Item: Wrike
Rating: 8
Author: Matt Doyle

Overall Satisfaction with Wrike

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Wrike as our marketing project management tool to help manage workloads across our team. It provides a single source for our team to manage work across creative, content, client advocacy, PR, AR, and many others. It also assigns the work in a manner that helps keep our teams on track to complete the work. The blueprints also ensure that each project is correctly assigned out and divvyed up to the correct team.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Blueprints
AI Notification Bot
Project Management
Reminders for due dates

Cons

Projects can get messy if they aren't setup correctly
The overall UI could be improved in the platform
It can be hard to search for projects

Return on Investment

Increased efficiency with projects
Improved project tracking
Project completion reporting has improved significantly

AI and Automation

Yes I have. The AI functions help with reminders on due dates for our team. This proves helpful as it sends reminders to all team members associated with a project to nudge them on the work. I like it as it helps when there are multiple workstreams or projects running at once. It gives those reminders instead of the project lead having to @ mention someone.

Usability

It's improved immensely in the time we have used it. Our team has leaned in those workflows to help manage work. We like the blueprints and then overall connected workflows help us get things done on time. I hope Wrike continues to improve these workflows and allow for customization too.

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

We selected Wrike many years ago and have stayed with it. I've used Monday for some projects with other teams and it does a nice job. However, I cannot say that I can adequately compare the two platforms because I haven't done a deep dive on monday.com to know all its features and functions.

Key Insights

Do you think Wrike delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Wrike's feature set?

Yes

Did Wrike live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Wrike go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Wrike again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Extole, Tableau Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Wrike has improved quite a bit in the time we have used it. We have much more structure now with how we use it and how work is distributed across the teams. For example, if we are working on a case study, we have clear blueprints for the necessary work. These are assigned up with specific dates for completion. This helps everyone know when they are expected to start work and complete the work. It helps to have the AI reminder as well to nudge people to get the work started or completed.

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