8 posts tagged with “docgen comparison”
Nintex DocGen assembles document packages from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint templates. Here is how that model compares to a structure-aware template, which kind of complexity each one solves, and when Nintex is the right answer.
A direct comparison of ZeroExport and Conga Composer for Salesforce document generation: the template model each one uses, how they handle nested data and silent failures, and the cases where Conga is still the right choice.
Every Salesforce docgen tool has a drag-and-drop builder now. Most of them hand you a blank canvas and a styling panel, which quietly makes the formatting your job. Here is the difference between a builder and defaults that are already right.
Visualforce renderAs="pdf" is free and already in your org. Here is the decision framework for when it is genuinely enough, when it has quietly stopped being free, and what changes if you replace it.
Building document generation in-house looks cheap for the first document. Here is the honest cost model, the four questions that decide it, and the cases where building really is the right call.
Most teams shopping for a Conga alternative are reacting to cost, maintenance, or complexity. Here is a practical checklist for evaluating replacements, and where a native, structure-aware approach fits.
Forget the feature checklist for a moment. This is a comparison by outcome: what actually happens on the day a field is missing, a new category appears, compliance language changes, or the vendor raises the price.
We analyzed ~2,900 real Salesforce document-generation discussions. The most common word was not "bug" or "error": it was "workaround." Here is what teams are actually working around, and which of those problems have a structural fix.
