Low-code development is a method for creating applications that uses visual tools and drag-and-drop interfaces to reduce the amount of traditional coding required. A rapidly growing percentage of organisations are leveraging low code low-code development platforms to transform and accelerate their custom software development strategies. According to Gartner, “70% of new applications developed by organisations will use low-code or no-code technologies by 2025, up from less than 25% in 2020.

GenAI code generation refers to using generative AI models to automatically write code based on input prompts or specifications, often producing full code snippets or boilerplate for traditional programming environments. This is useful for accelerating development by reducing manual coding tasks. In contrast, GenAI in low-code platforms integrates generative AI directly into visual development environments, enhancing the ability to generate or refine components, logic, and even UI elements based on user intent. Here, AI acts as an accelerator, making app building more efficient by automating aspects of the visual design and process logic.

Custom software is designed to meet the unique requirements of your business, ensuring that all features and functionalities align perfectly with your processes, goals and regulatory obligations. This allows you to work your way and deliver differentiation to your end-users, giving you a competitive edge over companies using generic off-the-shelf solutions. Custom software can grow with your business and as your needs evolve, the software can be modified and expanded to accommodate new requirements when you want them.

Our delivery process is determined with you, based on your investment and availability of key stakeholders to assist on the project. We can offer arrangements from a single resource to augment your team, to a full Agile team. Depending on the arrangement, we generally follow a proven, iterative process of discovery, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment.

Kiandra has a team of experts who rapidly understand your business domain and invest in the relationship upfront, focusing on long-term success. We offer a proof-of-concept at no cost or obligation to demonstrate our capability and that we can solve your most challenging problems. And we back it up with a 2-year warranty on all of our custom software development.

Building custom software with low-code offers several benefits:
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‍Speed and Efficiency: Low-code development uses visual tools and drag-and-drop interfaces, which significantly reduce the amount of traditional coding required. This accelerates the development process and allows for faster delivery of applications and quicker deployment cycles.
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‍Cost-Effectiveness: By reducing the need for extensive coding, low-code platforms can lower development costs. This makes it a more affordable long-term option for businesses looking to develop custom software.Flexibility and Scalability: Low-code platforms allow for easy modifications and updates to applications. This flexibility ensures that the software can evolve with the business's needs.
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‍Integration Capabilities: Low-code platforms often come with built-in integration tools, making it easier to connect with other systems and services. This enhances the overall functionality and interoperability of the custom software.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance: Low-code platforms like OutSystems integrate modern, end-to-end security into every aspect of its platform and applications, ensuring adherence to stringent security and compliance standards.

Our custom software development process includes strong governance and we are transparent about progress, risks and blockers. Our thorough discovery phase ensures a rapid transfer of context to our team, so we are better enabled to execute on the scope and more accurately estimate the effort required. This means we are able to track to a budget and schedule and easily identify when adjustments need to be made. We also include a 2-year warranty on our work to give you peace of mind that any defects will be rectified.

Kiandra have dedicated project managers who work with you to define project metrics including scope, budget and a delivery schedule. Regular check-ins and status reports provide visibility over progress and how the team are tracking against your project metrics. We employ a range of digital tools to make these processes efficient and transparent.  We also dedicate a portion of time to a discovery phase to ensure a thorough understanding of your needs and business domain so we can properly estimate the effort required. Finally, we factor contingencies into our estimation processes to allow for a degree of flex in scope and time.

Custom software development has a higher up-front cost than off-the-shelf software but over the total lifetime of the application, you can realise savings. Your project will generally require licensing, development and support costs. Kiandra’s pricing depends on the scope of work and the amount of time it will take to discover, design, built, test, deploy and support your application. Some more complex software will require specialist roles that may also influence the price. All our pricing is transparent which means you can understand our daily rates, license costs, estimated time to achieve the scope of work and any risk margins that we may apply. In addition, custom software development can often facilitate a much higher ROI, especially in the long term, because the solution exactly matches your requirements and vision, without compromising on features or having to be much the same as your competitors.

We strongly encourage close collaboration and can accommodate team enablement by including your people on our team so they may learn and develop their skills. They will be trained so that they become a contributing member to the delivery of the software, and be enabled to provide ongoing application support.