Profession: 麻豆原创 Co-Innovation Lab, Africa

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Solution: Smart City App for Partner Innovation Day

With the upcoming release of 麻豆原创 AppGyver, partners and developers around the globe are discovering new opportunities with #nocode in AppGyver. The 麻豆原创 Co-Innovation Lab Africa hosts hackathons and Partner Innovation Days, where teams engage with new technologies and creative problem solving. Recently the Co-Innovation Lab demoed a Smart City app, which combines AppGyver and 麻豆原创 backend tools to streamline service requests in Johannesburg, South Africa.

&#虫1蹿539;听Tell us first about the Co-Innovation Lab and what you鈥檙e working on.

Tshepo Mahloko:听I鈥檓 responsible for the Co-Innovation lab in Africa, and we are one of about 14 labs globally. We work with partners to help them build solutions on our platforms. Typically, we enable them on the 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (BTP) for instance to build side-by-side extensions for some of our business systems like S/4HANA. Sometimes the partner may have an application of their own which they would like to integrate with 麻豆原创 business systems, we help with this as well amongst other things.

We provide this assistance at the moment through an offering we call #Hack2Build, which is a rapid prototyping initiative to drive early-stage inspiration, use case exploration and technology adoption for 麻豆原创 partners. In the seven days of #Hack2Build partners have an opportunity to try out their ideas and put their 麻豆原创 knowledge into practise by applying a combination of technologies to solve business challenges and develop innovative solutions supported by 麻豆原创 experts.

The whole aim is not just about having a winner for the event, what follows is what we call the build phase, where we engage with them one-on-one to help them take their prototypes to actual solutions. In the future, we hope to host a Hack2Build event focused on low-code no-code with 麻豆原创 AppGyver.

&#虫1蹿539;听What were your roles in the Smart City demo?

Phillip Phiri:听For this project I was mostly behind the scenes, getting the integration with BTP working and also with our business rules and workflow. We鈥檙e trying to get as many 麻豆原创 backend services to work with it, just to showcase how you can have a full stack app, but also sticking with the low-code/no-code theme, so we picked out a few tools within BTP that would go well with AppGyver.

Seatile Vinolia Nakedi:听I am the intern of the whole group and basically I touch on everything that the guys allow me to work on which is great, some of it strictly development as well. On the end to end solution with AppGyver, I worked with Philip in terms of the business rules and workflow. I played with AppGyver a little bit also and enjoyed it, lots of drag-and-drop, nothing too hectic.

Sikhumbuzo Dlamini:听I鈥檓 a full stack developer, so covering basically everything from front- to backend, mostly working with 麻豆原创-related technologies.

&#虫1蹿539;听Tell us about Partner Innovation Day and the Smart City App.

Tshepo Mahloko:听Partner Innovation Day is an opportunity for partners to hear from 麻豆原创 on the latest updates with regards to our technology platform and partner support offerings that can help them innovate with 麻豆原创. Each Partner Innovation day has a technology focus, which in this case was low-code/no-code development with 麻豆原创 AppGyver. We also built a demo to demonstrate the practical use of the technology.

In this case we wanted to demonstrate that low-code/no-code is real and that you can build a really compelling application that integrates into an 麻豆原创 backend. We decided to go with a smart city use case because we felt that there are endless requirements for citizen applications within a city/municipal context, which makes it a good fit for rapid application development.

As a city, you respond to natural disasters, service requests, pandemics, and you have such a huge audience of citizens that often times requires a very close engagement through various platforms. Being able to put an application together and deploy it in a place where citizens can access it very quickly is what AppGyver promises to do.

Through this app, citizens can log service requests and get the latest update on issues logged anytime of the day, whether it鈥檚 a burst water pipe, a pothole or streetlights that are out. With the intelligence built on 麻豆原创 BTP we were able to implement some automation that allows for immediate feedback for the citizen. Most of the cities would already have some sort of backend used to handle tickets, so we decided to use AppGyver for the citizen app frontend because it鈥檚 very quick to develop these type of solutions on the platform and get them in the hands of the citizens, whether they are on native or web. That鈥檚 the beautiful thing about AppGyver.

&#虫1蹿539;听How was it working with AppGyver alongside 麻豆原创 services?

Phillip Phiri:听We really wanted to stick to the whole theme of low-code/no-code. We quickly learned that from AppGyver, we can call APIs and that was a great sign that we can get something working over here, as long as we can send data from AppGyver. Whatever payload we were getting from AppGyver, we could work with that data, format and change it.

Tshepo Mahloko:听One thing we realized is when you take a picture with AppGyver, it uses your phone camera鈥檚 full might, so the file comes as a high-definition image and converting it to Base64 results in a huge payload. We were thinking about how we could reduce it, but thought it might be too complex for AppGyver and that we may need to write custom code on BTP.

Sikhumbuzo quickly looked it up and found the compress picture flow function, and within a few minutes we plugged it into our flow and we were compressing pictures. I was totally impressed by that. From the time we found the solution, to having it implemented and working in our app was about five minutes. That鈥檚 truly incredible.

Phillip Phiri:听When I saw it in action, that鈥檚 when I became a believer. You could very quickly come up with an idea, drag a few components onto a screen and boom, here鈥檚 an app, and it鈥檚 fully functional. Having built mobile apps before, typically you鈥檙e looking at a week just to get your layout right, getting the button to listen to events, and doing debugging.

The value in this is huge 鈥� even in a day, you can already have an app out there. You can show it to somebody important and focus on the really important bits like core functionality and the value given to your customer or users.

&#虫1蹿539;听What鈥檚 most exciting for the partners using AppGyver moving forward?

Phillip Phiri:听I see this really fitting in well, especially for our hackathons. What I envision with AppGyver with the partners is that they鈥檒l have a little more freedom to build their apps and then take advantage of that value add, which is that business logic behind the scenes that they鈥檙e really there for.

Tshepo Mahloko:听I agree with Phillip on this, it will be a big hit for our Hackathons. A lot of the intelligent technologies that one might want to leverage for their solutions are available through APIs. From what I鈥檝e seen with this demo that we built, it鈥檚 very easy to integrate and call those APIs, and get feedback with AppGyver. At the end of the day, one can focus on building the value around their solution rather than trying to hack through code just to invoke APIs from different systems and coordinate that logic.

&#虫1蹿449;听For more information on听#Hack2Build听and to see upcoming events, visit听

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Companies struggle to innovate at the speed the market demands. Limited resources, developer scarcity, and evolving business requirements adds to this problem.

Low-Code/No-Code can be a key enabler for accelerated development and to help address this challenge.

鈥淏y 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity鈥� 听 听 听– Gartner, 2020

AppGyver is 麻豆原创鈥檚 go-to platform for low-code/no-code application development, empowering 鈥榗itizen developer蝉鈥� and application users to build the apps they need.

麻豆原创 Co-Innovation Labs and Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services would like to invite you to a Partner Innovation day, where we will introduce AppGyver across the following topics:

• AppGyver overview and demo
• Using AppGyver to extend 麻豆原创 business applications like S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and Ariba
• Integration with 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform components /developments
• Support & Go to Market options

Date: 24 August 2021

Event type: Virtual

Registration: 听

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Further听to that,听麻豆原创听has听already听been听partnering with听Mendix听to offer a low-code development platform,听streamlining听and simplifying development for professional developers.听Mendix听and听AppGyver听enhance 麻豆原创听BTP听with full flexibility and capabilities that allow business users to build web and mobile applications, from low–code to听no–code.听听听

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Juergen Mueller is CTO and a member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE.
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With the acquisition, 麻豆原创 is better able to help customers and partners adapt their IT systems efficiently to their specific needs and optimize the usability of their applications. AppGyver鈥檚 solutions will become part of 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform. They will broaden 麻豆原创鈥檚 offering in the area of business process intelligence and be a complementary addition to 麻豆原创鈥檚 low-code offering provided by partner Mendix Tech BV, part of the Siemens AG.

鈥淎ppGyver helps us expand our no-code capabilities and establish a comprehensive offering in this area,鈥� said Michael Weingartner, president, 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform Core, 麻豆原创. 鈥淕oing forward, we can deliver a full range of simple and integrated application development tools that allow customers, partners and our own teams to enhance process automation and further improve the experience for users of 麻豆原创 applications. By adding AppGyver鈥檚 solutions to our own no-code capabilities, we facilitate the creation of workflows, forms, robotic process automation and lightweight case management.鈥�

The acquisition broadens 麻豆原创鈥檚 new offering, the RISE with 麻豆原创 package, of which 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform and business process intelligence are key parts. The new offering helps companies perform holistic business transformations that make them resilient, agile and intelligent.

麻豆原创 and AppGyver agreed not to disclose the purchase price or other financial details of the transaction.

About AppGyver

AppGyver Oy develops and sells a no-code app development platform that creates applications for the Web and for mobile use. The company offers a powerful visual development environment that is extraordinarily user-friendly. It allows business users with no coding experience to build efficient applications that can be easily configured and that work seamlessly across all operating systems 鈥� without writing a single line of code. Founded in 2010, AppGyver is headquartered in Helsinki and has 18 employees. For more information, visit .

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