Organizations that need to manage ongoing data-driven tasks and projects often turn to one of two options: Either they create and share spreadsheets with the required data or they hire or wait for a developer to create the right type of app. But, spreadsheets are limited and not designed to work as fully functional apps. Unless you have a team of in-house developers, hiring an external programmer for every app you need can be expensive. Amazon's introduction of the Amazon honeycode comes in very handy!
A new solution from Amazon is aimed at organizations and individuals who want to create data-driven apps but don't have the coding expertise to do so. Now available in beta through Amazon Web Services, Amazon Honeycode is a cloud-based interface through which people can visually design interactive apps, purportedly without any background or training in programming.
Honeycode is geared toward people who need web or mobile apps to track such tasks as process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user or customer surveys, to-do lists, reporting on employee activities or task progress, and content or inventory tracking. The apps can vary in complexity from those that track tasks for a small business to ones that manage large projects for multiple teams or departments. For easy access, the backend data is stored in AWS.
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