The Power of the Ecosystem: How Volt MX Accelerates Innovation with AI

The era of standalone applications is over. Successful app development now focuses on building blocks,  including services, connectors, APIs, and prebuilt components, all of which work together in harmony. This is where HCL Volt MX, a leading low-code development platform, excels. With a growing AI-fueled ecosystem, Volt MX presents application development to teams, encouraging them to examine their app dev strategy, away from isolated use-case apps and toward scalable, intelligent, and adaptive app experiences.

What is the Volt MX AI Ecosystem?

The Volt MX AI ecosystem is a curated collection of AI-powered assets designed to make your apps smarter, faster, and more intuitive.

It brings together:

• Prebuilt UI widgets, logic modules, and connectors
• Sample apps for reference integrations with AI models
• Prebuilt connectors to AI backend services from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Azure, AWS
• A growing library of AI assets and integrations

These assets are available through the Volt MX Marketplace, ready to plug directly into your apps.

Example: A field inspection app can be built using the OCR component to capture handwritten notes, paired with translation services to make them available instantly in multiple languages.

App Dev Strategy Priorities: Speed, Reuse, and Innovation

Building apps from scratch slows innovation. When you leverage Volt MX’s AI ecosystem, your organization can accelerate development with plug-and-play assets and reuse logic across projects and teams. This allows you to try, test, and iterate quickly without a huge investment, and focus on experience design and business goals, not boilerplate coding.

Example: A chatbot builder can use the prebuilt chatbot framework from the Marketplace, configure it to connect to any provider of choice, and deploy it across multiple channels, all without needing to build a new backend.

Prebuilt AI tools

The Volt MX Marketplace offers a wide range of AI-powered assets capable of driving real business outcomes, including:

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Extract data from invoices, contracts, or forms.
• Text extraction: Pull key fields from unstructured content for faster workflows.
• Image generation and analysis: Generative AI and image recognition enrich product catalogs, automate inspections, and deliver richer customer experiences.
• AI content generators: Create FAQs, summaries, or recommendations from source data.
• Language detection and translation: Instantly localize apps for global audiences and improve accessibility.

These are just a few examples; the Marketplace continues to expand with more AI-powered assets designed to solve real business challenges.

Each asset includes sample code, usage instructions, preview codes, and video demos to help you get started quickly.

Marketplace Built for Growth

The HCL Volt MX Marketplace is enterprise-grade and community-driven. Assets are updated regularly by HCLSoftware and our developer community, creating a flywheel of value. The platform focuses on providing high-value, reusable assets, all of which are currently available for free download. For components that integrate with 3rd party APIs, customers must supply their own API key. 

Example: Developers can share a custom-built AI connector (say, to a specialized insurance database) with the community, and other enterprises can reuse it immediately without reinventing the wheel.

Build Smarter, Together

The Volt MX AI Ecosystem is a philosophy (more than a feature) designed to encourage the fusion of developers, designers and domain experts into a team building smarter, together. It enables them to work from a shared library of proven assets, quickly adapt to market changes, and deliver consistent, high-quality app experiences. The AI ecosystem acts as a springboard for various use cases, including automating translations, enhancing accessibility, and embedding intelligence into the user experience.

Thanks for following our AI blog series. We’ve explored AI-Assisted Development, Elevating End User Experience with AI-Augmented Apps, and now the powerful AI Ecosystem.

Ready to Learn More?

• To dive deeper into how the Volt MX Marketplace just got smarter, discover more here.
• Get our AI Feature Sheet for more details.
• Want to see it in action? Watch the Volt MX v10 launch video to discover how AI is transforming enterprise app development.

Speak with an HCL Volt MX expert to explore how AI can accelerate your app development.