12-24-2025, 10:36 PM
I'm a business analyst at a financial services firm, and we're evaluating low-code platforms to empower our non-technical teams to build simple internal tools for data reporting and workflow automation, with the goal of reducing the backlog on our IT department. We've looked at OutSystems and Mendix, but I'm concerned about long-term vendor lock-in and the scalability of applications built by citizen developers. For organizations that have adopted these platforms, what has been your experience with governance, security, and maintaining complex applications over time, and how do you balance agility with necessary technical oversight?