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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Nintex

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANintex offers a platform that helps companies discover, automate, and optimize business processes.

    $480

    Minimum 1,000 users per user

    SharePoint Designer (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SharePoint Designer was a tool for developing SharePoint applications that has been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    NintexSharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    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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    Pricing Offerings
    NintexSharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    NintexSharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Nintex
    Chose Nintex
    The platform is WYSWYG and is more powerful than SharePoint Designer. Having Nintex forms beside the workflow makes a perfect package.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    The biggest feature difference we found was the ability to copy and paste a workflow step is missing from SharePoint Designer and available in Nintex. Additionally, Nintex has a wider variety of workflow tasks to choose from and an easier to easier to use designer. Nintex …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    The Nintex Platform is a stable, robust, and mature platform. When compared to SharePoint Designer Workflows, Nintex is much easier to use, troubleshoot, and maintain. When compared to Microsoft Flow, Nintex is more deeply integrated into SharePoint and has features like a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex WorkFlows seems to be a lot more user friendly, contrast to using SharePoint Designer. I had to spend a lot of time learning SPD and even more time troubleshooting SPD WorkFlows and InfoPath Forms. Though Microsoft offers lots of information on knowledge base (kbs) and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Most of this review compares Nintex Workflow to SharePoint Designer, as that is what it replaces. However, as stated previously, you can use both. Nintex will usually be the tool of choice though, since it is much faster and easier for most tasks. There are only a few things …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    We trialed K2 but thought the interface and features did not stack up to Nintex. Nintex was easier to learn and easier to master than utilizing K2. I am not involved in pricing decisions so I cannot compare cost to the products. Nintex is much easier to operate than InfoPath …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex process platform is so easy for non-IT users to use for themselves and automate their day to day workflows, which is a huge success for the overall organization. Browser-based process modeling and WYSIWYG form builder is a great option for non-IT users without steep …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    We have evaluated OOTB designer approaches, Power Automate approaches, and K2 wrt to Nintex. The ideal features that set Nintex apart are:
    • Predefined action items and ease of design using drag and drop.
    • Ability to implement complex processes with fewer hurdles using no to low …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    We only use Nintex.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex extends Sharepoint native capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex is better than both. Flow has too many limitations and hidden costs and K2 uses its own workflow engine and I personally feel that the installs of Nintex are much easier because it snaps right into SharePoint.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    More flexible, more actions, better design surface
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    We compared NINTEX Workflow against K2, but in the end decided to go with NINTEX. After evaluating both solutions we went with NINTEX incited of K2 for several reasons. One of the reasons why we went with NINTEX was the overall cost of the solution; K2 was way more than NINTEX. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    I have much more control over my workflows and have saved many hours of development work since switching to Nintex Workflow. The standard out of the box SharePoint workflow designer does not offer the in-depth functionality that Nintex Workflow does; it is clunky and not very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    What previously stood K2 apart from Nintex was purely the ability to have workflows executed outside of SharePoint. Nintex are due to release a product that resides in Azure that provides this feature as well. K2 should really look into redesigning the development GUIs they are …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex Workflow is much more intuitive, elegant, and powerful. Searching for the command and feature is much quicker in Nintex Workflow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    K2 runs on it's own server, which means you generally don't have to worry about migrations, upgrades and things like that. It also has more design UI options - you can use the browser, Visual Studio, or other desktop tools. I believe K2 has a more powerful platform, but Nintex …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    We evaluated workflow products from Nintex and K2 and felt that both were comparable. Nintex had a slight better user experience for OOB drag and drop capabilities while K2 offered better customization opportunities. In the end we purchased Nintex since our target audience was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    I am unfamiliar with K2 today, but back in 2007 K2's product was unpolished and priced beyond our budget. It made it an easy decision to go with Nintex.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Other companies have workflow products, K2 for example, or out of the box SharePoint Designer, or even Visual Studio workflow. But none have been as easy to use with on-screen drag and drop control.
    Incentivized
    Chose Nintex
    Nintex is easier than Visual Studio and richer than SharePoint Designer, chosen for accessibility, scalability, and faster business process automation.
    Incentivized
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    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    In order to simplify our internal workflows, we have installed additionnal tool for our SharePoint platforms : Nintex Workflow and forms.

    Compared to Nintex, SharePoint Designer is very far away. I am only talking here for 2 main features of SharePoint Designer :
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    I haven't used anything else like this. I use different products for workflows and forms, but they aren't listed in the listings for this page. Instead of using it for workflows or forms (deprecated 2 years ago), I use Nintex. For everything else, I have what I need in the …
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    I'd say that Nintex is a lot easier to configure and identifying errors is less complex than SharePoint Designer. In addition, an alternative that developers may prefer using is Adobe Dreamweaver which is also a web development tool. A third option is Coda, a text editor that …
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    SharePoint Designer is somewhat inferior when compared to a purpose-built third-party tool like Nintex. Even though Nintex leverages built-in workflow engines (SP2010 and SP2013 depending on platform), it builds on top of that and adds many useful features.
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Nintex Forms and Workflow are both very robust tools, but cost for some clients can be prohibitive. Nintex does not provide tools to manage SharePoint sites, lists and libraries.
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Both K2 and Nintex provide a powerful platform to build and run business applications that integrate seamlessly with SharePoint; business apps typically consist of workflow, forms, data and reports. The type of business apps range from simple document approval workflows to …
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Both Nintex and K2 Blackpearl are great products in their own way, but they are expensive. The pricing models for the SharePoint Online environment is very expensive for how Holiday uses workflows. Nintex's pricing model is by the number of workflows in your tenant, and I …
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    There really isn't a holistic, complete SharePoint Designer replacement currently. You can utilize several different tools and piece together the functionality of Designer. No one really "selects" SharePoint Designer, it is just a necessary evil. For O365 subscribers, Flow …
    Incentivized
    Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    SharePoint Designer is the only tool of its kind that I feel 100% comfortable using. Compared to the Nintex workflows/forms, SharePoint Designer has much more increased functionality and ease for an IT-type user like myself. I think it has a much better and easier to navigate …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    NintexSharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Nintex and SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Feature
    Nintex
    8.5
    176 Ratings
    SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Dashboards8.9163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.8168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.9139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Nintex and SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Feature
    Nintex
    7.4
    240 Ratings
    SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer8.4217 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation5.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine7.8189 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support6.9170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player8.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder9.2215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution7.7174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Nintex and SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Feature
    Nintex
    9.0
    18 Ratings
    SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Nintex and SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Feature
    Nintex
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Content management10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    NintexSharePoint Designer (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (280 ratings)
    4.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.0
    (33 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)