Great for large teams with lots of ongoing projects
September 07, 2017

Great for large teams with lots of ongoing projects

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Workfront

  • Allows for collaboration - multiple users can work on tasks for a project, you can tag people in updates whether they've worked on a project or not, etc.
  • Easy tracking of timeline - and easy to adjust timeline if something changes.
  • Document storage - easy to upload, view, download documents associated with a project.
  • Lack of naming conventions - you have to determine this yourself, to keep projects and documents organized
  • Some weird issues - you can make comments on documents but these aren't part of the "updates" section and tend to get lost. This is especially annoying when it comes to reviewing documents in the system.
  • Managing workflows - eliminating email, ensuring tasks aren't overlooked
  • Leveraging previous work - can look at completed projects for templates - either for work products themselves, or for workflow/timelines
Workfront is more expensive, but more robust. Lacks a group writing/editing feature that Podio and Basecamp have. Workfront seems to work better when you have a whole bunch of different people working on a whole bunch of different projects all the time, whereas Podio and Basecamp work great for a small to medium size team working together on one or two big projects at a time (like a website overhaul or developing a campaign, etc).
Well-suited for management of complex projects that involve multiple people. Much easier and more dynamic than creating a Gantt chart. It works well when one person owns a project and is doing/assigning discrete tasks to others. It isn't well-suited for projects that are "group-owned" or where group creation and/or editing is necessary.

Adobe Workfront Feature Ratings

Task Management
10
Resource Management
7
Gantt Charts
8
Scheduling
6
Workflow Automation
8
Team Collaboration
9
Support for Agile Methodology
Not Rated
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Not Rated
Document Management
8
Email integration
9
Mobile Access
Not Rated
Timesheet Tracking
Not Rated
Change request and Case Management
Not Rated
Budget and Expense Management
Not Rated
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
Not Rated