Hire Span Developers
Use Zoho Creator platform to speed up your business digital transformation with powerful web and native iOS and Android mobile applications
About Span
Zoho Creator is a web-based low-code development platform with over 15 years of experience in the domain. Creator’s user interface is pretty straightforward which allows citizen developers and business users to build simple applications in hours. At the same time, the platform has its own advanced low-code development environment that allows professional developers to create complex mobile and web applications.
Moreover, Zoho Creator has a vast integration capacity with hundreds of pre-built connectors to CRM systems, other business applications, and other low-code development platforms. Furthermore, you can integrate data across different platforms and APIs including PayPal, Zapier, Zoho, and other business-critical software.
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Developer Workflow
All you need to create your basic business app is to compile the necessary components and connect any of the 430+ pre-built integrations. What’s more, you can choose from 65+ even the ready-made low-code applications that include internal portals, customer apps, task automatization, and others.
Customization
In Zoho Creator, custom apps get built with their own Deluge programming language. Essentially, Deluge is a cloud-based FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) that provides the environment for the serverless development of app functionalities. Using this environment, developers can upload code clusters to the cloud to manipulate them and easily scale the app.
Integrations
Zoho Creator allows you to connect apps with almost any app, database, or API. With 550+ integrations to third-party services and APIs get easily integrated owing to pre-built wrappers. With that, your apps fetch data from various sources without writing long lines of code.
Security
The platform stores the data in the cloud and uses a security framework based on OWASP protocols. Zoho Creator has encryption and vulnerability signaling tools to protect your apps from various types of threats. Data encryption, masking, and role-based PII/ePHI controls make Creator’s apps HIPAA and GDPR-compliant. In addition, you can secure your applications with multifactor authentification.
Use Cases
Zoho Creator is widely used to build cross-platform business mobile applications, internal tools, customer portals, data analytics tools, automated workflows, CRM systems’ digital supplies, email management, etc.
Hosting & Deployment
You can deploy Creator’s apps with one click both in a cloud environment or on-premise. After the deployment, the internal apps can be easily distributed over the built-in Zoho MDM while customer apps go straight to Google Play or App Store with any MDM you prefer.
Developer Workflow
All you need to create your basic business app is to compile the necessary components and connect any of the 430+ pre-built integrations. What’s more, you can choose from 65+ even the ready-made low-code applications that include internal portals, customer apps, task automatization, and others.
Customization
In Zoho Creator, custom apps get built with their own Deluge programming language. Essentially, Deluge is a cloud-based FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) that provides the environment for the serverless development of app functionalities. Using this environment, developers can upload code clusters to the cloud to manipulate them and easily scale the app.
Integrations
Zoho Creator allows you to connect apps with almost any app, database, or API. With 550+ integrations to third-party services and APIs get easily integrated owing to pre-built wrappers. With that, your apps fetch data from various sources without writing long lines of code.
Security
The platform stores the data in the cloud and uses a security framework based on OWASP protocols. Zoho Creator has encryption and vulnerability signaling tools to protect your apps from various types of threats. Data encryption, masking, and role-based PII/ePHI controls make Creator’s apps HIPAA and GDPR-compliant. In addition, you can secure your applications with multifactor authentification.
Use Cases
Zoho Creator is widely used to build cross-platform business mobile applications, internal tools, customer portals, data analytics tools, automated workflows, CRM systems’ digital supplies, email management, etc.
Hosting & Deployment
You can deploy Creator’s apps with one click both in a cloud environment or on-premise. After the deployment, the internal apps can be easily distributed over the built-in Zoho MDM while customer apps go straight to Google Play or App Store with any MDM you prefer.
Start your low-code app development with PoC
Before investing in full-scale app development, it makes sense to develop a functional and performant PoC. A proof of concept highlights the project's top priorities and requirements. Plus, PoC helps validate your idea early, eliminates financial risks, and strengthens your marketing strategy.
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I always love to work in Mendix which is low-code/no-code enterprise application development software. user interface and ease of using the software. And most likely continuous deployment and development and we can able to see the live design of the application which we were developing.
The links with other systems can be improved in my opinion. Furthermore, the creation of page layouts is more difficult than it has to be. I hope that with the further development of the web modeler, this will also be picked up.
Create responsive web apps and even native mobile apps in no time with powerful developer tools. Full platform solution, so deploy your app to the cloud with a single click. New releases every month, filled with improvements and new features.
Sometimes the UI could do with a boost, but the Mobile Native First is offering some great help.
I've been working with Mendix for 11+ years and this allows me to develop apps at the speed of ideas. The platform's flexibility allows me to create any application I can think of.
The modeler is free to download and use, but your local application will be terminated after 2 - 4 hours. This means that if you are a professional developer, you'll have to rerun your app(s) several times a day. Annoying when you are debugging.
Our low-code
case studies
Environmental awareness application
25% increase in user engagement within the first three months
Positive feedback from users on ease of use and informative content
Lead generation tool based on Retool
Within 24 hours, we integrate Retool with Phantombuster and LinkedIn, establishing a streamlined workflow automation. This automation not only saves time and enhances efficiency but also has the potential to boost our customer's lead generation with higher-quality prospects.
Retool portal
In just 40 hours, the Retool portal was created, featuring four distinct dashboards: Payment data, Client information, Session management, and Calendar view.
E-commerce dashboard
The client needed to put info about orders and wholesale in one application
The client didn't have enough budget to resort to services like Tableau
AWS Marketplace dashboard
Create a web app that receives data from the AWS
App should display clients on several easy-to-use pages with graphs and dashboards
User-friendly B2B platform
The existing solution is hard to use for non-technical employees
The standard process of creating platforms was long, expensive, and required developers
PDF editor application
To optimize internal processes
To deal with the growing number of requests in the customer's system
E-commerce dashboard
The client needed to put info about orders and wholesale in one application
The client didn't have enough budget to resort to services like Tableau
Reasons to choose our low-code experts
We’ve been working with various low-code development platforms for seven years. We have helped dozens of businesses to succeed in their digital transformation on a moderate budget and within deadlines.
Our low-code experts can evaluate your project, select the most suitable platform, and provide initial time and cost estimates.
Our experience and expertise allow our developers to create software at a fast pace. Our team can complete a project in a few weeks or months, depending on the complexity level.
We have delivered low-code apps to businesses across multiple industries for 7+ years. We know what platform to choose and how to connect it with your existing systems.
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