Key principles

Genus gives you two options for application development:

1.         Industry-specific templates: Start with pre-built templates tailored to various industries. These are ready to install and easy to customize.

2.         Blank canvas: Design and develop fully tailored applications from scratch to meet unique business requirements.

In many cases, customers begin with a hybrid approach. They use existing data and data structures (models) from their current systems, combining them with new templates to modernize and enhance functionality. This approach allows them to build on prior investments while accelerating development and maintaining flexibility.

Genus adapts to your needs regardless of your starting point, enabling your applications to grow and scale alongside your organization.

Genus is more than a standalone application builder—it is a comprehensive Business Support Platform designed to integrate seamlessly with your organization’s IT ecosystem. It can serve as the core of your software environment, integrating key processes, data, and operations, enabling you to manage them all from a single hub. Built for flexibility and scalability, Genus acts as the backbone of a modern enterprise’s software strategy. It meets the highest standards for security, performance, and maintenance while ensuring smooth compatibility with existing systems.

Understanding the distinction between no-code and low-code platforms is essential when evaluating Genus:

• No-Code: Visual development, eliminating coding entirely. This streamlines development, reduces maintenance complexityand accelerates adaptability.

• Low-Code: Combines visual development with coding, often requiring developers to write code for customizations and advanced features.

Genus is ideal for enterprises that need scalable, business-critical applications. Focusing on process modeling over coding ensures speed and efficiency for complex organizations.

Not all no-code platforms are created equal.  Genus is an enterprise-grade no-code platform for professionals, unlike single-app tools for citizen developers.

• Enterprise No-Code Platforms: Support scalable, mission-critical applications across an organization, integrating with complex workflows and IT systems.

• Single-App No-Code Tools: Suited for automating smaller, standalone tasks. However, they lack the scalability, flexibility, and integration capabilities required by large organizations.

Genus is purpose-built for enterprise environments, empowering professional developers to address organizational needs comprehensively.

Genus is a platform for building and managing applications that enhance and support business processes. Key capabilities include:

• Tailored Applications: Develop solutions for finance, HR, logistics, customer management, and more.

• Seamless Integration: Connect any core applications in your IT landscape.

• Centralized Data Management: Standardize data models to manage critical information across departments.

• Streamlined Business Concepts: Define key terms (e.g., "asset lifecycle") to eliminate ambiguity and improve collaboration.

• Mission-Critical Processes: Support core business functions with adaptability and scalability.

Unlike traditional platforms like Enterprise Integration Platforms (EIP) or Enterprise Application Platforms (EAP), Genus aligns technology with business processes, driving digital transformation and operational excellence.

Genus employs model interpretation, directly executing visual models instead of converting them into code. This approach offers:

• Reduced Complexity: The model serves as the application, eliminating intermediary code.

• Sustainability: Applications naturally adapt to evolving business needs without rewriting any code.

Model interpretation minimizes risks, accelerates development, and ensures long-term application viability.

While artificial intelligence (AI) transforms software development by automating coding tasks, Genus takes a different approach. Instead of using AI to speed up traditional coding, Genus operates at a higher abstraction level with its model-driven no-code platform. This eliminates manual coding, letting you model processes and logic visually, which accelerates development.

Though Genus removes coding, it is fully compatible with AI-powered services. You can seamlessly integrate AI tools for predictive analytics, process automation, or any other intelligent function. By combining no-code with AI, Genus empowers you to innovate while keeping control and adaptability.

In the future, AI will play a larger role within Genus by suggesting model improvements, refining business logic, and merging reusable model templates into existing models to incorporate best practices. This will streamline development, speed up iterations, and improve team collaboration. Using AI this way, Genus will boost both productivity and application quality.

Genus is built on a microservices architecture using industry-standard technologies like Kubernetes and Docker. This ensures:

• Scalability: Applications scale dynamically based on demand.

• Deployment options: Deploy on public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) or on-premises.

• Enterprise Security: Robust security measures and high-performance optimization for mission-critical applications.

Genus offers you flexibility in data storage. Your application’s data can be stored in your chosen relational database management system (RDBMS), keeping a clear separation between the no-code platform and the data storage layer.

Advantages include:

• Transparent access: Your data follows industry-standard normalization, allowing direct access through the database when needed.

• Security and validation: Genus adds security, validation, and integrity controls to protect your data and ensure compliance.

• Open integration: Genus avoids vendor lock-in, letting you integrate external tools like ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) systems for data transfers or database migration.

This open data storage approach supports reverse engineering of existing data models, eliminates vendor lock-in, and ensures flexibility for a variety of enterprise application scenarios.