Capgemini reports 95% on-time delivery rate and customer satisfaction with Wrike’s integrated project management solution

Published by Daria   |  Thursday, 08 May, 2008
Global companies like Capgemini often have decentralized systems of dealing with customer requests. Often, the whole customer support process is based on informal submission of requests. Support teams tend to use traditional communication channels, such as email, phone calls, in-person conversations, etc.  Everyone on the team manages his or her own requests and project workload.  Usually, team members are also required to report back on all of the projects they are working on.

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, realized that this process can be improved with Wrike’s help. We recently discussed how Capgemini was able to streamline its client support processes with Daniel Stevens, Director of Marketing Services, Capgemini North America. Daniel noted that the North American Marketing Services team needed an end-to-end system to manage their internal support requests. Wrike streamlined the process thanks to its powerful email integration capabilities. The marketing team became more productive, since now all emailed tasks are populated into properly structured project plans that get shared with every member of the team.

“In addition to the integration capabilities with our internal request process mentioned earlier, the biggest benefit with Wrike is the high level of visibility of the support requests that channel into our team. We are now able to visualize the workload requirements of the entire team and any team member in several ways: using Wrike’s dashboard, the graphical timeline and the option to sort our tasks and projects by person, by due date, by client, etc. Wrike’s unique ability to group tasks and projects differently lets us look at our current and prior efforts from different perspectives,” pointed out Daniel. “The application easily allows us to analyze our active and completed projects/tasks and run ad-hoc reports to use in our quarterly value reports that we share with our team and others within Capgemini. Wrike lets us spend less time on project management and more time on providing strategic marketing services to our internal clients.


Read the full story: “Capgemini maximizes marketing team productivity with Wrike’s unique, integrated project management solution.”

The Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad: Vote for Wrike!

Published by Daria   |  Monday, 05 May, 2008

We are happy to announce that Wrike is taking part in The Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad!


The Launch Pad is organized for companies developing new products to compete for the chance to present them in front of the largest audience in the Enterprise 2.0 community. The companies with the most astounding tools and technologies present their video pitches. The winner will receive a free turnkey Pod at the 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Conference Demo Pavilion. Since we designed Wrike to fully support collective intelligence, emergent structures, transparency, agility and other Enterprise 2.0 ideas, Launch Pad is a great opportunity for us to tell people about how Wrike can change project management.

The first round vote starts on May 5th, and the final conference will be held June 9-12 in Boston. The first round vote finishes on May 12th, so vote for Wrike now
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Ever More People Choose Wrike over Basecamp for a Project Management Solution

Published by Daria   |  Tuesday, 22 April, 2008

Recently Ryan Erwin, thoroughly Chinafied American business geek as he calls himself, published a post confirming that Wrike is the best choice for project management.

Ryan wrote: “TODAY, Wrike has become a better Project Management solution than BaseCamp or GoPlan - Wrike’s got everything they’ve got, along with excellent Email integration that they don’t!”

Thank you, Ryan for your appreciation and for helping us make Wrike the best project management software. Your feedback is always welcome.

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About.com Recommends the Best Project and Task Management Software

Published by Daria   |  Friday, 11 April, 2008
Wrike's becoming more and more popular. Now you can read Greg Go's recommendation of a better choice for project management software at About.com. About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors. It is also a hugely famous New York Times publication, as it gets over 53 million readers a month.

Greg Go, an on-line business expert at About.com and Liferemix.com, has published a great review of Wrike, comparing it with Basecamp. The full review appeared at Liferemix - a well-known life-hacking blog. Greg points out how Wrike is different from other project management solutions and underlines that these differences make it a better choice for Web workers.


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Wrike Forums Have Been Launched

Published by Valerie   |  Friday, 04 April, 2008
Today, we have launched Wrike Forums, so you can share your experience in using Wrike. We created the forums to unite Wrike users together for sharing thoughts, ideas and technical assistance and to help the community grow.

The forums cover the most important topics, such as announcements about new features and fixes, tips and tricks for using Wrike in project management and business management. Forums allow you to share best practices in using Wrike, find great project management ideas, make feature requests, vote for  other users’ suggestions and help us prioritize upcoming features to better meet your needs.

Wrike was designed as the most practical project management software. We hope that the forums will bring you a lot of useful ideas and help you deliver your projects even more successfully.

You are welcome to create topics and leave messages at Wrike Forums. Official, free e-mail support is still provided via support at team.wrike.com.

Timeline Changes

Published by Valerie   |  Monday, 17 March, 2008
Please note that important system, interface and data changes in Wrike are coming on March 24. We received numerous user requests during the last few months to make task-scheduling simpler.

To make implementation of the following changes smooth and convenient for you, we inform you in advance and welcome your feedback 

What will be improved?

  1. Wrike will work correctly with weekends after the release on March, 24. Only business days will be counted when calculating the end date of a task, based on its duration and start date. So, if you create a 2-day task on Friday, the end date will be set for Monday.
  2. You will be able to add milestones to your timeline. A milestone is a task that has a due date, but not a start date and duration.
  3. Items that have no start date, due date or duration will not be displayed on a timeline. So your notes, ideas, contacts, inventory and other non-actionable items from your Wrike workspace will not mess with tasks on the timeline.
  4. Due date and end date will be the same thing. This change will make planning and rescheduling of your tasks in Wrike much easier and faster.
Before the release on March 24 After the release on March 24
The end date is the end of the task bar on the timeline chart. It is calculated automatically as the start date plus duration. It is not displayed in the task edit form, but you can change it by modifying the task's start date or duration. The due date and the end date are the same thing. It is displayed as the end of the task bar on a timeline. The due date (=end date) is calculated automatically as the start date plus duration. You can change it in the task edit form and on the timeline.
The due date is the task deadline. You can change it in the task edit form and on the timeline.

 

What will be changed in my data?

  • In order to implement the mentioned improvements, we will need to introduce a number of changes to the existing data in the system.

    First, we will need to bring existing and new tasks into a common format. For some of your tasks that were created before the March 24 release, the due date and duration will be changed according to the special rules. This will happen only once during the release. You can find a detailed description below
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1. For tasks with a 1-day duration and a due date, the duration will be prolonged until the due date.
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2. For tasks that have a due date and more than 1-day duration, the new due date will be set as the current end date.
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3. Tasks that do not have a due date will be visualized on the timeline without changes.
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  • After March 24, Wrike will correctly work with the weekends. This is another feature that was often requested by our users. Only business days will be counted when calculating the end date of a task, based on its duration and start date. So, if you create a 2-day task on Friday, the end date will be set for Monday.

    For smooth implementation of the feature, some changes will be made over the existing tasks whose duration includes weekends. This will happen only once during the release.
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4. For tasks that start on the weekend, the start date will be moved to Monday while the end date will stay the same.
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5. For tasks that end during the weekend, the due date will be moved to Friday while the start date will stay the same.
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6. For tasks whose duration includes weekends, the actual duration will be reduced by the total weekend’s time period. However, the task's graphical visualization will stay the same on a timeline.
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  • After the transformation, the end date and the due date will be merged, so the tasks without a due date created before March, 24 will be marked as overdue on your dashboard. This means that initially the dashboard and "to do" e-mails may display more overdue tasks. You can quickly reschedule those overdue tasks from the dashboard. You can do this by clicking on the "Reschedule for today", "tomorrow," or "next week", links. Alternatively, you can mark tasks as completed, if they are already done, by clicking the box on the left.
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We hope that you will be pleased with these changes in Wrike. You can leave your feedback in the comments to this post or send it to support at team.wrike.com.
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SmallBizPod Introduces the Most Practical Project Management Software

Published by Daria   |  Wednesday, 12 March, 2008
img Wrike's founder, Andrew Filev, was interviewed by Alex Bellinger, the host of one of the most popular U.K. small business blogs. SmallBIzPod gained its great reputation by being a valuable source of information for entrepreneurs and focusing on the small business sector.  Now its readers get a chance to find out about the most convenient and elegant way to manage projects online and deal with their e-mail mess — Wrike. Wrike's founder uncovers behind-the-scenes facts about Wrike's development and expresses his views on new trends in project management software development. He provides insight into our company philosophy and talks about our plans for the near future.

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Wrike’s Founder Contributes to Creating “Tomorrow’s Best Practices Today”

Published by Daria   |  Wednesday, 05 March, 2008
img We are looking forward to Wrike founder Andrew Filev joining the MLab / McKinsey Tech Roundtable on the 7th of March in San Francisco. Management Innovation Lab is a non-profit research organization based in Palo Alto and London, dedicated to "accelerating the evolution of management practice through corporate experimentation of novel management innovations and technologies." The roundtable will gather a group of 10 technologists and strategists assembled to advance the thinking when it comes to technology's impact on organizations and strategy development. Beyond the core group of CEOs and CTOs of leading enterprise and Web 2.0 companies, the roundtable will be joined by:

  • Andrew McAfee - HBS Professor, Enterprise 2.0 Thought Leader
  • Gary Hamel - author of "Future of Management," "Competing for the Future" and many other books and articles
  • Lenny Mendonca - Co-leader of McKinsey's Strategy Practice

The participants will discuss the management innovation evolution and the challenges of changing the existing practices for greater benefits for individuals and organizations.
Andrew is invited to share his ideas on innovating project management in organizations and to prove his words by demonstrating how Wrike can make project teams more productive.

After March 7, the Roundtable video will be published on the official site of The McKinsey Quarterly business journal and/or on the MLab site. You are very welcome to watch it! You will always find some thought-provoking posts on bringing innovation to project management in Andrew Filev’s professional blog.
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Wrike as Marketing Project Management Software

Published by Valerie   |  Tuesday, 29 January, 2008
We prepared a video in which our users, Philip and Laura, tell you how Wrike helps them to plan and manage product development successfully. Additionally, you will learn how to:
  • create tasks
  • attach files to tasks
  • set the due date of tasks
  • add folders
  • organize tasks in folders
  • delegate tasks to your associates
  • give the responsible party 24/7 access to tasks
  • be notified about changes in tasks
  • and, finally, how to get control and a unique visibility of operations
Watch the full-sized video:
How a manager plans a Product Launch in Wrike



Feel free to ask questions and make comments. We’ll be happy to give you additional details about how you can benefit from Wrike.

Web Workers' Pick for On-Demand Project Management Help

Published by Daria   |  Friday, 09 November, 2007
In the previous post, we told you about users spreading the word about Wrike in project management online communities. Now we are proud to say that the excellent Web Worker Daily blog posted a review of Wrike. Web Worker daily is a popular weblog that has about 3 000 subscribers and is read by thousands of other people all over the world. The blog addresses the new workforce — those who are connected to their jobs through the internet. The team behind Web Worker Daily focuses on making the web-trends understandable to the people impacted by them.

One of the Web Workers, Samuel Dean, has recently discovered Wrike and immediately began offering excellent feedback and some rather keen observations about his new-to-Wrike experience. The author notes that our project management software is “built from the ground up with the understanding that e-mail collaboration is central to how most projects get done” and that “it integrates well with how working people use e-mail.”

Thank you very much for your review, Samuel. We are happy to be acknowledged by such an authoritative blog. The interest of the Web communities is helping us make Wrike even better and save you (our customers) even more time.

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