More Generative AI goodness on the way! By now, you must have seen the prior blogs that detail all of the various ways that Generative AI can automatically assemble business applications without any technical knowledge. In the recent past, we’ve covered how GenAI can use prompts or uploaded PDF’s instantly. This time, we’re bringing that same energy to the use of images or screenshots. Read on for more, but let’s just say that your modernization or re-platforming efforts just got a whole lot easier!
From past blogs, you might recall that all of our generative AI investments for this phase of the release are focused on generating Form Based Applications, or CRUD apps. As we mentioned previously, we’re keen to refine interface generation until it’s just right, before moving on to generating the entire application – including the process model!
So, with that said, images and screenshots are the focus of this installment, and once you see the video, you’ll know this feature won’t disappoint!
How Does it Work?
Taking a screenshot should be in just about everyone’s wheelhouse, right? Pull up the interface you want to use as the basis for your AgilePoint application and open Snipping Tool on your PC, or Snagit if you’re fancy, and you’re already most of the way there. From there, simply upload the image, massage the fields or columns that are suggested, and let AgilePoint’s AI do all of the heavy lifting from then on. You’ll see this process executed step by step when you watch the accompanying video down below.
How Might I Use This?
Well, a couple of scenarios come to mind – none of which are considered ‘fun’ from an application designer’s perspective.
- Modernizing Legacy Systems: We all have at least one ASP.NET/JSP/PHP/React/Angular/Winform application in our organization that was built during the Bush administration. The developer left many years back, and most of your colleagues are too afraid to touch it. The application works, but let’s just say doesn’t really compare favorably with modern applications. The functionality that the business needs just simply isn’t there. With the advent of Generative AI for images, you guessed it, simply take a screenshot of the interface you’d like to have built and AgilePoint works its magic.
- Re-platforming Competitive Systems: Unless you’re an AgilePoint customer, you’re probably swapping app dev platforms every 4 or 5 years (compared to 10+ for AgilePoint clients per Forrester). With a re-platforming initiative, you’re looking at countless hours spent understanding the functionality in the source system, and translating that into an AgilePoint context. Now, whip out your trusty screenshot tool of choice, and upload that image to AgilePoint and you’re well down the path of creating enterprise-grade and future-proof applications.
- Quick Prototyping: Let’s just say that it’s commonly understood that many application developers will ‘borrow’ inspiration on occasion. Maybe you’ve seen a website with a cool event registration UI? Or for the Product companies out there, a product download or ‘Contact Us’ request? No worries, AgilePoint allows you to borrow inspiration wherever you might find it! With a simple screenshot, you can easily turn someone else’s idea into your next innovation!
Ok, then what?
Now as with any AI solution, there will still be a need to massage what gets generated. Perhaps it’s adding or removing a few fields, rearranging the layout, and what have you. But AgilePoint has your back and will make your development efforts much more productive, with a drastically shorter time to value than ever before. If this sounds too good to be true, watch the video below and see it for yourself!
Please note that this video is recorded while this feature is in limited-preview beta version. Some of the labels and icons might change by the time it goes GA but the general concept of generating an app would remain the same.