Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
The enterprise LCAPs included in this research demonstrate successful adoption for business application delivery in all use cases and every business vertical. This marks the mainstream adoption phase and creates conditions for market consolidation in the near future. Double-digit growth of the LCAP market continues but the main usage patterns — and the place of enterprise LCAPs in the technology portfolio — are changing. They have gone from being an extension of the core systems and quick development of simple applications and tools, to playing an essential part in the development of complex, mission-critical business capabilities. More software engineering teams adopt enterprise LCAPs instead of traditional application development stacks. IT leaders prioritize enterprise LCAPs for modernization initiatives that were too risky and expensive to start with traditional application development stacks, and just not possible with off-the-shelf software.
A: We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor.