#low-code

Appian is a low-code platform for building process-driven applications, founded in 1999 by Matt Calkins and now public on the NASDAQ. It suits federal agencies and large banks that have developers, and frustrates anyone wanting a no-code tool ops staff run alone. Tallyfy competes with it, so read this as a fit guide.

No-code and low-code serve different teams but both create vendor lock-in. Gartner forecasts the low-code market will hit $44.5 billion by 2026, yet vibe coding is dissolving the tradeoffs that defined both categories.

Research from BPM Institute shows 60-80% of traditional BPM projects fail. Low-code BPM lets regular people build and run processes in minutes, not months.