BettyBlocks for business innovation
What do you like best?
Fully webbased solution, development environment as well as runtime. This means that you don't have to install any IDE and you can developen anytime anywhere. An the thing is: it really work and offers a robust and stable development platform that works as expected. I Always get really anoyed when peolpe start explaining how something should be working, when it actually isn't. BettyBlocks just works as expected!
BettyBlocks is a platform that I could really recommend to business end-users. It is so intuitive that business developers with a little IT affinity can start developing pilot applications after only a day or so of training.
What is also nice is that you can build the first version of your application on production and then very easily switch to an OTAP way of working afterwards.
What do you dislike?
The speed of development can quickly lead to a trial&error way of working. This can lead to obsolete objects and actions, which polute your application
I think the workflow part of BettyBlocks can an should be improved. Now you quickly have a lot of actions and you lose the overal view of how the (automated) processes work.
I also lose overview quickly on the custom models, when I import some complex API's. Maybe a per-API grouping would help
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We are doing developing some new Insurance products. With BettyBlocks we have developed 2 backoffice applications with an API for the web front-end. In one of these applications we have created a full value chain by integrating our supplier into the BettyBlocks application. Our experience is that with BettyBlocks you can perform commercial product testing and supply chain / process testing at the same time. In this way you can make a much better business case at the end of a product pilot, because you have an overview of both benefits and costs.
