Novice Question: What are Differences Between Kickstart and Fusion and How Can They Work Together?

[CarolSm1]

We are looking to automate the submission of sales order (issue) requests which ultimately become projects. There is a lot of user data connected to the sales order request.  Should we be looking to use Kickstart, Fusion or both?  

Workfront Fusion SMEs (@ewanh or @AndyHess)

[VictoriaLinn · Accepted solution]

Hi @CarolSm1 - It would probably be easier to go the Fusion route for this if you have the resources available to build it out. Reason being, kick-starts can be a manual lift and depending on the frequency you might have a lot to do each time you import into the system.

If you have an export of the data, let's say that is pulled from one system outside of Workfront, that you then want to put on a kick-start file to upload to Workfront, then you would have to clean-up the data to match Workfront. An example would be that the kick-start file doesn't except User Names and instead the names need to be replaced with their Workfront User IDs; which can be tedious even with a VLOOKUP. Additionally, the values for dropdowns, etc. need to match exactly from the first system to the other with no misspellings, etc.

Alternatively, if you meant that you receive the submissions in Workfront itself and are then trying to turn them in projects more easily from there, Fusion would be the easier approach too. It would more seamlessly connect, assuming you know/have the resources to get it setup. It could automatically run whereas the kick-start will require manual intervention.

Hope that helps!

[CarolSm1]

Thanks!  Your reply is full of food for thought.