Nintex
platformProcess automation platform anchored in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint estates.
Powerful and easy-to-use process management and automation platform that helps organizations digitize and optimize their business workflows, with particular strength in document generation and Microsoft integration.
Our Take
We see Nintex most often inside enterprises with deep Microsoft 365 footprints that need workflow capability beyond Power Automate Premium licensing. The legacy K2 estate carries real upgrade risk on customer engagements; we map the migration path before recommending. — Rafal Fila, ShadowGen
What Sets Nintex Apart
Nintex is the most established Microsoft-ecosystem process-automation vendor that operates as a fully independent ISV rather than a Microsoft business unit. The 2020 K2 acquisition gave Nintex a long-tenured low-code platform that competes more directly with OutSystems and Mendix than with Power Apps, broadening the company well beyond its SharePoint workflow origins.
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About Nintex
Nintex Global Ltd. builds a process-automation suite targeted at business operations teams inside Microsoft-centric enterprises. The company was founded in 2006 in Melbourne by Brett Campbell and Brian Cook as a SharePoint workflow product, expanded to North America in the early 2010s, and moved its operational headquarters to Bellevue, Washington while retaining engineering staff in Australia.
The current Nintex Process Platform combines several distinct product lineages: Nintex Workflow Cloud (the modern SaaS process designer), Nintex Forms, Nintex RPA (acquired via the EnableSoft acquisition in 2020), Nintex Promapp (process mapping, acquired 2018), and the K2 Software business-process and low-code-app platform (acquired October 2020). Pricing is enterprise-quoted with seat-based and process-volume components; entry-level pricing for Nintex Workflow Cloud starts in the low five figures per year.
Thoma Bravo acquired Nintex from existing investors including Thompson Street Capital Partners in March 2021. Reported deal value was approximately $1B. Under Thoma Bravo ownership, Nintex has continued consolidating its acquired product lines under a single platform brand and has invested in cloud-native rebuilds of the legacy SharePoint-centric workflow tooling. The company has approximately 8,000+ customer organisations across its disclosures and around 700-900 employees worldwide as of 2026.
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Market Position
Nintex competes with Microsoft Power Automate (which is steadily eating their lunch on the low end), ServiceNow (which wins in IT-centric workflows), and Kissflow (which offers a more modern UX). Power Automate is the biggest threat — it's included in Microsoft 365 licenses, making Nintex a hard sell for simple workflows. Nintex wins when organizations need document generation, process mapping, or more sophisticated workflow logic than Power Automate can handle. Government and education remain stronghold verticals.
Our Story
Founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, Nintex started by building workflow tools for Microsoft SharePoint. The founders saw that SharePoint was becoming the backbone of enterprise document management but lacked proper workflow capabilities. Nintex filled that gap and became the go-to workflow extension for Microsoft environments.