It's Time for Operations to Go No Code

Operations. Halfway between your technical team and your front line team. These are the guys that make things happen. The facilitators. Often the fulcrum on which a business rests.

Operations teams across all industries, spanning all functions such as Sales, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, to HR and Finance, are often armed with an array of technical applications with unfriendly user layouts and a complete inability to adapt to a changing business environment, as the business itself responds to a changing economy. In the past, any attempt to become agile to the world around it involved a workaround, or a long delay between the requirement and the execution - often arriving far too late.

 Modifying these tools required specialist knowledge outsourced to software suppliers, and in the interim began to lurk the phenomenon of Shadow IT - a subject that will be covered in depth in its own blog. For now, think of Shadow IT as the litany of tools that businesses end up relying on - wholly unintentionally - as employees find their own solutions to problems IT and Ops can’t respond to fast enough. Spreadsheets, shared drives, emailing around master copies of word documents, the list goes on and gets worse.

What if we told you that need not be the case?

What if I told you that your operations team could respond to any change, without technical knowledge, within minutes? Changes brought about by the power of no code can be simple, massive, and require no technical experience. With a no code development platform like Softools (fancy talk for “place where you can build online tools your business needs with a friendly interface and no need to know code”), you can deploy changes instantly, to all users, whenever needed. The way your business deploys its assets need not be filtered through a process that doesn’t quite fit, or an application that’s not quite right.

With a zero code environment, you can modify applications or build new fit-for-purpose ones from scratch in minutes. Complex ones in an afternoon. You can apply security and visibility settings on a user by user, or team by team basis, with a few clicks. 

The future is no code, just as the future used to be cloud, the internet, or the mass production of modern pulp paper - code is the new vellum. No code is the new future.

It's Time for Operations to Go No Code — Softools