Understanding Partnering Strategies in the Low-Code Platform Ecosystem
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Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Hilton Waikoloa Village, January 7-10, 2025. ed. / Tung X. Bui. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2025. p. 6226-6235.
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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 -