Bridge Vs. Lightroom workflow

Lightroom wins with Raw files because it saves a history of all edits that you make to the files.

Unless

You have Raw files in a format the Lightroom does not read. Bridge would win in this case, since it reads all file formats.


Lightroom FTW:
Lightroom is good for large volumes of photos, since it has more customizable viewing options.
You can work with files that are offline on Lightroom, even if the were in a hard drive that is disconnected, you can make changes and alter the metadata.
Lightroom keeps a history of everything you do, you can always revert to the unedited file.
You can preview an effect side-by-side with the original in Lightroom.
You can save more custom presets in Lightroom.
Lightroom was built with 'photo-centric' features.

Bridge FTW:
Lightroom does NOT support as many file formats as Bridge does. Bridge takes all adobe image types, while Lightroom only takes DNG, TIF, JPEG and PSD files.
Bridge has multi-user workflow: multiple people can access it at once, it is basically a file browser program.
Bridge is free with Photoshop/ other Adobe products.
Bridge was built with 'design-centric' features.