Overall Satisfaction with Nintex Process Platform
We use Nintex Process Platform for a set of workflows across the company. Going from workflows for simple approval to more complex workflows with cascading decisiontrees. The most of these workflows are used by our human resources department. We for instance have Nintex Process Platform combined with a workflow to do the onboarding of new employees. Another workflow is used to order sandwiches.
- Visual programming
- More functionality than the out of the box workflows
- Sharepoint wide workflows and sitebound workflows
- Monitoring running workflows
- Debugging
- More assistance when using REST-API's
- There was no need to do .Net development
- The workflows are quite easy to maintain
- For simple workflows you don't need to have technical skills
We use Nintex Process Platform in our on premises Microsoft SharePoint 2013 platform to implement all kinds of workflows. Going from simple approval workflows over complex workflows for onboarding new employees. Or managing the creation of Microsoft SharePoint sites for managing our cross departmental projects. Thanks to Nintex Process Platform we can develop and roll out implementations for business processes very quickly.
Currently we don't have IT staff implementing Nintex Process Platform Workflows or forms. But as mentioned earlier we have a few non technical IT staff that are able to develop and manage Nintex workflows and forms in our on premise Microsoft SharePoint environment. And thanks to the visual development interface they are able to create and manage their own "applications"
Even though it is a visual programming tool, you still need some knowledge on how to program. I had a training with a business user and he couldn't get his head around certain concepts in the development of workflows. For that reason we keep the development within the IT department. But the forms and workflows developed with nintex can be extremely user friendly.
We don't have users that develop their own forms and/or workflows, as mentioned earlier you need a programmers mindset and not every business user can translate his problem/solution to a user friendly form or workflow.
For the development of forms and workflows by business users, I don't think NPP is the right tool.
For the development of forms and workflows by business users, I don't think NPP is the right tool.
- SharePoint Designer
Nintex's Process Platform workflow development interface is much easier to use for both technical and non technical IT personnel. We have a partner that helped us to implement the setup and assist us when we run into issues when developing workflows. But because of the visual nature of the workflow integrated development environment we don't need to involve that partner that often. The same goes for the development of forms in Nintex Process Platform
Do you think Nintex Process Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Nintex Process Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Nintex Process Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Nintex Process Platform go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Nintex Process Platform again?
Yes
Nintex Process Platform Feature Ratings
Using Nintex Process Platform
3 - We currently have 3 users who develop Nintex workflows and forms. But the whole company has access to our Microsoft SharePoint environment, so you could say that we have +1000 users who use the workflows developed by these three developers. We don't have plans to add users to the developer pool in the short term, in part because we are investigating which route we're going to take for the future when it comes to collaboration platforms.
We don't really have internal support for the Nintex platform. As mentioned earlier we have an external partner who supports us in our development and management of the workflows and forms.
- approval flows
- ordering of sandwiches for lunchmeetings
- Automatic creation of project sites
- Automation of the onboarding process
- The automation of creation of the project sites
- the onboarding process where we expose a form to the public internet
- setting the security on lists/libraries based on end user managed user lists
Evaluating Nintex Process Platform and Competitors
Yes - We also evaluated the out of the box workflow functionality in Microsoft SharePoint using Microsoft Designer. But because designer has been deprecated in the meantime we are convinced we made the right choice. Also because you most of the time you need forms for the user interaction and also that Microsoft technology has been deprecated in the mean time.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
The product feature set of the Nintex Process Platform is so impressively big that compared with the out of the box functionality you initially have a hammer and with the Nintex product you get a complete toolset that allows you to do so much more when it comes to automating all kinds of processes.
The market changes so quick that the evaluation criteria have to change to. In our current situation we're moving more towards cloud solutions and the pricing strategy for these cloud solutions are very different triggering a shift from CAPEX to OPEX which is not always easy to explain to our management. We also need to investigate the possibilities of of the power platform to see if they can replace Nintex in the cloud.
Nintex Process Platform Implementation
- Third-party professional services
We partnered with a local partner, that also assisted us in the implementation of our on premisse Microsoft SharePoint environment.
Nintex Process Platform Support
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed | None |
Not Sure
Using Nintex Process Platform
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Like to use Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- The visual development environment
- form development
- exposing forms to the internet
- debugging
- editing large workflows