Nintex Deep Dive 2018 Features and Highlights. Chris Ellis, Manager Technical Evangelism Euan Gamble, Product Manager

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1 Nintex Deep Dive 2018 Features and Highlights Chris Ellis, Manager Technical Evangelism Euan Gamble, Product Manager

2 Nintex in 2018, a year in numbers Nintex Workflow Cloud 20 product releases!! Every fortnight, like clockwork. 101 features / enhancements Nintex for SharePoint 2013 & 2016 Nintex Workflow releases every quarter (4) Nintex Forms 7 releases in 2018 Nintex for Office 365 Nintex Workflow 7 releases 105 million workflow executions to date Nintex Forms 7 releases 2 millions form submissions last month Nintex Hawkeye 1 release in 2018 Nintex Mobile 5 releases 50 product releases thus far in 2018 packed with features and enhancements

3 Forms & Mobile Innovation Euan Gamble Product Manager

4 Responsive Forms Quickly create beautiful responsive forms No need to create individual designs for each form factor Works side by side with existing Classic Forms. Available for SharePoint and Office 365

5 Attachments repeating section Attachments can now be added to the repeating section allowing you to upload files and associate specific metadata to each row. Available for SharePoint Coming to Office 365

6 Document Sets Nintex Forms can now be added to a Document Set allowing you to customize and add logic to the content type. Available for SharePoint Coming to Office 365

7 UserProfile Lookup function (O365) Pre fill User Profile data into Rules and Calculated control. Dynamic based on property and/or current user function.

8 Form Variables (O365) Allows a user to calculate a value using runtime functions and named controls. Value can then be bound to a column.

9 Form Versioning (O365) Allows a user see and restore previous versions of a saved or published form.

10 Barcode Control (NWC) Native barcode scan control for Mobile

11 Geolocation Control (NWC) Automatically populate current location into a geolocation control using lat/lon co-ordinates / Google Maps API.

12 Signature Control (NWC) Sign on glass using native signature control, device agnostic.

13 Task Forms (NWC) Respond to a task regardless of domain membership, add extra info back to Workflow. Consolidated Task action

14 Multipage Forms (NWC) Break up large forms into multiple selections Currently planning both tabbed and wizard style Built with performance in mind

15 Data sources (NWC) Integrate data from external sources directly into your form lookup controls Connect any external data source vis REST-API and Xtensions framework.

16 Universal Forms Built from the ground up to support on-premises, Office 365 and the Nintex Workflow Cloud platforms Full feature parity across platforms

17 Workflow Innovation

18 Nintex Workflow Cloud In Development Service Now Connectors Add create, read, query, retrieve, and delete record actions to workflow for the following tables: Catalog Item Catalog Item Category Catalog Items Catalog Request Requested Item Task User Connection Access Control Management Design and run within designer Design and run a workflow from within the designer without the need to publish it first Start events using Xtensions Using the Nintex Xtensions framework, users can define and create their own workflow start events.

19 Nintex Workflow for Office 365 Conditional Start Connection Manager Component Workflows Azure Active Directory actions Built using our own Xtensions capability Lazy Approval Enhancements From Address and Hide/Show Footer Capture comments from response Send Enhancements Added Reply-To address Document Generation boosted to 50 templates

20 Conditional Start Define conditions for when a workflow will actually commence Removes the need to add complex logic into the workflow design Sophisticated condition builder supports your business requirements.

21 Connection Manager Manage credentials in a single centralized connection Connections can be secured and delegated to specific users and locations Over 30 actions upgraded to support connection manager and more to come Simple upgrade across all supported actions.

22 Component Workflows Reuse existing workflows across your Office 365 tenant Ideal for encapsulating complex logic and sharing it with other designers Can be exposed externally for integration with IoT devices and other services, including PowerApps.

23 Azure AD actions Integration with Azure Active Directory, allowing workflows to retrieve individual user and manager AD properties. Also included are new actions to support creating, updating and disable users plus being able to assign or update a user's manager.

24 Lazy Approval Enhancements Configure the Sender Display name for Nintex Lazy Approval Task notifications. Capture comments from Lazy Approval response Remove standard Nintex footer text.

25 Nintex Workflow for Office 365 In Development Nintex Administrators Ability to configure a set of users to become administrators of the Nintex Platform and giving them access to admin only functions. Tenant wide Connectors Ability for Nintex administrators to create tenant wide connections in Connection Manager Azure AD Enhancements New actions to support deeper integration into Azure AD including; creating new user accounts, assigning someone a manager, updating and disabling users

26 Nintex Workflow for SharePoint SharePoint 2013 Product version: Release date: 19 July 2018 SharePoint 2016 Product version: Release date: 19 July 2018

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28 Nintex Workflow for SharePoint 2019 Nintex for SharePoint 2019 Modern UI support Workflow gallery page Nintex workflow options User preferences Purge workflow data improvements Nintex content database alerts Language - supports all 20 languages, identical to 2016 Offline helpfiles still supported Migration process - migration process identical to 2016 where migrating from 2016 >2019 using attach/detach method

29 Hawkeye Innovation

30 The picture can't be displayed. The picture can't be displayed. The picture can't be displayed. The picture can't be displayed. Inventory lens Monitor and govern your process automation portfolio, gaining critical insight into your workflow inventory: How many workflows are running across your organisation? Which department/group is running the most workflows? The least? How often has a given business process run in a certain period of time? What are the business outcomes of your processes (e.g., approved, rejected, stalled)? Released: 3 rd October

31 What s next for you, the user?

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