Looking to the Future with Nintex Workflow Cloud

NWC provides the same robust process automation capabilities we depend on with the Nintex platform but separates the technology from the SharePoint environment, enabling a complete digital transformation solution. End-to-end automation, integrated process mapping, document generation, RPA, e-signature capabilities, and integration with various SaaS business systems are all available outside of M365 in the stand-alone high-performance workflow engine. 

Nintex Workflow Cloud Innovations

Nintex Workflow Cloud is the future of process automation with Nintex. As such, new features and functionality are added to the NWC platform every two weeks. Some recent innovations include:

• • The Intelligent PDF Form Converter is an AI-based tool that converts existing PDF forms into NWC forms. Think of this as a form jump starter. The tool supports fillable and non-fillable PDF forms, identifies field types while continuing to learn over time, allows for complete customization using the Nintex Forms Designer in NWC, and can save hours of manual form creation.
  • The Form Designer has received several enhancements, including:
    • Save and Continue allows participants to save their progress when filling out forms and come back to the draft forms later through My Nintex.
    • User Context Variables provide access to the current authenticated user’s First Name, Last Name, and Email during form interactions.
    • Repeating Sections with Row Calculation allows designers to create forms to capture dynamic data lists (e.g., order forms, incident reports, expense forms).
    • People Picker Control brings the familiar functionality from Nintex for SharePoint and Nintex for Office 365, allowing users to look up and select users from the NWC tenant.
  • My Nintex is a portal within NWC that surfaces Tasks and Forms for the currently authenticated user. Participants can complete their work items, submit new forms, and complete draft forms from a single dashboard.
  • The SharePoint Solution Starter kit makes it easy for users who still spend much of their time working within SharePoint. The SharePoint web parts allow users to interact with solutions developed using Nintex Workflow Cloud without accessing another system to do their work.
  • You can now assign tasks to multiple users and specify how the workflow should progress based on user responses (e.g., all assignees must respond, first response completes the task, wait for a specific response, wait for percentage of a response).
  • Data Source Management allows you to assign permissions to the fields on your NWC forms that pull data from other sources, which controls which users can edit a data source and who can consume it to bind data to the lookup control.

A Powerful Cloud Automation Platform

While Nintex Workflow Cloud is powerful on its own, more significant ROI and benefits can be realized when you combine it with the rest of the Nintex Process Platform.

NWC + Nintex Promapp

Nintex Promapp enables line of business (“LOB”) teams to define, map, and manage their processes. Processes are easy to find, update, and follow because the process owners are responsible for them, not technical stakeholders. And those processes are held in a single, central source of truth. When you’re ready to move from mapping to automating, the Nintex Workflow Generator saves time by automatically detecting activity steps in your Promapp mapped processes that fit NWC workflow actions. So, users can create the foundation for effective workflows, simplifying the automation process for IT.