Low-code Solutions
Low-code platforms offer a rapid and affordable alternative to bespoke app development.
At Heliocentrix, we use three low-code platforms, which are all developed by Microsoft, so you can be sure they’re secure and produce reliable results:
- Power Automate: for easy process automation that removes manual steps and hand-offs.
- Power BI: to link data sources and systems to eradicate rekeying and errors.
- Power Apps: build highly-customised apps quickly, to make business processes simpler and faster.
Power Automate
Providing a simple way to remove repetitive tasks and reduce manual operations, Power Automate is a low-code tool that integrates with hundreds of applications. Integrations include Microsoft services like SharePoint, Teams, My SQL and Outlook (among others) and other applications like Trello, Oracle and Mailchimp (among many others).
We use it to create a smooth data flow between your different systems, automating the sequence of steps in your processes. This frees your employees from manual tasks, creating opportunities for greater productivity in higher-value tasks like decision-making and working directly with customers.
Power BI
We use Power BI to collect, clean and transform data from numerous sources across your business. This means you and your people always have accurate, up-to-date information right at your fingertips.
Make your data even more powerful with effective visualisation, which can also be powered by AI to uncover hidden trends in moments. We use this low code platform to create interactive reports that allow our clients to quickly and easily interrogate data for decision making on sales performance, customer engagement and operational efficiency.
Reports can be easily embedded into SharePoint and Teams, along with role-based access to ensure your business-critical data stays fully secure.
Power Apps
Bringing automation and data together, Power Apps supports our clients to create their own apps, allowing them to create highly customised and streamlined business workflows.
It is more affordable than bespoke app development and can be implemented more rapidly, meaning Power Apps allows businesses to test and learn quickly, while also seeing the return on investment they’re looking for much faster.
As a low-code development platform for growing businesses, it offers excellent scalability. Because new apps can be quickly developed and implemented, your business systems can keep pace with rapid growth and adapt with your business as you innovate your services.
Paul Hardy
“We need IT solutions that are designed for us, without a ‘bespoke’ price-tag. Heliocentrix have always brought a fresh perspective and designed solutions that help us keep doing our job for the residents of Maidstone.”
Your questions answered
What is low-code?
A low-code platform is development environment used to create applications without needing much (or any) coding, which significantly reduces the development time and keeps costs lower. It’s a good alternative to bespoke software development for smaller businesses or those with smaller budgets. What low-code platforms do you use?
We use three low-code platforms that support the three pillars of our digital transformation service for our clients:
- Power Automate, for process automation,
- Power BI (Business Intelligence) for data sharing,
- Power Automate for streamlining business operations.
How can low-code platforms improve business productivity?
We use Power Automate to automate manual, repetitive tasks, which reduces the amount of time and effort needed on low-level tasks so that staff are freed up for higher-value work.
Power BI gathers data from across your business, bringing it into one place so that it is accurate, up to date and easy to access. We also use it to create interactive reports, reducing the time spent wading through data and allowing your senior leaders to make better decisions, more quickly.
Power Apps brings everything together to create streamlined business workflows that are highly customised to your processes. It is much faster than traditional software development, allowing businesses to rapidly evolve their applications and experience productivity gains quickly
How does Heliocentrix implement Digital Transformation?
We use our proven Digital Transformation process to guide your project to get the best results for your business, whether you need a fast focused fix, or ongoing IT evolution.
In the build phase we have several options to ensure solutions are perfectly tailored to your requirements and your budget.
These are:
- expert training to enable your people to get more from your existing software,
- Buying and Implementing off-the-shelf software
- using Low-coding platforms to create Custom apps
- using AI to reduce manual processes or for agentic coding,
- a Fully Bespoke Software build project
or any combination of the above.