Gigabit January 2019
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shortages are becoming commonplace. This<br />
is where low-code platform, Mendix, hopes<br />
to offer a helping hand by allowing<br />
companies to build software at<br />
unprecedented speed and scale.<br />
Chief Technology Officer, Johan den Haan,<br />
has worked at Mendix since almost its<br />
genesis, in fact he first cut his teeth in the<br />
company 13 years’ ago. In the beginning, he<br />
said the firm’s biggest challenge was trying<br />
to convince the market of merits of a new<br />
approach to developing applications.<br />
"Mendix has always focused on improving<br />
how people build software: making sure that<br />
they could do it faster, collaboratively and<br />
with control. Yet, when we started, we really<br />
had to convince people that they should use<br />
cloud-based software and that they should<br />
use digital tools rather than coding. Then<br />
there came a market shift whereby market<br />
analysts realised that we could no longer<br />
deliver all the software that we need with the<br />
existing technology approach.” Like it or not,<br />
any company – whether it’s in financial<br />
services, telecommunications or transportation<br />
– is a software company, at least they<br />
should be to compete in today’s digital age.<br />
However, many don’t have the necessary<br />
capacity to do so due to a chronic shortage<br />
of coders in the market. In the UK, for<br />
instance, a report by Tech Nation highlights<br />
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