Workfront Review

Detailed Reviews

WorkFront is Lehi, Utah based company started in 2001 as AtTask and Renamed as WorkFront is 2015. The platform offers a social project management tool allowing efficient project, resource, and task management while facilitating discussions on its social podium. Designed to overcome the issue of disenfranchisement in case of failure to resolve workers’ problems, the software features powerful project management and social platform tools for resolving issues of team members.

Pricing

There are different licenses such as Collaboration License, Work license, plan licenses and enterprise licenses. You simply start by subscribing to their free trial that can be customized as per your needs. According to the official website, these license plans are role-based to fit the team’s need. The company offers consulting, training, and support. Upon request, the company discloses price quotes, provided the potential users submit their personal details for the purpose of contact.

Features

Workfront is just not a project management tool, but is also a collaborative software that works as Software as a Service (SaaS) to tap the social media power for improving skills of distant staff. Through the different management features, the software aims at empowering the teams by improving their collaboration, accountability, and perceptibility.

WorkFront also has dedicated feature sets of IT companies and marketing companies as well as for general project management needs.

Agile Solution

Unlike other agile project management tools, Workfront ensures that your team utilizes the right methodology, prioritizes tasks across projects, collaborates in real time, and manages projects and clients via one interface. You can manage requests, plan iterations, and split and track work.

Request and Collaboration Management

You can rapidly submit specific requests, attach documents, collaborate with your team from one place, view and compare all work requests, and prioritize requests strategically to put your team on right track. The tool also allows defining approval processes that you can apply to templates for your team to focus on work. With the built-in helpdesk and request queue configuration, you can manage help desk requests. Further, triggers and notifications ensure that all milestones are achieved on time.

Time Tracking

There are timesheets as well as time tracking reports that facilitate monitoring hours spent on tasks. You can easily find out where the most time is spent, track job and campaign times, and review your schedule. The tool also allows viewing the impact of changing the plan and finding the earliest start date for any project in the set date range.

Team and Document Management

The interface allows easy tracking of the work done by your team for other departments or clients. Further, it also facilitates your team to take advantage of this visibility for ensuring transparency into progress and dependencies.

You can upload any kind of document to tasks, projects, users, and issues. The built-in previews and filters ensure quick and easy report creation, while sharing reports internally and externally happens in just a click.

Social Collaboration

Several social elements together to keep your team updated about their current tasks as well as completed ones. Further, you can provide instant feedback to any team member. One of the unique features here is the ability to attach an image to a job so that anyone can see you while tagging, commenting, and comparing versions.

Conclusion

Workfront has great capabilities and renders a customized level of experience that no other project management tools can offer.