Wait a moment, is it December already? It has been such a fantastic year, the time flew by so quickly.

First of all, we would like to thank all of you for choosing Wrike and relying on it in managing your day-to-day project work. It is a pleasure to serve both “Wrike experts” with a rich experience of using our app and our new friends that have just recently joined Wrike’s customer community. We really appreciate your contribution through your feedback, awesome suggestions, and experience shared with other users in your case studies.



We’ve added 20+ new features to help you become way more productive. In 2011 we added the abilities to attach files with drag-and-drop, edit documents without downloading, view your tasks from your favorite mobile or tablet device and much more.  Many of these updates were inspired by your suggestions, so if you haven’t voiced your favorite feature yet, it’s the right time to do it!
 
As the pace of information flow increases, project management needs to be much more flexible and agile. Thanks to a slick facelift, Wrike got a friendlier look and feel, as well as an unparalleled speed boost that allows you to load and manage tons of data in just seconds whether you are running dozens, hundreds or even thousands of tasks and projects. “Thanks to Wrike, our team now completes 30% more tasks with open deadlines per month,” says William Fetter, director of marketing and communications at Hexagon Metrology.

“I love the fact that Wrike hit everything in my dream list! With Wrike's help, we get vastly better results, we get more things done and done faster,” says Timothy Seward, CEO of ROI Revolution.  Thank you Tim for such nice words! We hope many of you would “+1” Timothy’s opinion ;). Your positive feedback resulted in new fantastic customer stories and podcasts discussing best practices to using Wrike and new project management methods inspired by our app.

Our achievements were also appreciated by the business community: Wrike received a Stevies award and got extensive media coverage in GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, AllBusinessBlog, InformationWeek, PM4Girls and more!

So what’s the bottom line? Terri Griffith from GigaOm has perfectly summarized the results:
"Complexity can be managed, work can be shared, and transparency supported — all at blazing speed." [in Wrike]

Indeed, 2011 was amazingly eventful.  However, we’ve set even higher goals for 2012 and we’re eager to achieve them.  We’d like to close this year by wishing you Happy Holidays! May the New Year make your projects even more successful and collaboration - seamless. And we at Wrike will do our best to make all your wishes for productive work come true!  

A picture is worth a thousand words, so what about a video? Or even a video channel! We decided to give you a full overview of Wrike's tutorials in our brand-new Wrike TV.

Come visit our YouTube channel, where you already can find several new arrivals – on Wrike's integration with Google docs, handy drag-and-drop support and the fantastic Activity Stream. Here's a piece on how you can work on Google Docs collaboratively in Wrike:


But this is just a beginning, as we want to turn our channel into a get-together to exchange great project management ideas. We will share some interesting experiences of project management gurus and useful tips on efficient collaboration in the easy form of little videos. As you can see, the most interesting updates are on their way, so stay tuned! You can easily subscribe to our channel with your Google account.

Do you have a piece of practical advice or an inspiring team experience to share with other viewers? Be our TV guest star and cover yourself with glory! We prepared a small present for you – a gift card for ThinkGeek – to thank you for helping our users become more productive. We also have some gifts to raffle off among the first 100 lucky subscribers and anticipate presenting them to you!

We love to hear your feedback in the blog, via e-mail and over the phone. You submit a dozen awesome ideas every day, and we release the ones that you ask for most often. For example, advanced filtering options, mass task-editing and universal search were included in our latest release, following your requests. To give you more transparency into what features we are working on and why in the future, we are launching a Feature Voting tool and welcome you to vote for features you cannot live without!

How does Feature Voting work?

Go to vote.wrike.com or access voting right from your Wrike workspace:



If you have something you'd really like to see in Wrike, voice your thoughts and suggest a new feature! And if you see that a feature you want is already in the list, vote for it!

You have 5 votes to speed up release of the features you can't wait for, as the top vote-getters will be our primary work focus. Visit Wrike's Feature Voting to see what's already in the works and what will soon be.

Thanks for helping us make Wrike the world's most practical project management software, and keep the feedback coming!

This is certainly the news no one will fail to notice! Combining power and elegance, we have redesigned Wrike to make it amazingly fast, yet unbelievably convenient. Whether you are running dozens, hundreds or even thousands of tasks and projects, you can manage them all in a few mouse clicks. Check out this video that will walk you through the highlights of the new interface:



To test-drive the redesigned Wrike, follow this link.

Wrike is the only project management tool that allows you to view your work as a combination of task lists, backlog, spreadsheet, Gantt charts and activity stream, all in one app. Just click on these new stylish icons at the top of the screen to switch between different views on your work and enjoy all the wide array of options in navigating your projects.





To make your work in Wrike even faster and more convenient, we also added some extremely useful features that will skyrocket your productivity:

• enhanced filters;
• universal search function;
• multiple task editing;
• super fast redesigned Dynamic Timeline, and more!

Stay tuned and learn all the details about these fantastic new features in our upcoming posts.

Some of the updates in the new user interface were inspired by customer suggestions, so thanks a lot to all of you for your valuable feedback! Our customers who were the first to notice Wrike's slick new look have already shared their impressions with us today. "Wrike's speed and flexibility set it apart from any other project management solution I've ever seen," says Timothy Seward from ROI Revolution.

All this is just a click away! Check out the new Wrike and let us know what you think.  

Wrike is developing, and we need great people to help us grow! Want to share the success of a fast-growing cloud software company? Do you enjoy helping people and communicating with customers? If so, we have a great job for you.

Wrike.com is looking for a motivated VP of Sales. We are building a stellar sales team to maximize the revenue potential of incoming leads, increase revenue from existing customers, turn team accounts into larger enterprise-wide deals and grow our channels. We’re moving at an aggressive pace, so your job responsibilities will be diverse and will include both doing things yourself and managing the doers.  

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Build and manage the stellar sales team; lead, mentor, train, coach and motivate the team to achieve top performance; develop a culture of winning; always be ready to roll up your sleeves and lead by example;
• Continuously collect metrics, do tests, mine marketing and sales data to build and improve economic models underlying the sales processes; use the economic insight to scale the sales team, as well as to optimize the sales processes;
• Continuously analyze and improve sales performance through strong leadership, process innovations, coming up with and testing new ideas, and your personal actions;
• Personally nurture and close important customer and channel deals; Actively participate in trade shows and other events; run webinars;
• Maximize revenue from incoming leads; ensure existing customer retention and account growth; convert team deals within enterprises into larger enterprise deals;
• Build and maintain an up-to-date go-to-market plan;
• Influence strategic, product and marketing decisions;
• Be the source of expertise in productivity, project management and collaboration for your sales team and customers.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of successful software sales experience; experience in selling software to a large volume of leads via phone and Internet is a must; SaaS/cloud experience is preferred; experience in converting team deals into larger enterprise roll-outs is preferred;
• Broad sales experience, ranging from lead-scoring to consultative sales, to closing deals, defining and implementing sales strategy, forecasting, cold-calling, responding to RFPs, generating revenue and achieving individual and team goals, building and leading a high-performing sales team, and dealing with strategic channel sales;
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, leadership and sales skills;
• Great interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt communication style to different audiences, from Fortune 100 firms to hip start-ups to nonprofits; excellent networking, negotiation and closing skills;
• Analytical skills;
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage time efficiently;
• Power user of desktop and cloud apps;
• Desire to deeply understand our product and market (collaboration, personal and team productivity, project management).

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to job-vps@team.wrike.com.  Include a sample of your written communication with a customer (e-mail, proposal, website copy, etc.), along with the information on sales/marketing innovations that you championed in the last two years. 

In today’s ever-changing business environment, a pen and a piece of paper are no longer enough for a manager’s success. Without effective tools for task management and team collaboration, a manager is left empty-handed against the information flood. The constant flow of new data, rescheduled deadlines and modified requirements should be quickly processed by the manager and communicated to the whole team.

These pressing issues were very familiar to Timothy Seward, CEO of ROI Revolution, the leading expert in the search engine marketing and a new Wrike customer.  According to Timothy, “Flexibility and speed is super-critical in today’s digital age,” so he was looking for task management software that would allow  him to easily structure the workflow, accurately organize tasks in neat hierarchies and break the work down into smaller, easy-to-tackle, actionable items. 

All these requirements were met by Wrike. “I love the fact that it hit everything on my dream list. With its help, we get vastly better results. We get more things done and done faster,” says Timothy.  He has thoroughly investigated all of Wrike’s features and is eager to share his findings with you. For example, do you know how to save 50% of time spent on meetings with the help of Wrike’s social networking features? Find the answer and other useful tips in the case study “The Secret of Efficient Task Management: Tips from ROI Revolution.”

You are welcome to listen to the 15-minute audio podcast with Timothy Seward and adopt success tactics from the leading online advertising company:

Also, listen to Timothy's tips on search engine marketing in a bonus track:


As usual, we would be thrilled to hear your comments and ideas about the new podcast and case study. And, of course, you are welcome to follow Timothy’s example and become our next podcast guest. If you are interested in sharing your story of dealing with project management challenges, please contact us at marketing@team.wrike.com.

We know how important it is for you to be able to manage your tasks from anywhere: your computer, phone and… tablet. The tablet version of Wrike was on the wish list for many of you, and today our team presents you Wrike’s Web version for mobile browsers on iOS or Android. So now you can take full advantage of Wrike from your favorite tablet device. The new version is released in beta, and we welcome you to try it.

Android users probably have dreamed about this version most of all, but we’re sure it will please iPad aficionados, as well. In Wrike’s new tablet version, you get almost everything that helps your project collaboration in Wrike’s Web version. You can create and schedule tasks and share comments from anywhere with Internet access as easily as you do it in Wrike’s Web app. We hope that the tablet version will bring even more comfort to your project collaboration.



We look forward to receiving your feedback on the beta version for mobile browsers. Please contact us at support@team.wrike.com and tell us what you like about using the new version on your tablet and what you would like to be improved.

Seamless collaboration is one of the major drivers of team success, especially if team members are spread across several cities or even countries. In the previous post, we described Wrike’s role in ensuring smooth collaboration for such teams. To elaborate on the topic, today we’ll share tips on effective managing of dynamic, distributed teams from our customer Maciej Janiec, CEO at inlevel. 

inlevel specializes in providing firms with a novel business software marketplace where applications can easily be found and purchased. The company is very dynamic and is a perfect example of the highly virtualized organization. inlevel’s core team consists of only three people, and most activities are externalized. “Getting new collaborators on board and keeping everyone on the same page is a big challenge and requires a lot of coordination, but I’m successfully handling it with Wrike,” says Maciej.
 
In inlevel’s success story, Maciej tells you about the best practices for synchronizing the workflow between team members when face-to-face communication is hindered or impossible. According to Maciej, “Managing a distributed team in a multi-project environment is much smoother when you can easily get an overview of what's going on at any moment, who is responsible for each  task, and what’s next in the pipeline.”

Read the full version of the inlevel case study and learn valuable project management advice, including how not to get lost in information overflow when you are multitasking.

Liked the story? We welcome you to become the next success story’s hero and give your exclusive tips for effective project management and seamless collaboration. Simply drop us a note at marketing@team.wrike.com!

On June 6, the world's leading IT research and advisory company, Gartner, Inc., published its research note "PPM Market UNIVERSE: Techniques and Tools for Project Collaboration" by Matt Light. Reviewing the most efficient methods and applications for online collaboration, Gartner included Wrike in its research as a project collaboration workspace application. Well done, Wrike! 

A lot of our customers deal with remote collaboration, and their experience shows that, even if peers are separated by miles and time zones, with Wrike they can smoothly collaborate and get things done together just as efficiently as if they were sitting in the same office. We have designed Wrike so that it connects people and their work from all corners of the world into one friendly and easy-to-navigate work hub.  "The way the data automatically flows into Wrike's workspace keeps us all organized because we always know where to find the info that we need, and I don't need to spend time and effort on communicating the plan updates to the team members," comments Maciej Janiec, CEO at inlevel, who successfully manages a virtual team of more than 20 people with Wrike's help.

It's impossible to underestimate the importance and scope of remote collaboration. We hope that day-by-day, more teams will be able to elegantly handle the challenges of virtual collaboration with the help of Wrike's social project management features, just like inlevel does.

Is virtual collaboration a common thing for your company? Do you have your own special tips for handling the challenges of working in distributed teams? We'd be happy to hear about your experience.

We cannot wait to share the exciting news with you: today, the American Business Awards announced Wrike as a finalist in the category “Computer Software – New Version.” According to the award’s committee, “This is a significant achievement for which you are to be applauded.  This means that independent judges agreed that these nominations are worthy of national recognition.”

The Stevies are one of the most honorable business awards in the United States, recognizing outstanding achievements of organizations of all types and sizes, and the people behind them. In previous years, the list of laureates included such leading companies as Apple, CNN, Ford, Hilton Hotels and more.

“It’s not only the look of the award standing behind the nickname the Business World’s Oscars. It’s also the high level of the applications coming from successful, dynamic, motivated companies,” said Andrew Filev, Wrike’s CEO, who joined the judges’ panel in several other categories for best new products and the most successful product development teams.

Congrats to everyone on Wrike’s team and many thanks to our customers for sending valuable feedback that helped us blend our award-winning social project management mix!

The Stevies committee also seeks to recognize the best products and companies, according to people’s opinions. Of course, it's you, our loyal customers, who we rely on the most in the competition! Please vote for Wrike - just click on this logo and you will automatically be taken to the page where you can submit your vote. The voting is open until June 3.