In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need to test ideas rapidly, launch new digital products, and adapt to customer and regulatory demands at speed. Traditional software development often can’t keep up with increasing business demands.
This is where low-code technologies come into play. They help accelerate application development, reduce costs, and empower teams to build and adapt software faster, often without deep coding skills. Low-code application platforms (LCAPs) gain momentum — enabling collaboration between IT and business. To better understand where the low-code market is heading, we analyzed this year’s Gartner research on LCAP. Below, we break down the key trends and strategic shifts driving the evolution of this space.
What is Low-Code Application Platform
According to Gartner, enterprise low-code application platforms (LCAPs) are software platforms which are built to accelerate app development, deployment and maintenance. The core of these systems consists of the elements of the constructor. The drag-and-drop functionality and intuitive interface allow users to quickly create any type of system from these elements.
Moreover, today’s LCAPs are also packed with generative AI, model-driven development tools and prebuilt component catalogs for the entire application’s technology stack.
Gartner defines the following essential features of the LCAP enterprise market:
- Visual tools & IDEs – building apps with minimal code: includes data, UI (web/mobile), workflows, and business rules.
- Data virtualization – working with complex, distributed data from internal and external sources.
- AI-assisted development – using AI to generate and optimize UI, logic, workflows, and integrations.
- Self-service & documentation – deploying and maintaining apps without vendor support using built-in docs and tools.
- Extensibility – expanding functionality via components, scripting, and SDKs.
- Built-in security – including IAM, threat protection, and compliance controls.
- Integrated runtime – running apps directly within the platform’s environment.
Speaking about the common features for this market, there are:
- Full SDLC support – сovering all stages: development, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
- Team collaboration – version control and real-time sync for multiple developers.
- Reusable business logic – tools to build and manage shared APIs and business modules.
- AI-powered components – dynamic UIs, NLP, and AI agents in end-user apps.
- Connector library – integrations with popular apps, platforms, and databases.
- Design system support – built-in or connect to external design systems.
- Modern architectures – support for microservices, events, streaming, and micro frontends.
- Testing integration – working with external or built-in test automation tools.
- Mobile app support – building native or cross-platform apps for internal or public stores.
- B2B & ISV readiness – multitenancy and revenue-sharing for partner and client use cases.
What Gartner Predicts
In comparison with 2024’s report, experts do not share their forecast of the future LCAP market. This year, Gartner only highlights the trends in low-code application development.
What is more, in the latest research, the list of leading LCAP vendors has remained largely unchanged, with only slight shifts in individual positions. This stability reflects the maturity of the market and the ability of established players to keep their positions by steadily improving their products and investing in new features.
Experts note a common trend among all leaders: the deep integration of AI into core platform capabilities. From AI agents, generative AI-driven modules, AI-assisted remediation, or built-in governance for intelligent automation, vendors are adding intelligence directly into the application lifecycle. This approach not only streamlines development and operations but also ensures security, compliance, and adaptability.
The recent report has included the following key trends:
- Continuous Development of LCAP Market
Gartner experts strongly believe the LCAP market will continue to grow and expand, especially under the increasing business demands. Furthermore, it is mentioned that the role of low-code application platforms has significantly changed, transforming from the tool for lightweight workflows to core platforms for software engineering.
- Going into Enterprise-Level Engineering Applications
Low-code platforms are no longer limited to simple apps or departmental tools. Vendors—both included in and excluded from the latest market evaluations—are demonstrating how their platforms are now powering enterprise-grade applications. These include use cases that demand robust architecture, high availability, advanced data integration, and compliance with strict regulations.
This shift highlights the growing role of LCAPs as engineering accelerators. They allow development teams to focus more on delivering business value and innovation rather than managing codebases or infrastructure.
- Deep AI-Integration
A key trend across all major platforms is the deep integration of AI into the development process. Generative AI is being used to automate tasks such as UI creation, logic modeling, test generation, documentation, and enforcing security standards.
These features are no longer aimed primarily at non-technical users. Instead, they’re designed to boost the productivity of professional developers, helping them build faster while maintaining architectural integrity. In many cases, AI is becoming a true co-developer—supporting teams working on complex digital initiatives.
- Platforms Maturing in Competitive Markets
With the enterprise growing expectations, vendors are investing to unify their platforms, enhance integration with professional developer toolchains, and provide industry-specific solutions. Companies are focusing on improving DevOps alignment, supporting open standards, and strengthening extensibility to better meet the needs of software engineering teams. These efforts are helping to position LCAPs as full-featured platforms capable of supporting serious, scalable software development—not just internal tools.
RunRule Solutions’ 2RS Platform
Specializing in low-code banking automation, Run Rule Solutions is convinced that LCAP technology will keep evolving, becoming a key driver of digital transformation.
“Low-code platforms have clearly evolved beyond departmental tools — today they’re becoming core infrastructure for enterprise-grade systems. At RunRule Solutions, we see this shift every day: our clients demand speed, scalability, and resilience without sacrificing flexibility or security. The integration of AI into development workflows is no longer a trend — it’s a necessity. Platforms like our 2RS with AI-functionality are built to meet these challenges, enabling teams to launch faster, adapt quicker, and focus on delivering real business value.” said the CEO of RunRule Solutions Aman Mamyrbekov.
The 2RS Platform is built to help both SMBs and large enterprises accelerate digital transformation and simplify the development of business applications. Designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, it enables companies to quickly build and adapt systems without the heavy costs and delays of traditional development.
The Platform is suitable for both financial and real sectors creating customized solutions tailored to specific and different business needs. Due to its rapid iteration support, easy updates and seamless integration with IT ecosystems the 2RS Platform can automate a wide range of operations making digital transformation possible for all organizations.