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Developer Nintex
Supports MOSS 2007 • WSS v3
Works with Dynamics CRM • Project Server 2007 • SAP • PerformancePoint 2007 • BizTalk Server 2006 • Siebel • Oracle • PeopleSoft
Price, US $ 8,750.00
Licensing Per WFE
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.nintex.com

Nintex Workflow 2007 for SharePoint enables organisations to build complex workflow processes quickly and easily using a web browser interface. Nintex Workflow 2007 empowers users across the organization to automate business processes, review workflow activities and automate common SharePoint administrative tasks.

Nintex Workflow 2007 is available in three editions - Standard, Enterprise and Workgroup.


Empower business users across your organisation to:

  • Automate business processes
  • See real-time feedback of workflow activities
  • Create workflows in hours not days
  • Automate common SharePoint administrative tasks
  • Generate rich enterprise-level reporting
  • Draw it, not code it


Empower developers across your organisation to:

  • Connect to external data via SQL, Web Services, LDAP, XML
  • Create and use your own Workflow Foundation activities
  • Interact via a Web Service API
  • Extend and customize using the Nintex Workflow SDK
  • BizTalk integration
  • Active Directory provisioning


Product Features:
 
Graphical Web Interface

  • Browser based client (no desktop software required)
  • Easy to use drag and drop workflow designer
  • Visual workflow progress

Advanced Workflow Features

  • Delegation and escalation capability
  • Scheduled and timed workflows
  • Rich Notification via E-mail, Instant Messenger and SMS
  • Rapid approval through Nintex LazyApproval™
  • Predefined templates for common processes

Built for SharePoint

  • Deep integration with MOSS 2007/WSS3.0
  • Automate common SharePoint tasks
  • Built on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Integrate SharePoint with Non SharePoint Systems
  • Connect with third party Enterprise Workflow products
  • Account Provisioning
  • BizTalk integration
  • Enterprise reporting


Pricing: 
 
Standard Edition is priced per server at $8,750.00
Enterprise Edition is priced per server at $17,500.00
Workgroup Edition is priced for 5 site activations at $3,000.00

 

Enterprise Integration (Enterprise Edition*)

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Average user rating from: 5 user(s)

 
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 4.6
 
 

Regarding Nintex workflows

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Overall I give 4 star as rating and I recommend that IT services consulting companies who want to execute their Notes to SharePoint migrations swiftly, need to buy this suite for faster execution and customer satisfaction.

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Pros a. I will give a 4 star to the product. I use it almost everyday for my workflow applications alongwith InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint 2007.

Its been a wonderfull experience using this workflow suite and I have made complex State Machine workflows in the matter of hours. The learning curve is really less and an average person with limited IQ can start working on this and specialize.

c. So fascinated by Nintex workflows, I have written a 2 part series on integrating InfoPath and Nintex workflows together,

Part 1 covers step-by-step tutorial on Integrating InfoPath forms with Nintex workflows via Nintex OOTB web services.
Check it out: http://www.sharepointfix.com/2009/10/infopath-2007-form-and-nintex-workflows.html

Part 2 covers step-by-step tutorial on Deployment of browser enabled InfoPath forms as Content Types using the SharePoint feature framework.
Check it out: http://www.sharepointfix.com/2009/12/infopath-2007-form-and-nintex-workflows.html

Regards,
The SharePoint Fix Team
Cons a. I don't find a code activity, in case if I want to go for advanced workflows.

b. UI is not flexible and has a lot of internal bugs which a user discovers when he starts working with Nintex.

c. Reminder Activity halts for 5-10 mins abruptly when used with Parallel actions.

d. Flexi Action Activity does not have a corresponding webservice to complete it programmatically.
Version Reviewed 1.0
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 4.0
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Reviewed by Mehul Bhuva
March 16, 2010
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Better than expected

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Love the product from a business point of view.
The SDK is great for my developers

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Pros Easy to use
Took me no time to install
I think I can reduce costs very quickly
Cons Cannot get pricing from the web
More white papaers on workflow standards would be goos
Version Reviewed 2007
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 5.0
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Reviewed by Rebecca
November 18, 2009
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Truly Kicks ass!!

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Our entire company (all departments) runs on it..

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Pros Easy, powerful, amazing tech support, good online forum.
Setup is super simple vs complicated k2.
Runs on top of MOSS and setup is complety inside of it
Cons help file is way too low on content, but again it's easy to use.
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Reviewed by Ben
October 18, 2009
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Performs as advertised...Good stuff...However

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Nintex installs, and sets up very easily. Their documentation and support is good. Overall my experience has been very good.

The previous review talked about how the end users can do all sorts of sophisticated workflows with this thing...Well yes...To a point. It might be my user-base, but there are some pretty abstract concepts that many of my folks are just not trained to handle. Things such as posting variables, regular expressions, and so forth are just unavoidable for anything of any consequence. As a result, I often find myself involved or designing the workflow myself.

That being said, the speed at which I can put it together and deploy it is about 500% faster than if I were to do it in SPD. If you have a tech-savvy crowd, the claims of anyone can do it are true. My users are regular business users, and although certainly not stupid, their just not accustomed to thinking in programmaticly logical terms...It's not plug and play from that perspective.

It's still a good investment. If you are looking at getting into workflow in your sharepoint environment, I whole heartedly recommend this product. just a word of warning...as the admin/dev in our sharepoint environment, I am not "off the hook" as some of the language around this product would suggest...


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Pros Easy to use interface
Exposes functionality normally reserved for SPD users to non-techs
Cuts development time down dramaticly
Cons More a product of the workflow foundation, but has trouble with "Wait For"
Wouldn't trust with "Mission Critical" tasks
Version Reviewed 8.7.5.1 (I think)
Rating:
 
 4.0
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Reviewed by bpulliam
November 27, 2008
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I love Nintex Workflow

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
If you want to give your SharePoint power users the ability to create workflows without (or even with) the use of SharePoint Designer then Nintex Workflow 2007 is the workflow tool to use.

What surprised me was the fact how relatively easy it is to create quite complex workflows using the webbased workflow designer of Nintex.

Most of the time I’ve been using workflows within SharePoint in combination with InfoPath forms. One the biggest issues I’ve had in the past was the whole task-driven way approach where there was no real information about the form you are approving.

So what does Nintex does? You probably wouldn’t have guessed it but it completely eliminates almost all the issues I had using SPD! ;)

Another key thing is that customers don’t need developers anymore to create this kind of workflows using Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer but instead the power now lies in the business where people can create their own workflows. Maybe this last statement is a little bit over exaggerated but you get the idea. But maintaining a Nintex workflow is much more easier and better to understand for the end-user then a SPD workflow is.

Maybe consultants, like us, are needed to setup the initial workflow (together with the creation of forms (InfoPath or SharePoint Lists). But then with a simple guidance (check out the excellent tutorials at the Connect site of Nintex) and training, the power users can create/maintain workflows themselves and thus save your IT department a lot of money and time. The time that was once needed to complete a single SPD workflow, which btw is not very DTAP-able (Development, Test, Acceptance, Production) can now be used to complete multiple Nintex workflows which are (in a way (using the Import and Export functionality) DTAP-able). I’m still investigating if there is a way of adding Nintex workflows in a SharePoint solution so it can be part of a real SharePoint solution :)

I haven’t looked in the SDK yet but it is possible to add custom actions as it is for SPD, so don’t worry that your beautifully crafted custom actions are not available anymore when you start using Nintex. You only need to make it available in Nintex, so some extra steps are required (for creating the dialogs, validation, etc).

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Pros Intuitive GUI (completey web-based)
Easy to create quite complex workflows
DTAP'able workflows
Support for custom actions
Version Reviewed 2007
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 5.0
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Reviewed by Robin
November 24, 2008
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