India, Jan. 20 -- Gartner predicts that 65% of all application development will be done with low code by 2024 and that 66% of large companies will use at least four different low-code application building platforms.

Faster time to market for applications is one driver of low-code and no-code application development. Another is that more business/citizen developers are creating their own applications, bypassing what they perceive as an IT logjam that prevents them from getting things done.

I previewed one of these no-code application development tools recently. It had a slick user interface with point-and-click functionality that neatly picked up data and formatted it into standard reports, images, pie charts, bar charts -- any visualiza...