Nintex in review.
January 22, 2025

Nintex in review.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Nintex Workflow for Sharepoint

Modules Used

  • Nintex Process Manager

Overall Satisfaction with Nintex

We are still very much dipping our toes into the 'Nintex platform water,' as it were. Still, we already see benefits with workflow processes that can be customized beyond the out-of-the-box SharePoint experience. Nintex was recommended to us by our 3rd party SharePoint developers, who have been with us on the journey to transform a standard 'SharePoint' into a one-stop shop for all staff across the business. The workflows are easy to set up using their drag-and-drop methodology, and the forms even take the Adobe-created forms to the next level. The internal policy mandated a traditional On-Premise SharePoint Farm, and we are excited that Nintex recognizes this in their product offering by still supporting On-Premise Farms (SharePoint). The next step is to digitize our remaining paper forms and build more workflows. This is what I am excited about.

Pros

  • Nintex Forms.
  • Drag/drop workflow creation.
  • Read existing forms and convert them.

Cons

  • I haven't encountered any areas with room for improvement yet.
  • 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.
I know we don't use all the features available to us, and indeed, we are not getting 100% out of the features we use. However, we are delighted with what we use and how we use it to map out our processes. I mentioned before that we are still working through our mapping but are delighted.
Aside from the integration to Entra AD, we haven't used any other integration yet. We are looking into SharePoint integration to take advantage of the direct process mapping report we can share, but it is still in its infancy. Still, we are looking forward to deploying this when resourcing allows.
Entra AD syncing takes the ease out of removing and adding staff as they start and finish.
Xmind was great for mind mapping, but when I tried to use it as a process mapper, I found it was rather lacking. It has its uses, but process mapping (at least for us in our stage and phase of mapping) was not up to the task, unfortunately. We didn't have any other software we compared against it. We chose the Nintex process platform as we had had integration previously with SharePoint farm on-premise with the epic form builder, but as we migrated to the cloud, it made sense to keep things with the one company.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Nintex again?

Yes

Nintex is constantly releasing new updates to the process platform. We are partially mapping out our current processes and have already seen areas where we can reduce the overlapping work of various staff members. Process mapping and the platform take time, no matter how easy the tool makes it (it's easy). If you don't have the time or resources to commit to process or experience improvement, you may need to look internally to see if your business C-level is ready to 'improve' things. We learned this the hard way until we were able to show results.

Nintex Feature Ratings

Process designer
9
Business rules engine
8
SOA support
Not Rated
Process player
8
Form builder
10
Model execution
Not Rated
Dashboards
10
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
Not Rated

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