Nintex Live Now Available for SharePoint 2010

May 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Redmond, Wash. – May 18, 2011 – Nintex (www.nintex.com), a Microsoft Certified Gold partner with a history of successful workflow products spanning several releases of Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the immediate availability of Nintex Live, a cloud service provides a wide variety of new capabilities to SharePoint workflows designed with Nintex Workflow 2010.

“Whether you go to the cloud or not,” said Mike Fitzmaurice, vice president of product technology, “Nintex Live will bring the cloud to you.”  Nintex Live catalogs web services that, among other things, translate sentences, calculate exchange rates, fetch demographic data, post updates to social networking sites, and validate phone numbers.  These are then presented to workflow authors as simple drag-and-drop components.

“Being in the cloud lets us evolve our feature set on “Internet time” – and when we add features, no one has to update any local SharePoint servers,” Fitzmaurice added.

“Nintex continues to offer SharePoint 2010 solutions by building the Nintex Live solution for our customers moving to the cloud,” said Jared Spataro, director, SharePoint product management, Microsoft. “We are pleased Nintex Live and offerings like Office 365 provide cloud-based solutions for our customers.”

Nintex Live is designed to be extended, both by Nintex itself and by third parties. New services can be registered with Nintex Live yet managed by their owners. The technology will even facilitate distributed workflow solutions by allowing a workflow in one location to start and communicate with a workflow in a completely different location.

The service runs on Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-hosted operating system. The decision to build on Windows Azure was an easy one, according to Wayne Woolston, managing director, “by leveraging Windows Azure, we were able to focus on the job to be done, and let the platform take care of scaling, messaging, queuing, encryption, and host of other concerns cloud services usually must address by themselves.”

Customers with software assurance agreements will be eligible for invitations to activate Nintex Workflow 2010’s ability to communicate with Nintex Live at no additional charge, although some individual cloud web services may have associated costs.  “The decision to use any given service in the catalog will depend on the customer and the service,” said Woolston, “but deciding whether to connect to Nintex Live itself should be easy.”

About Nintex
Nintex is a leading global innovator of software that extends Microsoft SharePoint with innovations that make workflow quick and easy for users, developers, and IT professionals alike. A Microsoft Gold Partner, Nintex aligns with Microsoft’s strategic and architectural direction to ensure that both companies’ products work in harmony, both today and into the future. Please visit www.nintex.com for more information.

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