Low-code and no-code (LCNC) solutions are increasingly central to modern development strategies, enabling business users—often referred to as citizen developers—to create applications that directly address workflow and productivity challenges. When combined with professional development and platform engineering practices, LCNC tools help organizations accelerate time-to-market while maintaining architectural integrity, security, and governance. AI-powered development further enhances this model by enabling intent-based development through natural language interfaces and intelligent automation.
In this market brief, Enabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and Platforms developed in collaboration with IBM, Futurum Research examines how enterprises can enable agility at scale by combining LCNC, AI-powered development, and platform-centric architectures. The report outlines IBM’s approach to enterprise-grade agility, highlighting the importance of hybrid cloud, built-in governance, platform engineering, and integrated automation to ensure that speed of innovation translates into production-ready, secure, and resilient outcomes. Download the report to learn how organizations can balance development velocity with operational control.
In this brief, you will learn:
- Why LCNC and professional development are increasingly complementary—not competing—approaches
- How citizen developers and AI-powered tools are reshaping enterprise software creation
- The role of platform engineering in ensuring security, governance, and production readiness
- Why hybrid cloud and infrastructure-as-code are foundational to scalable LCNC strategies
- How IBM’s platform-driven approach helps enterprises move faster without sacrificing control
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Author Information
Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. As an entrepreneur, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), and the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network.
Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer discussing CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on futurumgroup.com and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.
