on bloated, heavily specialized development teams. They’re only scratching the surface of low-code’s power.

Now more than ever, the energy industry is facing disruption that impacts costs, damages productivity, and threatens the success of the industry. To combat this, organizations are looking to implement new technology solutions that allow them to stay resilient and agile when the unexpected happens. Here are three of the most prevalent disruptors in the industry today, and how digital capabilities can help organizations respond.

A revolution is transforming organizations and it's driven by low-code. Using low-code, organizations can quickly build—even in only a few weeks—enterprise applications that would once have taken months to get off the ground. Forrester predicts that by the end of 2021, 75% of development shops will use low-code platforms (up from just 44% in 2020).[1] With that kind of momentum it’s no wonder the low-code market is exploding.