Nintex is only good for very simple things. Not meant for heavy lifting.
August 23, 2018

Nintex is only good for very simple things. Not meant for heavy lifting.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Nintex Workflow for Office365

Overall Satisfaction with Nintex Platform

We use Nintex Workflow and Forms via O365. For very simple forms with small data sets, it is ok. However, most of my complaints are with the Forms portion of the software. It is lacking very simple features like autocomplete search, the limit on mobile item lookups is far too small, etc.

Sharepoint is not really designed to be a data repository. Trying to bulk edit data in Sharepoint is next to impossible. It is easy enough to export data from Sharepoint, but trying to put it back in is another story entirely. What should be offered as an alternate solution for large data sets is a link to a SQL server. I've tried to use the "Execute SQL" from Nintex Workflow, but I cannot get it to work.

We contacted Nintex with our issues and they referred us to an external solutions company called Boost and they are building us something that does not use Nintex. We would just switch to Device Magic as they have a solution that would work great and has the missing features Nintex doesn't have, but the corporation I'm contracted out to isn't willing to switch... yet.

Pros

  • Simple

Cons

  • Autocomplete search.
  • Increase mobile item look-ups, should be at least as much as the Desktop version.
  • Better way to export data to SQL database.
  • At the company I'm contracted to, it's mostly been a loss of investment in my department because it has me trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
  • I cannot speak for the rest of the company.
I did not and would not have made this selection.
It is only appropriate for very simple forms.

Nintex Feature Ratings

Process designer
2
Business rules engine
3
SOA support
3
Form builder
2
Model execution
3
Dashboards
2
Standard reports
2
Custom reports
2

Comments

  • Elise Harrington | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for taking the time to write a review of Nintex . We really appreciate the feedback and I've shared your comments with our product team. I'd like to see if there is anything else we can do to help you be more successful with Nintex. Please send me an email and I will coordinate a discussion with someone on our customer success team. Elise Harrington elise.harrington@nintex.com

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