Citizen developer tools that allow business staff to build applications are becoming increasingly powerful and can lead to important productivity gains.
That’s the view of Mark Driver, a research director at Gartner. He expects citizen development efforts to expand significantly over the next five years.
A key reason for this is the accelerating enterprise use of cloud-based software platforms that allow citizen developers to access corporate data more easily than data stored on servers in corporate data centers controlled by the IT department, he says.
