WRIKE! Good for some, not so good for others.
March 01, 2018
WRIKE! Good for some, not so good for others.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Wrike
Our company uses Wrike as an overall project/task management tool. It started in our production department, and has since been implemented company wide. It is used to address our issues with task tracking, time management, task responsibility and overall project tracking/communication. It has also become a useful resource in compiling company protocols and information on the Wrike knowledge base.
- Wrike does a great job tracking tasks, and providing a space for project specific communication.
- Wrike is extremely useful for delineating responsibility and assigning projects digitally, and tracking the progress of those projects.
- The application is a great tool for compiling company info, and allowing users across the organization to access department specific info from all over the company.
- Setting up an entire project with dependencies etc. can be daunting and is a lot like databasing. It is not the most user friendly.
- Email notifications should be done differently. Users are alerted to every mention/inbox/project or task update, and then another general Wrike update email. It can become a bit much.
- Despite being a great tool for project management and task/project assignment etc., it promotes unrealistic goals when getting tasks/deadlines from users who have no idea what your workload is or what is on your task list.
- I believe that as far as project management goes for our various productions, it has been a great ROI.
- The issues with it being more than we need may be perceived as a negative impact on ROI, as we are not able to fully utilize it, and it can be a disservice to some staff. For project management though, especially at an organization using it solely for those purposes, it is great.
- The document management, and communication does not add much to the ROI as it tends to muck things up more with different versions. The functionality is not very good for the editing/comment sections of the document portion.
Wrike is more user friendly than Microsoft Project. And, being mostly Mac users, we don't use Microsoft so much outside of email, so that was a big decider. Also, for the functions and cost, it was a great choice. ProWorkflow was good, but Wrike had more functions we felt would be useful in application.