New business model? Here’s how to make sure your IT landscape is ready
In today’s day and age, digitization has become an integral part of daily business operations. To be and remain future-oriented, it is important to ensure flexibility, innovation, employee satisfaction and digitization. In this blog, Brent Dalemans, Mendix developer at Mendify, talks about how to make sure your IT landscape is ready for the future and shares an interesting case study from Proximus.
Flexible and agile environment
If we have learned anything from the past few years, it is that agility is critical to the success of your organization. If your IT landscape is flexible and agile, you can integrate new developments quickly and easily. This, in turn, makes it easier to respond to changing needs of your customers and to move with market developments.
Innovative and scalable solutions
Beyond agility, it is also important to keep innovating. This keeps you at the forefront of the market and allows you to offer your customers new solutions all the time. This does not have to be about pompous inventions, we wrote a blog about that before. Innovation can also be about working just a little smarter, better and faster each time. Then make sure your solutions are scalable so that you are also able to serve large groups of people. APIs allow new services to be integrated quickly and easily, enabling organizations to respond even faster to changing customer and market needs.
Low-code software development
One way to develop digital solutions very efficiently is to use low-code software development. That way you create a solution that fits your business model one hundred percent, is flexible enough to move with your organization and developments in the market, and also seamlessly matches the needs and wants of your customers.
The flexibility of low-code in practice: Proximus+
In Belgium, my colleagues and I developed a wonderful portfolio of B2C apps for the telecom provider Proximus, called Proximus+. This super-app offers a wide range of services that goes far beyond Proximus’ core business: telecom. By collaborating with various partners and suppliers, Proximus has been able to create its own Proximus ecosystem. The app’s functionalities are aimed at Proximus customers, allowing them to access and manage their telecom data. But the app also offers the ability to check the weather, check energy consumption, look up restaurants, connect with nearby communities and use mobility services, such as starting parking sessions in parking garages and on the street and buying bus and train tickets. The app is intended for everyone, not only current telecom users, but also new potential customers. The goal is to give people easy access to a large number of services within one environment. Ultimately, Proximus is targeting as many as two to three million users in Belgium.
Low-code platform from Mendix
To meet the success criteria of the super app, there was a need for flexibility and an agile environment, as the app is quite bulky. It was also important that it be easy to integrate or remove services via APIs. Scalability was crucial to go from the prototype to an app that could potentially support three million users. Based on these success factors, Mendix’s low-code platform was chosen to build the app. The use of low-code is flexible, as long as it does not deviate too much from what is available in the platform, otherwise maintainability may suffer.
Want to know more?
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