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Development approaches that let people build apps and automations through visual interfaces and prebuilt components, with little or no hand coding.

These platforms let teams build internal tools, sites and automations without waiting for engineering, lowering cost and time to launch, but they also create vendor dependence and apps that IT must still govern.

An operations team builds a Power Apps form for equipment requests on Dataverse, connects it to SharePoint and Outlook with standard connectors and adds an approval flow, launching in two weeks instead of the quarter quoted for custom work.

Complex logic, high volumes or unusual integrations can hit platform limits, and per-user or per-task pricing can grow fast. Shadow IT, weak access controls and vendor lock-in are common risks without governance.

No-code tools target non-developers with fully visual configuration, while low-code platforms add scripting, formulas or custom components for developers. Both rely on a hosted runtime, a data layer, prebuilt connectors to SaaS apps and databases, and templates. Workflow Automation tools and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) products apply the same model to integrations, and many teams start with a no-code Prototype before deciding whether to rebuild in code.