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Adobe Workfront vs OpenText Digital Asset Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Workfront
Ranking in Digital Asset Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (6th)
OpenText Digital Asset Mana...
Ranking in Digital Asset Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Digital Asset Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Workfront is 6.5%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Digital Asset Management is 4.5%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Workfront6.5%
OpenText Digital Asset Management4.5%
Other89.0%
Digital Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

Chris French - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Enterprise Workfront Team at Capital One
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.
YasserAli - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Consultant at Merkle
This provides all-in-one media management for images and videos
The solution is not very user friendly, and if you're coming from a conventional enterprise content management background, there is a steep learning curve. I think it should make itself more discoverable to technical people and that includes the documentation which is lacking in terms of ease of use. I'd like to see some right to left languages as an additional feature. We have to integrate with third parties in order for Arabic to be recognized. It would make a big difference to have that included. It's something that a lot of the competitors are doing. OpenText is lagging in that regard. We're based in Egypt and unfortunately we're unable to implement the full functionality of the solution and get the best out of the product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Feature-wise, I would say that its overall ability to be infinitely customizable is valuable...My experience with the support team has been amazing."
"Work happens much more efficiently and the transparency throughout the organization is immeasurable as the majority of all executive reporting is happening within the tool."
"Easy sharing within our organization of data and information about running projects."
"Adobe Workfront has been stable in my experience, and I would rate its stability as an eight out of ten."
"When compared with other project management tools or workflow tools, Adobe Workfront is far better than other tools in the market now."
"Monitoring the progress of projects and tasks is very effective."
"Various departments that we have to collaborate with, have indicated that they are much more efficient with their work because they are able to see exactly where everything is and what's coming."
"The best part of Workfront is that it is a good system for large jobs as well as smaller scale projects."
"It enables you to deal more easily with videos, especially if you're working with a high volume that needs cutting and editing."
"This is an all-in-one media solution in terms of media management."
 

Cons

"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."
"Customizing and maintaining Workfront can be very time consuming."
"Workfront still has a lot of growing to do in the proofing and review areas of the application. Additionally, the document review process is way too clunky and needs to be streamlined."
"My experience with reporting in Adobe Workfront so far is that the reporting could be better."
"It's not as robust as SharePoint 2013 with Project Server/Web Apps."
"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."
"As with any software, some bugs exist."
"Reporting using charts could be improved - I currently export a few complex reports to Excel in order to create the charts that I need."
"The solution is not very user friendly, and if you're coming from a conventional enterprise content management background, there is a steep learning curve."
"Could be more user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adobe Workfront is an expensive solution."
"The pricing of Workfront is completely license based."
"Speaking about pricing, I wouldn't recommend it to a smaller company because I do think the price point is higher than other solutions that can work."
"The pricing is a barrier to implementation. It is expensive compared to other competitors. Speaking about licensing, they have a private manager license for $1000, which you can use for administration as well. Then they offer a worker license for $500, and then a reviewer or contributor license which is free."
"Adobe purchased Workfront in the past year, and they're putting work into developing the platform, so I expect the price to rise. It isn't cheap, but it's reasonable for the value it provides. It isn't Monday.com where you pick a license with a set price, and you've got a project manager."
"We are partners with Adobe, so we get the licensing at a cheaper rate."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise30
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Workfront?
The per-user cost in the ultimate plan of Adobe Workfront is approximately $1,232 when purchasing 800 to 1,000 licenses. The ultimate plan includes Fusion, which is an excellent automation tool. In...
What needs improvement with Workfront?
The platform could benefit from additional customization features. The external lookup field, which allows custom API calls to fill data, is limited to two thousand results, which is insufficient f...
What is your primary use case for Workfront?
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AtTask, Workfront DAM
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Sample Customers

Advance Autoparts, Emerson, Covario, Cisco, Caroma, TREK, Sapient Nitro, ATB, LexisNexis, CarPhone Warehouse
Marks & Spencer, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Argos, News UK, Rosetta Stone, Tarkett, DDR Corp., PBS
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