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Beyond the Buzz: How the Thomson Reuters Foundation and TAAP Showcased the Future of Generative AI App Building

February 14, 2025

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What happens when you bring together business leaders, developers and AI experts for a single day with a mission to solve real-world challenges?

On 28th November, we did exactly that. The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), in partnership with TAAP and London Tech Leaders, hosted an exclusive hands-on Generative AI App Building Workshop. A unique opportunity to go beyond the AI hype and see how cutting-edge technology delivers real business impact.

This wasn’t about theory. It wasn’t about chatbots. It was about building fully functional enterprise applications in just one day, an approach that’s redefining how organisations think about development, digital transformation, and AI integration. 

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A Hands-On Approach to AI-Powered App Development

At TAAP, we believe AI should be more than a buzzword, it should drive practical, tangible results. That’s why this workshop wasn’t about passive learning but about active problem-solving.

A Real Business Challenge: TRF provided a live operational challenge, one that impacts their workflows and efficiency.

AI-Powered Speed: With TAAP’s AI App Builder, recently recognised by Gartner for innovation in digital workplace tools, attendees saw first-hand how AI can generate a working enterprise application in seconds.

Refine, Enhance, and Deploy: Teams collaborated to iterate, refine, and enhance the app, bridging AI-driven automation with real human expertise.

The result? A fully functional, enterprise-grade application, built in a day, solving a real problem for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Beyond the Hype: AI That Works in the Real World

What made this event so impactful was the pragmatic approach to AI integration. Instead of AI being positioned as a distant, futuristic concept, attendees got to see exactly how it can streamline workflows, eliminate inefficiencies, and drive operational agility.

What Attendees Had to Say

“When it comes to productivity gains exploring Low Code, No Code Solutions with embedded AI like TAAP is part of our internal AI adoption Journey for productivity gains and business intelligence transformation.”

Massimo Gibilaro, Director of Product & Technology, Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

“One of the key things about this whole process is it’s not something that we could have done by ourselves we don’t have the budget or the time to spend a lot of money and a lot time on something like, a big Salesforce development to create a portal that people can log into. So that’s why we’re here working with TAAP specifically to put something together in a much faster time frame than we’d ever be able to do if we had to develop something by hand and code it from scratch. Working with external partners that we can trust is very important to us.” 

Rahul Soni, Head of Technology, Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

 “So one of the things that’s really struck me is how fast you can get stuff done. What I love is the fact that it’s really making sure that the business requirements,  the business need gets a much higher voice, that’s where the investment is going not in the coding  part.”

Ian Hopper, Director of Transformation, Wrap

 

“One of the reasons that I attended today was about data privacy and data control. The advantage of being able to have TAAP in your own infrastructure with your own instance and deciding exactly how it’s access and by whom is really important from a control point of view.

“If you’re looking really for long-term return investment you’ve got to be looking at things that are automating the processes which gives you the technical debt and that’s where application generation comes from, it’s ability to generate vast amounts of code and infrastructure without the huge  investment in time and people and that’s about taking the architectural design, the business requirements and translating them into code and infrastructure as quickly and with as little resources as possible and that’s what TAAP gives you, having watched it say it’s impressive.” 

Chris Greengrass, Information Security Director, Starling Bank

 

“I didn’t believe you could build an App in a day so I was very enticed to come down to the workshop and sort of prove that wrong. As a former engineer who knows what’s involved in building an App but it turns out you can build an App in 13 seconds which is absolutely incredible” 

Neil Douek, Platform Engineer,  Fujitsu

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The response was clear, generative AI is ready to transform how businesses develop and deploy enterprise applications.

If you’re ready to experience how AI can help your business build applications faster, smarter, and more efficiently, get in touch.

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Why TAAP?

Why TAAP?

Why would you build applications on TAAP?

The software industry promised you could digitise all your processes, become a data first organisation, embrace AI and transform into the business of the future. But is that really the full story?

It’s an exciting vision, but here’s the reality.

Just like the nuclear industry, software promises immense power and potential, but it also has a radioactive side.

Over time, software decays. It becomes harder to manage, each year its maintenance costs spiral. All software reaches a tipping point where it must be retired or completely rebuilt.

Software maintenance is its own master, touching every part of an organisation.

All of your software must be maintained all at once, reacting to Patches, updates, compatibility issues, and new vulnerabilities. You don’t control the timeline, your software does.

It consumes every available IT resource, restricts agility, and the more you digitise the worse it gets

And the cost? Maintaining software typically costs 7 to 10 times more than the initial cost of building it.

It drains your ability to innovate, to seize opportunities, to move at the speed of business and to remain competitive.

The dream of end-to-end digital transformation begins to fade. The vision becomes a fantasy. Software, once a symbol of progress, becomes a burden. Delays mount. Backlogs grow. New ideas are sidelined. Legacy software grinds your business to a halt, undermining your most critical asset: data.

It’s a self-perpetuating cycle, a workload-creation engine, creating lag, inefficiency, and operational drag.

This isn’t the future you imagined, but it’s how the software industry has operated for the last 50 to 70 years. It’s the unspoken cost of ownership, the law of diminishing returns.

There has to be a better way!

This is where TAAP steps in.

TAAP has shifted spend from maintenance to innovation, embracing an AI-centered future of evolving knowledge engineering.

Apps written to run on TAAP are free from legacy maintenance.

They can run for 10, 15, or more years, maintenance-free!

You can digitise everything and do so free from the burden of technical debt!

TAAP technologies allow you to leverage our AI-assisted designers to scope and define the solutions you require.

TAAP simplifies and accelerates the process of turning ideas into apps.

With TAAP you can build fully functional applications in seconds, not code snippets, but enterprise-grade applications with support for role-based access controls and Single Sign On right out of the box. This means you can operate at enterprise scale giving the right people permissions to access and use the apps they require.

You can now truly become a digital-first organisation.

You can have tremendous flexibility over how you can build apps and target different types of deployments, cloud, on-premise, on-device, even fully offline.

You can develop and release an unlimited number of processes and at different release cadence.

TAAP has been engineered to allow organisations to embrace software at scale across departments, for SMEs, national and global enterprise, and in multiple languages.

Our generative technologies are deterministic, allowing you to digitise any process without compromise, built how you want, bug free, with zero maintenance, whilst providing access to your source code and IP.

Engineered for frictionless scale-out via the Microsoft commercial marketplace, customers from over 170 markets can directly start building applications on TAAP with a click of a button.

Commercialised to be inclusive for consultancies, ISVs, SIs, and product companies to benefit from this technology. Creating their own IP on TAAP, licensing and protecting their margins and value within a new and modernising software industry.

With low-cost licensing, we encourage you to digitise everything, and we don’t penalize or restrict you from wanting to digitise it all

This is a tectonic shift to the way in which software can be envisioned and leveraged for the future. We are driving the next stage of evolution for the software industry, reducing the time to value and bringing quicker results, improved quality, and lower costs

It’s almost too good to be true, but that’s our vision, allowing the world to embrace software and elevating the way technology can help humanity grow and evolve. We are changing the rules of how the software industry has operated so far.

TAAP delivers the future the software industry promised, but struggled to deliver.

TAAP can help you simplify complexity, accelerate performance, and achieve results—fast.

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