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6 Advantages of Using a Low-Code Development Platform
Our team at Unipro is continuously exploring innovative ways to help you stay ahead of the curve and elevate your digital capabilities. That's why we're excited to share with you the benefits of using one of today's revolutionary digital technologies - low-code development platforms. In this blog post, we'll discuss six advantages of low-code development. We'll explore how it can contribute to the overall success of both your application development and digital transformation strategy.
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Moving Beyond the Hype: How Agentic AI Safely Orchestrates Complex Workflows
Let’s be entirely honest: the corporate world is experiencing acute AI fatigue. Over the last few years, senior leadership teams have been bombarded with endless pitches promising that artificial intelligence will effortlessly reinvent their businesses overnight. Yet, for all the boardroom hype, the vast majority of enterprise AI deployments have amounted to glorified search tools, basic copy-generation […]
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The Hidden Tax: Why Fragmented Data is Silently Draining Your Enterprise Margins
As a senior leader, you are routinely presented with dashboard reports detailing your company’s operational performance, sales pipeline, and resource allocation. You look at the graphs, review the percentages, and make high-stakes strategic decisions based on those numbers. But here is the uncomfortable truth: those reports are almost certainly historical fiction. In the modern enterprise landscape, the […]
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The Strategic Deadlock: Why Your Legacy Systems Are Holding Your Margins Hostage
Every enterprise leader is nursing a quiet, expensive secret. Somewhere deep within your operations sits a foundational core system. It might be an old ERP, a proprietary database built a decade ago, or a heavily modified CRM. It works “well enough” to keep the lights on. Everyone knows its quirks. Everyone knows which buttons not to press. […]
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The Integration Tax: Why Data Friction and Engineering Workarounds Stall AI Scaling
Organizations rushing to adopt emerging AI capabilities frequently find their progress bottlenecked not by a lack of vision, but by data movement friction. When tactical, short-term technology solutions are deployed under intense business pressure, they create fragile data pipelines that require constant engineering workarounds. This article explores the hidden operational costs of structural integration friction and details how designing […]
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Architectural Guardrails: Balancing Business Speed with Operational Resilience
Tactical technology delivery routinely introduces unacceptable operational risk when organisations fail to embed clear architectural principles and decision-making guardrails into their change governance. Allowing business stakeholders alone to dictate how solutions are delivered rather than what they need results in fragile systems, compounding technical debt, and heightening regulatory friction with the FCA and PRA. Establishing rigid architectural standards and robust product ownership empowers teams to innovate at pace […]
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The Technical Debt Trap: Balancing Immediate AI Demands with Digital Autonomy
Driven by intense business pressure to deploy emerging AI capabilities quickly, ambitious organisations frequently rely on tactical technology workarounds. While these temporary fixes deliver short-term results, they quietly solidify into permanent legacy systems that compromise long-term digital autonomy, breed engineering friction, and trap organisations in vendor dependency. This article explores how to satisfy immediate business demands while […]
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90 Days or Bust: The New Standard for Insurance ROI
In the traditional insurance world, “transformation” has often been synonymous with “marathon.” We’ve all seen the roadmaps: year one is for procurement, year two is for infrastructure, and maybe if the stars align, year three is when the business finally sees a glimmer of value. But in 2026, a two-year delivery cycle isn’t a strategy; it’s just expensive tinkering. At the Digital Transformation in Insurance conference, the message […]
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Requirements Docs are Dead: Lessons from the “Human Reality Check” Panel
If you walked the floor at the Hilton London Bankside at the Digital Transformation in Insurance Conference, you heard a lot about “straight-through processing” and “autonomous agents.” But during the Intelligent Automation Reality Check panel, our Solutions Architect, Adam Elleston, posed a question that brought the room to a standstill: “If our requirements documents are so perfect, why […]
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The Bankside Debrief: Why 2026 is the Year of the Agentic Reality Check
The halls of the Hilton London Bankside were recently thick with the promise of a revolution. From generative interfaces to the siren song of autonomous claims, the “Hype” has officially reached a fever pitch. But as the dust settles on the Digital Transformation in Insurance conference, a cold truth remains for the C-suite: if technology alone were the answer, the industry’s Agility Gap would have […]
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Who Owns the Site? The Case for the Command Centre
In the high-stakes world of Tier 1 construction, there is a fundamental difference between legal ownership and operational control. You may hold the contract, the site keys, and the insurance liability, but if you are still relying on end-of-week reports and manual data entry to understand project health, you don’t actually own the site. The unseen burden of fractured […]
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The Death of the “Wait and See” Margin Strategy
The Hook: In an era of rising costs, “Wait and See” is just a slow way to go out of business. In the boardroom of any major construction firm, the most dangerous phrase isn’t “we’re over budget.” It’s “let’s wait and see.” For decades, the “Wait and See” approach was a manageable gamble. You’d track your predicted costs, keep an eye […]
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The “Digital Facade” – Why Your Construction Tech is Failing
Most construction firms operate behind a “digital facade” using fancy iPads on-site to mask messy spreadsheets and fragmented workflows in the back office. True Digital Autonomy isn’t about digitising chaos with another app; it’s about leveraging Agentic AI to orchestrate workflows across your entire supply chain. By moving from vendor dependency to bespoke, high-performance solutions, […]
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The Status Quo Trap: Is Your AI Strategy Just Accelerating Waste?
In the lead-up to the Digital Transformation in Insurance conference at the Hilton London Bankside, the industry air is thick with the promise of AI. From generative interfaces to autonomous claims, the “Hype” has reached a fever pitch. But for many C-suite leaders, there is a nagging disconnect between the boardroom vision and the operational […]
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The Agility Gap: Why Your Digital Transformation is a People Problem (And Your Tech is Just an Alibi)
As the insurance world descends on the Hilton London Bankside on 19th – 20th May, the halls will be filled with talk of “seamless integration” and “revolutionary algorithms.” But let’s have a moment of candor: if technology alone were the answer, the industry’s Agility Gap would have closed a decade ago. Instead, we find ourselves […]
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The Digital Debt Crisis: Why Your “Good Enough” Software is Bankrupting Your Site
In construction, we are masters of the physical foundation. We wouldn’t dream of pouring concrete on a site that hasn’t been surveyed, stabilised, and cleared. Yet, when it comes to the digital infrastructure supporting our multi-million-pound projects, we are building on quicksand. Most firms today aren’t suffering from a lack of technology; they are suffering […]
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Beyond the Hype: What “Agentic AI” Actually Means for the Site Command Centre
Everyone is talking about AI, but on a live construction site, “chatting with a bot” doesn’t fix a supply chain delay. This post breaks down how Agentic AI moves from simple suggestions to active orchestration, creating a real-time “Site Command Centre” that predicts risks before they impact your margins. The Difference Between AI that Talks […]
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The Ghost in the Machine: Why “Human-out-of-the-loop” is Your Next Strategic Liability
In the rush to “do more with less,” the promise of Gen AI and Agentic AI is intoxicating. The dream? A self-correcting, self-executing digital workforce that clears your backlog while you sleep. But as we move from basic automation to autonomous agents, a dangerous trend is emerging: the attempt to remove the human from the […]
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Stop Paying for an Orchestra That Doesn’t Have a Conductor.
The “AI revolution” has arrived, but for many ambitious organisations, it feels less like a symphony and more like a collection of expensive, uncoordinated noise. To move beyond isolated tools and achieve true digital autonomy, businesses must bridge the gap between “good enough” automation and high-performance Agentic AI Orchestration. The ROI Gap: Why Your Current […]
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The Agentic Shift: 6 Advantages of Using Agentic AI Platforms
Agentic AI is moving beyond simple automation to provide organisations with autonomous digital partners that can reason, adapt, and solve complex business challenges. With Gartner predicting that 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026—up from less than 5% today—the window for early-mover advantage is closing. By shifting from […]
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Is Agentic AI a Waste of Money?
The perceived “waste” in AI investment rarely stems from the technology itself, but from a lack of orchestration that leaves powerful tools operating in expensive, disjointed silos. Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift from passive automation to autonomous digital partners capable of reasoning and goal-attainment, yet without a central orchestration layer, these agents cannot navigate […]
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The £5.5 Trillion Retention Crisis: Solving the ‘Inheritance Gap’ with Frictionless Trust
As trillions of pounds begin to migrate to a digital-native generation, wealth management firms are facing a critical “inheritance gap.” For these heirs, loyalty isn’t inherited; it is earned through digital experiences that mirror the speed and transparency of their daily lives. To retain this capital, we believe firms must move beyond transactional apps and […]
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From Hype to Agentic Reality: Engineering the Proactive Wealth Firm
The wealth management industry is saturated with AI buzzwords, but beneath the noise, a fundamental shift is occurring. We are moving beyond reactive automation—where systems simply follow instructions—toward an “Agentic” reality where software perceives, reasons, and acts autonomously to achieve strategic goals. For senior leaders, the transition to Agentic AI isn’t just a technical upgrade; […]
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The Architecture of Autonomy: Why Middleware is the New Front-Office
In the race to digitise, many wealth management firms have focused on the “Glass”—the client-facing application. However, true competitive advantage in 2026 isn’t found in a slick UI; it’s found in the ability to orchestrate data without vendor permission. To escape the “Legacy Trap,” we believe senior leaders must shift their focus from buying off-the-shelf […]
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Capturing the ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ with Frictionless Trust
The wealth management industry is on the brink of a seismic shift. As trillions of pounds begin to migrate from one generation to the next, firms are facing what is now widely known as the “inheritance gap”—the very real risk of losing assets as they pass to heirs who have no loyalty to their parents’ […]
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Blueprint Two: Are You Building a Bridge to the Future or a Pier to Nowhere?
In the London Market, the countdown to Blueprint Two is no longer a distant hum—it’s a roar. For many firms, the primary focus has become a race for compliance. They are sprinting to meet the requirements of the Core Data Record (CDR) and ensure their systems can “talk” to the new market gateways. But here […]
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Beyond the Hype: Moving Toward an Agentic Reality in Wealth Management
The wealth management industry is currently saturated with AI buzzwords. From generic chatbots to high-level promises of “transformation,” the sector is rightfully exhausted by the noise. However, beneath the hype, a fundamental shift is occurring: the transition from reactive code to proactive, “Agentic” intelligence. Beyond Reactive Code For years, digital tools in wealth management have […]
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Escaping the ‘Legacy Trap’. Why Your ‘Spaghetti Architecture’ is Killing Client Retention
The wealth management industry is sitting on a golden opportunity, yet many firms are watching it slip through their fingers. As we enter 2026, an unprecedented $83.5 trillion “Great Wealth Transfer” is in motion (Capgemini, 2026). This capital is moving into the hands of Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z—a cohort that doesn’t just “prefer” […]
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Beyond the Binary: Why Your Risk Appetite is the Real Bottleneck to Modernisation
In the oak-panelled rooms and digital boardrooms of the London Market, “Risk Appetite” is a sacred term. It is the compass used to navigate volatile capacity and hardening cycles. But when it comes to technology, that same compass is often leading firms into a North Sea fog. For too long, London Market leaders have viewed […]
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The Agility Tax: Why Wasted Digital Investment is the London Market’s Unseen Liability
In the London Market, the most valuable currency isn’t just capacity—it’s speed. Yet, for many COOs and Ops Directors, there is a growing realisation that they don’t actually own their own roadmap. They are trapped by an “Agility Tax”—a space where strategic ambitions are constantly throttled by rigid system architectures and high technical debt. When […]
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Beyond the Pilot: Moving from Basic Automation to Agentic AI
The London Market is at a pivotal inflection point. At TINtech, the conversation moved decisively past basic automation toward a more sophisticated future: Agentic AI. While traditional automation follows a rigid “if-this-then-that” script, agentic systems are goal-oriented, autonomous, and capable of orchestrating complex workflows alongside your team. But why is this shift happening now, and what […]
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The Roadmap Trap: Why Digital Autonomy is No Longer a Luxury
For decades, the London Market has operated under a “rental” model of innovation. Firms license massive, off-the-shelf platforms, hoping the vendor’s roadmap aligns with their own strategic goals. But as we discussed with many of you at TINtech, this model is reaching a breaking point. When your ability to pivot depends on a third-party’s release […]
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The Silent Saboteur: Why “Good Enough” Software is a Strategic Liability
In the high-stakes environment of the London Market, the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is often used to justify aging technology. But for senior insurance leaders, the reality is that legacy systems are rarely just “sitting there”—they are actively eroding your competitive edge. We call this the Silent Saboteur. It is the […]
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Taking Back Control: How to Achieve Digital Autonomy and Future-Proof Your Insurance Business
In Blog 1, we identified that your legacy systems are crippling your speed to market. In Blog 2, we showed how the resulting data silos are jeopardising your profitability and risk models. Now, we turn to the ultimate goal for any senior leader: liberation from the relentless burdens of technical debt, resource constraints, and outdated […]
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Escape the Gridlock: Achieving Supply Chain Agility Through Digital Autonomy.
The modern retail landscape is defined by customer expectation: they demand fast and flexible fulfillment. This puts immense pressure on Operations Directors and Process Improvement Leaders, who are often kept up at night worrying: “Can we keep up with Amazon-like speed and flexibility?”. The digital challenge here is operational—it involves leveraging automation, predictive analytics, and […]
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Beyond the Dashboard: Engineering the Single View of the Customer Retail Leaders Need.
Every C-Suite executive, Chief Data Officer (CDO), and Data Leader understands that data is the lifeblood of modern retail. Data is necessary for everything from hyper-personalisation to dynamic pricing and competitive demand forecasting. Yet, for many ambitious organisations, the operational reality is this: “We have mountains of data but no single view of the customer”. […]
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The Data Mess: Why Your Pricing Models are Keeping Leaders Awake
In our last post, we explored how rigid legacy systems are fundamentally crippling your speed to market and creating an innovation bottleneck. This slowness is more than just a productivity issue—it’s creating a dangerous downstream effect that directly impacts your financials. If Blog 1 was about the speed problem, Blog 2 is about the accuracy […]
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The Hidden Cost of ‘Good Enough’: Is Your Legacy ERP System Dictating Your Retail Strategy?
For the modern retailer, the biggest strategic liability isn’t a competitor; it’s the ageing core system that simply cannot keep pace. If your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is rigid, built for an era of retail that no longer exists, you’re not just inefficient—you’re strategically constrained and operating at a significant competitive disadvantage. This post […]
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Don’t Let Legacy Systems Be Your Legacy: When a Change Request Takes Six Months
For leaders overseeing major programs and operations in the insurance sector, the pressure is immense: “do more with less” and increase productivity by leveraging new technologies. Yet, the moment you attempt a major innovation, you hit a wall: your own core systems. This is the reality of the technical debt that keeps leadership up at […]
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From process to outcome: The Manager’s New Brief in the Age of Agentic AI
The last decade was about the machine doing what we told it to do. Automation was a rigid executor now, and as we move into Agentic AI, the entire relationship between humans and technology changes. If the goal is Digital Autonomy—escaping the ‘good enough’ trap of fixed systems—then the operational leader’s new brief is to stop […]
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Beyond Automation: Why Agentic AI Is the Next Competitive Edge
How Unipro helps businesses evolve from reactive automation to intelligent, self-improving systems. Automation Got Us Here. Agentic AI Takes Us Further. For over a decade, automation has been the quiet hero of business transformation — streamlining processes, cutting costs, and freeing up time.But now, a new challenge is emerging. Modern enterprises are more connected, complex, […]
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The ROI of Software made for you: Why bespoke software is Your Next Competitive Advantage
In the world of digital transformation, many companies are facing a subtle but dangerous challenge: the crippling burden of “good enough” software. The off-the-shelf solution, once touted as a fast path to efficiency, often becomes a straitjacket, turning a technological investment into a long-term liability. For Program Managers, Heads of Operations, and Senior Project Managers, […]
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Beyond the Buzzwords: Why “It Still Works OK” Isn’t Working for Your Business
In the fast-paced business world, a quiet, often unchallenged phrase can undermine even the most ambitious growth strategies: “It still works OK.” It’s the comfort blanket we pull over processes that are outdated, inefficient, or simply no longer fit for purpose. While it might provide temporary reassurance, this mindset is, in reality, a significant barrier to true innovation and competitive advantage.
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The Strategic Leap: A Roadmap for AI Adoption in Finance
In the rapidly evolving financial landscape, the discussion has moved beyond whether to adopt AI to how to do it effectively. The gap between talking about innovation and actually achieving it is where the real challenge lies. For firms that are ready to move past the buzzwords, the path forward requires a meticulous, strategic approach.
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The Gap Between Buzzwords and Reality: A Look at Finance’s Toughest Challenges
In the world of finance, the buzz about AI and digital transformation is everywhere. But what happens when you strip away the hype and get to the nitty-gritty of the real-world problems? The fact is, many firms are still wrestling with legacy issues, from the burden of manual tasks to the complexities of modern risk.
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Drupal 7 End of Life Options
Drupal takes an impressive share of the top sites worldwide. It’s used on 3.1% of the top million and 7.5% of the top 1,000 (October 2022) sites. Therefore, many businesses are considering what to do when, on the 1st of November 2023, Drupal 7 reaches its end of life. With the ever-growing concerns for online security, this […]
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Unipro’s highlights of 2022
What we have achieved With 2023 just around the corner, we wanted to share with you a glimpse into what life has been like at Unipro over the last twelve months and some of the things we’ve achieved. How we’ve grown in 2022 During 2022 we’ve welcomed a variety of new clients and in turn, […]
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Merging two companies: Top 3 technical challenges
What are the technical challenges of a merger and acquisition Whether the motives for a merger or acquisition (M&A) are: increasing market share, economies of scale, buying a customer base, creating shareholder value, diversification, or acquiring assets, the technical challenges are the same. Acquiring companies are often challenged with merging, consolidating, integrating, or automating. It’s understandably […]
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High-Performance Low-Code solutions for mergers and acquisitions
Value through digital transformation Mergers and acquisitions can present your business with a wealth of opportunities. However, it can also present significant hurdles that will hinder your growth if they go unchecked. Many companies looking to take a digital transformation journey struggle to know where to begin, and even those with a solid strategy can […]
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Strategic partnership: Unipro & Heap
Strategic partnership: Unipro and Heap aim to provide clients with insights, data, and knowledge to improve the performance of their Websites, Apps and Software. Unipro is pleased to be working with Heap a leading product analytics tool recently available to the UK market that provides smarter product insight through analytics. The analytics tool provides you […]
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Eliminating shadow IT risks for enterprise businesses
Shadow IT – it may have a fairly negative-sounding name – but it’s an ever-present aspect of modern businesses and can be a benefit rather than a hindrance. Essentially, shadow IT is the use of devices or applications without the specific knowledge or approval of an IT department. It can be anything from accessing a […]
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Enterprise Application Delivery – Custom Build vs Off-The-Shelf
When enterprise businesses want to tackle a certain business need, they will turn to certain apps to supply them with the power and technical capability to solve them. This could be for a countless number of reasons. Maybe it’s part of the effort to reduce technical debt that has built up over a number of development projects. […]
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The Impact of Technical Debt on Enterprise Business and the Low-Code Solution
Technical debt – the eventuality that app development teams want to avoid. It’s a symptom of a variety of issues that could be affecting your development project, from a lack of resources to a lack of developers, amongst other things. In short, technical debt is assumed in order to meet deadlines. Sometimes it’s beneficial, a […]
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The Benefits of Low-Code for Enterprise Businesses
What are the benefits of Low-Code? Here is a visual-based application development process that can be adopted by almost anyone. It’s a development process that combines the flexibility of traditional coding with the speed of No Code. In this dichotomy, where exactly does Low-Code fit in? In short, Low-Code enables the agility and speed of development that […]
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What is Low-Code? Everything you need to know
Technical debt. Time constraints. Budgetary concerns. The trials and tribulations of app development are constant considerations within any project. The key question for enterprise businesses and their IT teams is – how do we mitigate those issues without inadvertently compounding them? Our answer? Low-Code, a simple visual automation of coding allowing projects to be developed quickly […]
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The global pandemic and it’s impact on the retail industry
Is it time to reset and pivot towards digital adoption to match new customer expectations? Like the beginning of any new year, 2020 was an opportunity to restart and make the year better than previous years. But no one foretold the impact that COVID-19 would have on us or our economy. The retail industry has been one of the hardest hit in-terms of being negatively affected following […]
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Addressing the pivoting demands of the ‘new normal’ digital market
This initial six months of COVID provided Unipro with the opportunity to observe and assess the way the market was changing and establish how we as a team will change, to not compensate for but to invest in and lead, as the new dynamics and demands of the market settle. The evolution to meet the […]
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A developers adventures into Low-Code
A Traditional Developers Adventures into Low-Code As part of a cross-functional development team, I was recently asked to get certified as an OutSystems developer. I’ve coded in many languages, but this would be my first steps with a “Low-Code” platform. I’ll admit to being a little apprehensive, the name “Low-Code” conjures up something less, something taken away. […]
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