Workfront - fell far short of what we were sold
February 24, 2017

Workfront - fell far short of what we were sold

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Workfront

Workfront is currently being used across our whole organization as our main tool for all project planning and execution as well as day to day to time logging for all employees. We selected this tool thinking it would be able to address the a much broader part of our everyday life (T&M projects, financial integration, bug tracking, resource management, etc). Unfortunately after three years we've only been able to have a successful implementation with very basic project management based activities and time logging. One area we had high hopes for was the resource management offered by Workfront. Unfortunately, the resourcing management fell short of our expectations. Also disappointing was the integration with JIRA. While Workfront touts this as a strength, it's a costly route that at the end of the day wasn't as polished as we had hoped. For example, you need to pay for the JIRA connector, pay for an annual fee for this connector, and pay for an additional user license that this connector uses to talk to Workfront. The nickel and diming here was something we opted to avoid. Zooming at the the birds eye view here, I'd have to say that the main cause of most of problems was a poor implementation and training.
  • Reporting is nice.
  • Project management is stellar.
  • Issue Qs are brilliant and something that Workfront vastly understates the value of.
  • Resource management too complex, practical implementation very mismatched from the sales guy's pitch!
  • Integrations with other platforms was very difficult at best. We're a custom application development firm, if it gave us trouble, I would say we wish you luck!
  • Implementation and training - Something that Workfront upsold the heck out of. The sales brochures are the only thing that didn't fall short here.
  • Invoicing was rudimentary - concepts are all there, but it's almost like they took an initial swing at it and have never circled back to address real-world use cases.
  • All in all Workfront bridged a gap for us organizationally and helped us to understand what we really wanted from a tool.
  • ROI hard truth is that this was a failure for us. We're transitioning to a new platform now that is much cheaper, and much stronger.
It's not up to par with these other products.
[Well suited for]:
  • Project management for organizations without JIRA or other bug tracking tools.
  • Organizations with light invoicing needs.
  • Small professional service based organizations.
  • Non-Agile teams.

Adobe Workfront Feature Ratings

Task Management
7
Resource Management
1
Gantt Charts
2
Scheduling
2
Workflow Automation
1
Team Collaboration
6
Support for Agile Methodology
2
Support for Waterfall Methodology
8
Document Management
6
Email integration
2
Mobile Access
4
Timesheet Tracking
1
Change request and Case Management
4
Budget and Expense Management
2
Quotes/estimates
1
Invoicing
1
Project & financial reporting
8
Integration with accounting software
1