No-Code Apps Are the Future of Analytics

Jan 11

We’re all becoming a Company of One. The tools we use must adjust. Our newly decentralized work style is breaking applications apart like a meteor approaching the earth’s atmosphere. Instead of poured-concrete, monolithic applications, modern apps will be smaller, composable, and modifiable.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are an example of a monolith. Most companies use them to manage essential sales and marketing data. Many CRM systems have grown to resemble the Stockholm Telephone Tower. The infamous tower was built in 1887 to connect telephone lines in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew to have 5,500 connections. What a mess!

No-code has been called The Most Disruptive Trend Of 2021 by Betsy Atkins (2). No-code helps anyone compose applications like legos. They lower creative barriers for non-programmers; Atkins calls them a new class of citizen developers.

Fifth Generation Programming Languages aren’t exactly new. Many have failed. Some have succeeded.

Spotfire Mods aspires to make analytics applications composable. Building blocks are made by anyone; composition is done by anyone. Early results are exciting. Mods work in harmony, like metal balls in Newton’s Cradle. Integration is frictionless. Innovation happens at warp-speed.

We think composable applications are the future of analytics. Subscribe below for “Mods Mondays” as the future unfolds in 2021.