Industry FAQs
Considering NITRO Studio as your solution? Want to learn more about SharePoint and Office 365?
Here are a few questions answered!
We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express credit cards. We also can invoice and accept payment by check or electronic bank transfer, as follows:
- Monthly subscriptions require a credit card.
- Annual Subscriptions can be paid by credit card or check/bank transfer.
If you are on a monthly plan, you can upgrade to our annual plan at any time.
NITRO Studio runs on Microsoft Office 365 (SharePoint Online) and on SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 (on-premises).
No. You do not need an Azure account to use NITRO Studio.
The Microsoft Office 365 version has Microsoft Teams Integration, Bot Services, and Modern UI web parts. These are features that are possible in Office 365, but not in SharePoint on-premises.
The SharePoint on-premises versions are installed entirely within the SharePoint farm (no calls to external services such as Microsoft Azure). The Microsoft Office 365 version interacts with Azure (since all functionality is already in the O365 cloud).
Other than those differences, the two versions are on par as much as possible. Both receive regular updates and support.
NITRO Studio gives you a set price that does not increase as you create more forms and workflows. NITRO Studio provides a set price that you can budget for, with a subscription that is based on the size of your SharePoint farm or Office 365 tenancy. Other companies charge based on the number of forms and workflows you create. This results in costs that rapidly increase as more and more forms and workflows are implemented. The more you use those tools, the more they cost!
NITRO Studio BPA is a no-code, easy-to-learn business process automation platform. It provides an affordable path to companies ready to build automation across their Office 365 Tenant, in Microsoft Teams, or SharePoint On-premises Farm. Business users worldwide are using NITRO Studio BPA to speed up formerly time-consuming processes and close operations gaps that traditionally involve hours of manual spreadsheet work and frustrating manual error. The workflow, forms, custom actions, portals, and reporting tools allow end-users to create, customize, design, and adapt business applications that automate specific business needs, such as Leave Requests, Expense Tracking, Contract Management, and countless others.
Yes, but the good news is that most Office 365 subscriptions include SharePoint online.
InfoPath is a forms tool for SharePoint lists that was developed by Microsoft in 2003. The latest version, InfoPath 2013, has already gone out of mainstream support, with extended support sunsetting in 2026. Microsoft abandoned this technology since it was designed for an earlier version of the web that was not mobile-responsive or cloud-focused.
Not any time soon. Microsoft may choose to not support it after 2026, but it will likely still work for legacy sites. It is not the preferred option when creating new sites in SharePoint Online in M365 as the modern interface is mobile-friendly and uses newer underlying technology. Ultimately, you can toggle between classic mode and modern mode for individual SharePoint pages, so the modern interface is not really a direct replacement of the classic interface. It is simply another way to show your pages in SharePoint (and make them mobile-friendly).
Microsoft does not have a direct replacement for InfoPath. The closest option available from Microsoft is PowerApps. PowerApps was borne out of the Azure-focused LogicApps world. As such, it is not as directly tied to SharePoint as InfoPath (or NITRO Studio, for that matter!).
No. You can cancel at any time.The subscription will simply not renew at the end of your current subscription period and NITRO features will no longer be available. However, the SharePoint site, lists, and data will remain. For example, if you have a NITRO Form on a SharePoint list, the NITRO Form will not work once the subscription has ended, but all the data and items in the list will not be affected.
NITRO Studio replaces legacy programs like InfoPath, Lotus Notes, and Access forms. Cost savings and operational efficiency come from replacing outdated technologies that no longer meet the needs of a modern workforce. Also, these legacy programs require retaining personnel who know how to support them. This focuses the organization’s resources on past, inefficient technologies rather than ones that will bring updated solutions to end users.
All of your data is stored within your Microsoft Office 365 tenancy (or SharePoint 2013/2016/2019 farm).
In Office 365, we have services on Azure that will read and process information from your site, but no information is stored on our Azure servers. Crow Canyon has SSL encryption on Azure to meet compliance standards. We can provide more detailed security information upon request.
NITRO Studio is low code/no code solution that is easy for non-tech people to use. NITRO Studio does not require a steep learning curve. Most of its functionality is intuitive. At the same time, it offers many in-depth features that allow you enormous flexibility on the forms and workflows you can create. It can be adapted to just about any business process.
Yes! See our Teams Integration page for details.
NITRO Studio runs on BOTH SharePoint on-premises and Office 365! NITRO Studio runs on SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 and in Office 365. Microsoft’s Power Platform does not run directly on SharePoint on-premises. It requires a standalone Power Apps subscription (over and above the cost of Office 365) with a Data Gateway to connect to SharePoint on-premises data. This extra subscription runs $10/user/month for one App or $40/user/month for unlimited apps.
NITRO Studio is licensed as a monthly or annual subscription. It can be licensed for use in the full Tenant or Farm, or at site and site collection levels. The subscription provides rolling upgrades and support for the Studio’s apps. Customization and configuration services, as well as training, are available for an extra cost.
Our goal is to give you the ability to use NITRO Studio to create your own great applications. We show you how to use the NITRO forms, workflows, portals, reporting, and more.
Foundation and Advanced training are described on our pricing page.
Other forms and workflow solutions for SharePoint, such as NINTEX and K2, are substantially more expensive to implement and support. These come with feature sets and capabilities – along with a price tag – meant for enterprise organizations. NITRO Studio comes with comparable features, yet is priced so that just about any organization can benefit from it.
Yes! NITRO Studio includes all the components you need to create applications in SharePoint and Office 365. Forms, workflows, actions, reporting, portals, printing, modern web parts, and even AI Services like chatbots are all included in the NITRO Studio package. Other solutions, such as the Power Platform, are collections of different components where integration was an afterthought, if at all. NITRO Studio was created specifically for building SharePoint and Office 365 applications.
NITRO Studio is natively mobile and cloud friendly. There is no need for extra connectors or additional components to bring NITRO forms, workflows, and reports to smartphones and tablets. NITRO Studio is built from the ground up using responsive, modern designs and programming models. It allows a mobile and remote workforce to operate with great efficiency.
Yes. We created it, we support it. Many of our customers give us glowing reviews. This is because we are excited to work with you to help your company achieve higher levels of efficiency and solve real business automation problems. We like to share our knowledge and experience to help you attain your organizational efficiency goals.
We describe two options on our pricing page. If you need additional options, please reach out to Crow Canyon Software through the contact page.
Your Microsoft 365 environment is certified in SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001:2013, and FedRAMP.
System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 & 3 provides assurances that there are controls in place that protect your data.
ISO 27001:2013 is a well-known set of international standards relating to the secure management of information, particularly in a cloud-based environment.
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provides a U.S. government-wide standard approach for assessing, authorizing and continuously monitoring cloud-based products and services.
Your data is in your Office 365 tenant or SharePoint farm.
Since all of your data is stored within your Office 365 tenancy (or SharePoint on-premises farm), it is subject to the same security criteria as the rest of your tenancy (or farm).
In Office 365, NITRO Studio is installed in your App Catalog in Tenant.
In SharePoint 2013/2016/2019/SE, NITRO Studio is installed in your Farm.
With every NITRO Studio subscription, you will receive fast, reliable, detailed support to help you to resolve any issues that may arise as you build a custom solution for your business to maximize the efficiency and efficacy of your automation processes. Our support team is dedicated to ensuring that every customer is given our full attention and expediency in helping you find solutions that will meet all of your business needs.
SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-prem share the underlying goal of creating web pages for your employees to share documents, interact, submit requests, etc. From an end user perspective, the biggest difference is when updates are rolled out. SharePoint Online is constantly being tweaked and updated with new features and improved performance. There is no latency in getting the updates applied, and there are no major headaches with migration plans to get from an older version to the latest and greatest.
SharePoint on-premises, by contrast, gets patches every few months that need to be manually added to the SharePoint server by your company’s SharePoint team. Also, SharePoint On-premises only gets major updates every few years (e.g. SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019, etc), which require a migration plan and many consulting dollars to apply the upgrades.
