There is a plethora of lowcode tools available now-a-days, but we still choose to build another lowcode framework of Cyberium in the year 2018-2019. It was pre-pandemic time and we had no hint of Covid-19. We were building an integration and development platform to unify various core business systems while also rolling out new products without the need of another core enterprise system. We found that all the lowcode systems were either stateless or required heavy coding for state management.
A stateless application works like it cannot remember more than one thing at a time. These types of applications are good for API handling or landing pages without interaction.
Most of the lowcode tool vendors are providing this option only as a stopgap measure while they have some other major product to sell. We wanted to fix this problem as well as the misuse of the ter lowcode. That’s why we built a stateful lowcode framework. And we named it Cyberium.
Cyberium lowcode framework is built for fullcode apps.
General state of Lowcode market
Cyberium v/s Market of lowcode SDKs
Below is a comparison of key lowcode features which makes Cyberium stand apart as well as the only framework able to deliver all the fullstack capabilities from a lowcode framework. Although, it is imperative that other frameworks have other capabilities which aren’t listed here due to being not so relevant to highlight true lowcode criteria.
Cyberium
✅Statefullness
✅Custom API
✅Custom Call
✅State Merge
✅Roles
✅Responsibility
✅Identity
Appian
❌
❌
❌
❌
✅
❌
✅
Zoho
❌
✅
❌
❌
❌
❌
❌
Pega
❌
❌
❌
❌
❌
❌
✅
Mendix
❌
❌
✅
❌
❌
❌
❌
Statefulness allows an app to wait & execute on demand.
Cyberium is the only lowcode framework which allows for stateful execution. In a general application, it is important to know the state of execution, wait for other events to complete and resume from where it was left. This type of statefulness sets Cyberium distinctly apart from other lowcode frameworks. Also the statefulness allows to build completely capable apps like fully coded apps.
Cyberium lets you create custom data states which can be converted to an allowed API for external consumption. Also the APIs can be consumed from outside by simply listing in allowed API list and referring them as data source in the workflow. A third type of API can be created from the data-ware house(DWH) of logs and data states.
Custom API - Not all calls are same.
Custom Methods - Apart from defining custom workflow steps, you can also define methods through blockchain, scripts or chained APIs.
Cyberium lowcode allows you to build custom methods. It is like a lowcode which lets you build another lowcode. You can build blockchain, API or script methods and plug into your workflow. Being a lowcode it is important to allow building infinite number of lowcode blocks. Other lowcode frameworks provide this type of prebuilt blocks to their users. Whereas we open the whole kitchen for our users.
While other lowcode frameworks don’t have states, they cannot let you merge data sets to build new processes in the interim. Cyberium, for example, lets you merge data sets like trade calls, with prices and build settlement orders on the fly.
State merger is for rule based handling of multiple objects.
Roles can be defined inline in the data attributes.
Just like object oriented programming, any data object can be converted to a role with human or programmatic access. Creation of team and profiles is just out of the box in Cyberium.
Every profile needs certain responsibilities to gain defined privileges. When you develop a fullcode app, the privilege definition is a very critical excercise. Whereas in Cyberium, the workflow lets you build privileges. It saves time as well as making the access visible. Tweaking and controlling the privileges becomes far easy and scalable with lowcode.
Responsibilities of profiles is set in data attributes.
Identity of every data object is defined by attributes.
Every human or non-human data object represents certain identity. These identities can be human profiles, material, financial value objects or anything which you design. We differentiate with market in identity definition which is a key OOP(object oriented programming) concept in developing apps.
Other advantages of Cyberium lowcode.
- Every step becomes an API
- Schema free data model
- Gated control flow based on data attributes
- Object oriented design & flow
- Chained events and executions
- Derived data-ware housing.
- Process oriented design.
