Adobe Workfront vs Microsoft Project comparison

"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."

"The solution is stable."

"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."

"Monitoring the progress of projects and tasks is very effective."

"The tool is very user-friendly."

"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."

"Instead of following everything on email, business users can track everything on Adobe Workfront when the other systems are integrated with it."

"The intake feature is the most valuable in Workfront."

"We have not had any problems with Microsoft's technical support. We are happy with the support."

"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."

"The solution is very useful for project planning."

"Technical support has been very helpful."

"Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful."

"Microsoft Project integrates well with the Microsoft Office family of applications. It has plugins that interact with it and you can use it with Microsoft Teams. We can use plugins to communicate with JIRA, Projectplace, and Planview. It's not widely used in the company, of course, but it's something that can interact with the official tools that we have."

"The solution is very complete. It makes it a great option for project managers and they can use it extensively in almost any organizational setup."

"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."

"The interface can also be customized to fit and accept many tools for better performance and customer service improvement."

"We were having some difficulties creating different kinds of reports and dashboards."

"Sometimes there are glitches when we are reviewing an interactive proof."

"Sometimes, new users find it a bit difficult to handle Adobe Workfront."

"The solution's visualization feature could be user-friendly."

"I would say that the stability, honestly, has gone down since the Adobe acquisition, and the quality when they roll out their updates."

"I have used the product and instantiated it, almost seven years back. The process was fairly complex, however, I don't know if they have changed the same now. But this is something I think, if not addressed can be improved. Another area that needs a little attention, is the change of implementation lead. Back when we had Workfront instantiated, we often had our timeline delayed due to the change in the implementation lead. Now Workfront is under Adobe and, in case, this issue, isn't fixed it should be given due attention. Also, Workfront is a universal tool, which can pose a difficulty for small businesses and companies, who don't have the required time, effort, and knowledge to configure it periodically."

"Workfront's reporting capabilities must be improved."

"I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices."

"I would like to see more integrations with another software tool."

"The new version has made it a bit more complicated."

"The setup and scalability can be somewhat difficult for new users until they gain knowledge."

"Its user interface could be a little bit more intuitive. Not everybody has the luxury of going to training and understanding which button does what and the functionality. The user interface should be improved to make it a little bit more intuitive. It is not user-friendly. I've dealt with it for a number of years, so it is not hard for me to figure it out, but you would need a quick reference guide or something to say, "Here are the basics. This is how you do X.""

"They should assist with tedious tasks."

"It has a bit of a learning curve since there are a lot of features in it, and we haven't really gotten a chance to train through the whole product."

"It would be better if the solution is integrated with other communication platforms like Microsoft Teams."

"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."

"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."

"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 Workfront is an expensive solution."

"We are partners with Adobe, so we get the licensing at a cheaper rate."

"The pricing of Workfront is completely license based."

"It was a three-year license deal that was reconciled on a quarterly basis. It is a reasonably priced product, and I consider that we got good value for money."

"Microsoft Project is an expensive solution."

"We have to pay for a yearly license for Microsoft Project."

"I am not involved with this."

"The solution is less expensive than other options."

"I do not have personal experience with pricing or licensing of this product."

"The solution has a decent annual license subscription cost, which is not high."

"Pricing-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten since I feel it is a bit costly."