Unclaimed: Are are working at Wrike ?
Harping on its versatility, Wrike is a project management software that features highly customizable dashboards and workflows and team-specific automation to give businesses a project platform that adapts to their current ways of working and not the other way around. Wrike’s functionalities involving over 400 tools revolve around giving a 360-degree view of projects, true interdepartmental collaboration, approvals acceleration, smarter data use, efficient workload management, and enterprise-grade security. Wrike has more than 30 well-documented use cases involving more than 15 departments and teams. Wrike also has a proprietary AI-powered capability called Work Intelligence that catalyzes results through smart automation and project risk prediction.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
I love the fact that it keeps me on track! Wrike allows me to see the big picture and the details of all my work. The process, the progress, and much more! I love how it makes it so easy to collaborate with other people on projects! It is very easy to use!
I dislike how the new way way to track time is located. But other than that, Wrike is headed on the right direction! They are very good at listening to people's feedback!
Keeping up with a vast amount of projects, and tasks. It is saving me precious time. It also helps me to see thru the Gant Charts, timelines, and pie graphs how each project is going along as a team.
Wrike creates a platform to organize the stuff of business. From personal to-dos to mission-critical projects, there is the ability to put everything in Wrike. Wrike's forms ensure the necessary information is collected (and organized) for the start of every project. Blueprints ensure the projects are kicked off with the right tasks and phases. And the automations take out the mind-numbing, repetitive tasks of project management. The icing on the cake is everything is customizable to fit your specific business needs.
The only drawback I've found with Wrike is the integration with other platforms. Other PM software have more abilities to integrate with your tech stack. However, Wrike's built-in features take away the need to add other software in many cases.
We had a paper form-based employee submission program that took >3 hours per week to maintain. Ideas took 33 days on average to implement and 100+ submissions were forgotten and not acted on (way past due). After implementing Wrike, the weekly maintenance time has decreased to <1 hr. Ideas are acted upon in <5 days and the past due list is currently 20 ideas. We're also tracking our savings now (because Wrike sends automated reminders), and we have save $40,000 (annualized) through our employee submission program. And this was just the beginning for us. We are continuing to add functionality as Wrike helps to keep track of corrective actions, management actions, knowledge management, and miscellaneous projects.
Wrike holds all of the project information in one spot. You can manage your team, documents and vendors without needing spreadsheets or other systems.
The downside of Wrike is the amount of space each user gets. Space to hold attachments and data needs to be more significant to fully use Wrike long term.
Wrike allows project managers to coordinate with the estimation and production team seamlessly. It allows hand off of project tasks while allowing the big picture to be seen.
Intuitive interface, great automation capabilities.
Can't think of anything! Great tool, would recommend.
Sprint planning!
Wrike is serious about one thing: making great work management software. They aren't trying to replace your CRM. They aren't working hard to be clever and catchy, and they're not trying to gain your approval by taking up the newest, most popular political cause. Most importantly, they aren't a walled-garden, insulating your data and processes from the rest of your stack. They just build great software, and their great software actually *works*, really, really well. They're serious about it too. No one at Wrike has ever said those words to me, but they don't have to: you can tell when you interact with them and when you use what they've created. It simply goes without saying; they aren't messing around. If that was all, I would be overjoyed, but it actually gets better. Their customer service is top notch. Here's an insight for you: we are Microsoft Partners and their customer service for end users is *better* (more responsive, higher quality, lower time-to-solution) than Microsoft gives us. Their customer service is the highest quality, lowest effort help I receive from any company I deal with, and we have close partnerships with several major corporations. None of them *feel* as invested in having happy customers as Wrike does.
I used to enjoy sitting around complaining about how ClickUp lost tasks and screwed up my workflow. Sadly, Wrike took away all that joy I experienced while bellyaching about my work management software.
The experience of work managment has become as easy and intuitive as using my iPhone or MacBook, and that's a first. My team and I can get work done without experiencing obstacles to our productivity. One feature I love, in particular, is how a folder, project, or task can "live" in multiple locations. If you're familiar with Linux, I like to think of this functionality like a "symbolic link". I may be on Team A, and Team B has a group of work their doing that I have a stake in, so they will add my space, folder, etc., as a "location" for the work they're doing. Suddenly, and without any additional work, I have direct access to the branch of work they've shared with me. I can work on it just as I would any of my other work, and there is no duplication of effort. This is pure genius. From a managerial perspective, Wrike truly shines. I can easily derive all of the necessary data to properly bill for our work and manage staff and their workloads. Not only can I easily calculate and manage utilization and realization rates, but I can do so in nearly real-time. So fantastic!!
Wrike has been really helpful for our team! What I like most is that we can see each other's work, chime in on projects, make changes, and also, view associated and attached documents. Super helpful and very user friendly.
So I think one of the downsides of Wrike is that sometimes it can be hard to navigate. For example toggling between Tools and Projects can be annoying so it would be really great if you could see both simultaneously on the same screen or window.
As a team we mainly use Wrike for project management and also collaborating on projects. It really helps that we can update Wrike live and don't have to constantly ask other teammates what they have or have not done.
All-encompassing project management platform. It seems to anticipate our needs (i.e. every time we wish we had a certain feature we realise Wrike already has it!). Absolutely everything we do integrates with it, click on a mail and it's in Wrike for example. The team love it. We are by no means using all the features available to us but we are growing in our use gradually. The mark up and version control was the first game-changer, time tracking too.
We're in South Africa with an unstable currency so the cost is becoming extremely high
Growing agency, working remotely, needing to keep track of and coordinate projects, people and tasks
How customizable the set up is. As we reviewed different software options, we found that Wrike was really a blank slate that we could set up to perfectly fit our workflow and needs. And, it was easy to set up.
Sometimes there are software glitches, but that is going to come with anything.
Wrike allows us to track all projects happening within the creative and ad ops teams. It helps with resource allocation, time management and creating schedules. It also centralizes all of our project communications. In summary, it keeps all of our projects and communications organized.
I love the custom fields and custom item types and blueprints. The rules automation is outstanding as well. My favorite part of Wrike though is reporting through Wrike Analytics.
Wrike Analytics is a brilliant and awesome tool but it occasionally has some minor glitches to deal with. Analytics is tremendous overall though and well worth it.
Wrike helps us manage our projects by allowing us to easily create a project using one of several blueprints, and then manage those projects with the benefit of outstanding automated rules. We will also use Wrike for executive reporting of our outstanding projects.
Wrike is pretty awesome in terms of user experience it provides.
Pricing plans of Wrike could be better planned.
Wrikes solves the bug tracking related problems.