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Adobe Workfront pros and cons

Vendor: Adobe

4.2 out of 5

42 reviews
90% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Adobe Workfront excels in integration with CRM and service ticket systems, providing centralized project management. Project Schedule Templatization is praised for efficiency and detailed data categorization. It supports Agile methodologies with customizable workflows and offers strong IT security. However, its reporting, stability, and Agile tools face criticism. Integration with Azure DevOps and scalability are also concerns due to limited storage for digital asset management.

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PROS

Monitoring project and task progress is very effective.

The software excels at project management with its flexibility, supporting Agile methodologies like Kanban and Scrum.

It allows integration with other systems, streamlining tasks, communication, and information availability.

Adobe Workfront is stable, with a high rating for performance and reliability.

Workfront's ability to integrate communication systems helps differentiate business emails from project conversations.

CONS

Workfront's reporting capabilities must be improved.

The stability has declined since the Adobe acquisition, affecting the quality of updates.

Changing implementation leadership can cause timeline delays.

Integration with Azure DevOps could be improved to enhance communication.

There is a limit of 2,000 users visible per page, which should be increased for efficiency.

Adobe Workfront Pros review quotes

Senior Manager of IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 23, 2014

We are finding that AtTask is continuously breaking down the silos and facilitating cross-collaboration between groups and teams.

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IT Project Manager - Enterprise at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Sep 30, 2014

Mostly, it has to do with reporting project status updates to the management team.

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Administrative Assistant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 20, 2014

AtTask is quite easy to learn and use to manage simple projects.

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IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2014

Reduced license costs plus reduced overall project timelines.

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Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 20, 2015

AtTask is a great project management and workflow management tool.

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Sr Project Manager-Resource & Infra with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 20, 2015

AtTask's ability to quickly apply project templates to any given request (e.g. tasks with owners, dependencies, and timing) gives order to a busy workload and clarity to business owners seeking to get work out the door.

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Creative Trafficker at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 22, 2015

The project transparency in AtTask/WorkFront is amazing, it helped us become so much more organized and gives us so much data to help report in ways it would have taken me weeks to do, and now I can build the report fast and have it at my fingertips to use at any time.

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Web Traffic Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 22, 2015

AtTask provides collaboration on projects which is critical to a projects success.

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Senior Process Analyst at a venture capital & private equity firm with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 2, 2015

I like being able to update the status of my projects so everyone can have visibility to what I am working on and its status.

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Specialist, Planning & Integration at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 2, 2015

As per a user survey, 90% of respondents believe that Workfront has increased operational discipline.

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Senior Manager of IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 23, 2014

As with any software, some bugs exist.

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IT Project Manager - Enterprise at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Sep 30, 2014

It's not as robust as SharePoint 2013 with Project Server/Web Apps.

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Administrative Assistant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 20, 2014

Lots of bugs with AtTask. I had to call Help line A LOT for help.

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IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 20, 2014

Yes, we experienced brief downtime on a few occasions but it became a rarity.

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Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 20, 2015

The biggest room for improvement comes from faster iteration times.

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Sr Project Manager-Resource & Infra with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 20, 2015

The ways for employees to generate reports; e.g their own workload in calendar year 2014; are not necessarily as intuitive as they could be.

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Creative Trafficker at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 22, 2015

Some of my reporting needs, I have had to add custom calculations and when I have called to get help, they say it is a custom ask.

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Web Traffic Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 22, 2015

I would have to say the "Updates Tab" where comments on the projects are posted.

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Senior Process Analyst at a venture capital & private equity firm with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 2, 2015

Workfront works well if you are just trying to use out of the box functionality but once you try and get specific to your own business needs, it lacks in flexibility.

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Specialist, Planning & Integration at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 2, 2015

We have experienced multiple problems as a result.

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