TY - CHAP

T1 - Understanding Partnering Strategies in the Low-Code Platform Ecosystem

AU - Naqvi, Syed Asad Ali

AU - Zimmer, Markus Philipp

AU - Drews, Paul

AU - Basole, Rahul C.

N1 - Conference code: 58

PY - 2025/1/7

Y1 - 2025/1/7

N2 - Low-code platforms (LCPs) allow the development, testing, and deployment of software applications with minimal manual coding by using pre-built software components and visual design tools. LCPs frequently enter into technology partnerships to offer extensive capabilities required for software development. In this study, we identify and characterize these technology partnerships to understand and develop the structure of the LCP ecosystem. We model the LCP ecosystem and identify nine types of technology partnerships. In doing so, we advance our understanding in three key areas: (1) provide insight into the evolving LCP ecosystem, (2) reveal that LCP vendors use various technological partnerships and strategies across different capability areas with varying partner network sizes and capability compositions, and (3) demonstrate the value of ecosystem visualization. Collectively, our findings can help LCP users and developers to understand the foundational, competitive, and niche partnership strategies and enable LCP vendors to innovate and collaborate effectively.

AB - Low-code platforms (LCPs) allow the development, testing, and deployment of software applications with minimal manual coding by using pre-built software components and visual design tools. LCPs frequently enter into technology partnerships to offer extensive capabilities required for software development. In this study, we identify and characterize these technology partnerships to understand and develop the structure of the LCP ecosystem. We model the LCP ecosystem and identify nine types of technology partnerships. In doing so, we advance our understanding in three key areas: (1) provide insight into the evolving LCP ecosystem, (2) reveal that LCP vendors use various technological partnerships and strategies across different capability areas with varying partner network sizes and capability compositions, and (3) demonstrate the value of ecosystem visualization. Collectively, our findings can help LCP users and developers to understand the foundational, competitive, and niche partnership strategies and enable LCP vendors to innovate and collaborate effectively.

KW - Business informatics

KW - Low-code platforms

KW - software ecosystem

KW - inter-firm collaboration

KW - visualization

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SP - 6226

EP - 6235

BT - Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

A2 - Bui, Tung X.

PB - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

CY - Honolulu

T2 - 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS 2025

Y2 - 7 January 2025 through 10 January 2025

ER -