A Few Key No-Code Terms

No-Code Terms:

•  aPaaS (Application Platform as a Service) -  Cloud-based software services which allow you to develop and build applications on their platforms in exchange for payment of a recurring fee.
• API Connector - A platform feature that allow you to set up an API connection with an external service that you want to use in your app (a customer payment service for example).
• Business Process Automation - Improving business processes by automating repetitive manual tasks.
• Business Process Management - BPM involves designing, monitoring, and executing inter-related business processes. 
• Business Process Reengineering - Redesigning and rebuilding business processes to improve performance.
• Canvas Apps - Refers to applications created by visually designing and building a program by placing components on a blank screen or "canvas".
• Citizen Developers - People with no background in program coding who are developing their own apps thanks to no-code app platforms.
• Digital Transformation - Transforming services or businesses by replacing non-digital or manual processes with digital processes.
• Hyperautomation - Refers to the enhancement of business processes through the use of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning models.
• Microservice Architecture - A software development method that looks at applications as a loosely connected group of self-contained pieces or "microservices", which can be developed quickly and efficiently on no-code platforms.
• No-code Apps - Applications created on development platforms that employ visual modelling to build software programs. Users can access a library of pre-built components that they can drag-and-drop onto a graphic interface in order to construct various web and/or mobile applications.
• Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) - Web-based application software built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. PWAs are intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices.
• Rapid Application Developement (RAD) - An iterative approach to software development that emphasizes rapid release of prototypes followed by modifications based on user feedback.
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -  Robotic Process Automation is the use of computer software to emulate (and possibly integrate) the actions of a human being in order to execute a business process.
• Template - A pre-built app that you can use as a starting point for building your own app.