Low-Code Applications Integrating AI In Application Development
Artificial intelligence (AI) – a strong recent trend – is likely to be an element that every organization wants to take advantage of at the moment, only to forget it once the business has achieved its goals. short-term goal. The need to create low-code applications that integrate AI in application development has also increased.
The technology behind AI is complex and requires specialized resources to build and deploy. Even if you can do that, there is no guarantee that your business's investment in AI (AI ROI - industry jargon) is worth it. The need for AI and the complications that arise in developing and leveraging it are obvious.
With Mendix 10, Mendix's goal is to help you easily create applications with built-in AI and leverage AI-Assisted Development (AIAD) to help you deploy software faster.
1. Functions of AI-Assisted Development (AIAD)
With Mendix Studio Pro, the Mendix team has tried its best to build a solid foundation to help you leverage Generative AI in software development.
1.1. Mendix Chatbot: MendixChat
Since the launch of Mendix 10, Mendix has introduced MendixChat, an intelligent virtual assistant that can answer any question you have while working in Studio Pro.
MendixChat is built on a large learning model trained on Mendix's own data. Want to know how to configure notifications that appear on the screen? Just ask MendixChat and you'll get instant answers without having to search through documentation and forums.
MendixChat benefits new users of the platform, helping them onboard more quickly. The more you understand how to use Mendix, the faster you can bring value-creating software to market.
In the world of AI and Mendix, MendixChat is a foundational feature. Mendix's goal is not just to develop a helpful chatbot that can answer any programming question and provide real-time guidance. The ultimate goal is to create a platform that will automate tasks and facilitate application creation.
Stay tuned to Mendix for more, but this is extremely promising and MendixChat is just the beginning.
1.2. Logic Bot – New and Improved Features
Mendix has leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate application development, especially through its Logic Bot feature. Since its launch in Mendix 10, this feature has been significantly improved and is now officially live.
While you build apps in Studio Pro, Mendix's Logic Bot suggests logical next steps. With the latest version of Logic Bot, Mendix customers will notice a difference in the interface. Mendix has updated its user interface (UI) to make it easier to use.
The second thing you may notice is that AI predictions are smarter and more accurate. Are you working on a microflow? Enter what you think the parameters should be and Logic Bot will automatically predict them.
Logic Bot is always aware of the context in which you are working, so it can provide you with precise instructions in real time.
2. Develop AI-Integrated Applications With Low-Code
AI is recognized as playing an important role in the business operations of businesses in the market. Mendix is not only enhancing the platform with AI to increase the productivity of software engineers, but is also busy developing solutions that help you build AI-powered applications.
Mendix's goal is to enable you to create intelligent software that delivers great business value.
2.1. AWS Connectors for AI Services
Do you need to install image recognition feature into your application? Or the translation feature, or the text-to-speech conversion feature?
With AIaaS (AI as a Service), you only need to call simple APIs to access the above AI features without needing to develop, maintain or directly manage the underlying system structure.
Creating these AI-enabled features requires integrating AI services into your software. This can take a lot of time, but Mendix provides an extremely flexible structure for AI-integrated software, providing connections with AWS services such as:
- Bedrock: Fully managed service that allows you to use high-performance foundation models (FM) from leading AI startups and Amazon through a unified API.
- SageMaker: Build, train and deploy machine learning models
- Textract: Extract text, form and table content from scanned documents.
- Rekognition: Analyzes images/videos to detect objects, faces, and content, as well as perform real-time facial recognition and identification.
- Translate: Translate text in real time and in bulk across multiple languages.
- Polly: Realistic text-to-speech to create spoken content in a variety of languages and accents.
2.2. Machine Learning Kit
The “beauty” of the AIaaS APIs mentioned above is that they are ready for you to use. However, they also have disadvantages in terms of cost, latency, and data privacy. Mendix's Machine Learning Kit is the solution to minimizing these problems.
In just a short time, using AIaaS can be very expensive. For example, a Mendix expert created an AI-integrated app demo internally and he accidentally ended up paying a $10,000 fee within a few days.
Mendix's Machine Learning Kit allows software engineers to deploy a machine learning model – built using common machine learning frameworks and languages – directly in the environment of your Mendix application. This reduces the latency associated with invoking storage services and allows you to keep private or sensitive data in your own environment.
PostNL, the Netherlands' largest delivery service, has been applying Machine Learning for years to help manage the 1.5 million delivery requests its organization processes daily. With Machine Learning Kit, PostNL was able to achieve sub-millisecond response times from their model and without the need to share customer data with third-party hosting services.
If you're looking to save costs and develop working software faster, Mendix's Machine Learning Kit is what you need. And it has officially come into operation.
Danaexperts hopes to have helped you better understand the benefits of Mendix's Machine Learning Kit and how it can solve the disadvantages of AIaaS. Danaexperts is currently a strategic partner of Mendix - the world's leading low-code application development platform. Contact Danaexperts today to receive advice from low-code experts for your business.