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What is Adobe Workfront?
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…
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- Task Management (302)7.676%
- Resource Management (274)6.868%
- Document Management (275)6.666%
- Team Collaboration (292)6.161%
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What is Adobe Workfront?
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,…
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What is Adobe Workfront?
Workfront is a web-based project-management tool acquired and now supported by Adobe since late 2020. It was 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. Editing and updating issues from the project view is styled to work somewhat similarly to a social networking site, bringing team members together in one central location. From the project view screen, issues, documents, and other elements of the project are placed along a tab bar so that they may be addressed with one click directly from the hub.
The platform's Capacity Planner allows a manager to move resources to where they are needed, and has some automation features (e.g. the Set Best Fit option, which attempts to allocate resources optimally within given constraints). Agile project management is supported with features like Gantt charts, an easily viewable and manipulable backlog, and storyboarding. Team members can be managed with the aid of quantitative metrics that show where work would be best allocated.
A free trial is available, after which Workfront comes in four pricing options. The lowest tier is Collaboration for small groups, followed by Work which adds mobile accessibility and time sheets, then Plan which adds additional analytic, planning, and reporting features. Finally, Enterprise Plus offers the highest configurability as well as support and data security.
The platform's Capacity Planner allows a manager to move resources to where they are needed, and has some automation features (e.g. the Set Best Fit option, which attempts to allocate resources optimally within given constraints). Agile project management is supported with features like Gantt charts, an easily viewable and manipulable backlog, and storyboarding. Team members can be managed with the aid of quantitative metrics that show where work would be best allocated.
A free trial is available, after which Workfront comes in four pricing options. The lowest tier is Collaboration for small groups, followed by Work which adds mobile accessibility and time sheets, then Plan which adds additional analytic, planning, and reporting features. Finally, Enterprise Plus offers the highest configurability as well as support and data security.
Adobe Workfront Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Resource Management
- Supported: Gantt Charts
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Team Collaboration
- Supported: Support for Agile Methodology
- Supported: Support for Waterfall Methodology
- Supported: Document Management
- Supported: Email integration
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: Timesheet Tracking
- Supported: Change request and Case Management
- Supported: Budget and Expense Management
Professional Services Automation Features
- Supported: Quotes/estimates
- Supported: Invoicing
- Supported: Project & financial reporting
- Supported: Integration with accounting software
Additional Features
- Supported: Reports & Dashboards - Build custom reports and dashboards to track, document, analyze, and share your progress
- Supported: Calendars - Stay organized and on time with customizable, visual work calendars
- Supported: Notifications - Keep everyone in the know of what's happening and what's still required
- Supported: Recognition - Motivate team members with real-time feedback and endorsements
- Supported: Digital Proofing - Keep work moving forward with proofing and reviews in one place
- Supported: Digital Asset Management - Store, manage and distribute final files and completed digital assets in one central location
- Supported: Customization - Configure Workfront to suit your needs, processes, and environment
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Adobe Workfront Integrations
- Allocadia, now part of Brandmaker
- Acquia DAM (Widen)
- Box
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Clients & Profits
- Oracle Responsys
- part of Oracle CX Marketing
- WebDAM
- by Bynder
- SAP
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- Mediaocian
- ExactTarget
- MS Outlook
- Other Custom Integrations Possible with RESTful APIs
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Adobe Workfront Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Several |
| Supported Languages | Several |
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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.
Reviewers rate Task Management highest, with a score of 7.6.
The most common users of Adobe Workfront are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 15, 2024
Adobe Workfront | Tried and Tested all in one Solution
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use Workfront in our internal projects. It helps us to maintain all our organisational tools on a single platform. We use it to maintain projects, client information, timesheets, custom forms for various purposes and even as a leave management system. Workfront combined with fusion helps us to abstract a lot of manual work and saves us time. Designing good solutions on Workfront is easy and fast. We also get direct support from the Adobe team and some support persons are directly involved with the company.
- Custom form designing and sharing those forms.
- Access level controls.
- API integration with attask.
- Calculated fields.
- Documentation should be more well organized and detailed.
- Access level hierarchy can be simplified.
- Allow owners to disable built in controls like default overview and details tab for users.
February 22, 2023
Only use the tool if there is no other choice left
Score 5 out of 10
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Verified User
I use Adobe Workront for task management of clients. Being a project manager, I need all my tasks to be aligned according to priority and timelines. I use the tool daily as it is recommended by our client to manage the timelines through this tool. This tool helps me to keep all the tasks in one place and track them as it sends out the email when the due date approaches which helps me to meet the deadline
- Project Management
- Task management
- Track of deadlines
- Helps me to assign tasks
- Track the progress
- It can include an option of importing data using excel or csv or anything. Entering tasks one by one gets hectic
- The Editing of tasks can be made easy.
- It needs to allow us to add email address of the people to whom the tasks are assigned even if they are not using Workfront
- Retrieving the deleted task should be made simple
July 18, 2022
New Workfront Implementation experience
- Ability to create waterfall processes
- Easy to use reporting and dashboards
- Ability to customize and create user-friendly dashboards per user/group
- Transfer dashboards to PowerPoint
- Outbound communication with Slack
- Export tasks to Outlook calendar
March 05, 2022
Great experience using Workfront!
Our organization currently uses WorkFriend to manage digital assets and review proofs of cross different teams. It’s an easy way to have documentation on changes and alert different stakeholders across the organizations on changes that are needed. It’s also the way that we submit new project requests for our marketing teams.
- Track changes
- Proof approvals
- Notifications
- Menu functionality
- Search functionality
- See what others on your team are working on
I subcontract for a large corporation that utilizes Adobe Workfront for all of it's projects. Having never used it before, I was surprised at how easy I was able to jump into it (I have previous experience with Microsoft Office, which helped). The UI is clean and well-organized, and being able to keep everyone I report to up-to-date is vital, and easy to achieve with Adobe Workfront.
- Project management
- Keeping employees accountable for deadlines
- Keeping the whole team in the loop with updates in real time
- It's a very large program - which is a good thing for a large corporation with hundreds of ongoing projects, but can be daunting if you're not used to it
- Although it's scalable, It could be a bit more user-friendly for small business owners
- It's expensive - and rightfully so - but for a small biz to incorporate it's definitely an investment
November 14, 2021
A solid choice for Project, Time and Resource Management (Plus some bonus features!)
At my current employer, we leverage Adobe Workfront for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, Workfront is used as a time tracking and resource management platform. Projects are created—whether for client work or internal initiatives—and resources are added. Workfront enables project managers and project contributors to see how a project is tracking (going smoothly, at risk, etc.) and makes the necessary adjustments to remediate timelines and budgets. We also use Workfront to integrate with our financial platforms as well as Workfront Proof for editorial requests (proofing) for client-facing documents such as proposals, pitch decks, statements of work, etc.
- Time Tracking
- Resource Management
- Proofing
- Project Collaboration
- 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.
November 12, 2021
Right for Collaborating Teams
[Adobe] Workfront application has been used by our Business Development functional area to streamline their new opportunities that the current employees have to audit, follow up on, and then file according to the priority. Each case is treated as a mini project in itself and so requires task management, task assignment, status updates as well as [the] attachment of documentation to be reviewed by senior management.
- Easy to use
- Ability to create notes/write comments
- Ability to add the predecessor link in tasks
- Ability to add screenshots in the comment section
- Modern UI - it can use a little improvement there
- Automation of similar tasks
This is for a consulting position I held - the school had anywhere between 20 to 40 things going at once, projects like enrichment, after school, internal projects for marketing, etc... so this program was reviewed to keep track of them, have visibility and keep an eye on projects that might have normally fallen by the wayside.
- Tracking (in that you don't easily lose track of projects).
- Cross department friendly (it can be used by anyone who needs a role in the project).
- Project management (with visibility, employees were less likely to let the project slip away).
- Conversations, communications, aren't handled very well in the program.
August 26, 2021
Work managed perfectly by Workfront
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use it to analyse our project progress and to track the time taken by our team members to work on the projects assigned. Workfront is an easy to use platform with a user-friendly interface to navigate any function easily. It allows our team members to work on it remotely. Start to end its pretty much reliable.
- Time sheet tracking
- Project management
- Task management
- Communications between our team members.
- Needs to be logged in to get to get notifications by members.
- Should have a improved UI
July 21, 2021
Workfront the best
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Workfront is used almost in every department across our company. It allows us to manage and track time allocated along with the work to our staff.
- Easy interface
- Reports
- Dashboard
- Nothing as such
June 10, 2021
Workfront for HealthCare workers
Workfront is utilized by the marketing, communications and events team at BJC HealthCare. As many of our projects involve multiple users (now all remote workers), it's a way for everyone to communicate and update everyone on the progress, and also to share resources and documents as the project moves forward. It also lets people know when the project is complete, or what roadblocks there might be.
- 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.
- Notifications - at times it is difficult to receive updates from team members unless you log in.
- Cumbersome - at least at BJC HealthCare, there's a lot of steps to get things logged.
- Archive system - you have to set up a whole other folder or archive to put projects that are closed out.
June 08, 2021
Remote work simplified and streamlined.
We are using Workfront across different departments and teams to automate our workflows, simplify digital asset management and be in control of all our work. Workfront has been an important tool in our remote work since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. It has facilitated communication and collaboration among teams with the valuable features it offers. Our IT professionals have received great benefits from using features like keep track of bugs, milestones, status, product road mapping, and issue management. On a single platform, we can have projects delivered in a timely manner and quality work delivered which leaves our customers satisfied.
- The powerful communication tools ensures that all team members working remotely are always up to date and everyone on the same page
- Gantt chart is flexible to adjust to changes made on projects and ensures it is easy to track the progress of the team members.
- The robust automation tools has reduced our team members workload and saves time for everyone.
- The user interface is not easy to navigate.
- The software has a learning curve.
- It is costly for small organizations.
June 04, 2021
Well-Suited for Enterprise
Workfront allows our teams to manage projects and process work requests. Nearly everyone in the company, across departments, uses it. Workfront allows management to track time allocations and helps staff members manage their individual workloads. I'm not sure what we would do without a tool of this kind at this point.
- Easy-to-use interface, especially for tracking time and project tasks
- Customizable admin settings
- Extensive dashboards/reporting
- Probably not a good fit for small teams/companies--best if managed by a dedicated administrator.
- Tracking projects by the minute feels too granular at times.
- Would love to see an integration with Marketo campaigns and calendar.
June 03, 2021
Workfront, does most of the work for me
Various departments within our organization utilize Workfront as a request system and project management system. Workfront allows us to use the system, to create, update, track and finalize requests that would have normally been submitted to departments via email. Making it a singular avenue to see all the happenings of any particular requests/project. One of the features I enjoy most is the updates that can be received by a single user or a team by utilizing the team functions. An email is sent to any user connected to the team or project and no person has to remember who to send any info to, the system does that for you as long as they are attached or part of that team. This reduces the possible issue of "forgetting" to include someone in an email or update. Adding documents and the approval process of said documents make collaborating easier for my needs. Updates on one page make it easy for any user to easily review a request and latest information. Overall the system provides what need it to and it is an excellent system for requests, projects and workflows are an area that can use improvement yet it is functional.
- Requests work particularly well for us, updates and information in regards to a request are all in one place. Updates provided to all attached users/teams, documents, hours logged, it makes requests easy, pretty much a one stop shop.
- Being able to pull reports on our requests and have custom fields that provide all the information we would need without having to go back and fourth in different programs makes it a breeze to provide information to management.
- Projects, we would like to see more options when it comes to working with projects.
- Workflows, I would like to see some dynamic workflows. Request A > flows to Request B. Without having to reenter information.
June 02, 2021
A Well Organized Project Management Tool
Our Project Management team is using Adobe Workfront for Agile and Scrum. Workfront provides deeper visibility to our project sprints and our engineers who are working on them. It also gives you an amazing dashboard that provides insights for SLA, team viscosity during our sprint.
- Agile
- Task prioritization
- Search bar can be improved.
June 01, 2021
Workfront - Excellent Project Management Tool
Not sure if it has been used by most of the projects in my organization, but definitely a good choice for the project at the right time. It comes as an Adobe bundle for us with a lot of other beautiful Adobe tools. [I] have used many other tools similar to Workfront for managing projects and for tracking purpose[s], but [I] feel Workfront come[s] as one solution for all the things needed for a project; [whether] it is time tracking, the task assignment, or to track what all we have in the pipeline/backlog.
- Planning / Project Scoping
- Time Tracking
- Reporting
- UI could be improved
- Initial setup is a bit time consuming
We used Workfront as part of a client's project management system. They tracked and managed all digital projects (everything from email to website to social) and used it as a hub for collaboration and centralization between their business and all partner agencies involved. It was a good tool from this perspective because it allowed all partners involved in a particular project to stay up to date on project status, documents, timelines, etc. It served not only as a repository for all project documents but also a forum to discuss project milestones, dependencies, and updates. The centralization between companies and resources was great at mitigating siloed workflows, out of the loop team members, and disorganized project management.
- Centralization of project resources, such as documents, timelines, discussions
- Easy-to-learn and navigable UI
- Email notifications of published updates from other users
- Notifications generated by members of your own organization don't send an email notification
- Access has to be granted on a project and document level
- Once a thread is started, you can't un-cc a member if the thread is no longer relevant to them
May 17, 2021
Workfront will make your team more efficient
Workfront is being used across the whole organization. It helps us to keep our many projects on task, and for everyone involved in specific projects to see where they stand and the project stands as a whole. It is useful for communicating with coworkers in my department and outside my department.
- Organization
- Communication
- Consolidation
- Initially I was confused concerning work orders and projects being different things.
- Logging tasks and progress could be clearer.
Workfront was used as a project management routing system and to own the digital project management experience for the agency. The platform allowed for remote teams to work together to complete projects on time and on budget. Workfront was used to collect team feedback as assigned by the Project Manager to keep projects moving through the agency. Project Managers would create timelines within the system.
- Ability for teams to work remotely and still collaborate on feedback
- Integrations with different systems like Proof HQ and Slack
- Timeline creation and flexibility to communicate project steps with appropriate people in the way they want to receive notifications
- If agencies do not follow its' intended use, the platform can be overkill in features and complicated to use
- There are too many options for notifications to users and many of them do not fall into the "just right" category
- If Project Managers are not using the system as intended, run/timing reports are not accurate and makes it challenging to go back and make updates for the team and run reports for leadership.
September 14, 2020
Great project management tool for enterprise level business
Workfront is being used to manage cross brand projects after a merger. It allows both teams to run seamlessly where due to ongoing security concerns it has not been possible to use the GSuite solution that we use natively.
- Real time project changes, when a project manager updates a request then I am notified immediately.
- Creates a broad spectrum approach where it is easy to communicate with other business users who may be outside of the initial project scope
- Allows post project time/cost/benefit allowance for stakeholder reporting and future project manpower and time planning.
- New user setup could be a bit easier, this could be a Microsoft issue though.
- Some navigation is a little bit convoluted.
- Enterprise pricing could be better compared to some alternative products.
October 13, 2019
Workfront evaluation
Workfront is being used across the IT organization for tracking and managing all IT efforts that require more than 80 hours of work. A few additional departments have implemented Workfront with varying success for groups of < 20 users to track business type products. The problem it addresses is that all projects are contained in one central location, with the ability for both IT and business stakeholders and management to be able to easily view project status and progress.
- Workfront is easy to configure to send out reports on either an adhoc basis or regularly scheduled.
- Workfront has features to customize notifications so that when various events are trigged, you can configure emails and alerts to keep both IT and business people informed.
- Workfront can generate custom charts and graphs to help provide stats on resource usage, product categorization, etc.
- Ability to customize easily to your companies terminology.
- The gantt charts are very hard to work with and modify.
- The methodology/tools are geared toward a non agile development shop.
- A one page executive status or summary would be extremely helpful, but does not exist.
October 01, 2019
Workfront is okay
Workfront is primarily used to track and manage tasks associated with larger cross-functional projects across the company. It allows us to track time spent, raise issues, submit new requests, and keep an eye on progress to goal. Our project managers don’t utilize it to its fullest extent of capability, which leads it to become more of a to-do list, but it has more advanced functions like budgeting and reporting that would be useful.
- Alert individuals or groups to new activity towards task completion
- Remind users of overdue tasks
- Flexibility to assign new users/contributors
- Upload documents
- Integrate ProofHQ for client approvals
- Do not like how easy it is for tasks to “get lost” in the My Work section.
- Frequent minor glitches
- Sometimes have difficulty uploading files
September 25, 2019
My favorite project management system by miles.
There's a lot I love about Workfront. As someone who works on the creative services side of the business, Workfront allows for an orderly intake process using its custom forms (a questionnaire) that allows the project manager to identify the exact asks that are being made. Workfront allows us to easily flip requests into full blown projects, using its task feature to assign each user their own role in the larger project. From a creative perspective, I can use agile project management and set tasks to happen concurrently, or waterfall project management and customize tasks so that one task cannot be started until the previous task is complete. Overall, Workfront offers a really clear process that creates the accountability throughout my team's creative process.
- It's easy to stay up to speed with and make changes based on system changes and your organization changing.
- The support team is very nice and professional.
- Setting up can be time consuming if you don't already have a process in place.
- Plan on user adoption to be your biggest hurdle as people are uncomfortable with change.
September 11, 2019
A Powerhouse For Large Projects
Workfront is being used as a project management suite, aiding our project members to work in an agile way effectively. The tool my team and I use most frequently is the issue tracking, which is invaluable as a developer.
- Ease of use, nice layout, and good colours.
- Most features needed are out of the box, little need for an external solution for project management.
- Graphical representations can be automatically produced from data rather than manually configuring them.
- Other project management tools, though they may be limited, offer excellent solutions for free.
- Workfront benefits from large teams, rather than smaller more intimate teams.
- Not the easiest to pick up for brand new users compared to simpler competitors.
August 28, 2019
Workfront is a workhorse for your PMO
It was being used by project managers at my firm to manage project schedules and budgets, with a web based tool that allowed for multiple projects to be managed at one time, from one application and easy measuring of project health at the portfolio level.
- Handles management of multiple projects in one location
- Stores all project details in the cloud
- Provides access from location with an internet connection
- Configuration and project setup feel a little bit more complex than they could be and that I’ve experienced from other tools
- There was a learning curve by Some members of our team which slowed the adoption
- There is so much functionality that it can almost feel overwhelming