Adobe Workfront vs. Smartsheet

Adobe Workfront

647 Reviews and Ratings

Smartsheet

877 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Workfront	Score7.7 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
Smartsheet	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Smartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.	$12 per month per user (up to 10 users)

Pricing

Adobe Workfront

Smartsheet

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Pro: $12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Business: $24
per month per user (3 user minimum)
Enterprise: Contact Sales
Advanced Work Management: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Workfront	Smartsheet
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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A discount is offered for annual billing.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe Workfront	Smartsheet
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront When I was employed at a smaller company, Basecamp and Smartsheet worked well. It's been several years, but I'm not sure they would scale to enterprise. My current company implemented Workfront prior to my arrival, but I believe everyone is generally happy with the decision. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Far easier to use than MS Project, easier to navigate and learn, but far more complex (albeit more functionally sophisticated as well) than Smartsheet. Incentivized Helpful? Aileen Taylor Marketing Communications Manager in Marketing at Cell Signaling Technology (Pharmaceuticals, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Workfront JIRA and Clarizen were too complicated and did not offer an integrated document review and proofing system. Microsoft Project did not handle multiple small projects and resource allocation as well. Smartsheet was too limited for large teams and required too much manual work. Incentivized Helpful? Emilie Toll, MBA Marketing Project Manager in Corporate at Fat Atom Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Workfront I wasn't with this company when the buying decision was made. However, Workfront replaced Mavenlink, and what I could gather is Mavenlink was liked by users, but the owners and administrators wanted more reporting and more automation. For me, Workfront is far superior to MS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Adobe is so much easier to use as a large team Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront It’s championed for an enterprise platform. Robust to be unique to different workstreams. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Adobe is very intuitive in its workflow automation and creation of the task workflows that can be used as templates for employees. That is harder to create in Teams unless there is [the] integration of another Microsoft product and more time spent on it by an IT professional. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Workfront is more robust and versatile than Asana and Smartsheets, which is why we did not go with those tools. It is pretty comparable to Wrike in many ways. We use Workfront over Wrike because we are set up in Workfront already. Incentivized Helpful? Amy Pyles Chief Operations Officer in Corporate at Saxum (Public Relations & Communications, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Workfront Workfront offers more features than lower cost options, allowing us to scale our business and not have to shift with each jump in headcount. it also provides more financial data support compared to simpler tools. It integrates into accounting software as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Workfront is one of the most expensive tools in the market but it offers a lot as well. From budget management to resource management, to support levels, reporting, usability, and even the mobile app. All of those things combined made for a great tool that was easy to use and … Incentivized Helpful? Teale McCleaf, CSM IT Project Manager in Information Technology at Roku Inc. (Entertainment, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe Workfront They don't compare... People say that MS Project is easier to use... But where's the reporting? You can't perform resource allocation with a drag and drop, nor can you build the dynamic reports that Workfront provides. Not to mention automatically distribute those reports at … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Pernice Senior Traffic Manager at Health Science Communications (Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe Workfront Our previous system was home-brewed Sharepoint, mostly for note-taking and online tracking as we routed physical job jackets, scanned documents and emailed them to one another. It was fine for its time but as we expanded not just in volume but in location (offices went from NY … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Workfronts document hosting and timeline generation are two of the biggest reasons we have stuck with Workfront for so long. The visibility of project updates and communication tracking with each project is also has allowed for more effective collaboration. Workfront also has a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Workfront Workfront provides greater visibility and organization then any other PM tool I've worked in. Incentivized Helpful? Debra Yarger Program Manager - Enterprise Information Management in Information Technology at UCSF (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe Workfront Workfront is the only tool I want to use.... have used MSProject Server online, PlanView, Innotas, Clarity, SmartSheet, and a few other ridiculous tools. Incentivized Helpful?	Smartsheet Joshua Melder Customer Account Manager in Corporate at Quad (Printing, 10,001+ employees) Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is a unique data and project management collaboration tool that sets itself apart from its competitors. Teams have the ability to create extremely customized dashboards that have data flowing to and from multiple worksheets and workspaces. Smartsheet has the ability … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Brodsky Senior Manager Digital Program Management in Product Management at Marriott InternationL (Hospitality, 10,001+ employees) Chose Smartsheet Depending on your use of the software Smartsheet may be the perfect choice for you. If you use a Mac forget about MS Project because it does not support Mac. If you need for real-time collaboration Smartsheet excels at that. Smartsheet also supports sheets way beyond project … Incentivized Helpful? Kris Walsh Senior Marketing Manager in Marketing at VMware (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Smartsheet I was attempting to do all I've described with Google Sheets & SharePoint. Google Sheets didn't have all the functionality we needed. SharePoint was too difficult to set up and doesn't work well with Mac users. None of the solutions I listed could match Smartsheet's versatility … Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Adobe Workfront

Smartsheet

Comparison of Project Management features of Adobe Workfront and Smartsheet
Feature	Adobe Workfront 8.6 304 Ratings	Smartsheet 9.0 125 Ratings
Task Management	10.0303 Ratings	10.0122 Ratings
Resource Management	9.0275 Ratings	9.0104 Ratings
Gantt Charts	9.0243 Ratings	9.0105 Ratings
Scheduling	8.0271 Ratings	10.0107 Ratings
Workflow Automation	8.0273 Ratings	8.196 Ratings
Team Collaboration	8.0293 Ratings	10.0118 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	8.0186 Ratings	7.078 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	6.5199 Ratings	8.976 Ratings
Document Management	6.8275 Ratings	8.997 Ratings
Email integration	10.0231 Ratings	9.996 Ratings
Mobile Access	8.0234 Ratings	8.092 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	10.0220 Ratings	10.059 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	9.0211 Ratings	9.065 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	10.0189 Ratings	9.071 Ratings

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Adobe Workfront and Smartsheet
Feature	Adobe Workfront 6.0 173 Ratings	Smartsheet 9.1 63 Ratings
Quotes/estimates	5.181 Ratings	8.841 Ratings
Invoicing	6.171 Ratings	9.834 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	6.4171 Ratings	8.957 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	6.462 Ratings	8.931 Ratings

User Ratings
	Adobe Workfront	Smartsheet
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (355 ratings)	10.0 (143 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (60 ratings)	10.0 (23 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (18 ratings)	9.0 (13 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (12 ratings)	8.1 (45 ratings)
In-Person Training	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.9 (4 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.3 (10 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Configurability	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)