Gartner 2015: Bimodal IT: How to Be Digitally Agile - Without Making a Mess!, KimBjoern.Nielsen@gartner.com
Stable system of records
Desktop-based or command line-based operations
A lot of dependencies on the system where the software is available
Extension/New core projects are difficult
Even for adding a new extension can take months
Rollbase targets multiple developer personas. Primarily, Rollbase targets the Citizen developer i.e. a LoB analyst or a tech-savvy “power user”. The authoring experience is completely browser based and declarative via a point-and-click, drag-and-drop paradigm.
Stress the point that Rollbase is a productivity platform as opposed to a control platform which would typically require deep Java language skills.
Typically, a Citizen developer would complete 80%+ of the application. Any complex computational or integration requirments would be completed by a (traditional) Developer role versant in industry-standard JavaScript.
Stress that we don‘t lock developers into a proprietary language (contrast to Force.com with APEX) but open up the platform to the enormous pool of available JavaScript programmers.