Adobe Workfront Valuable Features

Robert Criscione - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director, Global Design / Marketing Operations at Logitech

Workfront is innovative and these were plenty of features that I found valuable while working at Logitech. Workfront had this feature of Project Schedule Templatization. This saves time and effort and even leads to the standardization of processes that are well-assorted. The Intelligent Graphical Interfaces of Workfront allow one to look at a specific type of resource and a specific phase for a specific family of products. You can get quite granular with the data and even zoom in or out of the timeline. It also categorizes projects according to classes and portfolios so that over time, you can more easily understand what are the various metrics involved in producing a specific portfolio

Another important feature is Workfront allowing you to validate milestones and investigate the project. This also helped me to understand which projects are performing well and whether it was beneficial to invest in the same.

The IT and the app configuration is quite secure and it is one of the benefits.

One more valuable feature is the integration of communication systems inside Workfront. This helps you differentiate between normal business emails and project-specific conversations. This is also known as ‘queues’ and I absolutely find this feature extremely powerful.

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Komal Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The tool is very user-friendly. Workload Balancer is a very good feature. Many teams manage their resources via spreadsheets, and it is very difficult to maintain data for resources across the globe.

We had teams in the UK, Japan, and India, and if we needed a developer available to work on a particular item, it used to be a manual effort. Since Workfront provides a resourcing feature, it is easier for resource managers to see the data online to know a resource’s availability.

Previously, the changes made to the projects by the stakeholders had no proper documentation in our organization since we did it through spreadsheets. There was no organized way of keeping records. Using Workfront, we can bring the stakeholders together, decide who has the main authority to approve and make a decision, view the comments, and compare different versions.

Since Workfront is integrated, we don't have to maintain a separate timesheet or a workload balance. We get a lot of good data to analyze and bring efficiency to the team. Workfront Proof and resourcing-related features are my personal favourites. The tool is very well integrated with many features, making things easier for our clients.

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Nelson Soans - PeerSpot reviewer
Workfront Implementation Manager at Accenture

The ease of use is one of the most valuable features. It has a drag-and-drop interface, so it's not very technical. I don't come from a technical background, but I was able to do administrative tasks and get certified without having to write code, which is great. Additionally, there are many online resources available to help figure things out if needed.

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Marco Almeida - PeerSpot reviewer
E-commerce Merchandising Director at Sysco

The solution has the best project management feature. We can view the timeline of specific activity and manage the status according to its progress. In addition, it's connected with our content management system, helping us automate the processes.

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SK
Senior Consultant at Deloitte

The intake feature is the most valuable in Workfront. When you want to tag someone or assign work to someone, you can use the @mention as we use in social media.

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RakibulIslam - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Software Engineer at Wipro Limited

Working in Adobe Workfront, I can say it is a powerful tool. We have everything in-house in that tool, like, creating reports, dashboards, creating various workflows, and everything we have inside one application.

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David Angyalosi - PeerSpot reviewer
Workfront SME at _VOIS Marketing

Workfront's most valuable feature depends on who is using it. I'm an advanced technical user who is supporting others, and I'm also an admin managing the product. I'm looking at it from that perspective. How are users working with the product? Is it easy for them? Is it helping them? Are there any bottlenecks of administration? Is it easy to access? These kinds of questions usually come into play about whether a product is useful or applicable to everyone. 

I'm looking at the average user logging into Workfront who is attempting to build a new project that might last months or years. We're taking headcounts of who is working on each individual asset, input, and task. Ease of access is always a critical question. When somebody clicks on it, they can see everything right at their fingertips. They click on the project, and all their data is there. Ease of access is the area where Workfront excels. 

Detail is another thing. I've worked with other project management systems that have subpar reporting. You can't pull out certain types of data from the system and provide it in an orderly fashion using a dashboard or a report. It's difficult to deliver that information to your stakeholders if you don't have the data ready. 

I also like Workfront's integration. The solution integrates natively with other systems. It's easy to connect Workfront to any product that has a customer service database, such as a CRM or service ticket management solution.  

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CL
Owner

Feature-wise, I would say that its overall ability to be infinitely customizable is most valuable. Being able to easily create custom fields, calculations and forms to attach to various objects makes it possible to build solutions to support unique processes allowing the tool to be built to augment existing processes rather than dictate process requirements based on tool limitations. You are never boxed into a single solution. It can support waterfall or agile methodologies and can scale up to produce analytics for executive-level reporting and decision-making. 

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BH
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Collaboration among our teams has been the most useful aspect. During project and task implementation teams can share their notes to make sure that they operate on the same page. 

Monitoring the progress of projects and tasks is very effective. There is now proper management of our teams. This has lead to improved service delivery to our customers. 

Data control has lead to the security of our client's data. We have customized this tool to serve our clients and improve self-service among clients. It gives us exact performance and insights on how the future market might look like.

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it_user183876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Project Manager-Resource & Infra with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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it_user183822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees

The workflow management option has been the most valuable up front. It was part of the strategy to get the tool in the door and proof of concept it. By using this Land and Expand model, it has increased overall user adoption by using the same principles sales use by making some invite only. Once users got into the system, this increased their willingness to learn and improve what was already being done.

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it_user184971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Traffic Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

AtTask is cloud based and very easy to use. AtTask provides collaboration on projects which is critical to a projects success. Gives everyone high level visibility in their projects down to the smallest detail. No more spreadsheets!

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it_user189060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director, PMO with 1,001-5,000 employees

The usability of the system has been great. It was by far the easiest product to use based on the products that we reviewed and the adoption with the use of the product has been great in terms of people understanding the system. People spend time learning our process and methods, and not the tool which is the way it is supposed to be.

The communication enhancements with the tool have been wonderful. In some cases, Workfront has replaced email communication and everything is done in the system. People have left the dashboards up on their computer screens all day and really use that to manage their work, communication, time, and really all aspects of their day.

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it_user237936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor, Project Management at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

Workfront's reporting features are the most valuable to our company. Right now we have reports for our production queue, shipping queue and our customers.

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it_user153780 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Calculating a project status based on remaining open tasks was most valuable. Ability to create and save custom project templates, workflows, and reporting dashboards was also valuable.

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it_user333903 - PeerSpot reviewer
Workfront (AtTask) System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customizable reports - we use reports for everything. Early on our users indicated that some of the canned views that Workfront provided were not adequate for our needs, so now the work that they have been assigned is provided to them in a form that they're able to better digest.

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it_user188967 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Marketing at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Building reports and dashboards is simple. Building custom workflows and input forms is fast and provides better control over our business.

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it_user188880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Project Management at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Project Tracking

Timesheets

Reporting

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it_user153054 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of IT at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Work Management, Reporting and System Administration. View full review »
it_user248610 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner with 51-200 employees
  • Project templates
  • Reports
  • Dashboards
  • I love the custom forms - the custom forms have fulfilled every need for data needs within Workfront, and the flexibility to integrate custom form fields into any report, view, filter or grouping has been wonderful
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it_user188895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Analyst at a venture capital & private equity firm with 501-1,000 employees

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

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it_user188925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist, Planning & Integration at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Workfront's most valuable features include the ability for users to:

- Add comments to work projects

- Document risks and issues on specific projects

- Add a URL (for companies that keep project documents in a secure repository)

- Create easy reports to meet stewardship needs of executives

- Insert custom templates for common types of projects

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it_user184926 - PeerSpot reviewer
Creative Trafficker at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

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 do to. Now I can build the report fast and have it at my fingertips to use at anytime.

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it_user333018 - PeerSpot reviewer
Traffic Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Great software that is customisable and easy to use.

Regularly updated with new or improved features.

It is extremely easy to use, and the ability to create custom fields and forms enables me to track the metrics that matter to me.

Great customer support.

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it_user344328 - PeerSpot reviewer
Marketing Projects Manager at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Logging hours is not painful, there are several choices to input them.

The collaboration features are very good: comments, sharing of documents, approvals, etc.

Work requests via assignments are clear and provide accountability.

Integrated document proofing and versioning is a must for any creative department, and this one works really well.

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it_user321978 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Dynamics CRM System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The reporting is great and having all projects in one place has made looking at what is going on in the company much easier.

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it_user206934 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Streamlined Project & Incident Management

Time Reporting

Customization

User friendly

Great for approval workflows

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LH
President (consultant) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I liked the KPI functionality. I also liked that it had an open API.

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it_user154308 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager - Enterprise at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Reporting for project management.

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it_user155496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrative Assistant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Reporting, Dashboard, Resetting User Password.

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it_user188892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality and Office Manager at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
  • Timesheets
  • Planning
  • Real time KPI control
  • No need for ad hoc reports.
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