Item: Wrike
Rating: 8
Author: Cody Eckman

Overall Satisfaction with Wrike

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team uses Wrike for project and task management. We use it for planning, scheduling, coordination, reviews, approvals, and as a pseudo-archive of assets (mostly as a historical backup—all final assets are loaded into our DAM). Wrike helps keep our team oriented. It helps us be on the same page and working toward the same goal.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Project Management
Asset Review and Approval
Time Management and Scheduling

Cons

Display of certain kinds of documents in the reviewer is glitchy
I wish I had the ability to define personal workflows in my personal space that weren't account-based
I wish there was some time stamping feature inside task and project descriptions that wasn't solely based on the commenting function. It's easy to lose things in the comments

Return on Investment

Software consolidation has led to cost savings
Streamlined workflows have saved labor costs
We get more out of each employee

AI and Automation

I haven't used the AI features.

Usability

Wrike does what it set out to do very well. The way automations can be set up and the way tasks are managed among a team in Wrike is intuitive, fast, and easy. It's not a perfect app, but it's the best PM software I've ever used for the purposes of leading a marketing team.

Alternatives Considered

monday CRM, ClickUp, Asana and Jira Align

Wrike has better options for in-task review and approval than anything I've used in the past. The available customization for dashboards and reports is powerful and useful. It's easy to use Wrike at a low level—taking the time to learn its specialized and more powerful features makes it the best PM app I've encountered.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Wrike go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Wrike again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Wrike is great for project management for an asset or deliverable-based team. I suspect it would work fine for development teams, but I've found that other PM software has features that suit them better. For my team of marketers and creatives, Wrike is powerful and has many features. It also has a lot of trainings available to help your team get up to speed and use it at a high level quickly.

Wrike Feature Ratings

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Wrike is worth it if you take the time to learn its best features