According to the company, low-code data overcomes a major hurdle for businesses when it comes to creating apps and processes that have really high functionality, namely integrating data. Until now, it’s claimed, this would have required developers to have a host of database skills, however low-code data enables them to access data in the same simple, visual way that they use to develop low-code apps. “We've seen year after year that the hardest thing about building an application is the data," Calkins explained, speaking to IT Pro ahead of the conference. "It’s hard to access the data, it's hard to know where it is, it’s hard to find the thing that you need specifically, it's hard to get permissions, it's hard to do multi-database joins... it's slow. In the end, most people give up.”