does . Enabling business value is the end goal , and it has a four-step proven plan to make it happen . “ We call it the four P ’ s : portfolio , people , process and platform ,” comments den Haan . “ We also start small : we ask the company to identify a first project application that needs to be built and of course , we shouldn ' t start with the most complex one but start easy . Something that can be built and delivered within 30 days . The biggest compliment I hear from our customers is that they say that ideas are flowing amongst the team again because if the first application is built in 30 days people start to think ‘ well
maybe we could do this bigger project too .’ We focus on collaboration and make sure that the business is able to build software that they are proud of .”
Den Haan believes that low-code development isn ’ t the end of the road for Mendix , he believes that the applications of the future lies in AI-assisted low-code development . “ I think the next era of applications is the smart app . These have three characteristics – it understands the context of the app so where the user is located and what the user is doing , using personal , sensor or location data . It ’ s also intelligent : it uses
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