App Studio overview

App Studio is a low-code solution that brings users together in one inclusive, intuitive authoring environment that makes building smarter workflows easy, regardless of coding skill level or complexity of the use case. With App Studio, business and IT can have seamless collaboration; business users have the tools that are necessary to be active participants in the development process and react in real time to evolving business needs.

App Studio provides core features for application development, such as case design, data management, and user experience. The design of App Studio targets low-code users, including application developers, front-end developers, data engineers, and business analysts. The no-code visual interface makes development more accessible for a low-code user.

Building the business processes on case types, personas, and data objects is a part of the Pega Express™ delivery approach, in which teams deliver projects in a no-code and user-oriented way. In Pega Express, teams can model business processes in App Studio by creating case types, personas, and data objects. A single business process that results in an expected outcome is a Microjourney®, and teams can holistically plan and understand a Microjourney by creating relationships between cases, personas, and data objects. 

Teams can plan for application development by calculating estimations based on the requirements that the team needs to implement. The estimator tool in App Studio provides greater accuracy and efficiency while planning development work to meet the release timelines.
With App Studio, teams can track development changes in the context of a feature. Features in an agile-development model help you to plan and implement the capabilities for an application.

App Studio mainly supports application development for low-code users, such as business users and citizen developers. Still, seasoned developers who want to quickly create rules for their applications can also use it. As a best practice, use App Studio as the first option to build an application. Professional developers can easily switch to Dev Studio to configure advanced technical options, and then return to App Studio.

For more information, see App Studio overview. 

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