With every complicated business application that goes into production today, another case can be made for the low-code/no-code movement.

The reason is that low-code and no-code platforms offer small components as an easier way to build larger application architectures. That’s becoming an increasingly attractive option for enterprises that must now develop software in-house, and one of the companies seeking to capitalize on that trend is OutSystems.

“While software development used to be done by some elites about 10 or 15 years ago, today every company needs to build their own software,” said Paulo Rosado (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of OutSystems. “It’s just too much — you need that speed and you don’t have enough talent. More than 65% of new software that’s going to be built in the next three to five years is going to be done with a no-code or low-code platform.”

Rosado spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how low-code tools facilitate agile development and the critical importance of software in driving business.

Out of the data center

As a low-code provider, OutSystems offers a family of tools to create applications visually without the need for writing thousands of line of complex programming code. The company was founded nearly two decades ago on the premise that as applications became more popular, the need for faster development would rise as well.

“The idea that we had initially was very much the one that has become truth; we were just about 14 years ahead of the market,” Rosado said. “The company is called OutSystems because we believed at the time that a large percentage of systems would migrate out of the data center to what today is called the cloud. We believed that a lot of the software which was going to be built would need to be done in a very agile way.”

OutSystems’ application-centric approach reflects the realities of today’s enterprise world where even the world’s largest corporations are acknowledging the role of software in driving business. An example of this could be found in a presentation by Microsoft Inc. Chief Executive Satya Nadella last year in which he flatly declared that the operating system was no longer the most critical layer for his company.

“He was mentioning that fundamentally every company needs to become a cloud software company,” Rosado said. “We’ve woken up a lot of giants with this approach. These platforms are actually pretty hard to build.”

Here’s the complete video interview, one of many CUBE Conversations from SiliconANGLE and theCUBE:

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