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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

    Ziflow

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AZiflow online proofing creates a single source of truth and streamlines the review and approval process for creative content to deliver marketing projects faster for agencies and brands.

    $249

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $249
    per month 15 users
    Pro
    $399
    per month 20 users included
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    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Educational discounts are available for the Business and Enterprise editions. Up to a 20% discount is available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Ziflow
    Chose Ziflow
    Just as good if not better and so much better value
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Ziflow is much faster. The Progress Updates on the dashboard actually work, and automatic status updates without refreshing the browser are a bonus. Ziflow operates more smoothly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Ziflow is way cheaper and my clients and internal team are already familiar with Proof HQ so the transition was seamless.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    I only used Workfront for a short time before we switched to Ziflow. I know that pricing was a big thing and there were features that Ziflow had to offer that Workfront did not. One of those being the automated workflow process and being able to set templated workflows. I have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    It's cleaner
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Workfront is better in layout and legibility, but Ziflow is not far behind. In all other aspects, Ziflow wins by a landslide. Workfront also has additional features, like seeing what you have due today, this week, etc. Ziflow may want to consider it an option, although …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Ziflow is much more user-friendly and my clients/colleagues got to grips with it much easier and quicker. Also, I did get used to it much quicker. It is laid out much better and clearer. Things are in more logical places and had no issues so far. Workfront I was always having …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Ziflow is much simpler for us while still being very capable with its feature set. In our experience, Ziflow had more features than Workfront.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Workfront has too many things going on. I like how Ziflow is just for the approval of assets.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    We used Workfront prior to them being bought by Adobe, and Ziflow was much more up-to-date with the times. PHQ didn't have as many of the same features and always had issues. The customer service is also way better at Ziflow.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    We previously used Workfront before switching to Ziflow. As far as I know, it was a money saver and the help team is way more personable at Ziflow. The stages and workflows are way more customizable and you can organize proofs way easier.

    The only thing I miss with Workfront is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    I find Ziflow to be an improvement from when our organization used Workfront proofing tool for the same type of projects. Workfront was fine for copy documents, but was not as conducive to visual/creative work such as videos, infographics, audio, web pages, emails, etc. I would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    ProofHQ would no longer allow us to use the proofing platform alone. It became mandatory to include and pay for their project management platform as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Ziflow is a far superior product because it doesn't require an app to work through, like Workfront ended up implementing.
    The attention to detail and supreme customer service also makes working with them a breeze!
    Incentivized
    Chose Ziflow
    Workfront - Workfront asked for too much per user just to use their proofing tool.
    PageProof - User interface wasn't as good.
    GoProof - No side by side comparison, limited file type support.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    225 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    91 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    166 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    122 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    224 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    146 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    69 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    168 Answers
    Features
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Adobe Workfront and Ziflow
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    7.3
    421 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Ziflow
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.4421 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.3379 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.6331 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.0372 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.5377 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.0400 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.0271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.2279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management7.3378 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.2323 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.7312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.7299 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.3300 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.2258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Adobe Workfront and Ziflow
    Feature
    Adobe Workfront
    6.3
    240 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Ziflow
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates6.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing6.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting6.8230 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software5.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (474 ratings)
    9.6
    (226 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (63 ratings)
    9.1
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
    (19 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe WorkfrontZiflow
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    We work with a lot of cross functional teams, so it is nice to have them review things on their own and provide feedback all in the one place for our team to review. It helps cut back on meetings and emails full of feedback that gets lost. This is especially helpful when we are working on our catalogs. We do reviews on Ziflow all the way from rough layouts to proofreading.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    • Simple and user friendly interface with little if no learning curve.
    • Accurate and specific change requests are especially enhanced when using the markup tools.
    • Nice to be able to assign who the decision maker is and also be able to change project participants easily, like when someone goes on holiday or sick leave.
    • SOCD (sent, opened, comment, decision) progress indicators provide an awesome 'at a glance' view of project participants activity.
    • Email notifications and integration with ASANA is brilliant.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Ziflow
    • Comments with instances that span multiple pages force you to zoom out, which can be rough on multi-page proofs. We end up making a comment on each instance for ease of review.
    • Maybe it is in there, but I would love to be able to upload a new version and review/make comments before any of the other reviewers can see it—to double-check for errors. Maybe there is a verification stage first before releasing it to the other reviewers.
    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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    Ziflow
    Ziflow is easy to use, efficient and now is also part of our daily lives. Hence, the teams are already adapted to the tool and willing to work with it. The features are according to all what was expected and we had a great experience until the moment with the tool
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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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    Ziflow
    The tool is easy to use for digital oriented people. For the ones not used to this kind of environment, it could look a bit complicated at the beginning, but following the instructions and tutorials and performing it once makes you get a grip of it in just one use.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    The ZIflow support team has always been very responsive to my questions, issues and other problems. The good thing is I have never had to use their support team all that much because Ziflow has been for the most part trouble free. If it had been error prone, we would have dropped it long ago.
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    In-Person Training
    Adobe
    It was from my boss, not a rep from AtTask.
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    Ziflow
    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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    Ziflow
    They were friendly and took the time to go through everything, especially relating to how we would use the system.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    It was seemless! Things got instantly better when we started using Ziflow!
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    I found Ziflow to be much better than PageProof in several ways. The tools available for making comments and edits are more intuitive and there is a greater variety of tools and the version control features worked much better as well. Also their customer service was far better when it was necessary to interact with the company
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    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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    Ziflow
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Ziflow
    • Improved efficiency and time saved in making proofs and adding people to proofs with staging and template features.
    • Robust proofreading features for reviewers like comparing previous versions.
    • In my experience, customer service is quick to help with issues or outages (which aren't often).
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Adobe Workfront Screenshots

    Screenshot of Tasks in Adobe WorkfrontScreenshot of Work Requests in Adobe WorkfrontScreenshot of Review Functionality in Adobe WorkfrontScreenshot of Adobe Workfront Planning

    Ziflow Screenshots

    Screenshot of Reviewers browse files in a folder grid that shows each proof’s overall status next to their own decision, then open any file to zoom, comment, share it or make an approval decision.Screenshot of Every asset in a campaign shows up together on one canvas: banners, brochures, PDFs, video and a live website. Reviewers can check that messaging and branding match across formats before anything ships.Screenshot of Reviewers open two versions of a proof side by side to see what changed between rounds, such as the replaced hero image between V.2 and V.3 of this ad, without switching files.Screenshot of ReviewAI checks a print ad against the team’s review checklist. Here it flags that a mandatory legal disclaimer is missing and explains its finding page by page. It drafts a comment for the reviewer to accept or ignore, and the reviewer makes the final pass or fail call on each checklist item.Screenshot of Reviewers draw directly on a video frame and attach comments to an exact time range. Each comment appears as a marker on the timeline so editors can jump straight to it, and teammates can reply or react in the thread.Screenshot of Proofs move through ordered review stages, here internal review, client review, legal sign-off and leadership approval. Each stage’s status is visible at a glance, and a stage can be set to start automatically once the previous one is approved.