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So, you’re considering a low-code or no-code platform. That’s great! There are a lot of fine lines of difference between low- and no-code platforms, depending on your needs. But even within the no-code space there are a lot of products available, showing a wide range of capabilities. And Betty Blocks is not your grandma’s no-code platform.

Betty Blocks: it’s no-code with an escape hatch
Betty Blocks stands out from platforms like Kissflow by being both easy enough that anyone can use it, while boasting capabilities powerful enough to build secure, complex, enterprise-grade applications. Unlike most no-code platforms, it’s no-code with an escape hatch: While it is not necessary to write any code to develop complex applications, Betty Blocks also supports JavaScript or HTML integrations for added customization.

How else does Betty Blocks stack up against the competition? Read on.

What Challenges Do You Face?

The first step of choosing the right no-code solution is to evaluate the problem(s) you want to solve. You may be experiencing difficulty innovating because your fresh business ideas fall to the end of IT’s backlog, and it takes too long to see results. Maybe your business is even suffering from the shortage of professional developers. Do you find yourself with ideas that are too big for your budget?

Whether you’re focused on a single application or a complete digital transformation, it’s important to know which platform can provide you with the best features and service depending on your needs so that you can survive the new era of application development.

You might be searching for:

A way to increase collaboration between business and IT.
A tool to influence a culture of innovation throughout entire organizations, by starting small and scaling up step-by-step.
A platform that “just works:” Fully cloud-based with real-time deployments, supported by any and all web browsers. All you need is an internet connection.
Automatic updates to the platform that ensure you never have to worry about security, migrating apps to the newest version, or managing servers yourself. We take care of everything.
Real-time deployment of with no configuring, updating, or waiting.

If that’s the case, then you might be searching for Betty Blocks.

Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave ™ for Low-Code Development Platforms For Business Developers, Q4 2021

We’re proud to be recognized as a key thought leader of the enterprise citizen development movement. We received the highest scores possible in nine criteria, which in our opinion demonstrates our ability to help businesses build beautiful and advanced applications.

What Problems Can You Solve?

Betty Blocks is fast and flexible, yet powerful, secure, and scalable enough to embed within enterprise-level application strategy. A network of Betty Blocks-built web and mobile applications can facilitate a full digital transformation within your company. You can also easily (and rapidly) develop prototypes to test on a small-scale, collect feedback, optimize, re-test, through constant iteration, bringing greater agility to your organization--meaning even large enterprise organizations can operate with the agility of startups.

Additionally, because Betty Blocks is designed with the citizen developer in mind, you can close the gap left by a shortage of professional developers by making it possible for more of your workforce to contribute applications--on a platform that can be fully monitored and governed by IT, and that supports collaboration between teams of developers.

Because Low-code does require a professional developer who can code, it does not address the developer shortage problem. While it allow developers to work 2x faster, there is a limit to the degree that a low-code platform can reduce IT’s backlog.

Pricing

The Betty Blocks pricing model ensures you always have the ability to build, iterate, and expand solutions without costs ballooning alongside your needs. Find the perfect fit by choosing a platform edition (Single, Standard, or Enterprise), the number of users for your application, and any add-ons or expansions you might need.

Other platforms boasts a complex platform with many, many functionalities, and that is reflected in the cost--whether or not you need or use most of them. Pricing is also complex based it is based on the number of end users for the apps you build as well as hosting impact.

Alongside a Betty Blocks subscription, you can take advantage of any number of our coaching and development services, like SaaS, Collaborative Development, and No-Code Training. Read more about the Betty Blocks Pricing Plan here.

Enterprise-grade Applications

Critics claim that no-code platforms are not capable of building applications with real business value. And certainly, other no-code platforms like Kissflow possess a range of capabilities in terms of the complexities of applications they can support or be used to develop. However, Betty Blocks is a new breed of no-code, representing the next step in the evolution of programming .

For starters, Betty Blocks is the only no-code platform to be ISO27001 certified, proving that we don’t take shortcuts when it comes to security (or anything else, for that matter). With a sophisticated architecture built from Kubernetes containers and the Elixir language, Betty Blocks is uniquely powerful and able to navigate the complexity that enterprise-grade applications demand, both web-based and digital. Because of customizable components, experienced developers can also insert HTML and Javascript customizations in areas of the platform like the UI Builder, for example. The possibilities are limitless.

Who We Are

Our Betty Blocks company culture is something we’re quite proud of. People are at the center of everything we do, and we believe that the future of innovation lies in the hands of humans, not systems. We want businesses to be able to optimize their human potential by giving more employees the tools to develop applications. Our big, hairy, and audacious goal? That by 2023, anyone can build an application.

A Breed Apart

If you’ve been doing your research, you’re probably already flooded with product specifications and feature comparisons. So here’s what you need to know about the Betty Blocks platform features that differentiate us from other no-code platforms:

Cloud-based
As a 100% cloud-based platform, Betty Blocks requires absolutely no downloads or user updates. No plug-ins, no versioning updates- all you need is an internet connection.

No updates
Betty Blocks performs platform updates automatically, while all user applications are running. Because there is no versioning, users are always accessing the most current version and never have to migrate data.

Security
Betty Blocks is the first, and only, no-code platform to be ISO27001 certified. In addition, since all customers automatically work from the same, and most updated, version of the platform, the most demanding customer sets the bar for platform security--and all users benefit from the same protections.

Reusability
With the Blocks Store, users can install pre-configured blocks of Webservices and UI Components with one click, based on an architecture of micro-apps. Users can also share these components and make them available to all users in their organization, essentially saving and reusing whole blocks of applications across multiple apps.

Leadership
Betty Blocks is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Low-Code Platforms for Business Developers, Q3 2018, Forrester’s researchers evaluated the 12 most significant application development providers. The global research and advisory firm evaluated Betty Blocks on current product offering, strategy, and market presence, finding that Betty Blocks received the highest scores possible in the business model/service vision, product roadmap, and product revenue growth rate criteria. To learn more about the evaluation and see how Betty Blocks compares to other platforms, get the report here.

Don’t Just Take Our Word For It...

Check out our demo video to see the platform in action.

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Inside the Mind of: John Rymer, Forrester Research VP and Lead Analyst

Betty Blocks CEO Chris Obdam and John Rymer, Vice President and Lead Analyst at leading global research and advisory firm Forrester have a conversation about how no-code platforms are changing the landscape of application development by providing a solution to “one of the classic problems in IT,” according to Obdam.

Watch the full video here (preview below) to learn what your leadership needs to stay ahead of the game in the changing era of app development.