Adobe Workfront vs. Atlassian Jira

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Workfront
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Workfront, acquired by Adobe in late 2020, is a web-based project-management tool. It is designed for both IT and marketing teams, but can be implemented for any kind of project. Workfront offers all the features standard to project management platforms, as well as resource allocation, automation, and agile workflow.N/A
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Atlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.
$9
per month per user
Pricing
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
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Community Pulse
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Considered Both Products
Adobe Workfront
Chose Adobe Workfront
Trello is only a board tool, not too complete as Adobe Workfront to manage the entire workflow of a team.

Monday.com has a really nice interface and is intuitive but it is not good for complex processes.
Chose Adobe Workfront
While I consider Jira to have a somewhat different targeted use case from Adobe Workfront, they definitely overlap in some of their capabilities. As mentioned earlier, I find that Adobe Workfront is better at tracking progress and managing resources for larger projects that …
Chose Adobe Workfront
Adobe Workfront is integrated with Adobe Experience Manager to improve the ROI and sales by utilizing the digital content workflows.
Chose Adobe Workfront
Adobe Workfront was better suited for us because of the templating and user interface
Chose Adobe Workfront
We need the collaboration
Chose Adobe Workfront
My organization used Adobe Workfront due to familiarity with other Adobe products. But it was more manual than the system is replaced (DaVinci Workflow) so it was a struggle for my team at first. Using Asana currently, but we don’t have the full version with proofing so can’t …
Chose Adobe Workfront
Trello, Asana and Atlassian Jira
Chose Adobe Workfront
Workfront is 1000 times better.
Chose Adobe Workfront
Trello and Project Insight
Chose Adobe Workfront
Easier to use and more modern interface. Project Plans are much easier to manage as well.
Chose Adobe Workfront
Adobe Workfront offers a more organized UI with more personalization options. The approval and proofing flows are more convenient for us as we produce much of our creative work using other Adobe products. Overall, Workfront offers a clean and streamlined user experience that …
Chose Adobe Workfront
Adobe is so much easier to use as a large team
Chose Adobe Workfront
Asset Management for Jira
Chose Adobe Workfront
Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Experience Manager
Chose Adobe Workfront
we were already too invested in workfront.
Chose Adobe Workfront
It’s championed for an enterprise platform. Robust to be unique to different workstreams.
Chose Adobe Workfront
For me, Monday.com is a bit more intuitive and user-friendly oriented, but Adobe Workfront has more tools to administrate the available budget of the project, the utilization and occupation of the team members and the general progress of the project. However, it would be great …
Chose Adobe Workfront
Workfront is more comprehensive. The thing that sets Workfront apart is that using their api, we can write custom integrations over Workfront and design our own dashboards using that integration. This allows us to not only use tools provided by Workfront, but write our own very …
Chose Adobe Workfront
To manage the organization's work from project to project, the organization uses multiple project management solutions. In comparison to Jira, however, the only useful feature I found is the Gantt chart, which helps give a clear overview for multiple projects at once. Moreover, …
Chose Adobe Workfront
It's been a while since I've used another time and resource management platform, but I would say that Adobe Workfront takes the cake. Its newly refreshed user interface is simple to navigate, whereas other platforms can be quite confusing when "drilling down" on a project. …
Atlassian Jira
Chose Atlassian Jira
Compared to gitlab, Jira offers a lot more features and details. The gitlab feature is nice for small projects or teams but we are multiple teams with multiple topics and projects even inside one team - so Jira is more applicable for our case. Azure DevOps offers a comparable …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Performance and features compared to other tools here are really impressive and its very easy to use and it has very good support and it can do majority of tasks like Task ManagementResource ManagementWorkflow AutomationSupport for Agile MethodologDocument ManagementChange …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira is more feature-rich than Trello and also has better integration with other tools. Trello is a lot more focused on work tracking, while Jira can do a lot more than that. Both can also be combined, although they're often considered mutually exclusive alternatives—I've seen …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Trello is amazing for simple project management and great for non-technical teams, but it lacks the depth and complexity of JIRA for detailed issue tracking and complex workflows. Asana, similar to Trello, is great for simple and lightweight project management but isn't …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira is like an old person trying to look young. In the last couple of years it started succeeding somewhat but I'd still pick something from the alternatives if starting a new project.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira provides the greatest access to integrated tools, the most common/familiar interface and toolset for most development teams, and is competitively priced when compared to the level of customization required to outfit similar tools we've used.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to Monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and Monday.com has an …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira integrates with the other Atlassian products, like Confluence and Trello. Atlassian Jira makes it easier to collaborate and keep track of everything.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Great UI/UX, easy to use and great filters than the product we were using before.
Chose Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira is a very different tool than opsgenie and Confluence. Opsgenie excellences in the current work in progress and visualizing the trends of how the work is getting done, but it really doesn't function as a longterm repository of a knowledgebase, instead that is …
Chose Atlassian Jira
I have majorly used Atlassian Jira and not Asana as i have only worked it for like a month or two. The vast support with Confluence and bitbucket makes Atlassian Jira my first choice among all other major player who are competing against each other. I absolutely love using …
Chose Atlassian Jira
We selected Atlassian Jira because our company told us to do so. Which was a good decision
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira was selected because it is used by all of our clients and has become the accepted standard in the type of work that we do. The other tools are great in their own right and would better suit a more insular way of working, where a business conducts all work internally, but …
Chose Atlassian Jira
I haven't used other tools like Jira in my work career.
Chose Atlassian Jira
We've used a variety of tools for project/work tracking and Jira seems to be the most detailed one that allowed cross-functional collaboration between product, dev, ux, and other key stakeholders. It also allows users to be tagged in work and asynchronously share documentation …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira was the application choose by the company that work for, was already part of the culture, it perform well for organizing and managing the software projects and the company, ClickUp its easier to configure projects and automations and Azure Dev Ops and Trello is simpler but …
Chose Atlassian Jira
I didn't pick Jira, it was imposed to me from my employer. If it were for me i would probably have used Linear, since i think it's much more streamlined and doesn't really have tons of less features, but rather an extremely simplified interface that can even work perfectly as a …
Chose Atlassian Jira
I may not have the correct Salesforce product name but we used their version of break fix and project management and it worked well out of the box. I thought that part was called Remedy but something else came up in the search. For Confluence we like it for sharing documents …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Compared to Trello, Atlassian Jira offers more comprehensive tracking and complex workflows. Asana provides greater flexibility but lacks Atlassian Jira’s depth in handling technical projects. Azure DevOps excels in development pipelines, yet Atlassian Jira’s customization, …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Asana was less robust. It is lightweight and has a lot of the same features, has better visuals but it always feel like it isn't robust enough. It is straightforward but it doesn't have the bells and whistle a more robust system like Jira does. And it doesn't have as much of a …
Chose Atlassian Jira
Jira is so flexible and configuration from the Jira administration perspective also its effective and smooth.
Chose Atlassian Jira
It's ability to handle issue management and ticket.

Features
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Workfront
8.6
Ratings
12% above category average
Atlassian Jira
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Task Management10.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Resource Management9.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Gantt Charts9.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Scheduling8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Team Collaboration8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology6.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Document Management6.80 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Email integration10.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Mobile Access8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Workfront
6.0
Ratings
23% below category average
Atlassian Jira
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Quotes/estimates5.10 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Invoicing6.10 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Project & financial reporting6.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software6.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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9.6
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
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9.4
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Availability
9.1
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5.3
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Online Training
8.9
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.3
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
1.0
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7.7
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
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-
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Vendor post-sale
1.0
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Vendor pre-sale
1.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe WorkfrontAtlassian Jira
Likelihood to Recommend
Workfront enables us to manage all our projects effectively while providing a comprehensive overview of team resources. The Resource Planner helps the team identify their capacity to determine whether they are over- or under-allocated. This information is crucial for project planning and ensuring team members do not experience burnout.
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Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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Pros
  • Routing. Workfront's capabilities to route tasks to multiple people far exceeds the capabilities of SharePoint in terms of back-end configuration required and ability to track task status.
  • Form Creation. Workfront forms have a better UX than SharePoint as well as the ability to customize forms based on certain responses.
  • Project Management Tracking & Reporting. The ability to track task and project statuses and send reminders/alerts when parameters are set are very helpful. Additionally, the reporting capabilities are very helpful when tracking multiple projects across multiple functions to deliver to leadership.
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  • As a developer, it is easy to create, track and manage tickets efficiently.
  • Customizable issue types (eg: Bug, Task, Story, Epic) allow teams to categorize and priorizate work.
  • Great text editor and markdown support for detailed issue descriptions.
  • Assign issues to team members, set due dates and define priorities.
  • Integration with Jenkins, GitHub and other CI/CD tools to automate builds and deployments.
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Cons
  • Notifications (sometimes I am emailed when I am tagged, other times I am not)
  • Certain file formats do not render correctly in Workfront Proof (eg, .XLS files)
  • It can be difficult to manage projects if you have not been assigned the correct permissions.
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  • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
  • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
  • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
  • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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Likelihood to Renew
All that I've said already is why. I suppose the clearest way to say it is that at this point? I cannot imagine running the 300+ active projects in eMarketing without AtTask; it simply wouldn't be possible and even more; I wouldn't imagine why we'd try to find an alternative tool when we have one meeting our needs.
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JIRA is highly integrated into our organization. Nearly every department uses it, and many have multiple JIRA projects set up to track different types of work. We rolled out JIRA in a staged manner, but it continued to be adopted by more and more people and departments because it continues to show results. I expect we will continue to renew our JIRA license for years to come
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Usability
For my needs, it's easy to jump in and out of, make changes and update projects, and check in with my employers. I haven't used to it create my own projects, they're created by my employer as we go, I suspect it's not hard to use in that way, but I don't have first-hand knowledge.
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Atlassian Jira is relatively easy to use, but there are several ways to configure it, which can make it more complicated if you configure it incorrectly. Keeping the customizations and complexity limited to being the project would be suggested to ensure you don't lose in-built Atlassian Jira features, then change the configuration as you find things aren't meeting your exact needs.
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Reliability and Availability
Maintenance is required, but usually after work hours, Some days the proofing tool function is not operational, but this is a new function of the tool that WF is working out. the kinks on. Chrome is the best browser to use the system in and we find Firefox and Explorer lose some view functionality - Gantt Chart, Resource Grid
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Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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Performance
Workfront's performance has been very good. Everything always feels very fast and snappy in my experience. We have integrated it with custom scripts to create folder structure for media managing our projects. It works very well.
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Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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Support Rating
I haven't directly interacted with the Workfront support team, but my sense, from speaking to the person in our organization who's job this is, is that they are generally very responsive to support requests, and very supportive an pro active in making sure that those requests are taken care of in a timely manner.
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I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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In-Person Training
It was from my boss, not a rep from AtTask.
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Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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Online Training
The training is very easy to use and you can simply choose the topics included in the course(s) that are most important to your training needs. After each training course, you are tested on what you have learned. If you need a refresher course, they provide Course Catalogs as well as instructor-led courses & workshops.
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One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
We have implemented and integrated Workfront into three departments (R&D, Marketing, and IT). All have experience overall performance gains in productivity. R&D has developed a record number of new products, while streamlining and reducing workloads. Complex projects are now easily managed and delivered. Marketing has expanded the management of media and collateral, implemented more campaigns and increase brand value. IT projects are all now visible and managed. Helpdesk is being converted to the system allowing for better visibility and management of day to day requests from our growing company
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Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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Alternatives Considered
While I consider Jira to have a somewhat different targeted use case from Adobe Workfront, they definitely overlap in some of their capabilities. As mentioned earlier, I find that Adobe Workfront is better at tracking progress and managing resources for larger projects that cross a number disparate teams or stakeholders. Meanwhile, Jira is better for tracking individual projects within a single team or smaller tasks, something that can be a bit harder to do at scale in Adobe Workfront.
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Jira is more feature-rich than Trello and also has better integration with other tools. Trello is a lot more focused on work tracking, while Jira can do a lot more than that. Both can also be combined, although they're often considered mutually exclusive alternatives—I've seen cases where companies choose to use either one or the other, but I haven't met an actual case of a company using both.
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Scalability
We have been using Workfront for about 3 years. During this time they continue to be a very stable project management system. Workfront's overall scalability is able to handle increased loads of work. When using Workfront for a project management tool for the web team, we store documents, images & video's without any issues. They work with their customer's to provide the best project management system in the market today! I highly recommend Workfront for all project management needs. Workfront strives to deliver unique technology solutions to growing companies!
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Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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Return on Investment
  • Positive - we get more work done in a timely fashion because all team members are using Workfront.
  • Negative - projects can get held up quickly due to user error (e.g., someone not using Workfront or checking notifications)
  • Positive - we have a good gauge of where personally we are with projects, and how are team members are spending their time.
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  • JIRA has increased the teams' productivity and efficiency; the sprint timelines have improved by 15-20%.
  • JIRA's integration with tools like Bitbucket and Confluence has improved functional collaboration, leading to faster decision-making and issue resolution by approximately 10-15%.
  • Additional functionality requires additional third-party plugins, which require additional costs; the requirements of these plugins increase the costs by approximately 15%.
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