Adobe Workfront vs. monday.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Workfront
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
monday.com
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
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Pricing
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$9
per user
Standard
$12
per user
Pro
$19
per user
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Pricing Offerings
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Community Pulse
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Considered Both Products
Adobe Workfront
Chose Adobe Workfront
monday.com is better suited for a smaller company like the one I am working within. There are several other project management platforms that work within the Project Management space, but it's about personal preference. All of them have their pros and cons. Workfront is nice …
Chose Adobe Workfront
We are in the process of reevaulating and looking for another project management system that better meets our needs.
Chose Adobe Workfront
Reporting options are available and amazing. Project templates are extremely helpful.
Chose Adobe Workfront
Clarizen seemed to provide roughly the same product. They quoted a bit more expensive, and not many improvements. The implementation cost was not worth it. AtTask also did a better job at Gantt Charts for each project rather than just 1 for all projects in Clarizen, which was …
monday.com
Chose monday.com
Airtable served us well for data management. However, our senior management told us Project Managers we would no longer be using Airtable. monday.com serves us well with project management AND light-weight database usage.

Workfront served we Project Managers very well. However, …
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Features
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Workfront
6.6
303 Ratings
13% below category average
monday.com
7.9
2195 Ratings
5% above category average
Task Management7.6302 Ratings8.92182 Ratings
Resource Management6.9274 Ratings8.11861 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.2242 Ratings7.51268 Ratings
Scheduling7.4270 Ratings8.21822 Ratings
Workflow Automation6.8272 Ratings8.31896 Ratings
Team Collaboration6.2292 Ratings9.12140 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology6.2185 Ratings8.01130 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology6.4199 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Document Management6.7275 Ratings7.51763 Ratings
Email integration5.0230 Ratings7.81577 Ratings
Mobile Access6.1233 Ratings7.81745 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking6.5219 Ratings7.51019 Ratings
Change request and Case Management6.7210 Ratings7.91131 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management6.4188 Ratings7.71007 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Workfront
5.5
173 Ratings
30% below category average
monday.com
7.4
984 Ratings
0% below category average
Quotes/estimates5.381 Ratings7.7656 Ratings
Invoicing5.371 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting5.8171 Ratings7.5868 Ratings
Integration with accounting software5.562 Ratings7.1486 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(354 ratings)
8.7
(2200 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(60 ratings)
9.0
(31 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(18 ratings)
8.6
(2128 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(9 ratings)
8.3
(8 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(4 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(12 ratings)
8.3
(1860 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.9
(4 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.3
(10 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Configurability
5.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(3 ratings)
7.2
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Workfrontmonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
I write music and sound design for multiple projects at the same time, all within the same company, sometimes as much as 8-10. It can be hard to keep track of and stay on top of notes and changes, but Adobe Workfront is great at keeping everything organized, and informing you of deadline changes as they occur.
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monday.com
For content marketers, I would 100% recommend Monday.com. Applications like Trello are OK for basic tasks, but I think Monday is superior when you're running campaigns alongside regular content plus ad-hoc tasks (or have more than one product to market). I can see it working well for different scenarios, like sales, customer service, and finance, but I can only speak for my industry.
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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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monday.com
  • I love that I can color-code sections/folders (I love color-coding!)
  • I love that I can automate the majority of things on Monday
  • I love the support I'm able to get when I don't know how to do something specific, I set up a call and get tips/tricks on how to accomplish what I'm wanting
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Cons
Adobe
  • Notifications (sometimes I am emailed when I am tagged, other times I am not)
  • Certain file formats do not render correctly in Workfront Proof (eg, .XLS files)
  • It can be difficult to manage projects if you have not been assigned the correct permissions.
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monday.com
  • The billing model is awful for small businesses! monday.com makes you feel like they are doing you a favour. You literally pay for seats you don't use. The billing model should be a per seat model!
  • There are too many addons from monday.com and 3rd party vendors that you have to pay for. The value of those addons is debatable are often rebuildable outside of monday.com in a single use spreadsheet (which pay monthly for an addon that you only need to use once in a while?) or organisations are already using something else in their tech stack for that addon.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
All that I've said already is why. I suppose the clearest way to say it is that at this point? I cannot imagine running the 300+ active projects in eMarketing without AtTask; it simply wouldn't be possible and even more; I wouldn't imagine why we'd try to find an alternative tool when we have one meeting our needs.
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monday.com
Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Usability
Adobe
I gave a rating of 10 on overall usability because Workfront is cloud based and very easy to use. Workfront also provides collaboration on projects which is critical to a projects success. The tool gives everyone high level visibility in their projects down to the smallest detail. Wonderful project management system, allows you to cut down on emails, meetings and no more spreadsheets for tracking your projects.
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monday.com
monday.com enables quick creation of a basic project plan. In our office, we don't need a big, expensive Project Management System. We need a simpler, human-usable Work Management System. Most recently, monday.com added the four Predecessor Types to their Dependency feature. FS, SF, SS, FF are now part of monday.com's Dependency offering. This was my most-needed update, and monday.com provided it! I appreciate monday.com's rich library of Templates. However, my preference is to duplicate a useful project/board, then update it for my next project.
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
Maintenance is required, but usually after work hours, Some days the proofing tool function is not operational, but this is a new function of the tool that WF is working out. the kinks on. Chrome is the best browser to use the system in and we find Firefox and Explorer lose some view functionality - Gantt Chart, Resource Grid
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monday.com
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Performance
Adobe
Workfront's performance has been very good. Everything always feels very fast and snappy in my experience. We have integrated it with custom scripts to create folder structure for media managing our projects. It works very well.
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monday.com
Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Support Rating
Adobe
It would be nice if the support forms were more dynamic so you could add more information to the support ticket when you enter it to reduce back and forth with the support team member. Also communication on escalated tickets isn't always great. It's gotten better over the years but still needs improvement. Other than that, initial response on support tickets is really quick and the people I've dealt with have always been very professional.
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monday.com
Our CSM, Jonathan is AMAZING! He was only introduced to us a few months ago, and we've has fairly limited interactions so far, but he's an absolute legend! He seeks to understand our problems, workflows, etc. and carefully considers a positive outcome for us within the system's capabilities. He's a wealth of knowledge and we're really lucky to have him
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In-Person Training
Adobe
It was from my boss, not a rep from AtTask.
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monday.com
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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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monday.com
To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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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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monday.com
We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Jira is mostly used as a bug locking tool or to track any new development for any specific region/EPIC. But Workfront has a lot of other features which are beneficial in project management. I still consider Jira and Workfront my top two options for project management and believe both have some of the other useful features which are required to manage any team.
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monday.com
We used an excel spreadsheet to track our month end close process previously which created a lot of issues around only one person being able to be in the checklist at any given time. Additionally, we were unable to have excel notify us when a task we need to have completed was done, but Monday.com has completely changed that for us!
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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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monday.com
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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.
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monday.com
For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Workfront allowed our company to have multiple offices and work remote and still have projects continually move through the agency
  • The platform allowed streamlined project management needs so PMs could look at a higher level of timing for resourcing needs for a given team
  • Workfront's ease of integration with other tech allowed for a lot of flexibility to meet the needs of individual wants/needs so that each person could do their best work
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monday.com
  • My favourite example? We used it to take a failed start-up, one where the prime investor was considering pulling out - to being a listed business (EURONEXT) within 18 months. That business now has a market cap at around $200m.
  • Turnaround of a struggling health tech venture that was buried under endless spreadsheets by its investors - from loss-making to £2M EBITDA in two -years.
  • Offshoring - Through the adoption of Monday as a key workstream management tool (moving off JIRA) we were able to reduce resource costs by over £2m per annum, without any change in efficiency or quality.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Workfront Screenshots

Screenshot of Agile StoryboardScreenshot of Assignment RecommendationsScreenshot of Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Gantt PortfolioScreenshot of My Work QueueScreenshot of PM Portfolio Milestones

monday.com Screenshots

Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations