Has fit our needs for many years, though it is a pain to have to manage.
August 29, 2019
Has fit our needs for many years, though it is a pain to have to manage.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Nintex Workflow for Sharepoint
Overall Satisfaction with Nintex Platform
The output of Nintex-powered workflows is being used by our whole organization, but only a small handful of people actually use the Nintex administration interface. It is primarily used to orchestrate workflows from SharePoint lists and inform department reps of internal changes and staff onboarding.
- Visual Visio-like workflow designs.
- Dynamic email generation.
- SharePoint list integration.
- The web-based interface for designing workflows is extremely slow, and often unresponsive.
- Formatting of emails in the WYSIWYG GUI is very difficult. Copy/pasting doesn't work as one would expect, and I often find myself having to edit the raw HTML in order to suss out why certain objects are formatted the way they are.
- Error reporting on why a particular workflow has failed is incredibly difficult to decipher.
- Once our process is in place, it has allowed our workflows to automate a large portion of our daily activities.
- If we ever need to edit our workflows, the act of using Nintex is just cumbersome.
SharePoint Online/O365. Its relevance is becoming less and less important. With newer enterprise-wide tools becoming available, our current workflow processes will likely be redesigned and moved elsewhere.
Users interact with SharePoint lists, which then kick off a series of emails and/or tickets to other non-IT users. Non-IT staff does not administer the Nintex interface.