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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A

    Nintex

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.

    $480

    Minimum 1,000 users per user

    Pricing
    JoomlaNintex
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprise - Process Platform
    $480
    Minimum 1,000 users per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JoomlaNintex
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    JoomlaNintex
    Considered Both Products
    The Joomla Project
    No answer on this topic
    Nintex
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    94 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    85 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    78 Answers
    Features
    JoomlaNintex
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.351 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    API7.246 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes6.350 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.550 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.450 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.150 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    6.6
    190 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.6176 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.8179 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.4143 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    7.0
    258 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings7.6230 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings5.021 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings7.7198 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.0174 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.357 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings6.014 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings8.0228 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings7.7181 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    9.0
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Joomla! and Nintex
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Nintex
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JoomlaNintex
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JoomlaNintex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    7.4
    (302 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    2.7
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JoomlaNintex
    Likelihood to Recommend
    The Joomla Project
    If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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    Nintex
    We use Nintex to automate fundraising outreach at scale. It helps us send personalized emails to a large contact list, and we’d also like to automate follow-ups when there’s no reply.
    If you need highly customized solutions or clean, fully controllable code, I wouldn’t recommend Nintex. It has many features, but it’s not the same as building your own system from scratch. That said, it can save a lot of time for standard automation workflows.
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    Pros
    The Joomla Project
    • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
    • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
    • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
    • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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    Nintex
    • Integrations with other services using various secure authentication methods, along with the seamless integration with SharePoint, are the icing on the cake. This makes it superior to other BPM tools available in the market.
    • Flexibility in application development - The diverse configurable properties offer multiple ways to utilise the controls and events, affording the flexibility to expand your scope and enabling the creation and use of processes in a myriad of ways.
    • The streamlined and efficient deployment process significantly accelerates release management, allowing for faster and smoother implementation of updates and new features.
    • The user interface of the pages offers a more refined and appealing look and feel compared to most other BPM tools.
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    Cons
    The Joomla Project
    • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
    • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
    • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
    • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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    Nintex
    • If you are creating a process with parallel subprocesses, there's no way to see, in a single view in Nintex, all the steps for the subprocesses. You have to view each sub-process in its own view, so it's hard to see what's going on at a high level.
    • There isn't an easy way to filter the processes by another user (not yourself) in Nintex. There is a report that shows processes and objects by user, but that's not as convenient. This is something that I've seen in other tools (OpenPages by IBM) so I am surprised that it is missing.
    • Nintex doesn't really have a way to capture iterative processes (which we have a lot of). It's designed for linear processes.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    The Joomla Project
    I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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    Nintex
    We are currently investigating which collaboration platform best suits our needs. Chances are that we move to SharePoint Online and then we're going to also consider the microsoft power platform (power automate and power apps) to develop forms and workflows. Aspecially the pricing model for the cloud is currently a blocking factor to go for the Nintex solution in the Cloud.
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    Usability
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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    Nintex
    Based on the on-prem experience with this tool, I believe that they have a lot of potential to help the online version catch up to where the on-prem left off. Nintex developed their online version and it is not as fully formed or capable compared to the on-prem version, and the licensing model scales back what we would have liked to be an expansion or at least continuous improvement of existing flows. It is also not near as user friendly specifically to non-developers and has an uncanny similarity to Microsoft Flow in the online instance. Consistent with my reviews of the tool - I believe they have some good approaches to design thinking that, if translated well from on-prem to online, could make this a clear winner again.
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    Reliability and Availability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The Nintex Process Platform has never crashed or had any availability issues during my usage. However there was an issue that was of my own making that caused a slowdown of the system. I had set up a process to run once a day and check for employees on a list that had certain parameters selected, and for some reason that I had to troubleshoot, the process instead ran constantly, which filled the cache quickly. I ended up having to dismantle that process so the system didn't crash.
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    Performance
    The Joomla Project
    Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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    Nintex
    Unlike any other process automation product out there. Not only is it a low-code, easy to use tool for building processes in environments like SharePoint or Salesforce, they have really started to expand their tool-set by offering tools to manage other things like process mapping, RPA, mobile,etc.
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    Support Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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    Nintex
    The support team works as fast as they can and they are usually fast to solver the issues. Sometimes they need more time to solve one of them because our workflows and so on are more complex than usual clients.
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    In-Person Training
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The trainer addressed the smallest queries in a friendly and timely manner; He walked us through all the necessary products we were using
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    Online Training
    The Joomla Project
    It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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    Nintex
    I used the Nintex training software, it was easy to watch and follow along. It didn't go too fast and was descriptive enough to understand what the steps needed were in order to produce efficient workflows and user friendly forms.
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    Implementation Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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    Nintex
    1.Start with Simple Workflows: Begin with basic workflows to gain user confidence before tackling complex processes.
    2.Involve Stakeholders Early: Engage business users and IT early to align workflows with real business needs.
    3.Comprehensive Training: Invest in user training to ensure smooth adoption and reduce resistance.
    4.Leverage Prebuilt Templates: Use Nintex’s templates to speed up implementation and maintain consistency.
    5.Iterate and Optimize: Continuously improve workflows based on user feedback and performance metrics.
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    Alternatives Considered
    The Joomla Project
    We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
    But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
    Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
    It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
    With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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    Nintex
    Microsoft environment does not have the scalability of Nintex; it is perfect for small and medium-sized companies, especially in environments where Microsoft environment is almost entirely used. Although Microsoft offers options to connect to other applications, its platform lacks the development and robustness that Nintex provides. Nintex not only covers Microsoft environments but also Google and other important platforms.
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    Scalability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Nintex
    The scalability is really bottlenecked by the imagination of the user. I was able to make processes for my own personal usage, making my daily tasks easier. I was also able to make processes that affected hundreds of employees, making large standardization and efficiency gains. So either way, the system is used the same way, and I was the limiting factor.
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    Return on Investment
    The Joomla Project
    • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
    • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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    Nintex
    • People have woken up to the amount of overlap after mapping their processes.
    • People can be resistant to process changes. You need to have the support from above or support from the 'business' that you are process changing to be able to see the positive impacts.
    • Numbers talk. if you can get a general salary figure from your HR dept to show savings for 'employee bands', then when you present reports, they will be all the richer in data.
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    Screenshot of Nintex Automation CE, a complete agentic business orchestration platform — unifying process intelligence, agentic workflow orchestration, and AI-driven solution building in one governed platform.Screenshot of the Nintex K2 dashboard. The application offers on-premises and hosted solutions that brings together advanced orchestration, control, and scalability, and security into a single platform.