Nintex Process Platform vs Tidal by Redwood comparison

Nintex and Tidal Software by Redwood are both solutions in the Workload Automation category. Nintex is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0, while Tidal Software by Redwood is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.2. Nintex holds a 0.3% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 4.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Nintex users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Tidal Software by Redwood users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Nintex Process Platform and Tidal by Redwood both compete in the workflow and automation solutions category, offering distinct advantages. Nintex is favored for its pricing and support, though Tidal excels in features and user satisfaction.

Features: Nintex Process Platform offers scalability and ease of workflow creation with a low-code environment. Its SmartObject technology streamlines data management across systems, and SmartForm accelerates web form development. Integration with Microsoft ecosystems is highlighted. Tidal by Redwood provides superior workload automation, cross-platform scheduling, and advanced dependency management, offering users control over job processes with impressive flexibility and performance.

Room for Improvement: Nintex could enhance its management console, expand reporting capabilities, and improve integration and error reporting. Users seek better forms functionality and a flexible licensing model. Tidal by Redwood needs improvements in user interface, training, documentation support, and more intuitive reporting capabilities, with better integration with popular cloud and DevOps tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products offer deployment options, including on-premises and cloud. Nintex provides a hybrid model with responsive customer service, though its technical support isn't always satisfactory. Tidal by Redwood receives positive feedback for support, with needed improvements in easing the learning curve for newcomers.

Pricing and ROI: The Nintex Process Platform is considered expensive but valuable, offering a consumption-based model deemed justified by its features and ROI through time savings and productivity. Tidal by Redwood is seen as budget-friendly with competitive licensing and a strong return on investment. Its flexible licensing model, allowing unlimited agent additions, is appreciated, providing notable ROI through automation and efficiency gains.

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Categories and Ranking

Nintex Process Platform

Ranking in Workload Automation

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (12th), Process Automation (11th)

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

11th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of Nintex Process Platform is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 4.6%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Vitor Medeiros

National Sales Director at Konica Minolta

Offers capacity to integrate with external platforms but technically difficult

There is room for improvement in the user experience in the forms. When we need to develop the forms, we don't have much customization, and I think we need more flexibility there. It's technically difficult, but it would be great to be able to develop our own code and integrate it into the platform. We could then run our own code for specific actions and requests or even develop a page or form. So, if I can ask Nintex for something, it would be a way to integrate our own code for specific actions. When it comes to integration, it could have more options for custom requests.

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Steve Mikula

IT Scheduling Manager at Paychex, Inc.

Very reliable processing engine, and scheduling is flawless—crucial elements in our financial transaction processing

Because we've been on it for 20 years, it's pretty easy for us to automate jobs with Tidal at this point. It has become second nature. It's pretty simplistic to set up and get going, although there are different levels of complexity you can have within the product. It depends on how simple you want to keep it. If you just keep it: Job A, Job B, Job C, Job D, that becomes pretty simple. But when you start integrating some complex calendars that use sub-calendars—and you can go three, four, or five deep to set up schedules—it becomes more complicated. The beauty of it is you can go as deep as you need to. We can get really complex or we can keep it simple. We have some use cases for both scenarios. The thing that I like the most is the reliability of the engine. The actual scheduling part of the product is pretty much flawless, but the stability of the product is what I find to be reassuring. We are a financial company, we move billions of dollars a day, and if we don't have our transactions processed in a timely manner we can be penalized and our clients can be penalized. It can have a serious financial impact.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Provides the ability to automate SharePoint processes (building sites, lists, updating content). You can also automate document and content processes, onboarding and offboarding, and general IT and HR solutions."

"I find it useful to utilize LDAP query action to find out the status of a particular user."

"It's easy to configure your set of rules to make the form controls work perfectly, removing manual work and making processes seamless."

"It creates workflows to handle business processes. It allows us to route approvals to users without human intervention."

"The integration capabilities have been very useful."

"The setup is easy."

"This tool is really helpful in reducing a lot of manual work. Its drag and drop components help to create a workflow faster than SharePoint Workflow Designer."

"I like the feature of getting an email for a workflow error, then I do not have to go through every instance."

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"Thinking of all the people involved in checking jobs on a daily basis, manually running jobs or auditing them through standalone tools, and trying to connect them. We have saved hundreds of hours weekly, which is substantial."

"The best feature is that it allows task scheduling based on particular occurrences, like the receipt of files, database updates, or system notifications."

"With other tools, you do not have the ability to schedule jobs on their own. You need to create a group and then assign everything to that group. Only then will the job be able to execute. In Tidal, you can schedule a single job and there is no need to create a group. That's what I like the most."

"The data management on offer was valuable."

"We have to run about 12,000 jobs every day and the majority of them need to be launched from our ERP, JD Edwards. The native compatibility of the Tidal platform with JD Edwards dovetails with our greatest need. It's directly connected to the heart of our IT system. We couldn't work without it."

"We had a number of different schedulers in this organization and we've been porting everything that was running out of these other, unrelated schedulers into this scheduler. That has afforded us the ability to set up direct dependencies between processes that couldn't talk to one another before. Over the 15 years, we've definitely gained a lot from that. What had been manual controls have become automated controls..."

"Tidal Automation’s most valuable feature is customization. It can work and connect with any app."

"Tidal integrates with other third-party systems, which makes it easy to connect and exchange data."

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Cons

"The management server and the admin page where you can manage processes need improvement."

"Converting a document from PDF to MS Word, or vice versa, needs to be improved."

"K2 is a workflow solution, and there is no RPA solution with K2. This is where K2 lacks a little bit. It is just a heavy workflow solution. It doesn't have a supplemental product like RPA. If you want to use RPA, you have to use Blue Prism, UIPath, or something else. If you use Nintex, it has an RPA solution. It is a form-based application, and they are doing everything electronically. The initial investment in K2 is heavy because it is a BPM software. It does not have a low cost because they charge you the same for one workflow or 100 workflows."

"Built-in reporting on-prem is limited and clunky at best."

"We are currently facing a lot of issues with Nintex, and we are trying to move away from this solution."

"The license pricing is too high currently for Nintex Workflow."

"We'd like to have integration with SharePoint."

"I would also like to see the BPM features from Pega implemented, that have to do with the implementation of AI, and the robotics."

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"The current user interface of Tidal Software is functional. However, it can be improved to make it more intuitive and user-friendly."

"From an administrative point of view, I wouldn't give really high marks to the solution. I actually entertained getting the JAWS application at one point. One of the shortcomings with the scheduler is the reporting capabilities. At least at the time, JAWS was the best that they had for a third-party integration. I think they've got things in the pipeline to help alleviate that gap."

"Tidal Software interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."

"My complaint about their pricing model is that every year or every time technology changes or somebody has a new requirement, it usually means that I can schedule that with Tidal, but I would need another adapter. So, every time there is a change, I need a different adapter that I don't have. That's why it is harder to plan for Tidal growth because you have to buy a new adapter every time."

"I'm still hoping with Explorer to be able to see end-to-end job streams. That's not really something that's easy to see today in the web client. However, I haven't worked with Explorer yet. One of the things that we have found frustrating is not being able to see an end-to-end job stream across multiple applications within Tidal. We use jobs for that right now, but I have high hopes that we'll be able to see that in Explorer."

"The UI might have the potential to provide a more polished and user-centric encounter, promoting seamless engagements and simplifying the navigation process for individuals interacting with the software."

"To better fit their unique needs, the solution should give more customization options."

"The user interface is the place that needs the most work. If and when we find issues with the product, they are usually in that area. If I had to choose, that's where I'd want issues, as opposed to in the engine. But the UI is average. It's a little sluggish at times and there are some bugs in it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nintex Workflow is more expensive than Microsoft's native products, but it is still considered moderately priced when compared to higher-end products such as K2."

"The annual support costs are expensive."

"Our maintenance costs are reduced."

"Nintex products are expensive, but valuable. Licensing in on-premise was historically based on a perpetual model, where you’d license per Web front-end. However, they are switching exclusively to a consumption (subscription) model, where you purchase the number of workflows you think you’ll use in your environment, and can scale up from there."

"Prices for licenses of K2 are high."

"For the initial hundred users, the cost is $21,000 per year, which I find too high."

"The initial investment in K2 is heavy. Currently, the expenditure is $28,000 for a year. After we go to the cloud, it is going to be per seat and probably cheaper. Currently, there are unlimited users."

"Certainly. Notably, in terms of cost, this solution presents a substantial advantage, being approximately forty percent more economical compared to Oracle. It offers flexibility with two deployment options, catering to both cloud and on-premises preferences. Moreover, within each deployment option, there are two variations available. For organizations with limited IT resources and relying on citizen developers—individuals from the business side comfortable with technology—the platform allows for a more hands-on approach. These users can independently implement solutions without extensive coding or custom development. In contrast, the KQ solution at Symantec is adept at addressing the needs of sectors like banking, where extensive custom development is required for seamless integration with existing applications, websites, and ensuring robust security measures."

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"If you are willing to shop around to other vendors, you can possibly get a good price on your support license."

"I have had no issues with the licensing."

"There are project, system, and server costs. Some of the things that they are doing is introducing new products. They are introducing what they call their Repository, which is a way for you to move a job. That doesn't cost anything to us, because it is reusing a tool called Transporter. The repository is the successor to Transporter, so we already own it and are sort of grandfathered in. But that new product requires a server and database, so now we have to go out and get a server and database. So, there is a cost there."

"The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality."

"Our yearly licensing costs are between $10,000 to $20,000. They have always been reasonable with us. I like that non-production licensing is about half the cost of production licensing. Licensing is by adapter typically. We have had scenarios where we have had to take an adapter from one environment to another, and they've allowed us to do that. They have made it a very reasonable process. There's definitely a feeling that they will work with you."

"We've been able to purchase more adapters because the cost of the product has been very reasonable."

"We pay maintenance annually through Blue House of about $9,000. That's for our two environments: production and test."

"The solution’s licensing model in terms of its flexibility and transparency regarding costs is pretty good. A person can buy the license, and if you decide to stop support, you can do that but still have the product. So, it's not like you're paying constantly to keep that license alive. Certainly, you want to keep support going too. Once you buy it, you own it. It's not like I have to keep paying somebody to keep using it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

18%

Educational Organization

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about K2?

The latest version of Nintex has many features. We have a clear roadmap and the necessary application to integrate it into our platform.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for K2?

Nintex Process Platform is expensive. Prices relate to both features and the professional services necessary due to our lack of an implementation team.

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What needs improvement with K2?

The user interface in Nintex needs improvement. It is not very intuitive and requires changes. Additionally, the deployment process should be easier.

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What do you like most about Tidal Automation?

Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tidal Automation?

The price is reasonable in terms of the product’s functionality.

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What needs improvement with Tidal Automation?

Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation. The setup and configuration of the software is a bit complicated. Providing the training vi...

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Also Known As

K2 blackpearl, K2 Five, Nintex Workflow

Tidal Workload Automation, Cisco Workload Automation, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

Overview

Nintex Process Platform automates processes such as approvals, vendor requests, and leave management, optimizing workflows in sectors like government, banking, and HR.

Nintex Process Platform streamlines collaboration and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft tools. It supports account management, loan origination, claims reimbursement, and public e-services, while also assisting with onboarding, resource management, and compliance workflows. Users benefit from its ease of maintenance, low-code development, and powerful workflow engine capable of handling complex processes through SmartObjects technology.

What are some key features?

Easy Maintenance - Simplifies ongoing management and updates.
Low-Code Development - Enables quick application creation with minimal coding.
Extensive Integration - Connects with diverse data sources through SmartObjects technology.
Drag-and-Drop Interface - Offers a user-friendly, visually intuitive design for creating workflows.
Automatic Workflow Triggers - Allows for seamless automation of predefined actions.
Integration with Microsoft Ecosystems - Ensures compatibility with SharePoint and Office 365.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Affordability - Offers cost-effective solutions for businesses.
Customizability - Provides tailored solutions that meet specific needs.
Support - Beneficial for addressing issues and optimizing performance.
Rapid Development - Facilitates quick project turnaround due to its pre-built constructs.

Nintex Process Platform is implemented across various sectors, such as government, banking, and HR, providing significant improvements in workflow efficiency. In governmental agencies, it facilitates public e-services and compliance workflows, while in banking, it supports account management and loan origination. HR departments benefit from enhanced onboarding, resource management, and leave management processes.

Nintex

Tidal Software is a leading provider of enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, Tidal optimizes mission-critical business processes, increases IT cost efficiencies and satisfies legal and regulatory compliance requirements. Hundreds of customers around the world count on Tidal for modernizing their workload automation and driving their digital transformation. Tidal Software is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Houston, London, Minsk, Belarus and Chennai, India. For more information, visit tidalsoftware.com.

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Sample Customers

SEA Corp, Omnicom Group, Verizon, STIHL

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