Dropbox Paper vs. Nintex

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dropbox Paper
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Dropbox Paper is a web-based, co-editing tool that includes word processing, document creation and coordination features. The tool is free to use and allows multiple people to collaborate on a document.N/A
Nintex
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Nintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.
$480
Minimum 1,000 users per user
Pricing
Dropbox PaperNintex
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Enterprise - Process Platform
$480
Minimum 1,000 users per user
Professional - Process Platform
150,000
per year
Expert - Process Platform
185,000
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Dropbox PaperNintex
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
Dropbox PaperNintex
Considered Both Products
Dropbox Paper
Chose Dropbox Paper
Paper is a good option for those people looking for a lightweight content creation & collaboration tool & especially if you are already using dropbox. However, all the capabilities that Paper has are not so powerful in-depth of flexibility & range of functionality, for example, …
Chose Dropbox Paper
Very similar for collaboration, however, Dropbox Paper has more features for the types of documents you can create vs Quip or monday.com.
Chose Dropbox Paper
We briefly tried Prezi, but in all honesty DropBox Paper won out for us simply because it lets you use and integrate so many different media types all together into one project. I know that there are a few features that others really liked about Prezi but for the group as a …
Chose Dropbox Paper
Dropbox Paper is very lightweight and cost-effective compared to competitors. Implementation is straightforward and their support is fast and effective. They have better document management, sharing, and organising capabilities however, their UI and experience are not as good …
Chose Dropbox Paper
Dropbox Paper is a good choice for creating very simply formatted documents. Google Docs and Microsoft Word allow you to create documents with a wealth of features and formatting options. Goole Docs is great for collaborating and document sharing with others. Microsoft has the …
Chose Dropbox Paper
I was not part of the decision making to acquire the Dropbox tool against any of the other options and competitors. However, I can assume that the fact that we have been using Dropbox File Management for many years and many important files are stored and shared in the tool …
Chose Dropbox Paper
Having tried all the other document suites from Google, Apple and Microsoft; I can say that Dropbox Paper is the easiest for template creation and management and being able to create documents the fastest. But as someone who is embroiled in another ecosystem, you will get …
Nintex
Chose Nintex
We selected Nintex because Process Manager is a purpose designed platform for knowledge management. However, what we discovered is that there are significant limitations, which has lead us to now explore developing a knowledge management platoform in sharepoint. this is a much …
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The feasibility of Nintex K2, combined with its integration capabilities and process development flexibility, was the key factor.
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Microsoft environment does not have the scalability of Nintex; it is perfect for small and medium-sized companies, especially in environments where Microsoft environment is almost entirely used. Although Microsoft offers options to connect to other applications, its platform …
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Nintex Process Platform is a great tool for automatic tasks and creating forms in SharePoint Online. For automating using other applications, including third party, Power Automate has more usage.
Chose Nintex
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 …
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I would say Power Automate at the moment leads the category for all round toolset and useability
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I'm not aware of using or evaluating any other products.
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We use Outsystems for other processes in our operation but we see that this platform is not able to indentify processes when drawed. Besides that OutSystems requires some basic development knowledge to use it. This makes it not really useable for business units.
Chose Nintex
Nintex is easier to use and manage, it looks way better and is a lot cheaper if you have a lot of workflow runs.
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Fast automations, ability to adopt custom script
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Nintex workflows has much complex process management tools and better integration tools than Microsoft Power Platform. Being able to host it on premises is also an important feature for companies that are not cloud fans.
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I have seen other platforms that are much easier to use, but Nintex is good from a simple visual perspective.
Chose Nintex
We did this evaluation in 2019 and Power Platform was not as matured as Nintex.
Chose Nintex
Nintex was selected because it was somewhat unique in its capabilities and depth/breadth of ability 7+ years ago. However, the competition has now caught up and pricing is a significant factor in whether we continue to use Nintex going forward.
Chose Nintex
Nintex Process Platform was and still is by far the most flexible and easy-to-use than any of the other form creation and workflow designer apps we looked at.
Chose Nintex
It's much more reasonably priced and we were able to actually experience the platform for a bit before we made a decision. And by the time our demo was finished we had already started depending on it for some of our processes so it would've been very hard to separate from it.
Chose Nintex
We use Microsoft Power Automate as well in our organization but used Nintex Automation Cloud workflows for most of the automation workflows because NWC is low code solution to develop automation workflows for SharePoint, integrate well with Microsoft teams, better designer tool …
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We are using Nintex for SharePoint 2016 forms and workflows only for all kinds of automation. It has the following benefits over others. It is faster than working with the old SharePoint Designer and its textual design or Visual Studio with coding. Less complex workflow can
Features
Dropbox PaperNintex
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Dropbox Paper
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Ratings
Nintex
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Dropbox Paper
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Ratings
Nintex
7.4
Ratings
12% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Dropbox Paper
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Ratings
Nintex
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Dropbox Paper
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Ratings
Nintex
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Content management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Dropbox PaperNintex
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
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7.8
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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2.1
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Usability
-
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9.0
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Availability
-
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8.9
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Performance
-
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9.7
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Support Rating
-
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8.0
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In-Person Training
-
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7.0
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Online Training
-
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8.8
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.0
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Configurability
-
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8.8
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Ease of integration
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9.8
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Product Scalability
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9.8
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Vendor post-sale
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9.7
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Vendor pre-sale
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9.7
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User Testimonials
Dropbox PaperNintex
Likelihood to Recommend
Dropbox Paper is suited for creating very simple documents, where you are collaborating with other users. It is particularly useful in a work environment that primarily uses Dropbox as a storage and file management solution. If you need to create documents where you need more enhanced formatting features, you would need to use Google Docs, or Microsoft Word.
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The Nintex K2 platform is not only efficient and developer-friendly, but the support provided by the vendor is also highly commendable. The platform's ease of use and robust functionality make it a preferred choice for developers, while the vendor's exceptional support ensures smooth implementation and ongoing assistance, enhancing overall user satisfaction.
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Pros
  • Develop multiple individual projects, setting milestone dates within them.
  • Easy to invite others to collaborate on projects.
  • Create to-do lists and assign due dates.
  • Create documents with multiple types of integrated media, going beyond simple text with images, audio, and video.
  • Make edits to documents in real time for all team members to see.
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  • Easily build approval process using email and assign a task actions in Nintex Workflow
  • Easily manage security at item level with O365 permission action in Nintex Workflow
  • Easily use Rule in Nintex Form to build the Input Form and manage the events
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Cons
  • Its presentation capabilities can definitely be improved, including how page-by-page presentation is to be done & how aspect ratios are maintained for different resolutions.
  • More flexibility in text editing would be a great addition to the text editing functionality, for example, additional fonts would be a nice thing to have.
  • Introducing additional to-do list software capabilities or task management functionality would enhance the software greatly as well.
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  • Difficult to fix flows that are in process (such as re-assigning a task for someone that is OOO or has left the company).
  • Nintex support team does not have resolution SLAs (only acknowledgment SLAs). Occasionally this has led to key issues taking weeks to resolve.
  • The number of integrations available is impressive, however, sometimes key methods are not available within an integration. This has been improving significantly in the past 2 years as the platform has matured.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Renewal is mainly on the fact that Nintex is so widely used and it would be impossible to migrate all of these existing workflows to another engine. Third-party lock-in within SharePoint is pretty strong, which makes it difficult to move to something else. Our Nintex database is well-over 100 GBs. Nintex email support is very good, and I've been impressed. The Community however is non-existent and filled with unanswered questions.
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Usability
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Nintex Workflow does exactly what it is advertised to do: make workflow development fast and easy. It doesn't provide very much new functionality, but it isn't really supposed to. When I am working with a client on a SharePoint project, I am always happy if I hear that they use Nintex Workflow, as it makes workflows much easier.
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Reliability and Availability
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The Nintex Process Platform has never crashed or had any availability issues during my usage. However there was an issue that was of my own making that caused a slowdown of the system. I had set up a process to run once a day and check for employees on a list that had certain parameters selected, and for some reason that I had to troubleshoot, the process instead ran constantly, which filled the cache quickly. I ended up having to dismantle that process so the system didn't crash.
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Performance
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Unlike any other process automation product out there. Not only is it a low-code, easy to use tool for building processes in environments like SharePoint or Salesforce, they have really started to expand their tool-set by offering tools to manage other things like process mapping, RPA, mobile,etc.
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Support Rating
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The support team works as fast as they can and they are usually fast to solver the issues. Sometimes they need more time to solve one of them because our workflows and so on are more complex than usual clients.
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In-Person Training
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The trainer addressed the smallest queries in a friendly and timely manner; He walked us through all the necessary products we were using
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Online Training
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I used the Nintex training software, it was easy to watch and follow along. It didn't go too fast and was descriptive enough to understand what the steps needed were in order to produce efficient workflows and user friendly forms.
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Implementation Rating
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1.Start with Simple Workflows: Begin with basic workflows to gain user confidence before tackling complex processes.
2.Involve Stakeholders Early: Engage business users and IT early to align workflows with real business needs.
3.Comprehensive Training: Invest in user training to ensure smooth adoption and reduce resistance.
4.Leverage Prebuilt Templates: Use Nintex’s templates to speed up implementation and maintain consistency.
5.Iterate and Optimize: Continuously improve workflows based on user feedback and performance metrics.
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Alternatives Considered
Paper is a good option for those people looking for a lightweight content creation & collaboration tool & especially if you are already using dropbox. However, all the capabilities that Paper has are not so powerful in-depth of flexibility & range of functionality, for example, for to-do lists or task management there are many other better options out there.
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I was not part of selecting Nintex, but I think Nintex does a better job of generating linear flowcharts vs. Microsoft Visio because it automates the majority of the process of creating process maps. (Microsoft Visio is better for creating flowcharts that are not linear. because it is less automated and more flexible.)
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Scalability
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The scalability is really bottlenecked by the imagination of the user. I was able to make processes for my own personal usage, making my daily tasks easier. I was also able to make processes that affected hundreds of employees, making large standardization and efficiency gains. So either way, the system is used the same way, and I was the limiting factor.
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Return on Investment
  • Dropbox Paper has allowed all of our employees to be much more productive and on track even when we can't be in the office, which from a management standpoint is a huge positive impact. They know that productivity isn't slowing or lacking when everyone isn't actually sitting in the office under their watchful eye.
  • It has had a huge impact on our turn around time and speed of getting more work and projects completed. The more work you can effectively get done in a time period means more money for the bottom line.
  • It has made the majority of our team members more accountable and reliable when they know everyone is working together on something and each person has their own checklist of items to complete. It is especially helpful that everyone can see the same checklist, so everyone knows what each other is accomplishing.
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  • 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.
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ScreenShots

Nintex Screenshots

Screenshot of Nintex Automation Cloud, a cloud-based platform that offers capabilities to build automation and process-focused applications.Screenshot of Nintex Insights, which gives visibility into metrics and performance KPIs across all processes.Screenshot of Nintex Process Manager, which includes visual mapping and management software to encourage company-wide collaboration, increase accountability, and improve processes.Screenshot of Nintex Forms, which lets users create dynamic online forms to capture and submit accurate and current data. Its design canvas, drag-and-drop controls, and advanced business logic make it easy to customize forms for various business needs.