Nintex Process Platform is our primary e-forms and workflow application used across our company. I have implemented over 50 e-forms and workflows across various teams: HR, Finance, Health and Safety etc.
Pros
Easy to create form solutions.
Drag and drop workflow creation.
Able to develop form/workflow solutions for our Intranet (SharePoint Online) using Nintex for O365 or standalone cloud-based forms and workflows using Nintex Workflow Cloud.
Can quickly improve internal processes by rapidly (within days) replacing manual forms processes with automated e-form and workflows.
Cons
Happy with the platform - no issues.
Likelihood to Recommend
Excellent for rapidly automate manual form processes. There are a number of features provided by Nintex Process Platform that I have not found the time to utilize: eg. Nintex App Studio, Document Generation.
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Employee in Information Technology (Environmental Services company, 1001-5000 employees)
At our organization we use NINTEX Workflow for SharePoint across our Americas Division (Canada, United States, and South America countries) across all departments. Nintex Workflow is being used for any processes that require user approvals that used to be done with pen and paper or through email. Some of the processes we used Nintex Workflow for are: performance review, bonus, budget, engineering gate approvals, new vendor approvals, and many more.
Pros
Nintex Workflow has a really well designed user interface (UI) for creating the workflows. It closely resembles Microsoft Visio which makes designing the workflows easier on the user since it's very visual compared to the out of the box SharePoint workflows which is closer to computer programming.
Another example of what Nintex does well is the ability of letting the users and admins delegating the approval tasks to other users. That feature is very beneficial for scenarios when a task needs to get approved, but the user is out due to vacation or sickness.
Nintex Workflow history/audit is another great example of a very useful feature. Having a detailed history/audit is great for scenarios when 6-12 months down the road you need to go back and see what was approved or rejected when by who.
Cons
We dislike the fact that there's no easy way to re-send the task notification email to a user; adding that feature would be great.
Another example that could be improved on with Nintex Workflow for SharePoint is that not everything can be migrated when doing a migration of SharePoint 2010 to 2013.
Adding the ability of adding "Ad-Hoc" approvers without the need of stopping and restarting the workflow would be great.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nintex Workflow is well suited for a situation when a process needs 3-6 electronic approvals without the need of adding ad-hoc approvals. For scenarios when the process requires the ability to swap approvers without the need to stop the workflow, Nintex Workflow for SharePoint would be less appropriate. Another scenario that Nintex Workflow would be less appropriate for is when the task approval emails need to be resend.
