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!  

This has been a very eventful year for Wrike, and before we step into 2011, we’d like to glance back at all good that happened in 2010 and sum it up.

The biggest milestone we reached in 2010 is the launch of Wrike’s new, social version. The months of hard work and lots of effort that we put into this release have resulted in making Wrike as friendly and easy to use as a social network. A brilliant new interface, activity streams and built-in microblogging, interactive dashboard, handy backlog and many other powerful features have been introduced in the new version to give an extra productivity boost to you and your team. On the heels of the social version release we enhanced Wrike with table view for fast task editing, a new image viewer for convenient work with visual graphics and more helpful updates.

In 2010, we’ve greatly extended Wrike’s integration capabilities. Collaborative document management has become quick and easy, thanks to Wrike’s integration with Google Docs. Also, Wrike has become the first project management solution to integrate with Google Wave. Finally, a few weeks ago, we unveiled Wrike’s development platform, which gives your development team an opportunity to integrate Wrike with other software you use.

We’ve been happy to hear the positive feedback on the updates from our customers. Enthusiastic reviews, such as “Wrike has been the most productive tool we’ve added to our arsenal,” “Wrike has become an irreplaceable tool we rely on,” and many others are worth the sleepless nights we dedicated to making Wrike as helpful and efficient as it is today. You can learn more about other users’ experiences with Wrike in the success stories. This year, we published quite a few new interviews!

Our accomplishments also have received positive reviews from influential media. Wrike has been covered in TechCrunch, Computerworld, eWeek, Venturebeat, GigaOM and many other blogs. Also, Wrike was honored as the tool of the month by the Clever Tester network, one of the largest independent software testing resources on the Web, which testified that Wrike is a great match for the needs of software development and quality assurance teams.

We’d like to thank you all for your business and your loyalty to Wrike. We highly appreciate your opinion and try to address your needs with every release. If you ever have comments, ideas or feature suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact us at support@team.wrike.com. In 2011, we’ll keep working on making Wrike the best project management and collaboration software that exceeds your expectations! Wrike’s team wishes you and your family Happy Holidays! See you in 2011!
 

We already released a preview of what the new Wrike will be like in the series of posts about the beta version. Now, welcome the full new version in its full glory! The new Wrike merges advanced project management functionality with social network-like interactivity and ease of use. During the development of the new Wrike, we redefined our approach to the usability design, which helped us to create a social network-like friendly and effective solution. Wrike’s innovative interface and enhanced collaboration platform will help you to boost the productivity of every member of your team like never before!

“We paid particularly close attention to our customers’ needs while developing Wrike’s new version. The opinions of those who use Wrike are always a top priority for us, although this time it was more important than ever, since we wanted Wrike to be as attractive and easy to use as everyone’s favorite social networks. We provide a project management solution that is designed to help our customers improve their collaboration and productivity, but we couldn’t have made Wrike the way it is without their help! Thanks to everyone who helped us with the feedback!” says Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike.com.

Here is a list of the most notable innovations of Wrike Social:

Wrike’s new interface

In Wrike Social, we introduced a new innovative 3-pane layout, which gives you access to more information on your screen. You can easily navigate through your folders, see full task lists and details for individual tasks and folders, all on one screen! Thanks to this innovation, you don’t have to lose time and focus while switching between different pages and windows.




Profile pictures
Wrike’s new interface also includes avatars to bring extra social network-like friendliness to your workspace. Personal pictures bring online communication a step forward and allow people to identify the author of a task, or who the task is shared with, etc., with just a quick glance at the workspace.

Interactive dashboard
Wrike Social has a new dashboard, which gives every member of your team an unparalleled visibility of where they stand at any point in time. This easily customizable tool shows information about scheduled, overdue and backlogged tasks, and also provides the news about the most recent activities of your teammates. With such a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool, task management becomes easier than ever!




Activity stream and microblogging feature
Wrike’s Activity Stream is a powerful tool that provides a news feed about the most recent activity in real time, which makes sure that everyone stays in the loop and has easy access to the latest information.  It also allows people to exchange short messages, giving them the ability to hold informal discussions within the same workspace.

Also, in addition to comments, every task in the new Wrike also has an activity stream for that particular task built in. Everyone can see the full history of changes and therefore has greater control over the workflow.

Backlog

In the new version of Wrike, we introduced backlogged tasks. The ability to create tasks with no fixed start dates and due dates allows you to easily store and keep valuable ideas and make sure that they are not lost in the workflow. You can set tasks as backlogged and come back to them and schedule in the future, or just use them to accumulate project ideas or other information.



Prioritizing and customizable search
In the new Wrike, you can customize your search and filter criteria. This allows you to build task lists with only those tasks that you want to see, sorting and filtering them by nearly every possible detail. Most importantly, you are now able to sort your tasks by priority, rearranging them with a simple drag-and-drop function. People are now able to arrange tasks as needed and focus on what is most important.

This is a just a highlight of the most notable features of the new version of Wrike. Read more detailed descriptions of those features in our other posts and discover how Wrike’s features work in detail in our help section. To learn more about the benefits brought to project management by the new Wrike, you can read our official press release and watch this great overview video:
 

We never stop moving Wrike forward, and we keep introducing new features, as well as making the existing ones better. Wrike’s new version is not a finishing point, but a step forward. We keep improving project collaboration, helping teams to be more efficient, and making project management software easy and comfortable to use.

This year is coming to an end, and now it's high time to review the accomplishments we had.

First of all, we're happy to let you know that this year brought us numerous new users! Some of them agreed to share their Wrike experience with us. As a result, we published quite a few new customer success stories, including interviews with:

• Laura Roeder, a popular online marketing strategist and social media expert
• Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, show host at The Project Management PrepCast
• Luther Cale, chief of marketing, HealthStream
• Ciaran Rogers, marketing manager, UKSA
• Nick Doherty, managing editor of television, SBS Online
• and some others.

We hope that we'll be able to publish a case study with you next year. Ready to share your story already? Contact us at marketing@team.wrike.com, and we'll be happy to put it out. By the way, here's a very inspiring SlideShare case study presentation by one of our customers, SayitRight Marketing Solutions. We hope that this slide deck will push you to share your online collaboration and project management best practices with the world.

In 2009, we continued to lead the web-based project management space with our Intelligent Email Engine^TM (smart email integration), which remains the most advanced among project management software solutions. Despite this fact, we never stop innovating in this and other areas. This year has been remarkable in terms of development achievements and new feature releases. Let us innumerate the most important of them:

• new user management engine: allowed you to create your own cost-effective mix of user licenses in your account;
• email-integrated task discussions: let you add comments to task by simply emailing them to Wrike, and  made Wrike's email integration even more robust and universal;
• Outlook add-in: made it easy for you to synchronize your emails marked for follow-up and tasks in your Outlook and Wrike accounts;
• WinMobile app: made Wrike's tasks accessible from your smart phone;
• intraday tasks: allowed you to build a more precise schedule by creating tasks that start and are estimated to be completed on the same day;
• recurring tasks: simplified scheduling of tasks that occur every day, week, month or year for you.

Wrike also was enhanced with 535 "small things," like handy shortcuts, version tracking for files, improvements in task management and daily to-do emails, as well as many other useful features that make you more productive in your day-to-day jobs.

The last, but definitely not least, we delivered Wrike Simple Projects, a productivity application for the My Yahoo! platform.

So the past year brought us a lot of exciting events that couldn't have happened without you. You, our valued customers, continuously inspired us to improve the service and make it an even better solution for your business productivity.

Now, what should you expect from Wrike in the year 2010? Even more amazing news, of course!

We're thrilled to share some of our development plans with you.  The beginning of the next year will be packed with new feature releases. We're currently working on delivering an iPhone app and Google Docs integration. Want even more? You'll get it! Our development roadmap also includes a new user interface, resource management, budgeting, microblogging, BlackBerry and G1 plug-ins and lots of other productivity and management features that will make your team even more efficient.

In addition, we plan to localize Wrike to more than 10 languages! This year, we released the Spanish version of our project management software. German and French versions are next on our list.

We'd like to underline here that our development plans change over time, as they greatly depend on your feedback and suggestions. Your opinion and requests are always welcome in the comments to this blog and at support@team.wrike.com

We wish you and your family a happy, safe and restful holiday season! Your success is our success, and we hope to continue to build our partnership throughout 2010 and the future.