skybow

skybow is a low-code platform for organizations that work in Microsoft 365. Its home page calls skybow Studio "the #1 Low-Code Platform fully integrated in SharePoint to build your workflows", and pitches "intelligent processes directly in SharePoint and TEAMS" that run on the IT infrastructure a company already has. It is made for IT-minded business teams, citizen developers and the IT staff who look after SharePoint. The footer names skybow AG in Effretikon, Switzerland, and the site leans on that with a "Swiss quality and support you can rely on" pitch and customer support in German and English. A legacy migration section offers a route off HCL Notes, InfoPath and Nintex onto SharePoint.

What you build and how

skybow sells in three ways, and the site lets you choose how much you want to build yourself.

skybow Apps are pre-built SharePoint solutions that work out of the box. The home page shows Contract Management (email notifications about expiring and automatically renewing contracts), Purchase Order Approval (replacing email-driven procurement), Expense Management (a color-coded visual system for tracking expenses), and IT Asset Management (request, approve, hand over and return laptops and licenses inside SharePoint). The menu adds Leave Management, Idea Management, a Travel Expense Report, Overtime Tracking and a Social Media Post Planner, and a partner-solutions shelf adds an HR-Suite, Employee Onboarding, a SharePoint Survey Builder, a Quality Management System and an Intranet Builder. The Nintex migration post invites readers to try the ready-to-use M365 apps for free.

skybow Projects are custom SharePoint solutions built together with a network of 100+ partners around the world. They run fully inside Microsoft 365, are described as scalable from 20 to 10,000+ users, and the site says the company's own low-code platform makes them much faster and cheaper than traditional development. The site counts 20 case studies. Examples include an internal app hub in SharePoint at HAWE Hydraulik that replaces InfoPath, a self-service portal for IT requests at Austro Control, a Construction Project Manager for capacity planning, quotation processing and order execution at trade companies, a yard management system, a LinkedIn Post Planner, and a SharePoint HR Portal that the site calls a complete SaaS solution for HR teams based on skybow technology. The menu also lists case studies for clinical studies, CAPEX approval and an audit manager.

skybow Studio is the do-it-yourself builder, for teams that want full control. The home page says it has been used for 10,000 custom solutions. Its modules, as the menu names them, are the Forms Designer, Automation Actions (the Action Builder), Dossiers, Package and Publish, support for SharePoint SE, and a section on AI and the company's vision.

The Studio starts from the SharePoint form. The Nintex migration guide describes the form as the user interface of the process: where people view data, enter information and interact with the process. You lay it out with the drag-and-drop skybow Forms Designer, then add automation around it. Action buttons on the form start automation when clicked, status changes start background actions, and scheduled automations run on their own. The process logic lives in the Action Builder, where you combine skybow's preconfigured actions. The guide's method is to define which fields represent the process state, what users must enter or review, which roles interact and when they can trigger actions, then translate triggers: an item created becomes an automation after the first save, and a manual workflow start becomes an action button on the form. The guide says Studio runs on SharePoint Online, SharePoint SE and SharePoint 2019, and admits that builders used to a workflow canvas face a mindset shift.

A second blog post lists what a Studio builder makes inside one designer: forms and input screens, workflows and automation, business rules and logic, permissions and role visibility, and dashboards and data views. The toolset includes a drag-and-drop form builder, rule editors for field behavior (show or hide, required, calculated), workflow actions such as notifications, list updates and external calls, wizards and templates for fast setup, and built-in testing and deployment tools. Data sits in SharePoint lists and libraries, so there is no extra database to set up, existing SharePoint permissions and groups apply, and the post says solutions are stored inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant. It also says Studio runs on SharePoint Online or on-premises. The same post says teams can deploy updates without disrupting live systems, package and reuse apps across departments, and work without separate dev, test and prod environments. The site also links to guides on free templates for styling SharePoint forms, security in low-code solutions, and SharePoint Agents, which let users query documents in natural language, and how skybow extends them.

What the site states

Scale and track record, per the home page: 10+ years on the market, workflows built for 450+ businesses, 10,000+ custom solutions and a partner network in over 40 countries.

Pricing: the site publishes no price list, though the menu links to a skybow Studio licensing page. What a blog post states is the licensing model. You pay only for the users who actually use the app, meaning the end users, you do not need separate licenses for the skybow builders, and all Studio features are included in a skybow license, with "No surprise costs!" The post gives one illustration of its own: for a company with 500 users, skybow could cost about $1,500/month.

Help and learning: the site offers a free 1:1 live demo, a free 30-minute call that ends with an individual plan for your first workflow and time for questions, and a free ROI calculator for M365 process automation. A skybow Academy, webinars, FAQs and a community round out the resources, and partners can be found or joined through the site.

Who it suits and who it does not

skybow suits an organization that already lives in Microsoft 365 and wants forms, approvals and internal apps to stay in SharePoint rather than spread across several products. IT teams that must move off Nintex workflows, InfoPath forms or HCL Notes will find a documented path and a form-centric model to learn. Teams that want results without a full IT project can start with a ready-made app such as contract management or purchase order approval, and bring in a partner when the need is custom.

It suits builders who think in forms. If you were used to workflow canvases, the Nintex guide itself calls this a mindset shift.

The caveats follow from the focus. skybow is tied to SharePoint and Microsoft 365, so it is not for a team outside that ecosystem, for public websites or for consumer apps. No list prices are published, and the per-user model means the bill tracks the number of end users, so check it against your headcount.