If you were you waiting for the release of Wrike’s interface in Spanish, you will be pleased with the latest updates. Since today, it becomes more convenient for you, as well as your Spanish-speaking team members, clients and partners to collaborate on projects with the help of Wrike. 

To make your experience as pleasant as possible, we made our best to carefully translate Wrike’s workspace, notifications, alerts and help pages. We believe that the possibility to work in the Spanish interface will make your work with Wrike even more enjoyable. Also, it will let you invite more Spanish speaking peers to collaborate with you on Wrike.

“It is very exciting to launch the first localized version of Wrike,” said Nic Bryson, VP of Customer Relations. “With plans for more languages in the future, such as German, French, Portuguese, and Italian, we started with Spanish, the one most called-for by our users. We value our Spanish-speaking customers who have been using Wrike in English to date. We believe that they, as well new Spanish-speaking users, will be pleased with the convenience of using Wrike in their native language.”

How can I see Wrike in Spanish? Visit www.wrike.es or, have Spanish as a high priority language in your Web browser:


 
If you are happy with the release as we are, a tweet or a short blog post about it will become a great “thank you” for our efforts to deliver the Spanish version to you:) Thank you for continuous support and using Wrike’s English version!

Want to see Wrike in your language? Let us know in the comments to this post. Your vote counts!

Wrike is a project management software provided as a service. Every day we work hard to make our service even better and more valuable for you.

On top of small enhancements every week or two, today, we are glad to introduce a significant system upgrade that will bring a great productivity gain to you.

Today, we present several new productivity features that are added to your existing user subscription for free, as well as extra features that can be additionally purchased with the new pricing.

Among the new free productivity features added to your subscription are 1) project and task discussions and 2) estimation of tasks in hours.

Finally, we’ve enhanced our user management engine and pricing model and made it more tempting for you to invite more co-workers, clients and contractors to collaborate with you on Wrike.

Click on the links above to find out more details about the new features and the pricing.

[05.27.2009 Update: the features were released]

You, our customers know that Wrike is a living project. We keep improving the solution and adding new, important features that bring even more benefits to our customers. We want our users to save more time and money. That’s why you can expect more productivity, collaboration and cost-effective solutions from Wrike this May. 

We’re thrilled to announce the new, big release that will turn Wrike into the greatest ever productivity and project management tool. What will this new release include? Several exiting enhancements:

•    Windows Mobile Sync: First of all, we’ll make it easy for you to manage tasks with your Pocket PC or smart phone. The new release will feature a Windows Mobile plug-in that will synchronize your tasks in Wrike with the built-in tasks application on your device. As previously, you’ll be able to create tasks in Wrike from e-mails sent from any mobile device, whether it is iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or G1. 

•    Outlook Plug-in: Do you use tasks in Outlook to organize your life? Wrike’s new Outlook plug-in will make your task management more effective, as all your tasks will be kept in one place (be it  Wrike or Outlook). With its help, you’ll be able to instantly sync your tasks in Wrike and in Outlook.

•    Task Discussions: This feature was asked for many of our users, and we worked hard to create a neat solution for discussions. With the new release, Wrike users will be able to add comments to tasks and projects not only online but also via e-mail. Wrike will intelligently identify the task by the e-mail subject and elegantly extract the user’s comment and the task description.

•    Upgraded pricing structure: We’ll not unveil all the details on the new pricing model yet. We’ll only say that soon our customers will be able to mix various user types within one account, choose what features they want to use and create a cost-effective solution for their project management needs.

Can’t wait to try the new features? You’ll have to hold on for just a couple of weeks! 

Dear Wrike customers and supporters,

I just wanted to thank you for your business and for choosing Wrike. The past year brought us a lot of exciting events that couldn't have happened without you. You, our valued users, continuously inspired us to advance the service and deliver new features that help you manage your business.

We highly appreciate your feedback on each of the 30 feature releases the past year. The best recognition of our efforts is the growth of our customers' community. Thousands of users now benefit from Wrike's time- and and money-saving features, such as e-mail integration, dynamic timeline, revision history and time-tracking.

Our ability to meet your business needs was recognized by Red Herring (Global 100 contest) and eWEEK (Excellence Award).

I strongly believe that the best project management practices and Wrike in your hands will help you effectively manage and drive your businesses in the challenging economic situation next year. We have grand development plans for the coming year and will make our best effort to continue meeting your needs and expectations.

As the holidays approach, I sincerely wish you joy and happiness for the Holidays and the New Year.

Kind regards,
Andrew Filev
Wrike, CEO

Wrike users are a great source of inspiration for us. We always welcome customers’ feedback, as it is always very helpful and highly motivating. Many of you, our customers, contact us with feature requests. The features that received the maximum number of votes will be included in the release of our Enterprise version. We are extremely excited about this new release, which will be launched pretty soon.

What to expect from Wrike’s Enterprise Version? To keep you in suspense, we will not unveil the upcoming features. We’ll just say that that, with the new version, you will be able to  enhance your planning, streamline your project final date estimation, facilitate rescheduling and more!

As a part of this new release, we’re also working on expanding Wrike’s integration capabilities, so that it could fit into your existing processes more effectively.

We encourage each of you to continue providing us with feedback, suggestions and comments about the product. Don’t forget that you have several ways to do that! Use Wrike Forums to share your ideas and thoughts with the Wrike community, leave comments in this blog or contact us directly.

For now, the exact date of the new release will be not announced, so stay tuned!

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Update: the time-tracking feature has been released.

The next important improvement  that we are currently working on is the time tracking feature. This  feature will give you even better team accountability. Additionally, time tracking will help you to improve communications with clients, giving them clear time reports.    

With the time tracking feature, you will be able to:

• add time entries for tasks,
• keep track of the hours spent on a task or a project,
• quickly create reports and
• see  what tasks people work on and how much time they spend on each task.

Do you have any preferences regarding the time tracking feature? We’ll consider implementing them with the next update.

You care about the security of your data. So do we. Security is an intrinsic part of our system. Our main concern for the initial design of Wrike was the security and privacy of users’ data.

Our uptime is over 99%. If at some time we cannot keep our promise of 99% uptime, we will give you a week of service for free.

Safe. Your data is backed up nearly every second. Wrike is hosted on our safe and reliable servers. We are running a real-time database replication. Translated into lay language, it means that your data will be backed up nearly every second. We also have recycle bin and revision history to help you recover from accidental losses and give you full, 360-degree protection.

Secure. Your personal Wrike account is protected with the password. Secure access over https (SSL) is provided with the all paid accounts. Rights to your data belong to you, so if you delete your account, we delete it. We have no rights to resell your data or misuse it. We are bound by the terms of the privacy policy and covered by the laws of California.

Our users are our main value. That's why we care so much about our users' value - their data security.

Every day we get e-mails from our subscribers who like Wrike a lot and are curious about the upcoming new features. We appreciate your feedback and want to reveal some details of our roadmap to assure you that we work hard to make Wrike even better.

We practice the Agile Software Development process; thus we adapt our plan to your feedback and prioritize work to deliver productivity features that are in greater demand. So here is what you should expect in the near future.

Priorities Currently, you can prioritize your tasks by putting them in the appropriate folders named “high,” “critical,” “normal,” etc. We plan to add the "Priority" field for each task soon. So it will be very convenient to categorize tasks by their importance within a concrete project, advertising plan or issues pack. What’s more, the priorities will be inherited after those defined for your e-mails about the tasks. No matter which e-mail client you use, Outlook, Gmail, BlackBerry or something else, your tasks will be marked with the appropriate priority level in Wrike. Update: priorities have been released.

Tasks dependencies We know that many Wrike users utilize simplistic task management approaches similar to David Allen’s getting things done. However, the number of people using Wrike to manage product development and other complex projects is constantly growing. That is why we are now developing a tasks dependencies feature for projects that require a strict order for task execution. This upgrade is coming in a couple of months. Just think of Wrike’s Gantt charts – they will save you even more time! When you update your plans on a timeline, interrelated tasks will be also rescheduled. There are some architectural challenges that we want to solve elegantly.

Custom statuses Right now you can imitate any custom field in Wrike, including priorities, with folders. This approach has a huge advantage – it gives you unlimited flexibility. You create several folders that correspond with your statuses. For example you can name these folders “in research,” “not clear,” “postponed” and “unapproved” (see the picture below).



When any idea comes up, you put it in the folder “in research,” discuss it with colleagues and give it the appropriate status when the decision is made. Or alternatively, if it’s approved, you can put it into the “design” or “develop” folder and assign it to your team members. It’s very convenient, as you can apply a particular categorization for each of your projects if you manage several different customer projects.

However, we know that some users are more comfortable with managing statuses as task attributes. Our customers’ satisfaction is paramount for us; that’s why we recently included custom statuses in our development plan. We’ll design the feature so that you will be able to define statuses for every folder if necessary. It will lighten up your folder hierarchy. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Soon you’ll be able to try it out.

Your feedback on these parts of the system is very welcome. We always aim to enhance Wrike’s functionality, so please let us know what you would like to see in Wrike by commenting on this post.

From a simple point of view, Wrike is a combination of some very helpful and innovative features, like the ability to assign tasks in e-mails, to get daily reminders about overdue tasks, to organize tasks in a convenient way, to instantly see what others are doing and so on.

But once you start using Wrike you see that there is a great synergistic effect. It’s easy to assign tasks, so you can keep track of more things. It’s easy to organize more things, so you are not lost in 100 tasks to-do lists. You start to plug-in your peers, managers and employees and see that it’s much easier to collaborate with them.

In the ideal scenario, everybody around you is using Wrike, you share different folders of tasks with different folders of your peers. But you still get the full picture and easily navigate the network of tasks in the Wrike interface, just like you do it in your mind.

Think about organizations: Wrike helps to build companies with absolute transparency. The top manager may drill down to the level of a concrete employee several layers beneath him, see what the person is doing and recognize her efforts.
When somebody needs to be in the loop, you just share a project with him and he subscribes to the notifications. When you e-mail something, you are not afraid that it will be forgotten. When you finish a task, you are sure that your colleagues will stay in the loop. The number of reports and status update requests is minimized, saving everybody’s time.

And what’s best is that you may easily plug in the plan for your next vacation along with your work projects and make sure that you always see what is important and relevant for YOU.

So Wrike is about two things – making collaboration better and making your life simpler. You have more time and energy for more important, creative and fun things in your life. That was our dream when we started Wrike.

Guess what we are using to manage Wrike product development efforts? You're right - Wrike.

I personally have used Wrike to manage my personal tasks as well as to share other tasks since its first prototype. By using Wrike I have gradually been able to build my personal hierarchy.

About a month ago we hit a major milestone - Wrike became the primary project management tool and bug tracking software for our own company. We are still in beta and working hard to polish everything, but the product is already a pleasure to use.

Right now under the "Wrike Development" folder with tasks, we have three separate subfolders: "Wrike To Do" (where we store our plan for developing new features), "Wrike Suggestions" (where we store different ideas for product improvement from ourselves and our users) and "Wrike bugs" (software terrarium). Those folders in their turn have subfolders like "P1", "P2", ... in "Wrike Bugs" ("P" stands for priority).