Fueling Agility with Lowcode

Pertamina, after extensive research, found that low-code was the answer for a rapid turnaround. Being Microsoft enthusiasts, Pertamina evaluated various low-code platforms like Powerapps, Outsystems, and WaveMaker and finally zeroed in on WaveMaker. They chose WaveMaker for four reasons: WaveMaker-built applications can be deployed anywhere, Source code can be extended, No vendor lock-in, Licensing model based on developer-seats. Solecode, a WaveMaker partner based in Jakarta, stepped in to take up this mammoth challenge by collaborating with Pertamina in transforming these applications. Pertamina understood the importance of agile methodologies and wanted their team to adopt Scrum. Solecode believed that low-code and Scrum would perfectly complement each other. This culture was ingrained into Pertamina’s IT development team in effective collaboration with Solecode. Using Excel sheets extracted from legacy databases, the IT team redesigned the new database on SQL Server. Lotus Notes UI screens were used as a reference to build the new interfaces with custom logic to rewrite the workflow as well as form validations. Third-party services such as compression of files, cropping of images, and Google-captcha were easily integrated into the application owing to WaveMaker’s API-first approach. Applications were made secure using Single Sign On (SSO) using OpenID and Keycloak. All applications were deployed on-premise using Ubuntu and Tomcat as the server.