Empowering Enterprise Low-Code Applications in Support of SharePoint Enterprise Farms

The MDACA Low-Code Platform for Microsoft SharePoint is designed to integrate seamlessly with SharePoint features such as user management, SharePoint lists, workflows, and more. With the MDACA Low-Code Platform, developers can easily create custom applications that leverage SharePoint’s powerful capabilities, including document management, collaboration, and business intelligence. The platform also provides a range of pre-built connectors and extensions, enabling users to connect to external data sources, automate business processes, and extend the functionality of their SharePoint environment. By leveraging the MDACA Low-Code Platform, organizations can accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and improve their overall productivity and efficiency.

Benefits and Value of Leveraging Low-Code with SharePoint

A low-code framework developed on top of SharePoint can leverage the powerful capabilities of SharePoint, including its extensive list and document management features, security and compliance capabilities, and workflows, among others. Businesses can maximize the reuse of their investment in SharePoint, making it simpler and more cost-effective to build custom applications and applications to display data from data sources inside or outside of their SharePoint environment. By utilizing SharePoint lists as a data source, a low-code application offers a flexible and scalable platform for creating a wide range of business applications, such as project management, contact tracking, or inventory management, just to name a few. SharePoint’s document management features can also be integrated into a low-code application to enable users to upload, view, and manage documents directly within the same interface as the application.

Another significant advantage of developing a low-code application on top of SharePoint is the ability for businesses to take advantage of SharePoint’s robust security and compliance features. SharePoint provides role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and audit trails, ensuring sensitive data is protected from unauthorized access. Low-code applications built on top of SharePoint can inherit these features automatically, providing a secure and compliant platform for businesses to create and manage their applications.

Finally, SharePoint workflows can be integrated into a low-code application to automate business processes and streamline workflows. These workflows can include approvals, notifications, and other business logic that can help businesses to improve their operational efficiency, reduce errors, and improve data accuracy. Overall, a low-code application built on top of SharePoint can offer businesses a highly integrated and scalable solution for leveraging the power of SharePoint to provide a flexible and cost-effective platform for building custom applications tailored to their business needs.

What is MDACA Low-Code

MDACA Low-Code based solutions have a proven track record of success in fortune 500 companies and Government agencies for over 20 years. The platform dynamically evolves to meet critical business needs as part of the enterprise data fabric solution, supporting an agile approach while taking data management best practices into account. With its flexible and customizable qualities, the MDACA Low-Code Platform can support business integration and take advantage of SharePoint features as well as enterprise database and rich set of integration services  by providing a solution adaptable to meet their specific needs. A team of business analysts and developers can collaborate to design and develop a solution aligned with the unique requirements of the business. 

The MDACA Low-Code Platform provides unlimited flexibility in User Interface (UI) design, allowing businesses to create an intuitive, easy to use UI. Additionally, MDACA delivers enterprise-grade solutions leveraging flexible low-code technology, ensuring the solution is scalable, secure, and reliable. This capability can help businesses to migrate their data and workflows from Honeycode to the new platform with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.

MDACA Low-Code Platform
Customization Unlimited – MDACA’s flexible UI provides a highly versatile approach to customization by offering both pre-built templates and the ability to design UIs from scratch. The platform’s separation of UI and API-based integration layer allows you to create a fully custom application for all your specific needs.
Integration with Other Services Unlimited – MDACA is a highly flexible and customizable platform offering seamless integration with a wide range of external services allowing you to leverage both existing and new technology investments.
Data Management MDACA addresses data management challenges by separating the low-code database from the application database, allowing for flexibility in leveraging existing databases and supporting a wide range of application database types while following customer policies and best practices.
Enterprise Grade MDACA’s cost is based on a server model, which provides cost predictability and scalability. The separation of the metadata store from the client data also allows for flexibility in supporting a wide range of application database types, including MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, Object storage, and others. Additionally, MDACA offers wide integrations with existing security systems (e.g., DoD CAC). Minimized need for redesign or migration of legacy databases for application modernization.
Vendor Lock-in MDACA is based on an open-core model, allowing for greater flexibility and portability. It can be deployed with a wide range of options to include cloud, cloud adjacent, or on-premises environments. The data is owned and fully managed by you on a database of your choice, affording greater control and security. Additionally, code can be shared based on a collaborative model, which encourages greater collaboration and innovation among developers.
Stability MDACA-based solutions have a 20-year proven track record of supporting and adapting to the needs of Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies.

What is MDACA SharePoint Connect

As companies continue to use SharePoint as a critical business tool and the amount of data grows, they need additional tools to manage multiple SharePoint farms deployed across the globe and in multiple clouds. Understanding user patterns and the ability to easily move SharePoint sites across farms significantly help in supporting organizational and business growth.

The MDACA SharePoint Connect is designed to accelerate analytics projects by bringing data to a single location, enabling timely insights, and improving project Return on Investment (ROI). It provides detailed and historical aggregated data on farms, both local and global. MDACA SharePoint Connect helps answer critical questions related to an enterprise’s SharePoint farms:

  • When: Know visitor access times and page-utilization metrics 
  • How: Understand traffic, database, and hardware utilization metrics 
  • Where: Gain insight into what visitors are accessing and doing on the website 
  • Audits: Assess when a given page document is visited, modified, or downloaded

With the release of the SharePoint Connect 4.0, we have added and enhanced the capabilities of the MDACA Low-Code Platform to provide the following:

  • Integrate with SharePoint List and SharePoint Document Repositories
  • Provide integrated support for a wide range of Relational Databases (Database agnostic) supporting both stand-alone and cloud-native options
  • Integration with MDACA Big Data Virtualization (BDV), DataFlow, Cloud Storage Explorer (CSE), and other MDACA capabilities
  • Advanced integration with capabilities as a development platform with cloud native services
  • Options to  leverage data lake technologies across multiple cloud providers as well as cloud adjacent technologies
  • Provides an easy and integrated migration path from InfoPath to MDACA SharePoint Connect Low-Code capability.

Deployment Models

The MDACA Low-Code Platform offers flexible deployment options to meet the needs of any organization. It can be hosted inside an existing SharePoint farm, providing a seamless integration with SharePoint features and capabilities. Alternatively, it can be hosted in containers outside of SharePoint, allowing for greater flexibility and scalability. The platform can also be deployed on any cloud service provider, including AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle, as well as on-prem or cloud-adjacent environments such as Equinix. This flexibility enables organizations to choose the deployment option that best suits their needs, whether they prefer to keep their applications on-premises, in the cloud, adjacent to the cloud, or any hybrid combination.

Summary

As a product, MDACA has extensive experience and proven performance in designing, developing, and managing enterprise SharePoint farms and related solutions. We are dedicated to helping organizations support their SharePoint-hosted applications and modernize their legacy or new applications through a variety of development and deployment options. Our team of experts provides guidance and support throughout the entire digital transformation process, from initial planning and strategy to implementation and ongoing support. We understand the challenges organizations face when modernizing their applications and infrastructure, working closely with our clients to ensure their unique needs and requirements are met. Whether you need assistance with SharePoint development, migration, or ongoing support, our team is here to help. To learn more about how MDACA can help your organization, please visit our website at MDACA.io.