Today's business dynamics are fast, and organizations need the software to support their processes on short notice to stay competitive. This software must also adhere to the organization's existing workflows as closely as possible, as training hundreds or more users to work around procedural mismatches is too costly and time-consuming. Codedness IDE combines rapid application development with the flexibility of traditional software engineering.

Besides development speed, data security is also a decision point. Low-code/no-code platforms do deliver development speed, but besides being far less flexible in customizability, they also come with the added risks that are related to hosting your data on their servers.

In contrast, the Codedness platform does not contain your company's data; the application that you build with it does. And that application deploys on your infrastructure, where you have full control over the installed security measures on that infrastructure. Deploy on a secured cloud? Sure! Deploy on a strict firewalled or even air-gapped internal LAN? Of course!

Finally, your applications need to be maintainable for several years or even longer. With Codedness IDE, maintainability is guaranteed, as you own your application's codebase with zero vendor dependency. And Codedness IDE generates code that is aimed at maintainability, because the generated codebase comes with full API documentation.

Take a look at what Codedness IDE brings to the table HERE.

As an SME, your company doesn't have the big budgets that large enterprises have access to. “Complete off-the-shelf” (COTS) software, although very cost-effective in many cases, might not be a practical fit for some of your specific processes, and completely custom software development comes with cost estimates that make you think again.

Codedness IDE gives you fully tailored solutions, at speed, at a price level that competes directly with COTS software. With twenty end-users or more, a Codedness project license is even cheaper than most COTS options and low-code/no-code platforms.

Vendor lock-in, also known as data lock-in, where your data is basically held hostage because there is no (easy) way to export your data in any usable form to import into something else, is an even bigger risk for SMEs. Data migration projects financially dwarf the software development projects. Codedness IDE protects your data investments by making sure you own your data and even by implementing data export (and import) for all your defined database tables.

See why Codedness IDE is the best choice for SME software development HERE.

You want to build your PoC or MVP fast so you can start selling it to users and investors. Although no-code/low-code platforms seem to be a useful option, there are several pitfalls to consider.

Most no-code/low-code platforms lock you in to their platform without the option to take your application native and onto other hosting solutions. This also means that your data and your customer's data reside on their platform as well, incurring serious security risks.

With Codedness IDE, you can build your initial product demo in days, but it is an actual, fully functional application that you can take into the future because YOU OWN the generated codebase. It also deploys on your own selected infrastructure, where you determine which security measures are taken to protect your customer's data.

The other issue with no-code/low-code platforms is that you need to buy their user account licenses for each of your client's end-users as well. This means that you either sell to your clients cheap and make close to no money on end-user accounts, or you do a serious markup on your client's licensing price. In that case you run the risk of being uncompetitive in your market.

When you use Codedness IDE instead, your application comes with integrated user management with unlimited user accounts that are not linked to your own Codedness project license. You can sell unlimited user accounts for your application without any additional cost for your start-up.

Take a look at how Codedness IDE stacks up against no-code/low-code platforms HERE.