So, what is WEM?
WEM is a No-Code Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS). Gartner defines aPaas as ”a cloud service that offers development and deployment environments for application services.”
No-Code aPaaS services like WEM can provide very fast application development plugins and abstractions using modular components. A WEM developer can still retain the flexibility of easily adjusting application features and its user flow logic with a fraction of the effort, in comparison to a full code based approach.
WEM’s application development philosophy
WEM’s application development philosophy is to build frontend, backend and data architecture together under a single development environment. This translates to considerable saving times on integrations to database, backend logic and frontend logic are not an issue while building applications inside WEM.
”Software with a clear structure and stable basis. No-code platform WEM provides the flexibility to continue building and make adjustments easily.”
~ Henk Vlug, Owner Fortrus (Webbit21 Client)
One can build applications from scratch, be it a business application, CRM or even a SaaS application with a modular approach. To understand WEM’s philosophy on application development revolves around three key components; namely Flowcharts, Data model and Preview.
Flowcharts is the canvas where you can build the logic for your application flow. Data model is where you structure the data architecture of your application and ’Preview’ is where you can view the frontend of the development environment similar to localhost environment but is rendered in the Cloud.
"It's incredible to see enterprise applications being build right in front of my eyes."
~ Philip Hoegee, Getronics Head of Cloud
Goodbye to dedicated DevOps team
Once the application development is done, you can publish the web application to testing and then to the production environments, commonly known as Staging and Live respectively. The multi-tenant architecture of WEM provides Preview, Staging and Live enables you to publish in different portals and easily service multiple groups. We will look at the various possibilities and intricacies of ’Preview’, ’Staging’ and ’Live’ and how Webbit21 utilizes its capabilities for our enterprise clients in a future article.
WEM applications can be deployed in WEM’s own cloud, your Private Cloud (Azure, AWS, etc.) and On-premise environments too. Thanks to its Kubernetes ready multi-cloud deployment architecture, WEM’s powerful .NET core runtime (integrated to a PostgreSQL database) can be hosted anywhere. Nevertheless, deploying your application won’t require a dedicated DevOps team and can be done in a few clicks.
Some key highlights of WEM No-Code
- 10x faster development speeds compared to traditional approach
- Consume and Expose Web services easily (REST, SOAP, OData) with ready to use API documentations
- Import and Export in XML, JSON, CSV, Excel, text and file formats with ease
- Session based user interactions and smooth server rendering approach
- Integrated micro-services such as PDF generation, email SMTP, file generations, csv flattening, data matrixes, etc.
- Provision to develop custom plugins using in-built widget editor
- Provision to inject custom script (JS, Typescript, CSS, HTML) in combination with the applications fields and resource files
- Single sign-on integrations (SAML 2.0, OAuth 2, X.509 client certificates and HTTP authentication)
WEM & Webbit21
In 2015 our first WEM project was deployed, a ’near to impossible’ challenge to deliver a Client project before their planned launch date which was just 2 months.
It was WEM 2.0+ version back then (more or less a LowCode version). No drag and drop features, lots of WEM scripting, and native code injections unlike the 4.0 version (at the time of writing this article). But our consultants took up the challenge and delivered the solution to the customer before the launch date.
This success got us the invitation from WEM’s management team to become WEM’s very first implementation and training partner. Thus in 2016, we became WEM’s very first partner.
”Webbit21 consultants are equivalent to five WEM experts put together. They constantly keep raising the bar with their expertise!”
~ Just Bouhuijs, Management Team, WEM No-Code
Over the past years, we have delivered many enterprise grade WEM projects and a lot of Minimum Viable Products (MVP) and application prototypes. We also developed a unique WEM No-Code development approach that guarantees a highly scalable and easy to maintain application architecture and helps us deploy Client projects 15x times faster than others!
Today, Webbit21 is a well-known name among the WEM partner ecosystem and continues to raise the bar with our No-Code expertise. Check our No-Code success stories here.
