Wrike

Once we implemented Wrike in my previous company, a lot of changes were immediately noticeable. One of them was that we were using our email less and less for internal matters until we only got a handful of them a day, instead of having too many to manage. Our communication and task ownership was made more transparent. Wrike is a very user friendly tool that adapts completely to your company's needs and lets you keep track of tasks, projects and other important initiatives in your company.

I've been using Wrike for about four years and one of the things I'm most impressed with is that they are constantly improving. They take feedback seriously and work to quickly integrate with other applications and implement change. Their customer service has always been great -- we've had several free training sessions as a customer and it's been 100% tailored to our company.

It's got a lot of flexibility and customization as well. You can view project management tasks in a variety of visualizations and pretty easily find what you're looking for.

We're a smaller team of less than 15 and it works great for us. My suggestion would be to have a point person to be your Wrike admin for the first six months so they can be the in-company expert and get everyone else on board.

Before moving my department to Wrike I was spending hours updating projects and creating charts and timelines. I signed up for a demo of Wrike hoping it would give me some time back. After the first week I had freed up one hour of my time. After the first month I managed to free up ten hours a week. Every month since I have worked closely with the programmers at Wrike to add features that increased productivity, not only for me but for other department heads as well. The development team at Wrike is second to none. They will bend over backward to make solutions for you. The product is easy to use and teach others to use. Cost is very affordable. Just try it, you won't regret it.

Project management clound software is a relatively new fad and wrike I will say does have some of the better features available. The tricky part with wrike is that if you have a large number of tasks and folders things easily can get lost in the mess. Wrike seems better for small projects with fewer number of people and yet at the price point they offer it at, it isn't that affordable for small groups. The expense can largely come from the storage fees. I can potentially see this software catching on once they work out the kinks and perhaps make it more customizable. Until then I'm just not seeing the advantage of using wrike and learning to master all of its features. I think they should give you a free trial for at least a few months before actually charging the users.

We are using Wrike to quickly turn notes into activities and build on the current methods to do a continuous improvement of the processes that were in place before the PMO mindset settled in. Wrike has allowed us to collaborate with ease and to be able to communicate expectations quickly not only internally but also to external contributors. The multidimensional aspect of the folders comes in very handy when your projects are long and transversal on scope and resources. It is very convenient and being allowed to interact directly from the Gannt is a big win.

Wrike is a great tool for our marketing department. It is easy to use, easy to train and user-friendly. Reporting is a great feature that we use regularly. Everyone on our team knows exactly what tasks/projects they are to complete each day with the use of Wrike. The team is also held accountable for deadlines. With wrike, we are able to communicate to the department on each task. We are able to report to the field the amount of work we have completed within certain timeframes. The only thing I wish Wrike could improve on is automation and calendar views. The calendars would be very helpful if they were actually configurable and printer friendly.