Karen Sterling, Marketing System Administrator

Karen Sterling | Adobe Workfront System Administrator

Throughout this course, you will follow Karen's journey as she sets up Workfront for her organization.

As you learned earlier, Karen is a new system administrator for Adobe Workfront at a marketing agency. She is responsible for setting up a framework that matches her company’s processes and allows people to work efficiently. As a system administrator, she needs to understand the structure of Workfront and its capabilities. This will help her configure the right settings and set the foundation to onboard employees so they use the tools in Workfront that enable them to do their best work quickly and easily.

Challenges

• Understanding the different processes across the organization.

• Identifying which people need specific access to items across multiple projects in Workfront.

• Tracking, managing, and reporting on all the work being done across the organization.

What Karen needs to succeed

• An Adobe Workfront framework that supports how her company operates and accomplishes work.

• The right licenses, access levels, and permissions for people at her organization.

• Established governance requirements.

Goal

With Adobe Workfront, Karen would like to establish a structured framework and onboard users to the tool. She is the primary point person at her organization for Workfront and needs to set up teams so they can plan, execute, and report on work.

Let’s look at how Karen can use Adobe Workfront to help users at her organization manage their work.

In the next step, you'll learn about the objects in Workfront and how work is structured.