Gartner defines the collaborative work management market as products that provide task-driven workspaces to enable end users to plan, coordinate and automate their work. These solutions provide user-friendly capabilities for work planning, in-context collaboration, content creation, workflow and automation, reporting, analytics and dashboards, as well as use-case accelerators on a platform that handles data management and administrative operations. Products in this market are defined by their purpose (work planning and execution), their target users and their broad functionality.
Gartner defines enterprise low-code application platforms (LCAPs) as platforms for accelerated development and maintenance of applications, using model-driven tools for the entire application’s technology stack, generative AI and prebuilt component catalogs. Enterprise LCAPs target software engineering teams responsible for custom application development and maintenance. Enterprise LCAP features include support for the collaborative development of all application components; runtime environments for high performance, availability and scalability of applications; application deployment and monitoring with detailed usage insights. Enterprise LCAP platforms feature governance controls and success management through self-service capabilities and APIs, developer documentation and training, and service-level agreements for platform operations. Enterprise LCAPs provide the foundation for developing a wide range of application types and application components, including complex front ends, business process automation and distributed data sources.