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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    e-automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AECI Software Solutions offers e-automate, an ERP for office technology companies to automate business workflows and increase contract profitability.N/A

    Wrike

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.

    $240

    per year 2 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    e-automateWrike
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Wrike Team
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per user (2-15 users)
    Wrike Business
    $25
    per month (billed annually) per user (5-200 users)
    Apex
    Request a quote
    per month per user
    Pinnacle
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    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    e-automateWrike
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Every premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    e-automateWrike
    Considered Both Products
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answer on this topic
    Wrike
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    819 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    568 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    837 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    391 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    452 Answers
    Features
    e-automateWrike
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of e-automate and Wrike
    Feature
    e-automate
    -
    Ratings
    Wrike
    7.8
    969 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.1963 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.6832 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.3683 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.3845 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.0836 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.8963 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.9544 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.0492 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings7.5815 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.8730 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.4706 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.5459 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings6.7354 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of e-automate and Wrike
    Feature
    e-automate
    -
    Ratings
    Wrike
    7.3
    363 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings6.628 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.5358 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings6.9220 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    e-automateWrike
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (54 ratings)
    8.4
    (1004 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (109 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    8.4
    (340 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (24 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.5
    (93 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    Configurability
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    e-automateWrike
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ECI Software Solutions
    If you need a system to place and track sales quotes, sales orders, purchase orders, and service calls then E-Automate is perfect. However, if you want to be able to easily bulk upload customers and contracts or if you want to be able to quickly and easily track contract profitability, customer costs, etc, then you'll likely want/need a secondary or different system to do so.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    Wrike helped us stitch PMO-related activities under one umbrella. The easy collaboration with multiple access types, combined with security access definitions, helped users across the organization contribute according to their roles. This helped provide the organization with multiple items to be reviewed in a single tool. This saved time in weekly review meetings by avoiding switching between multiple tools & files.
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    Pros
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Sending Invoices out to customers via email or printing.
    • Keep track of ordering and inventory.
    • Sales Tax reporting.
    • Monitoring customer payment activity/setting up and removing credit holds.
    • Calculating payments to process each cycle.
    • Excellent aging reports.
    • I like the fact that when I am looking at one item, such as an invoice, I have the capability to switch to the customer menu rather than having to exit out of invoices and then enter into customers.
    • I love the flexibility of the search menus - being able to sort on several factors at once.
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    Wrike
    • Excellent dashboards that are easy to use and give amazing insights.
    • User friendly interface that is also easy to interact with.
    • Lot of integrations.
    • Robust project and task management features.
    • Facilitate seamless team collaboration and communication.
    • Highly customizable and multiple project views.
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    Cons
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Make sales invoices not require serial numbers, or be more flexible with it.
    • Make contract invoices have some sort of flexibility in terms of editing. Our end users complain that QuickBooks made it very easy to edit invoices, and in e-automate, for them, it is practically impossible. (I do personally understand why it has to be as it is myself, I'm just forwarding their observation.)
    • Make the API actually useful. I spent days looking at the functions and the functions available are not really useful.
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    Wrike
    • Email alerts sometimes send too slowly.
    • If you put a project on hold, it can be hard to find it once you are ready to return to it.
    • Sometimes there are too many steps/tasks and the main page can get cluttered.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ECI Software Solutions
    Its really the only option for the industry that does enough of what we need for it to function . I'm not sure if there were better options out there if we would have to renew our subscription. With the addition of AI, hopefully something will be able to become more useful.
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    Wrike
    I wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
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    Usability
    ECI Software Solutions
    The user interface may be slightly outdated, but it is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Once you have learned one module within the system it is very easy to apply that knowledge to any other module. It makes using the system much easier, and it makes training another person on the system quick and efficient.
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    Wrike
    We have project templates set up based on what job type is selected in our work request form. This helps save time by having specific tasks already on each job as it is opened. Then it's just a matter of scheduling the tasks based on the job request and current workload. As long as a due date is flexible, it's easy to shift specific due dates as needed.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ECI Software Solutions
    Mostly available, sometimes down for issues but usually there when we need it
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    Wrike
    Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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    Performance
    ECI Software Solutions
    Reports are the struggle the most with the information being extracted in a way that you need to copy and paste it into a new document so some of the information is not covered
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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    Support Rating
    ECI Software Solutions
    Sometimes when you need answers quickly, a voice on the phone is far better than having to wait for email support or a callback. I have found this to have delays and feel ECI e-automate should invest more in its support infrastructure.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    During my learning phase with Wrike, I initially struggled with setting up automation rules and request forms. However, Wrike support was always my go-to, resolving issues within seconds or minutes. Their assistance made the learning process much easier. My best experience was receiving step-by-step screenshots to follow, with the support team on standby until I was completely satisfied.
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    In-Person Training
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    We had staff in person provide some training
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    Online Training
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answers on this topic
    Wrike
    I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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    Implementation Rating
    ECI Software Solutions
    I did not participate in implementation
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    Wrike
    There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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    Alternatives Considered
    ECI Software Solutions
    E-automate is much better at understanding the needs of the office equipment industry and provide the necessary tools. SAP Business One has limited features specific to the office equipment industry and includes things that are not useful. E-automate is also priced much better and provides the best value for your investment.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    Jira did not at all help us get our work done as content creators. I think that was because Jira wasn't quite right for our uses. Wrike fits our needs so much better. I can't tell you enough the relief I felt when we adopted Wrike and I never had to use Jira again.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Wrike
    company purchase
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    Scalability
    ECI Software Solutions
    Every department we have does use e-automate to some degree with most being successful.
    Incentivized
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    Wrike
    The sky is the limit for what can be done in Wrike. We started with 1 use case and within 5 months we migrated several key business practices over to Wrike because they were easier to manage. Use cases so far: process improvement, management review, corrective actions, maintenance requests, month-end financial closing, and document management. As we grow, it's easy to imagine putting even more into Wrike where it becomes a cornerstone for how we do business
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    Professional Services
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Wrike
    I do not use professional services.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    ECI Software Solutions
    • The e-automate will stop working if we stop paying each year. We chose not to go to the cloud and buy the software. QuickBooks and other software are a one-time fee.
    • E-automate has very few outside vendors for add-on modules.
    • The vendors that do have modules are costly.
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    Wrike
    • Different teams (e.g., contracting, compliance, provider relations) can view updates in real time, comment directly on tasks, and escalate items when needed.
    • Wrike allows us to template the contracting process (from intake to signature) to ensure consistency across payers and reduce administrative overhead.
    • Leadership can see the status of negotiations at a glance, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize resources accordingly.
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    ScreenShots

    e-automate Screenshots

    Screenshot of an item search, in e-automate

    Wrike Screenshots

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