While there is more than a hint of marketing in that explanation, the data from Workfront’s workflows acts as a record of the creative process.Īs part of Adobe, the company has built hooks into Experience Manager and Creative Cloud to enable marketing’s creative work to move through an organized and auditable process, leaving a data trail that lets management know exactly what happened - a marketing system of record. As marketing executives try to balance mapping strategy to the creative process while building customized experiences, a marketing workflow tool would fit neatly into Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and that’s where it has landed.Īlex Shootman, who was CEO at Workfront and is now VP and GM of Adobe Workfront, told me they see the tool as the system of record for the marketing department inside of AEM.

Today the company is officially announcing how it intends to use it. Five months ago, Adobe purchased (for $1.5 billion) Workfront, a company that helps build marketing department workflows.

Workfront purchased by adobe