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To add, can you imagine if IT had to develop every single application the business thought up? They would never cope. I think Access, InfoPath and CMS systems l

To add, can you imagine if IT had to develop every single application the business thought up? They would never cope. I think Access, InfoPath and CMS systems like Drupal allow business to create prototypes. Once the application has been validated and becomes business critical then IT can take over and develop a "proper" application. It makes sense to use a visual programming language to create basic CRUD applications. A central task list with fields that are specific to the business process can go a long way in improving operational efficiency in a business unit. Beats an excel spreadsheet.

sigsergv 8y ago
Prototype is not enough. Prototype is backed by some analytics that usually hidden or omitted. And “decoding” prototype app to create “real” app may take a lot of time.
- mmsimanga 8y ago
  In my experience, people have more ideas than we have developers to implement every idea. It is very hard to work out if an idea is a good idea or not before you implement it. You cannot implement a system for every idea because you will not have enough developers and you will waste time implementing ideas that sound good but are useless. Visual Programming applications like Access allow less technical users to implement their ideas. Some of these ideas will go nowhere. This is fine because you will not have wasted developer resources. Some of these Access applications will solve genuine business problems. It may be difficult to decipher them but it is no more difficult than trying to figure out what users want. At least in this instance, you have an application you can test against.