Item: Nintex Process Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Sue Panprasert

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are moving our proprietary systems into SharePoint platform (Cloud-based) and use Nintex to build the new applications. There are multiple applications with complex workflow processes we need to completely move to SharePoint. We are facing the challenge of moving 30+ applications into SharePoint within the limit time. Nintex Process Platform did help us building the application in the short time due to its no code or low code platform. Nintex allows us to complete building multiple applications and meet our deadline.

Pros and Cons

Easily build approval process using email and assign a task actions in Nintex Workflow
Easily manage security at item level with O365 permission action in Nintex Workflow
Easily use Rule in Nintex Form to build the Input Form and manage the events

New Responsive Form does not allow to create a custom button anywhere we want. It will be useful to allow to add the button control anywhere within the form that can trigger the click event rule.
It will be useful to allow CSS in New Responsive Form.
Found HTML Table tag does not work properly in New Responsive Form.
More functionalities related to HTML, CSS and JavaScript in New Responsive Form will be very helpful.

Return on Investment

Reduce amount of time to develop application with complex workflow
Improve user experiences in workflow automation process
Simplify the workflow automation process with less time and effort

Usability

Very useful compare to other platforms. The tool is easy enough to use as the beginner and complex enough to handle the complex workflow as the advance user. Our company is planning to move the Nintex Workflow Office365 to NWC and continue to build the new applications using NWC as NWC can connect to multiple sources through its connectors. The connector will help us reduce the limitation of the data sources on the backend.

Integrations

Currently, we do not plan to integrate Nintex Process Platform directly to our proprietary system as it is CLOUD based and may have security issue. However, we are planning to streamline the data process to and from SharePoint platform, which is our Nintex-based application. We may also want to use Nintex Process Platform to share the data via web services in the future with some of our vendor's solution platform via CLOUD.

I don't have any information to provide here as we haven't used Nintex Process Platform as an integration tool as this point.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power Automate

Nintex Process Platform is much easier to begin with as low code or no code tool, which reduced amount of time and effort to learn and we can start working on it within a few weeks after taking the training session with Nintex. We can build the same application with same complexity level in Nintex within a few months while Power Automate may take longer time (4-5 months) to build it up as a beginner.

Key Insights

Do you think Nintex Process Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Nintex Process Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Nintex Process Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Nintex Process Platform go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Nintex Process Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

MicroMain, Tableau Online, Microsoft 365

Likelihood to Recommend

It is easy to build the application and spend less time and effort to debug. Even it is still missing some functions, Nintex is still good tool to start with. Nintex support provides us the workaround when there is a difficulty or issue with limit functionality. My only concern is when it reaches the limitation, Nintex asked us to enter the request in their User Voice and that can never been implemented into their platform.

A good and powerful tool for automation process with less or no code.

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Nintex Process Platform