Evaluating Agile, PSA, and PPM Solutions with Changepoint and Customer Reference Context

Evaluating Agile, PSA, and PPM Solutions with Changepoint and Customer Reference Context

This IDC Perspective is one in a series of IDC studies that examine collaborative work management and project and portfolio management (PPM) solutions and provide both vendor analysis and customer reference context for technology adoption and user buyer decision making. This document is a follow-on to our four-part PPM-related IDC MarketScape series and assesses the work management and PPM strategy of Workfront, a vendor-targeting work management in the cloud with PPM, analytics, and ML capabilities. This document discusses Workfront's work management and PPM product portfolio. Workfront's usability, depth, and focused product capability position it well for pressing user needs across work management and targeted categories of PPM. We position Workfront relative to trends in user adoption for work management and enterprise adoption. We do so in the context of an overall economy that is volatile in unprecedented ways with global remote work during a pandemic driving high demand and adoption for collaborative work management and PPM. We also include summaries of Workfront customer references."IDC sees adoption of work management solutions for dynamic execution and innovative decision making via automation to enable speedy responsiveness and invocation of dynamically changing initiatives," said Melinda Ballou, research director, IDC's Agile ALM, Quality, and Portfolio Strategies service. "Complementing these capabilities, increasingly, we observe demand for collaboration, workflow, and highly intuitive interfaces for an easy on-ramp coordinated with sufficient project and portfolio management approaches for businesses and technology helping focus teams with targeted execution, cutting delays to benefit, and improving metrics. It is in part due to these trends that IDC has chosen to prioritize this area as one of several areas of focus for a series of end user–oriented vendor analysis that include customer summaries, as a follow on to our IDC MarketScape series evaluating PPM solutions."

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