LowCodeUnit — Fathym’s Virtual Developer

October 14, 2021 by Kim Loomis, Product Owner @ Fathym

In this article, learn how Fathym’s latest virtual developer, LowCodeUnit, helps customers deliver their products and applications faster and with greater scale.

“I think low-code platforms are probably the most important technology tool that CIOs need to look at. We do not have enough staff and our staff who are strong at AppDev really need to focus on the customer-facing pieces that are going to move the needle.”

Isaac Sacolick, Founder of StarCIO, Author of Driving Digital & a Huffington Post’s Top 100 Most Social CIOs

Introducing LowCodeUnit!

There are nearly 5 billion internet users.

There are over 1.5 billion internet sites.

Each day, more than 250,000 new websites/apps are created.

Websites (static content) and Web Apps (have some interaction with users) are created for a variety of reasons:

• E-commerce. Buy and sell online.
• Business presentation. Convey anything, from a simple one-page website that gives the basic description of the professional and contact data to complex web platforms that provide a variety of business directions or extensive portfolio.
• Share information. Provide users with fresh and actual information.
• Education. Deliver materials and communications with educational objectives.
• Communication. Utilize a variety of venues, such as blogs with direct discussions, forums, and social networks.
• Self-Expression and Practice. Express creativity, try particular skills and monitor growth.

While web projects are created for all sorts of reasons, the one thing they usually share in common is the need to be shared with others. Websites are a form of communication. Creators want to reach some of those 5 billion internet users. But how can that sharing happen easily? Getting the information on a webpage is a first step. But a bigger question is where should the webpage be hosted? That is, where should the webpage run at — on the user’s or organization’s infrastructure or on 3rd party/off-premise infrastructure?

This is where Fathym’s LowCodeUnit steps in and provides an easy solution. LowCodeUnit automates best practices for your application delivery. Fathym built LowCodeUnit to augment your team’s skills and do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. It automatically builds, deploys, serves, and manages your web projects.

Having LowCodeUnit host your application has several advantages.

• Reduces costs. The organization does not have to spend any money in building, managing and maintaining the underlying hardware and software, and general IT infrastructure.
• Pay for only the services you use. This makes it very scalable as opposed to the traditional on-premise hosting, since you can provision additional resources as you grow.
• Improved availability. LowCodeUnit hosting minimizes downtime. LowCodeUnit sits on one of the biggest Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Microsoft Azure, which provides redundancy to handle hardware failures and other faults and ensure fantastic uptime.
• Security. Again, the IaaS invests in enhancing the security of their servers.
• Accessibility. The hosted application is accessible from the Internet, so all users can access the app from anywhere and work remotely. The users can interact with the app via a web-based interface.

Let’s really boil this down. What does application delivery by LowCodeUnit really mean for the organization? It means the organization is able to:

• Reduce time to market. The organization is focused on building applications that sell products or are products themselves and creating real value.
• Fuel business growth. With the organization’s focus on the product, more visitors can be attracted to the business and more visitors can be converted to paying subscribers. The increase in user adoption translates to more revenue, more feedback and more references.
• Increase brand visibility. With a website, you provide a place for consumers to see what your brand is about and learn more about your products and services.
• Increase product availability. 24/7/365. If you make your products available for sale on your website, then consumers can make purchases around the clock.
• Point-and-Click. LowCodeUnit offers a point-and-click interface and menu configuration that allows easy build, deploy, serving up and management of web projects. Thus, hiring and managing a team of engineers is not necessary.
• Launch web campaigns in minutes. The organization is able to easily try new product campaigns to appeal to different audiences. A/B testing, split testing and other digital experiments help refine marketing and sales efforts.

LowCodeUnit takes care of the boilerplate aspects of project delivery so you and your organization can focus on discovering and providing value to your users while making your organization more valuable.