[Closi]

100% this! In some companies the 'simple app' that is described in this post will get some ridiculous quote from central IT/tech ('it will take our team 4 sprints') and then never get signed off. IT will also ban anyone spinning up their own servers due to support issues.

No code platforms manage to get around this.

Another use case - I work for a 'non-tech' consultancy. Clients typically won't like paying us to spin up some flask/django/rails app, but are happy to pay us to spin up some sort of no-code thing for them (perception is that it will be easier to self-support, which is also probably the reality compared to me developing some sort of rails app and then leaving the company).

[aitchnyu]

I saw the powers that be sit on requests for access for readonly BI tools on existing DBs. How do the low code vendors get VIP treatment?

[Closi]

In my experience you are right - IT will always deny these requests, so you need to build the solutions in a way that avoids accessing existing DBs.

Usually it’s replacing a spreadsheet, so either the information can be manually keyed in or can be imported from various reports. Sometimes you even get into screen scraping, sometimes scheduled reports that are getting dumped to a drive and getting imported… basically any way that avoids needing to get permission from the IT team.