Item: Nintex
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Nintex

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Nintex Forms and Workflows in our on-premise SharePoint environment. It has helped unlock additional capabilities that the out-of-the-box workflow features in SharePoint simply does not have. It helps with our approval process, allows us to create complex workflows, allows us to create user-friendly forms, and the entire company can benefit from these enhancements. The user-friendly and visual nature of the workflow and form designers allows even users with minimal SharePoint knowledge the ability to create complex workflows to meet their needs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

LazyApproval emails in workflows allow users the ability to approve actions via email.
Unlocks additional workflow features that are severely lacking or missing in the OOTB version SharePoint.
Workflow Designer is very good at giving users a visual representation of their workflows. It is very user-friendly.
Customer service is very good. The turnaround time is fast and they are knowledgeable and offer detailed solutions.

Cons

Software updates are sometimes problematic. Their updater does not work well in our environment and therefore we need to manually remove everything and re-install.
Updates to their software seems to occur quarterly therefore your SharePoint server updates become outdated while you wait for Nintex to update their software to work with the latest CUs from Microsoft.

Return on Investment

Saves the company time by allowing users to approve actions via email instead of accessing SharePoint.
Since we do not need to have a workflow designer expert, anyone could learn how to create workflows, allowing better knowledge sharing.

Usability

Nintex Forms and the Workflow Designer have very user-friendly user interfaces. It may look daunting at first but when the user starts to use it, it will make sense to the user. There are many ways to design a workflow and Nintex offers many actions to accomplish the same end result.

Integrations

We only use Nintex with our SharePoint on-premise environment.

Again, it unlocks more features and capabilities in SharePoint that are not available to the user out of the box.

Key Insights

Do you think Nintex delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Nintex's feature set?

Yes

Did Nintex live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Nintex go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Nintex again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft SharePoint, SAP SuccessFactors HCM, Epicor Kinetic, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), AutoTime, Microsoft Visual Studio, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Likelihood to Recommend

Nintex has been great in an on-premise SharePoint environment. We assume it would be equally as good in the cloud. Nintex has been crutial to our business as users are able to approve workflows on their mobile devices through LazyApprovals without needing to access SharePoint on their phone or go to a computer. The user-friendly and visual nature of the workflow and form designers allows even users with minimal SharePoint knowledge the ability to create complex workflows and design custom forms to meet their needs.

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Easy to use Workflow Automation Software for SharePoint

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