The Practical Nintex SharePoint
Alternative Built for Microsoft 365
Nintex is ending on-premises support. Organizations running Nintex SharePoint need a replacement before July 14, 2026. NITRO Studio delivers unlimited forms, unlimited workflows, and flat-rate pricing — all inside your existing Microsoft 365 environment.
Nintex’s pay-per-workflow pricing charges more as your automation use grows. After announcing the end of on-premises SharePoint support, thousands of organizations now need a migration path before July 14, 2026. NITRO Studio was built for exactly this transition: flat-rate licensing, full on-premises support across SharePoint SE, 2019, and 2016, and your data stays inside your Microsoft tenancy at all times.
We call NITRO Studio “The Practical Alternative to Nintex”. We offer Forms, Drag & Drop Workflow Builders, Portals, Chatbots, and Reporting that meet the needs of most organizations — both in functionality and in cost.
NITRO brings you full-fledged Business Applications
To create a business application, Nintex provides low-code templates to download and install in their software. While they have many options, there is a learning curve for installing code and creating the application.
Crow Canyon Software provides ready-to-go application solutions for you to get started without the hassle
NITRO allows unlimited forms and workflows
Nintex offers a price model that requires you to pay per Workflow. This can quickly add up for any organization that relies on Workflows for daily business processes.
Here at Crow Canyon Software, we provide unlimited workflows under one subscription price. We have found this makes our customers less stressed about mystery price increases.
Crow Canyon provides engaged support & quick responses
Did you know Nintex outsources their support team? Using a partner model, Nintex has a tiered support structure based on your purchase and offers limited external support to smaller accounts — Yikes.
After deploying your solutions, we like to engage with our customers and pride ourselves on being available to support you throughout the full product lifecycle.
“NITRO Studio conquered many of SharePoint’s out-of-the-box limitations and made it easier to do many of tasks that previously were labor-intensive and required coding, and was much more affordable then other solutions we were looking at, such as, Nintex.”
Rodrigo Vargas, Sr. Manager Supply Chain Quality, Ventura Foods
Features
& NITRO Business Applications
Nintex
| Capability | NITRO Studio | Nintex |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat-rate — unlimited forms and unlimited workflows | Pay-per-workflow; costs escalate as automation use grows |
| On-premises SharePoint | ✓ Full support — SE, 2019, 2016 | ✗ EOL July 2026 — being retired |
| Data stays in your tenancy | ✓ Always — your environment only | ✗ Routed through Nintex cloud |
| GCC High / dedicated cloud | ✓ Dedicated deployment available | Limited |
| No-code application builder | ✓ Forms, workflows, portals, reports, chatbots | Template-based; requires code install and setup |
| Support model | ✓ In-house, full lifecycle | Partner-tiered; outsourced based on purchase level |
| Microsoft 365 / Teams native | ✓ No additional connectors needed | Connector required for some M365 features |
Your data never leaves your Microsoft environment
When you use Nintex, your form and workflow data passes through Nintex’s external cloud infrastructure. With NITRO Studio, your data never leaves your Microsoft 365 tenancy. This is why NITRO Studio is trusted by US federal and state agencies, defense organizations, healthcare systems, and financial institutions operating in regulated environments — including GCC High deployments. No third-party cloud. No data residency compromise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, in most cases significantly so. Nintex charges per-workflow and per-form, meaning costs escalate as your automation use grows. NITRO Studio uses flat-rate, annual licensing — one price covers unlimited forms and unlimited workflows across your entire organization. Organizations switching from Nintex typically report substantial reductions in annual automation spend.
No. Nintex announced the end-of-life for its SharePoint on-premises product. Organizations running Nintex SharePoint on-premises need to migrate to a replacement platform before July 14, 2026, when SharePoint 2016 and 2019 retirement creates an additional forcing function. NITRO Studio fully supports SharePoint on-premises deployments including SharePoint SE, 2019, and 2016.
Yes. Crow Canyon Software provides migration services to help organizations move off Nintex SharePoint and rebuild workflows inside NITRO Studio. Crow Canyon's professional services team works directly with your IT team to map existing Nintex workflows and transition them to NITRO's drag-and-drop Visual Workflow Designer. A free migration assessment is available to scope the effort before any commitment.
Yes. NITRO Studio runs entirely within your Microsoft 365 tenancy. Your data never passes through an external Crow Canyon cloud or any third-party infrastructure. This makes NITRO Studio the preferred choice for regulated environments including US federal agencies, defense contractors (GCC High), healthcare organizations, and financial institutions with strict data residency requirements.
NITRO Studio supports four deployment models: shared cloud (standard M365 environments), dedicated cloud within the customer's own Azure tenancy, on-premises SharePoint (SE, 2019, 2016), and air-gapped deployment for highest-security environments through NITRO Secure. Unlike Nintex, which retired on-premises support, NITRO Studio continues to invest in all deployment models.
