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Adobe Workfront vs Broadcom Clarity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Adobe Workfront boosts efficiency and productivity significantly, saving time and resources while enhancing collaboration and user growth.
Sentiment score
4.8
Broadcom Clarity enhances planning and financial management, showing noticeable ROI improvements in six months despite integration challenges.
We tracked all of the savings through Adobe Workfront, and at the end of the year, for those 2,500 users, we saved over 1,200 hours, or 1,200 man hours.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Adobe Workfront's support is well-rated for expertise and responsiveness, though complex issues can experience longer response times.
Sentiment score
6.7
Broadcom Clarity's customer service is praised for escalation and support but criticized for slow response and inconsistent documentation.
They provide answers and guidance on how to resolve issues, such as clearing cookies and cache, and assist in best practice configuration and optimization of the platform.
It is considered a citizen admin system, and you don't need to be an IT professional to be an administrator.
If L5 does not understand, it moves to L4. If they can't solve it, it moves to a higher level.
Customers receive 24/7 support as long as they have a license.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Adobe Workfront scales well for midsize to enterprise businesses, offering flexibility, customization, and strategic planning with manageable scalability challenges.
Sentiment score
7.7
Broadcom Clarity adapts well to varying user scales, though some experience challenges with specific versions and complex integrations.
We have gone from two or three marketing teams up to over 40 marketing teams and 6,500 users in a few years.
The solution is really scalable.
We have customers ranging from 50 users to 100 to 200,000 users.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Adobe Workfront is praised for its stability, with issues resolved quickly and performance consistently rated highly by users.
Sentiment score
7.5
Broadcom Clarity offers high availability and reliability, though occasional performance issues occur, particularly during peak times and setup complexities.
Adobe Workfront provides a stable foundation for project management.
Overall, I would rate the stability and reliability of Adobe Workfront a ten.
I have not faced any challenges with the stability of Adobe Workfront.
 

Room For Improvement

Adobe Workfront users want improved reporting, integration, and interface customization for better usability, efficiency, and data visualization.
Broadcom Clarity requires UI, mobile improvements, simpler reporting, better integrations, resource efficiency, and enhanced analytics and training.
We can enhance integrations, such as ensuring Adobe Workfront integrates more seamlessly with other Adobe products like Experience Manager and Creative Cloud.
If I have issue-level data and project-level data that I need to see, with some custom coding, you can do some of it in a report, but in general, if you have a lot of that blended data between levels, you need to use a dashboard, which requires two different reports due to the difficulty in pulling data at the different levels into one thing.
Integration with Azure DevOps could be improved to facilitate better communication between the two systems.
We are having difficulty using the Broadcom mobile application, which is not compatible with our network and inflow settings.
Broadcom Clarity could improve by adding artificial intelligence and reporting capabilities.
 

Setup Cost

Adobe Workfront's pricing is high but offers flexibility, discounts, and value for large remote teams with efficiency improvements.
Broadcom Clarity's pricing is high yet competitive, with varied licenses, bulk discounts, and justified costs for its capabilities.
This can include items such as mileage, supplies, software, licenses, and travel costs.
The least price works out to about fifty dollars per month per user.
 

Valuable Features

Adobe Workfront offers customizable tools for effective project management, enhancing collaboration, automation, integration, and workflow flexibility for users.
Broadcom Clarity boosts transparency, efficiency, and flexibility in project management, enhancing decision-making with user-friendly design and comprehensive features.
It provides comprehensive features with built-in integration for creative tools, addressing the pain point of creative collaboration in the content supply chain.
The system aids in supporting demand management and producing high-level status reports.
You can set up the complete workflow from start to end with Adobe Workfront, such as content creation, content publication, and getting that approval process, storing it somewhere.
The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity are the roadmap feature and the hierarchy feature, which allow rolling up all the projects into programs and portfolios.
The valuable feature is the portfolio management, which includes project management and status reporting, managing the projects and programs at a portfolio level.
 

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Workfront
Ranking in Project Management Software
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Digital Asset Management (1st)
Broadcom Clarity
Ranking in Project Management Software
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
143
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Adobe Workfront is 2.8%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Clarity is 3.9%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Broadcom Clarity3.9%
Adobe Workfront2.8%
Other93.3%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Chris French - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced project management and automation simplify reporting and approval processes
I think that Adobe Workfront could be improved in several areas, including reporting, which I've already mentioned. There are very specific things within the custom forms that I think could be improved, such as having different labels within forms instead of system-wide. The ability to hide options in a drop-down at the custom form level instead of system-wide would be another improvement. There are times we have to create brand new fields because we need slightly different wording within the label. If we had the capability, we could easily trim down from over 1,000 custom fields to about 400 custom fields if we had the ability to have individual labels by form. So reporting is a big one, and I think there are some not huge changes needed, but improvements to custom forms and custom fields would be beneficial. My experience with reporting in Adobe Workfront so far is that the reporting could be better. The ability to report is great, but I think it is too difficult. Regarding dashboards, they are crucial to be able to pull information from different levels, but that's also a negative because it is very difficult to do that on a report. If I have issue-level data and project-level data that I need to see, with some custom coding, you can do some of it in a report, but in general, if you have a lot of that blended data between levels, you need to use a dashboard, which requires two different reports due to the difficulty in pulling data at the different levels into one thing.
Farshad Farhadieh - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient project management with roadmap and hierarchy features
I use Broadcom Clarity for end-to-end project and program portfolio management Every customer has achieved a return on investment within the first six months of implementation with Broadcom Clarity. The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity are the roadmap feature and the hierarchy feature,…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise116
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workfront?
Adobe Workfront features include expenses associated with a project or task that are not related to labor hours. This can include items such as mileage, supplies, software, licenses, and travel cos...
What needs improvement with Workfront?
In Adobe Workfront, there is a limit of 2,000 users that can be shown on a page. I would suggest increasing this to something around 10,000 so end users can search all objects more efficiently. Cur...
What is your primary use case for Workfront?
We use Adobe Workfront for project management where users manage their projects, add tasks to the project, track their timeline, and get approvals from project managers. I work on the developer sid...
What needs improvement with Broadcom Clarity PPM?
The product execution part, such as planning and executing, is done through Atlassian tools, specifically Jira. We wanted to upgrade our ability to understand how all these products and teams are w...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Clarity PPM?
The purpose for using Broadcom Clarity is strategic portfolio management, connecting the strategic teams with expenses and linking it to the execution of the product to understand what we're spendi...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AtTask, Workfront DAM
Clarity PPM, CA Clarity, CA PPM, CA Clarity PPM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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