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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

    $1,380

    per year (purchased via a Creator license)

    Pricing
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise - Process Platform
    $480
    Minimum 1,000 users per user
    Tableau Creator License
    $115
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All pricing plans are billed annually. A Creator license includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Pulse. Discounts sometimes available for volume.
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    Community Pulse
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    Nintex
    Chose Nintex
    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 …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
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    91%
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    6.6
    190 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.6176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.8179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.4143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    7.0
    258 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer7.6230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation5.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine7.7198 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support7.0174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player7.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder8.0228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution7.7181 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    9.0
    18 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Tableau Desktop
    -
    Ratings
    Content management10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    175 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.0145 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.2174 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    172 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.6167 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.6170 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.1126 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.6165 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    166 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.1155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.2154 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.6120 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.6128 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.978 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    164 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.7162 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.6156 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.1
    149 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.1145 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.1125 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.9136 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.383 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    7.9
    141 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.6130 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.5101 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.5122 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Nintex and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Nintex
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    7.7
    67 Ratings
    1% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.459 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.653 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.751 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.154 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (302 ratings)
    9.1
    (204 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.7
    (34 ratings)
    7.5
    (41 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    8.4
    (73 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    1.0
    (57 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NintexTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Tableau
    The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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    Pros
    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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    Tableau
    • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
    • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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    Cons
    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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    Tableau
    • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
    • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
    • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Tableau
    Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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    Usability
    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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Tableau
    When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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    Performance
    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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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    Support Rating
    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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    Tableau
    Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Tableau
    It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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    Online Training
    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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    Tableau
    I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Tableau
    Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Tableau
    I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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    Scalability
    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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    Tableau
    Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Tableau
    • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
    • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
    • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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    ScreenShots

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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.