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 #12 with an average rating of 9.2. Nintex holds a 0.2% mindshare in WA, compared to Tidal Software by Redwood’s 3.9% 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) (13th), Process Automation (11th)

Tidal by Redwood

Ranking in Workload Automation

12th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Workload Automation category, the mindshare of Nintex Process Platform is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tidal by Redwood is 3.9%, up from 3.9% 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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Pros

"I think that it adds value to any organization, mainly in terms of business applications where you need workflows."

"The strength of this solution lies in its connectors and the accessibility of an open API. The presence of an open API allows users to create custom connectors if necessary, provided there is access to the source API documentation. Additionally, the platform features a straightforward yet highly effective forms tool. This tool not only seamlessly integrates with the workflow functionality but also facilitates the transmission of information to the document generation tool. This comprehensive integration is particularly noteworthy when compared to alternatives such as Oracle, which tends to rely on more complex and separate logic for similar functionalities. A key strength of Nintex lies in its user-centric approach to help documentation. The materials are designed to be easily understood, avoiding complex terminology. In cases where technical terms are used, they are linked to articles for further clarification. This contrasts with platforms like Microsoft and Oracle, which may employ technical jargon without clear explanations. Nintex further supports its users through a robust online community, fostering collaboration and shared insights. Additionally, Nintex University offers online training across all applications, following a role-based structure. Unlike some other platforms, Nintex's training is thoughtfully broken down into shorter courses, focused on specific roles. This approach ensures that users can efficiently access the information they need without navigating through extensive and potentially irrelevant content, as may be the case with Oracle's training structure."

"The Vizio-style designer that runs in the browser is, to me, by far the most valuable feature of the solution. It means that the customer doesn’t have to install any client tools to create powerful workflows."

"Our solutions using Nintex has been most successful in automating HR processes because it allows you to easily and rapidly build solutions that conform to the unique business processes for each entity."

"The capacity to integrate with external platforms. It's great to be able to call web services or other external services."

"It has a lot of features for creating and managing workflows, as well as for integrating with other applications. Nintex offers features, particularly to ensure a user-friendly experience."

"It can scale well."

"K2's best feature is that it can solve complex tasks, issues, and projects with little coding."

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

"It saves times due to automation. With some files, we do hundreds a day for a particular vendor. This would be hard to do manually. Also, the speed at which we can do this is excellent."

"The first, big thing that we got out of using Tidal Workload Automation was having a centralized view of the status of all of our batch processes across all these systems... We can look into the schedule at any given time and see if things are running on track or if they are falling behind. We can also see if something failed."

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

"One of the most useful features is being able to set up a schedule and create dependencies. The calendar can kick off processes at certain times, based on dependencies that you specify, like time, or whether another process has finished. Dependencies are the most useful thing."

"Tidal Automation by Redwood is a user-friendly solution."

"Tidal Automation software provides real-time monitoring and alerts, allowing users to track job progress and identify potential issues before they cause delays or errors."

"The job dependency is something that you cannot have in a regular, simple cron job or simple scheduler dependency. The event-driven jobs are core for us, as we really need that. Therefore, we really need Tidal with its ability to run thousands of jobs per day."

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Cons

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

"Currently, it's taking quite some time to deploy a package, it needs improvement"

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

"The Workflow Designer needs improvement."

"Nintex seems to be very server intensive. It is one of the reasons that we are moving to a different product on the SharePoint 2016 platform."

"The tool can be limiting when more complex solutions are required. Improving it to offer greater functionality and less reliance on technical expertise could be beneficial."

"I think it was lacking a little bit in its multiple in-house processes and other processes. So there is a little bit of a gap in collaboration."

"While Nintex Workflow has pretty robust troubleshooting abilities, I think that improving the default logging and notifications would be helpful."

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"There are several improvement points that our team has provided to the vendor."

"I would like more involvement with the cloud."

"For the most part, the drill-down and the logging are really good. But if we take an Informatica job, for example: We have the ability, and the operators have the ability, to actually drill down and see, at a session level, where the failure is. There is, unfortunately, no way to extract that into an actual output email or failure email. It's not that that information is not available, but extracting it into an email would be a nice-to-have."

"Initially, it is complicated to understand the functionalities as there is limited product documentation."

"The drill-down into details using the Graphical Views feature is a bit difficult and not that helpful. If you want to go into the details, you have to go to the Job Activity. Graphical Views is not that easy for getting that kind of information."

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

"With the client, we have had certain issues. The user interface for Tidal is a little slow. A lot of people would love this tool if they had a faster user interface. The drill-down functionality should be much quicker than what it is pulling out now. If I fill out some data, then it takes awhile to get that data back onto the screen. It's not as fast as we were expecting."

"One area for improvement is the command-line interface and the API to bulk-load jobs. It's a little bit kludgy, but we still manage without it. They're working on it and it's getting better all the time. In addition, the documentation for their API for creating jobs needs to be updated. It's a bit of a learning curve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The annual support costs are expensive."

"This solution is affordable and is cheaper than most alternatives on the market. We have a standard cloud license that costs about 20k per year."

"Comparatively, it's expensive."

"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."

"Our maintenance costs are reduced."

"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."

"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."

"There is an initial fee when purchasing and a fee for maintenance afterward."

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"Their pricing seems very fair. It is more than the other solutions, but the functionality and the support are very much there. You pay for the job scheduler, and then they have certain things that are built into it, such as the FTP processes. If you then want to do JD Edwards jobs, you need an adapter. If you want to do SQL jobs, there is another adapter. Similarly, if you want to do Oracle jobs, there is an adapter. It is like there is the base and then there are the adapters for the jobs that you want to do, but it seems that's also how they pay for each of those adapters and keep them up to date."

"The new prices that we've received seem reasonable and comparable to the marketplace."

"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."

"This solution is a bit expensive in the current world where everybody is trying to cut down on certain things."

"BMC is really expensive. The other solutions are about the same price. I think Tidal is even cheaper than the others, such as CA, Stonebranch, and JAMS."

"There have been pricing increases, but with the reduction that our company obtained from Tidal this year, the pricing has become very acceptable for this type of product."

"...it is a pretty affordable scheduler tool that lets us do a lot. You get a lot of bang for the buck... The licensing model is hugely flexible."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Educational Organization

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

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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