No-Code With Palantir And IBM: Why I Think It Makes Sense
Tags: ibmcloud, nocode, opinion
Published: 2021-03-01 22:10:57

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title: No-Code With Palantir And IBM: Why I Think It Makes Sense
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date: 2021-02-26 23:09:47 UTC
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In early February Palantir and IBM announced a partnership: [IBM and Palantir Partner to Help Businesses Easily Deploy Powerful and Open AI Applications; Unlock Valuable Data Across Hybrid Cloud Environments](https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-08-IBM-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Help-Businesses-Easily-Deploy-Powerful-and-Open-AI-Applications-Unlock-Valuable-Data-Across-Hybrid-Cloud-Environments).

The announcement itself is typical, with lots of corporate language. But what caught my eye is this part:

> It is designed to provide an easy to use “no-code/low-code” environment for building applications that use AI to inform data-driven decision making and automate tasks and processes.
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> <cite><a href="https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-08-IBM-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Help-Businesses-Easily-Deploy-Powerful-and-Open-AI-Applications-Unlock-Valuable-Data-Across-Hybrid-Cloud-Environments" rel="nofollow">https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-02-08-IBM-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Help-Businesses-Easily-Deploy-Powerful-and-Open-AI-Applications-Unlock-Valuable-Data-Across-Hybrid-Cloud-Environments</a></cite>

I think this makes a lot of sense. The no-code/low-code space is mostly dominated by startups today. That’s great of course. I’d assume one challenge for these companies is how to gain new customers and gain market share.

[![](https://katzmax.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/nocodeconf-youdontneed.jpg?w=782)](https://katzmax.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/nocodeconf-youdontneed.jpg)<figcaption>No Code Conf – November 2019</figcaption>

I’m happy to see big enterprises and big cloud companies are getting into the no-code/low-code space. AWS released [Honeycode](https://www.honeycode.aws/), Microsoft has [Power Apps](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/), Google has [AppSheet](https://cloud.google.com/appsheet), and IBM Cloud has had the [Node-RED](https://developer.ibm.com/components/node-red/) platform. They have large customer bases and they can make these tools available to their customers. This will enable the customers to build solutions faster. It will also [democratize](https://dev.to/maxkatz/a-no-code-definition-i-like-1foa) development as a lot more people (with some technical background) from these organizations will be able to solve problems without coding.

Details on this particular partnerships are still sparse. I can imagine a technical person (but not a coder) connecting Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data tool-set to their enterprise data and then using no-code and visual tools solve problems and make decision, all without writing any code. I personally find this incredible powerful. This will democratize access. At the same time, it can also help traditional developers (coders) build solutions faster.

I’d love to see more no-code tools from enterprises and cloud platforms. I also believe many enterprises will acquire some of the no-code companies in the next few years. Another interesting topic is with so many no-code startups out there, it’s not clear how all can survive. But that’s another blog post. That’s why I think many some will be acquired.