NintexWorkflow for Everyone

Saman Coliaie | SharePoint Consultant

Moving something

from one state

to another

o Telling someone to do Something

o Or Doing Action by System

Sequential Workflow

Determine PMProposal Assign PMPMO reviewBusiness Unit

review

End

State Machine Workflow

The Foundation of the Optimized Enterprise

People/Culture• Defines the company

• Degree of change

BalancedKnowledge

Solution

T P

C

Process/Work• How and Why

• Repeatable / Sustainable

Technology/Tools• Enables

• Tools

Stru

cture

d

Ad

Ho

c

Full Power of .NET, WF, etc.Significant complexity,

development time

Wizard-based rapid designLimited feature set/ sophistication

Very limited use casesOnly available with SP

Stru

cture

d

Ad

Ho

cFull Power of .NET, WF, etc.

Significant complexity, development time

Wizard-based rapid designLimited feature set/ sophistication

Very limited use casesOnly available with SP

Visual designWide degree of sophistication

Rapid development time

Lists and

Libraries

• Approval

• Collect Feedback

• Collect Signatures

• Disposition

Approval

Lists

• Three State*

• Translation

Management

Create Reusable

Workflows

Import/E

xport to

Visio

New Workflow

Designer Wizard

SPD +

Visio

Workflow

.NET

Workflows

Custom

.NET Action

for SPD

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

Good News,

SharePoint 2013 Features (OOB/SPD)

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

To-Do

1.Don’t Worry

2.Be Happy

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

SharePoint 2013 Features (OOB/SPD)

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

Nintex 2010 Features

Design within SharePoint

Drag-and-drop

Configure and draw at the same time

No desktop installs

No extra purchase

Minimized clicks

Guided design

Unified dialog boxes

Single ribbon

Lazy Approval

Roll-up task Inbox

Roll-up workflow status

Workflow progress

Outlook task interop

Performance statistics

Step-by-step profiing

User workloads

Audit completions, cancellations

Status updates

Declarative activities

Calling workflows like subroutines

Templates

Versioning of workflow designs

Control access to designer

Control access to individual activities

Enforce review of changes

Staged deployments

Custom roles

Custom context placeholders

Loops

ForEach Iterations

State Machines

Switches

Conditional start rules

Scheduled workflows

Repeatable workflows

Cross-farm access to content

Presence-based routing

SOAP interop

REST interop

WebDAV interop

LDAP interop

ADO.NET interop

XML read/write

Word Services interop

Excel Services interop

User Profile interop

Audience interop

BCS interop

Search interop

MS CRM interop

BizTalk Server interop

Active Directory provisioning

Outlook calendar interop

Exchange Server provisioning

Lync Server provisioning

Cloud Services interop

OnPrem/Online data exchange

Custom ASP.NET forms

Workflow variables in forms

Read/write tasks and source item properties

Multiple form layouts

External deployment

OAuth brokering

Auto retry logic

Custom CSS

Custom JavaScript

Provisioning

Use

Draw Deploy

Govern

Design

Extend

Monitor

SecureUnderstand

Easy to

Building

o On SharePoint

o With SharePoint

o For SharePoint