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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Workfront

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAdobe 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.N/A

    Slack

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASlack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…

    $8.75

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    Trello is only a board tool, not too complete as Adobe Workfront to manage the entire workflow of a team.

    monday.com has a really nice interface and is intuitive but it is not good for complex processes.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    Adobe is very intuitive in its workflow automation and creation of the task workflows that can be used as templates for employees. That is harder to create in Teams unless there is [the] integration of another Microsoft product and more time spent on it by an IT professional. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    We have used Wrike - when we used it, it was not as advanced, but it may be updated now. We chose Workfront for its robust options - project and task management, resource management, financial and scope management, reporting, workflows, etc. Workfront is flexible in that you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    The products seemed comparable. However, the sales team was very responsive from Workfront, and since we were looking to make a decision quickly, their engagement helped sway us to Workfront.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    Enovia is a product lifecycle tool, so not a good match for a marketing team. Basecamp and MS Project are comparable but we went with Workfront. The newly added Fusion is important to consider. With hundreds of integrations available, it will streamline your workflow across …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    I have used Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, Excel, many task list mgmt. apps (Todoist, RTM, etc.), podio, wrike, and paper. I have never found a project management tool that can accomplish bringing corporate people all into the same system as well as workfront (for large …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    The team collaboration and communication tools won over our users!
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Workfront
    I didn't select Workfront, honestly. I'm sure it was selected because of its ability to track time to the smallest measure, but I firmly believe that teams would be better served by any of the communication enablement applications listed above. Which is a fancy way of saying …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Slack
    While Slack isn't perfect, Google and Microsoft don't hold a candle to Slack. They feel like they were built 20 years ago and nobody likes to use them. Occasionally, I'm forced to use those and the teams don't communicate nearly as effectively. Slack is a joy to work in. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Group collaboration and communication with Slack is a far superior solution to any business organization. It is extremely easy to use and adoption of the service is simple. With the alternatives, when we trialed them we found it harder to gain traction amongst our technical …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    In our organization we cannot save conversations with Skype, so Slack provides that history and continuity. We find Skype buggy and sometimes frustrating to use. Sometimes people cannot see images pasted into Skype. The ease of seeing the multiple channels and allowing us to …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    503 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    91 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    426 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    122 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    510 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    295 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    69 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    330 Answers
    Features
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Adobe Workfront and Slack
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    7.3
    421 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Slack
    7.9
    628 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Task Management8.5421 Ratings7.6430 Ratings
    Resource Management7.3379 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.5331 Ratings6.961 Ratings
    Scheduling8.0372 Ratings7.8363 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.5377 Ratings8.0396 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.0400 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology6.9271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.2279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management7.3378 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.2323 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.7312 Ratings9.4601 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.7299 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.3300 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.1258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.2608 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.3275 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Adobe Workfront and Slack
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    6.3
    240 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates6.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing6.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting6.7230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software5.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Adobe Workfront and Slack
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.7
    636 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.6635 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.7632 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.2620 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.1413 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8412 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Adobe Workfront and Slack
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.4
    603 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.2326 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.2541 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings8.4527 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings7.9429 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.3411 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3362 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.0455 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (474 ratings)
    9.1
    (639 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (63 ratings)
    10.0
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (255 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (68 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe WorkfrontSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Since I work remotely from my laptop, when I am finished with work, I enter my hours and submit my time at the end of the week. It's quick, it's easy, and it helps me keep a record of how many hours of vacation and sick time I have used. But when I am on the go, it is a hassle to record my time on my phone because of the lack of responsive design.
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    Salesforce
    Slack is ideal for Scrum and agile teams that need continuous communication during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, testing, and retrospectives. Slack is well-suited for maintaining team knowledge through searchable conversations and dedicated channels, where experienced team members help onboard new QA analysts.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Fosters communication between team members.
    • Serves as a virtual "to do list" for me personally - I can track where I am with projects and what there is left to do, and when it's completed.
    • Sharing documents between team members that can be updated.
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    Salesforce
    • Customer issues: Threads feature allows us to group a particular issue in a single thread and discuss within that thread. I can use the thread link to embed in JIRA ticket for tracking progress in JIRA (which is our details engineering tracking system).
    • Ability to add folder to Slack channel helps keep important information, documents easily accessible. e.g., we use this to keep a "ramp up" folder that can be used by any new joiner.
    • Global search is effective when I forget which group a particular message was in.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • The product itself is very complicated and difficult to be stood up
    • Sharing and proofing workflows require multiple steps and layers
    • It may just be my organization, but the build feels a bit clunky and difficult to navigate, which deters many teams from using the tool effectively
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    Salesforce
    • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
    • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
    • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    Workfront is sometimes a bit clunky to use, but overall it works well for our teams when it comes to project management and collaboration across multiple, involved teams. It also has flexibility that allows us to adapt it to diverse use cases, some of which aren't necessarily always the first things that one would think of using workfront for.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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    Usability
    Adobe
    Workfront is overly complex, but it is functional as a tool to keep track of projects. It is a shame that sometimes it takes a lot of clicks to find anything. Workfront is slowly modernizing its interface but at the same time, hides certain information away thus making the experience feels worse.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    I have found that Adobe Workfront is a reliable resource, because in the post 6 years of using it, rarely has it been unavailable to our team. I think I could count on one hand the number of times the site has been down over my time using it with my team.
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    Salesforce
    Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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    Performance
    Adobe
    I think overall, Adobe Workfront performs well. There have been some times when it doesn't load or run as quickly as our team would like. This is frustrating when it is such a crucial tool that our team utilizes on a daily basis. It can show our workflow when it lags.
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    Salesforce
    Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    I know that this particular company has it's own Adobe Workfront employee that builds out things they need from the software, and meets with them regularly to troubleshoot. I'm not part of this process, but it's refreshing to see Adobe provide this level of customer service to people, and they're expedient.
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    Salesforce
    Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    It was from my boss, not a rep from AtTask.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Adobe
    The training is very easy to use and you can simply choose the topics included in the course(s) that are most important to your training needs. After each training course, you are tested on what you have learned. If you need a refresher course, they provide Course Catalogs as well as instructor-led courses & workshops.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    Most people learn as you go, a lot of this stuff requires trial and error throughout so my suggestion is to provide as much information in the upfront and keep it as simple as possible. You can add other tools and features as you go but everyone should have the basics down so no bad habits can start to develop. Be persistent with everyone, and don't be afraid to correct and talk through steps again so everyone is on the same page
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    Salesforce
    I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Much increased functionality and templating aspects. While I liked JIRA's setup, the Workfront is so much more flexible. The moving away from Jira i was able to show the possibilities of what a full pm software could accommodate and how it all connected in. Also, the pluses of connectivity with the Adobe suite for our creative teams were excellent. From providing updates within other programs, it allowed a much more fluid working process and instant communication.
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    Salesforce
    I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
    One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Adobe
    As I stated earlier, I didn't have to pay for Workfront myself- I'm a user under a large organization. I know it's not cheap to implement, I don't know how the price scales for a small-business, but I do like the product enough that I'm going to look into it in the future for my own company.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Adobe
    Our organization has thousands of users that use Workfront and it seems to hold up very well. I have not encountered any issues using it and I think it makes it very easy for multiple people to be involved in a project and keep things organized and clear for everyone involved.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Increased efficiency in threaded updates to Outlook emails - no time wasted looking for things in email vs Workfront - they automatically are in both places.
    • Time tracking allows us to average out how much time tasks & deliverable types take, allowing better long-term forecasting.
    • Planning has given us a system of record for campaigns, allowing us to easily find historic plans and/or view calendar views of upcoming ones.
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    Salesforce
    • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
    • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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