Can citizen developers move shadow IT into the light?

Citizen developer tools that allow business staff to build applications are becoming increasingly powerful and can lead to important productivity gains.

That’s the view of Mark Driver, a research director at Gartner. He expects citizen development efforts to expand significantly over the next five years.

A key reason for this is the accelerating enterprise use of cloud-based software platforms that allow citizen developers to access corporate data more easily than data stored on servers in corporate data centers controlled by the IT department, he says.

But here’s the problem. Many citizen developer platforms purport to offer data access and other controls to help ensure regulatory compliance, but Driver says that these are often of limited use.

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