Adobe Workfront, acquired by Adobe in late 2020, is a web-based project-management tool. It is designed for both IT and marketing teams, but can be implemented for any kind of project. Workfront offers all the features standard to project management platforms, as well as resource allocation, automation, and agile workflow.
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Microsoft Project Server
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Microsoft Project Server is a project portfolio management option.
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Adobe Workfront
Microsoft Project Server
Considered Both Products
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Chose Adobe Workfront
Workfront is on par with the others, each has their strengths and weaknesses.
Workfront is very easy to use from a UI perspective. With other project management tools, there is often times a lot of training that is necessary to go live. With Workfront we held an hour training session and rolled the tool out to the department with minimal issues.
We selected Workfront, in part, because of its focus on marketing project delivery and its ability to integrate with Proof HQ (which we also use). The addition of Proof HQ allows us to completely migrate away from our old pen-and-paper process and into the digital world.
I do not feel educated enough to add comments to this section, as we did not do a thorough comparison of these products. We merely looked at cost, basic info and the portfolio management features. We already had Workfront and were exploring our options.
Workfront's user interface is one of the best that I've seen and is one of the big reasons why I am a big Workfront champion. The other projects had similar functionality but Workfront is the easiest to use in my opinion. Buttons are where you think they would be and things …
For agile, I prefer the Atlassian suite, but for waterfall projects, Workfront was the right choice. In choosing Workfront (then AtTask), I made a weighted grid of features and benefits of a number of project management tools, including WorkZone, Asana, Celoxis, MS Project, …