80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools
Today, Gartner released new predictions about technology products and services, specifically who will build them and the impact of AI and the pandemic. The research firm found that by 2024, 80% of tech products and services will be built by people who are not technology professionals. "The barrier to become a technology producer is falling due to low-code and no-code development tools," Gartner VP Rajesh Kandaswamy told VentureBeat. Instead of tech professionals driving what's next, Gartner predicts a democratization of technology development that includes citizen developers, data scientists, and "Business technologists," a term that encompasses a wide range of employees who modify, customize, or configure their own analytics, process automation, or solutions as part of their day-to-day work. "While such tools are in their infancy, we expect their sophistication to improve and [that] they'll help reduce the barriers for those without specialized skills to develop useful technology products and services." Overall, this trend toward democratizing technology development is driven by a new category of buyers outside of the traditional IT enterprise, Gartner says. VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact.