Workfront

WorkFront is way to important in our lives, especially if we are dealing with complicated tasks that needed everyone's help. Even though our supervisors or our associates are out in the office, it is easier for them to join the platform because of updated mobile version of the software. Overall, this software helps us do our jobs in a shortest time possible minimizing effort and maximizing results.

Vorteile

Using this software is easier for our teams in the workplace to collaborate on projects because everything is already in a systematic order. Everyone, from our clients to our team players have the access to the projects that needed to be pondered on real time. With this, our employees tend to be efficient and effective in their assignments since the platform is easy to manage and user friendly. It helps us achieve our goals and do our tasks within the expected timelines. With it being user friendly, even our non techie associates were able to learn how to use it a short period of time. Being a company that was included in the Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 says it all about this innovative product. For work management and solutions, get WorkFront now!

Nachteile

Since we are busy people and most of us would prefer to have our work on the go, I have tried using the mobile version of the software. The first version of the application was actually better than the newer ones because some of the notifications in the newer version were gone once you refresh it, I almost lost a data but then the support center was kind enough to help me retrieve my file. I also hope using the application in my mobile device will not reduce my phone's battery faster. It works better in the web than in the mobile device.

Vorteile

I used to think Workfront was terrible, until I tried other enterprise level project management software. I'm not saying it's the best, far from it, but I think you start to appreciate it more after you realize what a herculean task it is to track everything. It does a decent job of letting you know what you're responsible for, with helpful email notifications so you don't need to always be in the tool. And once you get those notifications it's easy to respond directly in email or link to the project/task at hand and respond or make changes there. The really killer feature is the proofing tool, which despite some grumbling is one of the best out there. It allows commenting and markups of all types and allows you to do so in context. It also does versioning of the proofs, which is super helpful to go back to to remember what was marked up prior or changed. All in all it gets the job done but it's not particularly a pleasure to use, other than the proofing tool.

Nachteile

Not the most user friendly or aesthetic. The dashboard could use some better UX. I tried out a beta of the new dashboard and that was even worse, glad they didn't roll it out. The one big negative is the lack of a proper calendar module. I heard that one exists but for version my company uses, we don't have anything remotely resembling a calendar view. This is so helpful to me to get a view of milestones and deadlines coming up, without having to do the mental gymnastics of looking at a list view of tasks and figuring out what my priorities are. While the proofing tool is amazing (see pros) it does have a couple of missing features. One is the ability to mark comments as completed or resolved without having to do a response, and the only is to somehow create a linear history and relationship of the markups through the versioning system, so you see the evolution of them. Also, the whole idea of creating percentages done of a task seems so arbitrary to me. Even my company doesn't take much stock in it. We basically leave things at 0% until we absolutely need to mark things as 100% complete in order to not risk being at risk or to move on to the next task that's dependent on the prior one.