Nintex

What differentiates Nintex from other similar products?

Easy to build Nintex forms and workflows

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Nintex workflow cloud

What do you dislike most about this product?

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What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Must use Nintex forms and workflow to develop your organization

What differentiates Nintex from other similar products?

The only other products I’ve used for custom development are SharePoint Designer for workflow and InfoPath for forms. Calling those products similar to Nintex is like saying a Toyota Corolla is similar to a Ferrari because they are both cars. They’re not even close because Nintex blows the doors off SharePoint Designer and InfoPath!

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Speed of development for sure. I can quickly cobble together a demo or proof of concept to show stakeholders “the art of the possible” with SharePoint and Nintex together. The. Once we agree on details I can get down to the nuts and bolts of the requirements and making it all work.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Two things actually. First, when developing forms I often get a form load error. This is invariably due to a malformed rule that I have created. Sometimes it is because a field referenced in a rule has been deleted, or any of a number of other reasons. I wish that Nintex would highlight which rule was the problem, so that I don’t have to go through each one. That can tedious with a form that has dozens of rules. Second, I wish that workflow had a test/production flag so that I could turn off test notifications and turn on production notifications with one switch. I have actually come up with my own solution for this though.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you need quick develop capability that will extend and accentuate the usefulness of SharePoint, take a good look at Nintex. I’ve found that it’s changed my work products for the better. Like exponentially better!

What differentiates Nintex from other similar products?

Nintex is wonderfully easy to install and start using right away. It is so intuitive training is not really a concern. Developers can benefit from the application right away. Expert developers can really get Nintex to do some amazing things as long as they know JavaScript. Citizen developers can also gain a lot from the application as most can be done without JavaScript knowledge at all. We looked at K2 and never got any value out of that application for high cost. Nintex on the other hand gave us tremendous value right away.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best part of using Nintex is the ease of installing it and getting it up and running. Can easily be done in a day. K2 took a month... Then actually using Nintex happened immediately whereas K2 took months and lots of training to get started.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nintex has completely failed to respond to the coming of cloud computing. Every project I get now is to convert many Nintex workflows to the Power Platform. No one wants to pay for Nintex in the cloud. They are going to loose most of their customers as they transition to the cloud. I have yet to see one client move to the cloud with Nintex. They need to figure out their pricing model ASAP.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Nintex is an awesome technology for automating many manual processes to improve the efficiency of your organization which will save well more money than what Nintex costs. Keep in mind there is no forward path to the cloud that is within reason in terms of cost. If your organization is moving to the cloud anytime soon, I would suggest using PowerApps and Power Automate to streamline your processes. This will save you from having to migrate Nintex workflows to the Power Platform at a later date. My recommendation is to define your cloud strategy before purchasing Nintex.