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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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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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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

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Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

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Product Details

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.

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

Adobe Workfront Screenshots

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

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Adobe Workfront Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesSeveral
Supported LanguagesSeveral

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Kantata PS Cloud, Project Insight, and Zoho Projects are common alternatives for Adobe Workfront.

Reviewers rate Task Management highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Adobe Workfront are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Custom Form Creation: Users have appreciated the platform's ability to create custom forms for designing and sharing, providing flexibility in project management. Calculated Fields Feature: The feature of calculated fields has been liked by users as it assists in various aspects of project management tasks. Project Management Capabilities: The platform was praised for its robust project management capabilities, including task assignment, deadline tracking, and facilitating progress updates. Efficient Reporting Features: Users highlighted the ease-of-use reporting tools that allow easy tracking of changes and proof approvals, enhancing overall project management effectiveness. Real-Time Team Updates: The platform received commendation for keeping employees accountable for deadlines, enabling real-time team-wide updates, and fostering effective team communication on project progress.

Documentation Organization: Users have suggested that the software's documentation needs significant improvement in terms of organization and detail. Some users feel lost due to the lack of a clear structure in the documentation, hindering their understanding and usage of the platform.

Access Level Hierarchy Complexity: Reviewers have pointed out that simplifying the access level hierarchy is crucial for better navigation within the system. The current complexity in accessing different levels of permissions has been a common frustration among users looking for a more streamlined experience.

Task Management Efficiency: Several users have highlighted the inefficiency of entering tasks individually, proposing an enhancement to import data using Excel or CSV files. This feature would greatly improve workflow efficiency by allowing bulk task creation and management.

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Superb, Seamless & strategic tool to manage Project operations!!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 02, 2024
CG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
Adobe Workfront is very well suited where you need to work on projects where a lot of audiences have there individual tasks to do, so assigning the task, managing the workflows, providing the feedbacks can be easily done by Adobe Workfront. It will required to have little training & get used to it if you want to use it in depth due to its little complex user interface. so its less appropriate to onboard a newbie directly on project without training them on the tool.

My experience using Adobe Workfront

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 25, 2024
LG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
It is a great software when you are collaborating with a team or even with your customers to understand the progress of your project. I think it is really useful and has a lot of tools that help you administrating tasks and projects, however, I think it is a bit complex and requires some training that other administrative tools don't and I havent seen documentation about the use of it

Adobe Workfront | Tried and Tested all in one Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 15, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
It is well suited in environments where you have different scenarios or requirements, but want to maintain only one application/tool to handle such complex set of requirements. For simple situations, Adobe Workfront can be an overkill, it suits large organizations. For smaller ones, I still think lightweight or inhouse solutions work best.

Only use the tool if there is no other choice left

Rating: 5 out of 10
February 22, 2023
AB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
9 years of experience
I would say that Adobe Workfront is not the best tool to use to manage your projects. You can use it for task management. It really gets on the nerves when you delete a task and then you have to retrieve it. Also, I would suggest that the tool gets a UI upgrade there would be better as there are a lot of improvements that can be incorporated into it.

Great experience using Workfront!

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 05, 2022
GG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
We enjoy using this platform to kick off new projectors for marketing. It’s a great way to have control over changes for the future and be able to reference past designs to not have to start from scratch. It wouldn’t be good for pilot projects that don’t need as many reviewers and sign-off.

Workfront is the Project Manager Designed with the User in Mind

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 01, 2022
RG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
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.

Workfront | Best Project Management tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 24, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
There is no doubt that it is suitable for project management. This software makes it easier for teams to coordinate their work and manage their progress. Additionally, it helps members of the team to prioritize their assigned tasks and to present the results of their work to clients for their review. Multiple projects can be seen as a whole by charts and reports, which can assist higher management.

A solid choice for Project, Time and Resource Management (Plus some bonus features!)

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 14, 2021
EV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
Adobe Workfront is well suited for most professional services organizations. Any company that has clients on a retainer or project-based terms can benefit from a resource management platform like Workfront. Workfront allows project owners to manage the time allocated to projects and specific tasks (or milestones) within a project. Resources can be added at the project and task level, so it is easy to see who should be working on what. Workfront also makes proofing client-facing documents a breeze. Once uploaded, editors can easily track changes in real time, saving time and creating efficiencies throughout the process.

Amazing Project Management Tool! A must have for consulting firms

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 12, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
I believe that Workfront is an amazing tool for management consulting firms as it centralizes and helps to organize many projects that may be happening across their firm. This would also be a great tool for SaaS companies to use to help organize the status of their ongoing implementations.

Right for Collaborating Teams

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 12, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
4 years of experience
A lot of the projects or business development projects/accounts that we process are mini-projects in itself, however, there are a few similarities in some projects related to the improvements required or the type of technology needed. So the idea of creating templates was something that we missed in other applications. Workfront is great for managing tasks according to the category of templates we have used in the past. It keeps our employees' life easy and super easy to onboard new team members where we can show them the previous projects.

A Lions share of work

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
[Adobe] Workfront is a great project management software for teams larger than 10. It does a great job of allowing you to include the appropriate people and not ping just everyone. [Adobe] Workfront is *not* a media agency tool. If you need to track campaign performance, purchasing, planning, or proposals, this is not the right tool for that.

Workfront is a good PM solution

Rating: 4 out of 10
November 09, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
In my experience, Workfront is a really robust and useful tool. It is not my personal favorite because it did not support tasks/projects that did not have a date associated with them, and it required a bit of navigation work to get around. That being said, it is a good tool. It does great at keeping projects organized, keeping team members on track and collaborating, commenting on tasks or work (ie. images/designs).

Adobe Workfront is Perfect for Certain Organizations, Certain Individuals

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 09, 2021
PS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
You need to, first, actually have a need for a project management system. If you are doing well with a spreadsheet, then you don't need to spend money on this. It has a LOT of functionality, but you need to have established the need before throwing something like this at your business. A team of two people isn't going to need this. A team that crosses departments which could be between 10 and 50 people would use this very well. I could go on about the features, which are essentially the same as most any project management software these days, but the bottom line is - you need to have the need first to make this work well for you. Otherwise, you are spending money on a tool that will be used by half of the people on the team, and eventually it will become a project that needs managing itself!

Work managed perfectly by Workfront

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 26, 2021
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
Workfront is easy to use and can be customized. It allows us to create reports, create tasks, check project progress very easily.

Workfront the best

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 21, 2021
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
This has been the best program we have managed so far, it has provided the best possible results so far. This platform is capable of ensuring that each of the users can be in constant communication and can maintain correct administration in each of their activities. We are using it across multiple departments within our company.

Workfront for advanced marketing resource management needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 16, 2021
PD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
Workfront has specifically helped our creative services team outline projects, priorities, dependencies, and overall workload that had historically been difficult to detail out. Our marketing ops group has seen success with Workfront in campaign management and execution. Workfront has help create shared understanding by showing project statuses to key stakeholders, with the ability to add comments as needed.

Workfront for HealthCare workers

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
A specific example is Heart Month at BJC HealthCare. There were marketing materials, media stories, patient testimonials and events. Using Workfront allowed everyone to keep the list of projects straight. Team members could log their specific projects and provide updates, and tag specific colleagues who might want to utilize their materials or at least be "in the know" about the project.

Less appropriate - a specific media story. This is a bulk of my work. Oftentimes media stories pop up quickly and are resolved quickly - and stopping to track in Workfront is a cumbersome task, especially when other colleagues will not be involved. However, it has proved to be useful in tracking for the media relations team specifically.

Remote work simplified and streamlined.

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 08, 2021
PL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
2 years of experience
Workfront is well suited for remote workers with tons of features that are important for them to collaborate and communicate efficiently. The mobile app can also facilitate the work of remote workers by assisting them to work from any location.It is also ideal for medium to large enterprises since it manages the complexity of projects in an easy way.

Well-Suited for Enterprise

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 04, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
5 years of experience
I've only used Workfront as part of an enterprise team. It offers the features and controls that we need, and as a non-admin user, I've found it to be very friendly and flexible. That said, our company has invested significant resources into implementing and maintaining our instance. Other solutions (cheaper, simpler) would likely suit smaller companies better.

Workfront, does most of the work for me

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 03, 2021
GF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
I cannot rave enough about the way we are now able to handle requests because of Workfront. It went from an archaic email system to Workfront where everything is in one place. No more having to weed through emails in order to find all the information I need to proceed with my job, it is all there in the form because I was able to easily customize the form to include all the information I needed. This has been a game changer for me.

A Well Organized Project Management Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 02, 2021
AW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
Workfront being a product of one of the most trustworthy companies, Adobe, provides a well-organized package to manage our project and generate reporting. With Workfront, handling our Agile and Scrum process has become way easier, as, previously we were managing that on Excel but now it has become more efficient and we can assign work to developers as per availability.

Workfront - Excellent Project Management Tool

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
1 year of experience
Although we have a lot of options available similar to Workfront, I still believe it is a good option for large projects. The tool will definitely have a great impact on the overall project management and on the delivery. It helps to track and prioritize the task which is needed at the current moment. Also, [it is] easy to track the team workload and bandwidth.

Work with your colleagues on project management

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 24, 2021
DR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
There are more than enough reasons to accept it as an essential software for the different subsystems of the companies. It has obtained the result that is needed. It works excellent and has been the best program we have had to manage generally.

Good for project management with multiple agency involvement

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 24, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Workfront
3 years of experience
Workfront is well suited for companies that employ multiple agency partners who all work on a singular initiative, such as search agencies, creative agencies, and dev agencies would work on a website. As a platform to be used within a single organization, there may be a better, more appropriate project management tool.
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