Item: Wrike
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wrike is a project management software to control the flow of a project. It is cloud-based so can be used anytime and anywhere. Gantt charts, workload view for resource management, structuring projects according to priority, making categories, department wise project flow are the features can be used widely which are helpful to manage projects. It can be integrated with slack, SalesForce, Dropbox etc. which makes it easier to handle a task for project managers and developers. In my company, we use Wrike to create sprints, projects which go through approval and then we submit these to developers and other employees to work with. Wrike has the functionality of getting reports in various ways which help to track project and tasks more easily. Drag-drop of folder and tasks functionality allows to set those in different categories like a to-do list, QA, done etc. which helps keep tracking tasks of employee’s and tasks state, reports accordingly.

Pros and Cons

Drag and drop functionality helps a lot to maintain a project.
UI/UX design is simple and easy to use. Learning all the functionality is not so difficult.
Maintaining project flow, reporting with different ways like Gantt charts etc. creating a timeline of projects, its deadline.
Commenting options on projects, tasks so that employees can report any problem on tasks.

Customizable options like status, out of office, custom fields, when a task is complete.
It is better to train new employees to use its features more. It has vast features and functionalities.

Return on Investment

Helpful for project management and maintaining it. Lets you keep track of tasks, calendar, and documents.

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Software and Asana

Wrike stacks against other software on Reporting of tasks and maintaining them time to time while other software is not able to handle old tasks and track them easily. Maintaining data, documents, and problems faced during working on tasks is very important and wrike excels on it. You can also log the hours you put into a certain activity or project.

Other Software Used

JIRA Software, Asana, NetBeans

Likelihood to Recommend

Wrike is very helpful for maintaining a clean project flow. It can be integrated with other products like Google Sheets, Slack, and Dropbox, so you can store your data easily. It also has options available for chat, and it helps to keep track of the project. The application provides a lot of personalizations, be it in reporting or in the creation of folders. You can create folders and subfolders to keep tasks where they belong. Employees can comment on tasks about their problems, data changes, etc. keeping track of tasks is very important in the software industry for a large project.

Wrike - a great tool to manage software.

Overall Satisfaction with Wrike