Adobe Workfront Features

Centralized work

Connect teams, tools, and work across the organization — the shared operating layer for enterprise marketing. Adobe Workfront centralizes intake, execution, and coordination in one platform where humans and agents work on the same plan.

Consolidate intake in one place.

Improve your project request process and help ensure incoming work is vetted against priorities by consolidating intake channels into one place.

Request queues. Share user-friendly intake forms across your teams — so the business can use the right process for each request, and requests live in one place for evaluation and accountability.
Custom form and fields. Create custom fields in your request forms to capture the information your projects need and set permissions on data fields to streamline forms and make them easier to use.
Automated routing. Set up system rules so that requests are automatically routed to the right individuals or job roles you specify.
Work capacity resourcing. View suggested allocations for team members based on currently assigned work.

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Prioritize daily work with AI.

Stay on top of workflows with an AI-powered experience designed to help task owners easily manage, prioritize, and track their daily tasks.

Greater task clarity. View when items are due so you can manage, prioritize, and complete them on time. Help increase productivity with easier access to project context and the ability to perform tasks quickly.
Single, focused view. Keep track of all your tasks with a view that helps reduce clutter and lets you focus on what’s important.
Calendar view. Use the calendar view for a visual representation of your tasks and issues each month.
AI summarization. Use AI to get summaries of updates, uploaded documents, approvals, and other changes to your active projects over a 24-hour, three-day, or week-long period. Review AI summaries for accuracy before relying on them.

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Manage resources and capacity end-to-end.

Help ensure the right people and assets are aligned to the right priorities with enterprise‑level capacity planning. Workfront gives operations leaders end‑to‑end visibility from forecast to execution — so teams can confidently plan work, balance workloads, and adapt as priorities change.

Forecasting and availability. Know when to take on new work with time‑phased forecasting that shows future capacity across teams, roles, and regions.
Top‑down and bottom‑up planning. Plan capacity at the portfolio or team level, then refine staffing based on planned effort, skills, and assignments.
Utilization and performance. Track utilization from forecast to actuals to help understand the impact of resource shifts and continuously improve performance.
Advanced filters and views. Drill into the exact teams, roles, skills, or time frames you need to prioritize and assign work with enterprise‑ready views.
Non‑labor resources. Plan and manage equipment, materials, meeting rooms, and shared assets with calendar‑based booking — so more constraints are visible, not just people’s availability.

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Connect resource plans to financial outcomes.

Help keep work profitable and predictable by connecting resource plans directly to financial outcomes. Workfront brings financial structure and governance into day‑to‑day execution, giving finance and operations a shared view of project financials.

Rate cards and cost structures. Define labor and non‑labor rates, overtime rules, and cost structures that reflect how your enterprise actually operates.
Cost, margin, and ROI visibility. Estimate and track costs and margins using planned effort and actuals — so leaders can understand ROI before and during execution.
Financially aligned planning. Tie budgets and financial assumptions directly to resource plans, helping keep delivery and finance aligned from day one.
Enterprise governance. Support complex multiteam and multiregion operations with consistent financial logic and auditable planning data. Workfront supports financial tracking and reporting but isn’t a replacement for dedicated financial or billing software.

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Improve agency and brand collaboration (coming soon).

Extend collaboration beyond a single organization by connecting Workfront instances across agencies and brands — so both sides of a client relationship work from one connected operating layer.

Shared requests. Route incoming work directly between agency and brand teams.
Connected workflows. Coordinate across separate Workfront environments without duplicated effort or fragmented systems.
Accelerated delivery. Close the gap between agency execution and brand review with shared operating structure.

Learn more about work centralization.

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Learn how to use work centralization features.

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Questions? We have answers.

Common workflow challenges include fragmented tools and channels, such as email, spreadsheets, and chats, unclear ownership and handoffs, and limited visibility into status, capacity, and priorities leading to delays and rework. Adobe Workfront helps address these by centralizing intake, work execution, and approvals in one system of record, using standardized templates and automated workflows to help teams follow consistent processes, and providing real-time reporting and dashboards for cross-team visibility. It also helps reduce disconnects by integrating with Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Marketo, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other systems so work, collaboration, and data can stay connected across the lifecycle.

Centralization matters because when requests, tasks, files, and approvals live in different tools and channels, teams can waste time hunting for information, duplicating effort, and resolving conflicting versions of the truth. Adobe Workfront centralizes work intake, execution, collaboration, and reporting in a single system of record, so stakeholders can view the same priorities, timelines, and assets, and workflows can be standardized and automated end‑to‑end. This unified view can help teams make decisions faster, reduce handoff failures, and optimize based on current data instead of scattered, manual status checks.

Workfront can be configured to bring marketing requests, plans, projects, approvals, and reporting into shared workflows, giving teams a common view of work from intake through delivery. It serves as an operational record for work, rather than a replacement for an organization's other systems of record.

Workfront’s Resource Planner helps forecast availability and budget resource time against planned work, while the Workload Balancer shows availability and supports assigning or adjusting tasks and issues. Together, these tools help managers compare demand with capacity and rebalance workloads using resource availability and schedules.

Workfront can help teams govern project finances by keeping budget, cost, revenue, and expense information connected to project work, with financial visibility controlled by user access. It supports financial tracking and reporting, but is not a replacement for dedicated financial or billing software.

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Connect teams, tools, and work in one platform.

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Coordinate better, centralize intake, and manage daily work with AI while keeping track of everything in Adobe Workfront.

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2024-08-22

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