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New dashboards: Next-gen analytics & reporting available now
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New dashboards: Next-gen analytics & reporting available now

We’re thrilled to introduce our new dashboards, which mark a significant enhancement of the most intelligent work management platform.  Wrike’s dashboards are an incredible way to get a 360-degree view of your team’s work so you understand the whole picture at a glance. And now we’ve incorporated even more powerful updates designed to boost visibility and align cross-functional teams.   Wrike’s new dashboards will empower every member of your organization, from individual contributors to C-level executives, allowing them to quickly unlock valuable insights that demonstrate the value of their work and their team’s contributions to organizational initiatives.  Many companies are facing reduced resources and might only have one chance to make a critical decision quickly. Dashboards are the solution. This new capability allows you to analyze your work from multiple angles in a single view, which leads to increased productivity, less wasted time, and the ability to clearly demonstrate your team’s impact. Plus, you’ll enjoy real-time updates and advanced tracking capabilities of customizable attributes and dimensions such as financial metrics.  Put simply, our new dashboards ensure efficiency at every level.  What’s more, Wrike’s new dashboards are fast-loading and super simple to build — no coding skills or experience with BI necessary. Simply choose the widgets you need to customize your dashboard.  And if you’re managing a team, you’ll love our new dashboards for monitoring resource allocation and team productivity metrics as well as tracking financials, helping you map strategy and show ROI to executives. Try new dashboards Benefits of our new, easy-to-build dashboards Item grouping: You can now group tasks in a table by status, assignee, or other customizable attributes for easy tracking and management. Seamless analysis: Drill down to related tasks and work items, while making automatic updates across your project. Real-time sync: Since new dashboards are native to Wrike, you can see a summary of all updates in real time. Public links: With public links, you can now share our new dashboards with people who don’t have a Wrike account.  360° visibility: Increased visibility is the name of the game. You can bring multiple charts and views into one dashboard to connect data insights across workflows, departments, and the entire platform. Data-driven decision making: Wrike’s new dashboards are a game changer for executive and management-level decision making. They allow you to identify risks, prevent bottlenecks, and make sound decisions rooted in data. Mobile accessibility: Never miss an update, even on the go! Effortlessly track statuses and metrics on your mobile device. Set up your dashboard in a few clicks   Creating your dashboards is a breeze. Seamlessly report on team capacity, deliverables, financial data, ROI, and other key metrics. Pick widgets that work for your needs and display the information relevant to you, including graphs, charts, tables, calendars, and other views. Chart widgets enable you to visualize patterns and get insights into your team’s work at a glance without looking at tabular or numerical data. Custom item types and custom fields let you tailor the metrics you want to track. The calendar widget allows you to align activities with your timeline. The activity stream widget shows updates in chronological order. Pivot tables help you explore, analyze, and summarize large datasets efficiently. New dashboards: Join us in superior reporting today!  We can’t wait for you to experience the power of analyzing your data quickly — whenever and however you need. New dashboards are available now.  If you don’t have a Wrike account yet, no sweat! Start a free trial today and experience the power of our new dashboards. Try new dashboards

Here’s How Your Ideas Shaped Wrike Product Updates in 2023
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Here’s How Your Ideas Shaped Wrike Product Updates in 2023

When we say we value customer feedback, we mean it! Here are some phenomenal product updates that started life as a user suggestion.

Wrike Named a Leader in Inaugural 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Collaborative Work Management
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Wrike Named a Leader in Inaugural 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Collaborative Work Management

Wrike has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Collaborative Work Management.

Wrike 2023: Our Year in Review
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Wrike 2023: Our Year in Review

2023 was a big year for Wrikers. From tons of tasks completed to cool new features, find out what made this year so special for our users.

Streamline Your Creative and Digital Asset Workflows With Wrike
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Streamline Your Creative and Digital Asset Workflows With Wrike

We’ve recently enhanced our offering for creative and digital asset workflows that we’re sure will level up processes for creative teams. We can’t wait to share these updates with you, so read on to learn about what’s new at Wrike for creatives. 

Wrike Automation: Innovative AI for Intelligent Process Discovery
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Wrike Automation: Innovative AI for Intelligent Process Discovery

Discover how Wrike’s automation solution sets it apart from competitors, enhancing efficiency and productivity in project management.

Chart View: Maximize the Power of Visualization
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Chart View: Maximize the Power of Visualization

Wrike’s new Chart view offers dynamic visualizations, analytics tools, and best practices to elevate team efficiency and decision making.

Boost Productivity With New Wrike Views
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Boost Productivity With New Wrike Views

Wrike’s latest views were designed to turbocharge productivity, streamline workflows, and elevate your work management experience.

Wrike Paves the Way for Efficiency With New Intelligent Solutions for Work
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Wrike Paves the Way for Efficiency With New Intelligent Solutions for Work

At Wrike’s sixth annual Collaborate event today, we took the opportunity to release our latest suite of updates to our Work Intelligence® solution for the future of work. In conversation with Product Marketing Manager Molly Mixon, our Vice President of Product, Alexey Korotich, shared a selection of the most innovative advancements for the Wrike platform.  We’re excited to share these innovations with you, including Wrike’s copilot for work management, datahub, next-gen analytics, and user attributes. These new capabilities will enable teams to do their most impactful and efficient work, giving them better visibility and alignment on workflows and the ability to deliver measurable business outcomes.  Let’s hear from Alexey about the incredible product innovations announced at Collaborate today.  Question: We have more work than ever and more tools than ever to accomplish that work, but many teams are still struggling to actually work efficiently. Why do you think that is? A: Despite all the tools that we have to manage work and collaborate with our teams, it’s still harder than it should be. We have to juggle between different applications, multiple spreadsheets, and disconnected workflows.  Technology consolidation now plays a vital role in reducing noise and distractions employees face in their workspace. We’ve come a long way to make Wrike an intuitive, versatile, and scalable platform that can provide a single source of truth —  where different applications, workflows, and data come together.  You can experience this with one of the most recent innovations we delivered to the market: Wrike Lightspeed. It’s a whole new user experience coupled with powerful, no-code workflow automation and an infinitely scalable workspace. It’s the platform of choice for companies that are serious about efficiency and are looking to consolidate their tech stack.  Question: One of the biggest traits of AI is that it gets smarter the more you use it, which means millions of Wrike users will be able to work smarter than ever because AI is embedded right in the platform. Tell us exactly how our customers will be able to work smarter with Wrike’s intelligence?  A: Many of our customers tell us that lots of their data lives in spreadsheets or other databases that are siloed and not connected to the work that is managed in Wrike. This leads to inefficiencies and disconnected workflows.  Wrike's datahub is a game-changer. It revolutionizes how you manage the intersection of workflows and data. You can focus on making data-informed decisions instead of copying and pasting information from one system to another.  Our datahub allows users to manage and connect data directly to our platform. Additionally, Wrike can interpret that data, and derive insights and intelligence, helping you take action and make better decisions. With Wrike's datahub, there will be no more juggling between projects in Wrike and data in spreadsheets, unlocking many new possibilities for the Wrike platform.  The datahub serves as a data repository and allows us to track and connect all kinds of data — such as physical assets, inventory, digital files, client lists, purchase requests, and anything else that you need to do your work. So instead of pulling the information you need from dispersed tools, like spreadsheets, you have it close to your workflow and can make informed decisions without context switching.   Question: Imagine a world where you could intelligently match the right people to the right work based on specific requirements. Sounds like a dream, right? A: Not anymore. Our new capability brings this dream to reality: Wrike’s user attributes.  Project managers need to ensure they have the right people ready to do work, on time and on budget. This becomes particularly complex when managing large, diverse teams residing in different locations. These companies have a wide range of skills and experience to consider. By leveraging our new user attributes, you can set up and track detailed information about any Wrike user and leverage this data to make better planning and resourcing decisions. With this new capability, our customers can track employee professional skills, languages, locations, organizational relationships, hierarchies, and many other things. You can assign attributes to specific users and leverage Wrike’s resource management tools to find the right people for the right job, no matter how specialized the work might be. You’ll also be able to use skills management and resource management capabilities to understand where you have skill gaps or capacity constraints for talent planning. You can track organizational relationships, hierarchies, and equipment your teams use, and even set up automation. For example, you could @mention someone’s manager to escalate task assignments when that person is on vacation. Question: We’ve all walked into meetings feeling prepared, only to be asked about data points we don’t have at hand. Does Wrike have a way to easily access that information?  A: We do now. Today we’re launching Wrike's next-gen analytics, which will dramatically decrease the time to insights across all workflows, teams, and data. Our next-gen analytics features are built to be easy to use and are available for any Wrike user. These features allow you to build customizable dashboards and get the insights you need, truly democratizing data-driven decisions. We built these capabilities based on a deep understanding of what our users are looking to do and incorporated dozens of shortcuts that help you get insights in seconds. Our dashboards are also uniquely designed to be versatile and serve all types of users, from managers, individuals, and all the way to executives across the org. No more Sunday night scramble of trying to get insights and slides together across a bunch of different data sources and spreadsheets. These next-gen analytics provide easy visibility across diverse data points and views from different departments and projects in one place, without all of the blood, sweat, and tears.   Another thing you’ll love is how effortlessly the data flows into your dashboards, capturing all the task and project details in real time. As a result, you’ll have a 10,000-foot view of all your projects, whether you’re tracking status, effort, or ROI. Question: Organizations have all this data sitting in their various systems, but it has become harder to make sense of all of it. Can you tell us about Wrike’s vision for solving this problem?  A: Yes, we are proud to announce Wrike’s copilot for work management. This new AI assistant will be able to digest massive amounts of data in seconds. It will converse with you in human language, surface insights instantly, and automate what used to be time-consuming and manual. And it will help you make informed decisions in record time. It’s kind of like having a personal assistant or information butler right in your Wrike account! Someone to help you find quick answers to all your burning questions, keep you organized and on track, and help you brainstorm new ideas.     The hardest part of any task is overcoming those mental blocks and starting from scratch, so using Wrike’s copilot for work management for those big daunting activities is like getting to leapfrog past the hard stuff so you can put all your brainpower toward making your work exceptional.  The latest iteration of Wrike’s copilot for work management, which I’m very excited about, includes AI-powered automation suggestions. One of the most effective ways to enhance efficiency is through automating repetitive work. At Wrike, we’ve been empowering you to achieve this for years using our automation engine.  However, here’s the challenge — When everyone is swamped with daily tasks and urgent fire drills, it seems impossible to allocate additional time to process improvements. This is where our automation suggestions become really useful. Our intelligent features support our customers every step of the way. Whether you’re working on a global project or a day-to-day deliverable, you can leverage Wrike’s copilot for work management to surface the insights you need and ultimately make the right decisions.  Question: In the current discourse on AI, in addition to all the good it can do, we hear concerns about the quality, accuracy, and implicit biases in AI-generated responses, as well as concerns that AI can potentially replace humans in the future. What’s your viewpoint on all of these concerns? A: I hear the same concerns, and they’re all valid. AI is a truly groundbreaking technology that continues to impact more and more spheres of our personal and work lives. However, Wrike’s AI philosophy is to always leverage it responsibly, and not to replace, but to assist the people behind the controls. AI helps you analyze and connect a significant amount of data and provides critical insights that help you make better decisions. But the decisions themselves are always made by humans. We also go the extra mile to make sure AI doesn’t put our customer’s data at risk. The way our AI infrastructure is built prevents customer data from being used for training third-party AI models. This means you can safely bring together publicly available and internal data with Wrike’s copilot for work management. We understand how important it is for some organizations to have a choice of which AI models to use. That is why the underlying architecture of Wrike’s copilot for work management is going to support custom Large Language Models along with their different hosting methods. And on top of that, we will also enable account admins to control which features employees will be allowed to use. Question: When can Wrike users start using these new innovations?  A: Wrike's next-gen analytics are available in Chart view already, and you can currently enable the new dashboard view in Wrike Labs. Automation suggestions will be available this quarter. Wrike's datahub will be available in the first quarter of 2024. Skills management will be available in the first quarter of next year as well, and resource management will be coming later in 2024. Generative AI within Wrike’s copilot for work management can already be enabled in Wrike Labs, with automation suggestions coming online this quarter, and other features coming in 2024.   Now that you’ve read all about our latest platform innovations, get more hands-on experience with Wrike. Start a free trial today.  If you’re a current Wrike user and you’re looking to dive deeper into how you and your team can leverage these new updates, reach out to your account manager or our support team today.  We’ll be updating the Wrike blog regularly with more updates from Collaborate 2023, including insights from our speakers, customer success stories, and more.  Try Wrike for free

Get Set for Collaborate 2023 — Taking Place Next Week!
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Get Set for Collaborate 2023 — Taking Place Next Week!

Visa Acceptance Solutions and the Minnesota Vikings have been added to the lineup for Wrike’s 2023 Collaborate event on November 8 and 9.

Get to Know Brian Nourani: New Wrike President and Chief Revenue Officer
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Get to Know Brian Nourani: New Wrike President and Chief Revenue Officer

Earlier this year, Wrike caught a boomerang. No, not the wooden kind, the type where a much-loved employee comes back after taking another role. Brian Nourani previously served as Senior Vice President, Global Sales at Wrike where he grew the business in North America, EMEA, and APAC. This included building our global enterprise business from its inception and participating in two successful exits in 2021 and 2022.  Recently, Brian rejoined Wrike as our President and Chief Revenue Officer, and we’re excited to have him back. Brian has over 13 years of senior sales leadership experience providing strategic and operational guidance for revenue generation. In addition to his time as CRO at Khoros, Brian served as VP of Sales at Tealium and held regional sales roles at Oracle. He returns with a deep understanding of the Wrike business and the enterprise selling motion, both in the areas of expansion and customer acquisition. We knew a Q&A would be the perfect informal format to help our customers and the general public get to know Brian and learn about his experience, his goals, and what makes him tick.  Q: Let’s hear why you’re here!  A: I’m thrilled to be back at Wrike at a time when the company is looking to expand its business to more verticals. I couldn’t pass up the chance to join a high-energy team in a competitive space and help drive Wrike’s go-to-market strategy and meet the growing market demand for work management software. We’re going to make this an incredibly successful next chapter for the organization and our customers. Q: Tell us about three critical career moves you’ve made.  A: Making the move from fintech to tech, which gave me the opportunity to join a great company like Oracle, helping them open their new hub in Los Angeles. I had the opportunity to work with several executives and learn from highly talented individuals through my time at Oracle, specifically seeing their transformation from on-premise to cloud. Next would be my career change, moving to Wrike in 2019 after the Vista Equity Partners acquisition, building the global enterprise business, partnering with countless Fortune 500 customers and seeing two successful exits. Third, would be re-entering Wrike in 2023 as President and CRO.  Q: What brought you back to Wrike? A: The new ownership through Symphony Technology Group, the vision, and new leadership through Tom Scott were all very exciting to me. Coming back to Wrike gives me the opportunity to work with so many great people, including customers I built relationships with in the past. I’m excited to take the reins leading our go-to-market organization and influence real change across the business.  And I would be remiss not to say, my fellow Wrikers and the culture of innovation and camaraderie at Wrike played a big part in my return. Previously, I had the opportunity to work in the San Diego office with so many great people. Then COVID hit, and we transitioned to remote work and worked through so many challenges. It brought all of us closer together and helped build strong, lasting relationships. I also enjoy visiting Wrikers in other offices. We had a company kickoff in 2020 right before the pandemic, and I got to meet our international teams in Galway, Ireland, and then our AMS employees in San Diego. That event was a blast, and something I will always remember. Q: As Wrike’s new CRO, what are you most excited about? A: The demand has never been greater for a versatile, collaborative work management platform like ours. Wrike will continue to accelerate innovation that’s focused on solving dynamic workplace challenges and meeting the needs of the modern workforce. I am excited to work closely with Symphony Technology Group, my fellow ELT members, and the full team at Wrike to continue to deliver value to our customers and employees globally.     Q: What are some of the most impactful changes you’ve made since returning to Wrike?  A: Building out a new “pod” structure gives our customer-facing teams the ability to work more collaboratively and serve our customers in a more efficient way.  We’re already developing and implementing company-specific sales methodologies, territory and team structures, and new quotas and commission plans, as well as more sophisticated pipeline management and reporting. All of these changes are designed to improve the customer experience. Q: What are areas for potential growth for Wrike? A: I would like to see Wrike continue to lead the way in the collaborative work management space as the most innovative solution in the market — standing at the forefront of artificial intelligence. I believe AI empowers teams to streamline their processes, eliminating time-consuming manual tasks. This enables team members to shift their focus on to more strategic and creative aspects of their work, promoting higher levels of engagement. As a company, we have a great opportunity to be a leader in our space, actively helping our customers streamline work processes for maximum efficiency, empowering teams across all departments to collaborate, manage projects, drive strategic initiatives, and achieve goals. A few rapid-fire favorites:  Favorite book? Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins. I love this book because you will learn what it takes to be a top leader, why building the right team is so critical, and why “stop doing” is as important as what you should do. Favorite quote? “Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves — and by which they are willing to be judged.”  Frederick W Smith, CEO of Fedex Favorite country? England London, England is so culturally rich and such a diverse city, with centuries of history, not to mention amazing tea! There is so much to see and do in London, from the markets, to the food and architecture — it’s impossible not to love!  Favorite Wrike feature? Request forms and automation. Brian will be delivering a keynote at our sixth annual virtual Collaborate event in November. He’ll be sharing impactful customer success stories you won’t want to miss. Save your spot today!  Register for Collaborate

Get the Inside Track on Collaborate 2023 From Our Guests
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Get the Inside Track on Collaborate 2023 From Our Guests

Wondering what Collaborate 2023 might look like? Get the inside track on the best annual work management conference from former attendees.

Introducing Thomas Scott: Wrike CFO Moves to Interim CEO Role
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Introducing Thomas Scott: Wrike CFO Moves to Interim CEO Role

This summer, Wrike CFO Thomas Scott took on the role of interim CEO, as founder and former CEO Andrew Filev stepped into a board advisor role after 17 years as the head of the company. We’re in good hands, though. Thomas has all of the expertise and business acumen to take up the mantle as Wrike’s leader.  As Thomas assumes the Interim CEO position, we thought a Q&A would be an appropriate way for our customers, partners, and the general public to get to know his leadership style, his goals for Wrike moving forward, and his thoughts on current tech trends.  Q: Why don’t we start with your Wrike journey, how did it all start?  A: My Wrike journey started over a year ago; my one-year anniversary was in March of 2023. I had sold my prior business in the middle of 2021, and right as I started to consider my next challenge I had the good fortune to meet Andrew. I had been working as a financial and operating executive for innovative technology businesses for over 17 years, and was looking for the combination of a great product, team, and opportunity to make an impact. Wrike offered this chance and I have never looked back since taking this challenge. Q: What does it mean to be Interim CEO at Wrike?  As Interim CEO, my role is to guide Wrike forward on the next chapter of our story.  Part of this includes maintaining continuity on the things that brought Wrike to this level of success and part of it includes fostering innovation and change as we adapt to a new economic environment along with our customers.. Q: How is Wrike planning to thrive in a challenging climate? A: As we look to grow our business, it’s important to note that the environment has changed. Our customers are focused on efficiency and productivity and we’re really no exception to that. We’re doing the exact same thing, looking at how we can be more productive as a company and how we can take advantage of this shifting situation in the overall economy, and within IT spending in particular. If you think about the Wrike customer journey of going from teams to department to the overall company, I think some of what’s going on in the industry as a whole is going to help that journey. We just have to be very prescriptive about our strategies, staying focused on winning with our product, winning with our core customers, and ultimately winning with enterprise organizations to take advantage of some of these trends. I’m preparing to discuss some of these strategies at Wrike Collaborate 2023 in November, and we’re welcoming our VP of Product, Alexey Korotich, to the stage to discuss platform innovations that will get all of our customers excited about what’s to come. It’s a thrilling time to be in this industry and to be at Wrike, specifically. Innovation is in our DNA, we’re pioneers in AI for CWM, and you don’t want to miss the news at Collaborate.  Q: What is your take on trends like AI? A: AI is both fascinating and concerning at the same time if you think about the number of different use cases where it could be applied and the speed with which it could cause disruption.  For me, it is an interesting trend to follow externally in terms of what other companies are doing, but it’s also really interesting what we’re doing with it here at Wrike because there’s an enormous amount of use cases that we can apply both within the product as well as within our different functional areas. AI is going to allow us to create efficiencies in how we best serve our customers and tailor our message to them.  Again, tune into Collaborate – we have some incredible announcements to make on this front.  Q: What sets Wrike apart from its competitors?  A: The scalability of the product is a key differentiator. This product was built for scale and a lot of our competitors were not. Another differentiator is the work that we’ve done over the last year with Wrike Lightspeed that has made the entry-level point for this product really compelling. Teams now have the ability to adopt it earlier on, and that’s transformational.  From a use case perspective, our own teams have really increased their usage of Wrike and their ability to free up time by automating workflows. We know from experience that once you’re using Wrike for simple use cases, you start asking, ‘What else can I do with this?’ It opens up other possibilities, it brings in other users, and that gives you an idea of what that customer journey can look like on the outside as you’re watching it develop internally.  Q: What does Wrike’s financial future look like?  A: We have a great opportunity ahead of us given macroeconomic trends, their impact on business today, and Wrike’s inherent ability to improve efficiency and productivity – which is what every organization is focused on right now. As an STG portfolio company, I’m not able to share financial information; however, Wrike’s executive team is very much focused on understanding the growth rate in our market, where opportunities lie, and how we can invest in products, people, and processes to be able to increase the value of the business.  Q: How would you describe Wrike culture?  A: Wrike has a culture that drives change. This business has successfully navigated a number of really transformational milestones. From COVID to the Citrix acquisition and, subsequently, the demerger from Citrix, there are a number of big changes that we have been through. The resilience of this culture and the willingness to continue to find ways to innovate is something that I’m proud to be a part of here.   Our employees have a lot of grit. They can come into a challenging situation and are able to problem-solve and persevere through it. They are also intellectually curious, as well, and you have to be to work in such a fast-paced space.  Q: What makes Wrike a unique place to work? A: We truly are a global company spread out across a number of locations. I think that is a real strength for us and something that we should continue to invest in. Our resilience and ability to change is a key aspect of the culture and that’s something that I want to see us continue to invest in as well.  Q: What are the most exciting projects being developed at Wrike?  A: There’s an exciting opportunity for us to continue to expand how we use technology within our own business, whether that is to continue to drive more use cases internally with Wrike, or by investing in the tech stack that we use that we’re not fully utilizing today, or even bringing together different data sources.  Additionally, we’re looking to more than double Wrike’s business over the next few years. In order to do that, we’ve got to develop the next generation of leaders that will help this business scale and I view that as one of the more important things that I do in my job. Q: What’s the most rewarding part of being Wrike’s Interim CEO?   A: By far the most rewarding part of what I do is being able to travel around and talk to customers and our employees. That has been the best thing that I’ve done here. I’ve taken dozens of trips since I’ve been here over the last year, and I very much believe in forming relationships with people across our global footprint. Q: How do you spend your spare time? A: I am probably not the best role model for work-life balance, but I have a 14-year-old daughter so I both watch and coach a fair amount of youth sports and I love doing that. I also enjoy outdoor activities myself, like skiing, hiking, and mountain biking. I try to live as active a life outside the office as I can. Thomas will be delivering a keynote at our sixth annual virtual Collaborate event in November. Make sure to save your spot so you can get even further insights into what’s to come for Wrike.  Register for Collaborate

Wrike Delivered 396% ROI Over Three Years to Boost Efficiency for Organizations
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Wrike Delivered 396% ROI Over Three Years to Boost Efficiency for Organizations

The Total Economic Impact™ of Wrike, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Wrike, demonstrates the benefits of using Wrike, as customers increased profits and eliminated low-value work.

Wrike Named Leading Marketing Resource Management Solution by G2 for the Third Year Running
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Wrike Named Leading Marketing Resource Management Solution by G2 for the Third Year Running

For the third year in a row, Wrike has been named a leading marketing resource management solution by G2.

Find Wrike in More Places and Reduce Work Complexity Fast
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Find Wrike in More Places and Reduce Work Complexity Fast

Wrike announces agreements with HubSpot, AWS Marketplace, and Miro, designed to consolidate apps and improve productivity.

3 Reasons Why You Should Integrate Miro With Wrike (And How)
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3 Reasons Why You Should Integrate Miro With Wrike (And How)

Wrike is one of the best work hubs out there. It has features all teams love, a smooth learning curve, and is a powerhouse in managing projects. But even the star players need a little backup, and that’s where tools like Miro come in.  While Miro’s a great place to conduct brainstorming sessions, your roadmap planning, and your retrospectives, going from planning to execution isn’t always as easy. And it almost always involves a ton of copying and pasting. But it shouldn’t be that way. By integrating your Miro boards with Wrike, you can go from planning to execution faster with less work. Here’s why that matters — and how you can do it. Reason #1: You should always be using the best tool for the job Miro is not a project management tool, and trying to run a project in Miro is like trying to put furniture together using a turkey baster. Sure, it’s the perfect tool for a very specific job, but it doesn’t make sense anywhere else. Your team is using Wrike for a reason — because it’s a best-in-class project management solution. But in the same way that Miro isn’t built to manage projects, Wrike doesn’t have all the brainstorming features that Miro does. It’s best to use each respective app for its intended purpose. With the right integration solution, you can make sure that’s the case for every team. So, instead of trying to make your tools do everything, help them stay in their lane. Everyone will be happier for it. Reason #2: No one should have to copy-paste a brainstorm You’ve just finished the brainstorm session. Everything makes sense, you’ve got some great ideas, and you’re excited about what comes next. But have you ever gone back to look at a brainstorming board after the session’s over? It’s a mess with post-its everywhere, half-scrawled notes you meant to clean up, and sections that don’t even make sense anymore. And it’s going to be someone’s job to make sense of all this, so they can copy and paste it into Wrike — where the work is actually going to get done. Wouldn’t you rather get the project started than spend time copying and pasting data over? You could try and make brainstorming sessions follow a more rigid structure, but then you’d probably lose out on some of the best ideas. So what do you do? You integrate Miro with Wrike. That way, the ideas you select for future work automatically get synced to your Wrike projects. From there, you can flesh them out, build out your task hierarchy, scope out your projects, and get things done. No more copying and pasting necessary. Reason #3: Saving on licenses How tight is your app budget right now? Are you already being asked to find places to cut spending?  Whether it’s your teams that are both in Wrike and Miro or you’re working with consultants, you might be overpaying for your licenses. After all, not everyone who needs Wrike to execute work needs a Miro license, especially if all they do is check in on a brainstorm from time to time. Same thing with contractors who help you brainstorm. Do they need a Wrike license? Do you even want to give them access to your Wrike projects? When you have an integration solution, you can make sure that every contributor only has access to the tools they absolutely need without missing the context they need to do their work. That means everyone can do their best work from their favorite tool. So, you need an integration. Where do you look? How to use Wrike Sync by Unito to integrate You don’t need to get a new tool to sync Miro cards with Wrike tasks. The Wrike Sync add-on by Unito can sync Wrike tasks with Miro seamlessly. You get access to this add-on as long as you have a Wrike Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, or Enterprise Pinnacle plan. Wrike Sync by Unito is a no-code workflow management solution that lets you connect tools like Wrike, Miro, Jira, BitBucket, Salesforce, and more with your Wrike projects. As long as you’re an account owner, enabling Wrike Sync is easy: Visit the Subscription panel of your Wrike settings and enable the Wrike Syncs trial. Click Create flow to start linking your Wrike projects with Miro and get more out of both tools. Here’s more information on doing that. Miro Miro on the wall Your brainstorm sessions shouldn’t require a bunch of extra manual work or copying and pasting post-it notes into Wrike. By connecting Wrike to your Miro boards using Wrike Sync, you can accomplish more faster, by moving from the brainstorming stage to your project automatically, without switching tools. To get started, request a free trial of Wrike Sync and follow the two-step instructions above. You’ll be glad you did.

Wrike UI Is Now Available in Traditional Chinese
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Wrike UI Is Now Available in Traditional Chinese

Great news — the Wrike Workspace is now available in Traditional Chinese! For the past several years, each time we ran a survey about localization and Wrike interface translations, we got a lot of requests to add Traditional Chinese to the list of our ten officially supported languages. This winter, we released Wrike UI in Traditional Chinese so that the experience of our customers, who are doing the best work of their lives all across the globe, would be even more convenient and smooth. If you were waiting for Wrike to be available in Traditional Chinese, thank you for being patient! If you’re part of an international team, hopefully, this release will make working in Wrike even more enjoyable for some of your team members. Localizing Wrike to Traditional Chinese “This is a very special release for us and a great new milestone as we have been discussing the possibility of adding a new locale for a long time,” says Irina Arutyunova, Product Localization Manager at Wrike. “When we made our plan to add Traditional Chinese, it was clear right from the start that this would be a challenge for all of us, but we did it! It was a truly collaborative effort with our Sales team, Engineering, Product, and Marketing — thanks to everyone involved for making this happen!” What made this really fun is that we used Wrike to plan and execute this initiative. We created a “Wrike UI in Traditional Chinese” project in Wrike, coordinated translation and review tasks, checked our timeline on a Gantt Chart, and shared calendars with stakeholders. We just love that we could use Wrike as a platform to make the journey for our Wrike customers better!” In addition to Traditional Chinese, Wrike is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. How do I switch the language in my workspace? Go to your profile, select Traditional Chinese from the drop-down menu in Workspace Settings, and click "Save changes." How can I try Wrike in Traditional Chinese if I don’t have an account yet? You can start a Wrike trial in Traditional Chinese here. Want to share some feedback about translations?  Send us an email with comments and ideas about translations to [email protected]. We’d love to hear what you think!

How They Wrike: Lead Express’ Scalability Journey
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How They Wrike: Lead Express’ Scalability Journey

Lead Express needed a work management solution that could scale with their growing agency. See how they found flexibility and visibility with Wrike.

Wrike Ranked as a Leader by Forrester
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Wrike Ranked as a Leader by Forrester

If there’s one thing we know, it’s collaborative work management. This week, we were recognized as a Leader in collaborative work management tools by an industry-respected independent research firm. We believe our status as one of the foremost collaborative work management platforms has been cemented, as we have been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Collaborative Work Management Tools, Q4 2022 report.  Wrike received this industry recognition with the highest possible marks of 5.0 in nine criteria total across the categories of current offering, strategy, and market presence. Wrike received the highest possible scores in the criteria of ability to create work types, ability to support asset creation, ability to manage complex projects, and ability to connect disparate teams, along with work analytics, collaboration capabilities, planned enhancements, innovation roadmap, and number of live installations. We have consistently shown our ability to understand what workers need to succeed in workplaces that grow ever more complex with each passing month. As we have continually pushed to better understand the challenges facing executives, managers, and workers, we undertook a ground-breaking study earlier this year that helped us see just how we could improve our platform for today’s workplace management struggles. Our study on the Dark Matter of Work illuminated the need for more streamlined project management tools, more clear communication and collaboration options, and streamlined asset creation.  We dug deep into workplace struggles and learned that workers are wasting time and resources that are, in turn, costing companies millions every year. But we immediately knew that was an opportunity for our collaborative work management software to help organizations around the world recoup those losses.  With that incredible learning as our foundation, we designed and launched our greatly revamped Wrike Lightspeed platform with the goal of addressing and eliminating the Dark Matter of Work. Wrike Lightspeed has made waves in the industry — and we believe it has contributed to our status as a leader — because we think it delivers above and beyond what top analyst firms recommend for work management software.  “We believe our position as a Leader underscores the strength of our newly launched platform, Wrike Lightspeed,” says Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike. “The Forrester Wave™ notes three key areas that CWM customers should look for in a provider, all of which we think our platform addresses. Those include supporting a wide range of work types for activity management, managing work at scale in terms of capacity and complexity, and improving analytics and work visualization.” We’re proud to be included as a top provider and named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ report, and we look forward to continuing to improve our platform to suit our ever-growing slate of customers.  If you’re interested in joining our incredible customer roster, which includes the likes of Sony Pictures, L’Oréal, Mindbody, Lyft, BigCommerce, Radial, eClinicalWorks, and Sitecore, we’d love to show you what Wrike has to offer. Try Wrike for yourself today and start empowering your team to do their best work in just minutes. 

How Nickelodeon Transforms Dreams Into Reality With Wrike
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How Nickelodeon Transforms Dreams Into Reality With Wrike

Nickelodeon’s Location-based Experiences Group have transformed their processes with Wrike, enabling them to bring big projects to life effectively.

How Wrike Lightspeed Will Cut Out Wasted Time and Save Your Organization’s Bottom Line
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How Wrike Lightspeed Will Cut Out Wasted Time and Save Your Organization’s Bottom Line

Do you ever feel like work is flying at your team at the speed of light? The rate at which teams are expected to complete projects and tasks is higher than ever — and employees as well as employers are feeling that pressure. That’s why we designed Wrike Lightspeed. In this day and age, you need a platform that enables your team to thrive and excel at lightspeed.  Wrike Lightspeed is also designed to bring tasks into the light, increasing visibility so every team member has the information they need to complete their best work — and so managers, executives, and stakeholders can quickly understand project progress in a blink.  We recently published a study that really shocked us — and as a result, pushed us to design Wrike Lightspeed, the most powerful work management platform on the market. Our study on the Dark Matter of Work underlined just how much employees and organizations are suffering from inefficient processes, the daily juggle of too many windows, apps, and passwords, and a disconnect between individual work and what it means for the organization.  What the Dark Matter of Work really means to your organization The Dark Matter of Work is what gets lost in the gaps between systems and solutions that aren't integrated. It’s the time that’s wasted when you have to duplicate work in one app that you’ve already done in another. It’s the resources that could be better used elsewhere, but are instead poured into updating your stakeholders about project progress or sending email after email to a coworker asking for information.  The Dark Matter of Work doesn’t just bog down your employees’ productivity; it can crush the soul of your company.  Picture this: You’re an employee who has to switch between an average of 14 apps throughout your day. In several platforms, you have to update the same tasks to reflect work you’ve done between fielding email requests for more tasks. When you finally get a chance to get into deep work, you realize the information you need is buried in email threads and Slack messages.  You leave work late, exhausted from struggling with systems that just don’t work. And you question what all those disjointed tasks are really doing to move your company forward. At 2 a.m., you wake up with a start, realizing you forgot to update your manager ahead of an important meeting you have first thing tomorrow.  The Dark Matter of Work wastes your employees’ time and leaves employees feeling discouraged — even when they’re putting in maximum effort. The cost of letting the Dark Matter of Work continue We also know that the Dark Matter of Work doesn’t just impact your employees’ daily work, their productivity, their sense of purpose, and their career fulfillment — it affects a company’s bottom line.  The wasted time from the Dark Matter of Work costs a single employee at a knowledge organization up to $16K per year. Multiply that by the number of employees in your organization, and you’ve got a serious problem — and a major opportunity to make up lost revenue.  The Dark Matter of Work leads to delayed and canceled projects, missed deadlines, low productivity, and even employee churn. That costs companies in the knowledge industry millions every year.  And that’s where Wrike Lightspeed comes in.  How Wrike Lightspeed will help you eliminate the Dark Matter of Work We designed Wrike Lightspeed to help companies eliminate the Dark Matter of Work and recover those lost profits that are slipping through the cracks. Wrike Lightspeed is the platform where your employees can plan, manage, track, and complete all of their daily work.  It’s fully configurable to your team’s processes — no more trying to shoehorn your ways of working into a pre-built cookie cutter platform. Instead, we give you the features you need and help you customize them so they fit your team. Wrike Lightspeed helps companies cut out those daily struggles like switching platforms and duplicating work, and enables employees to achieve new levels of productivity.  It enables an unprecedented velocity of work — and it brings the work your team does to light with 360-degree visibility. That means managers can see how employees are progressing with tasks — and catch bottlenecks before they delay projects. Teams can emerge from their silos without leaving their desks — Wrike Lightspeed offers cross-tagging, which increases visibility and decreases duplication. Do the work once, tag teams who need to stay in the know, and move on to work that matters.  What’s more? Wrike Lightspeed is powerful for a team of five — or for a team of 500. It can scale as you grow without losing any of the collaborative benefits, automation capabilities, integrations with your most-used apps, intuitive work intelligence, or security features. That’s major savings for your company with every team that’s added to Wrike.  Are you ready to see for yourself just how Wrike Lightspeed can transform the way you work? Start a trial and begin eliminating the Dark Matter of Work from your workflows today.

Our Favorite Highlights From Collaborate Day Two
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Our Favorite Highlights From Collaborate Day Two

In the blink of an eye, Collaborate 2022 is over, and we’re reflecting on a dynamic event jam-packed with insightful keynotes, fascinating roundtable discussions, and engaging executive panels. The most notable announcement was the introduction of Wrike Lightspeed, the next generational release in the world’s most powerful work management platform! Check out our Wrike Lightspeed video to learn more about the fastest way to productivity.  We loved having you with us at the event and chatting with you at our virtual booths. Day two proved to be an exciting day, and we’re taking the time to reminisce on our favorite moments.  How to scale complex processes  We loved hearing Brian Gotti, MarTech Manager, Marketing Operations at Geotab, speak about how to scale complex processes through a single source of truth.  Brian showed us how his company uses collaborative work management to empower incredible collaboration, challenges, and accomplishments that occur behind the scenes of Geotab’s impressive fleet management and tracking operations. We recommend you check out this featured customer story, available now on demand! 10 ways to simplify intake and transform your work Sherrie Besecker, Creative Technology Manager at Syneos Health, walked us through 10 ways to simplify intake and transform how teams work.  Sherrie took us on a journey of how to use Wrike’s blueprints and request forms to take work to the next level, from basic templates to logic mapping and reporting. If you’re interested in how to employ these game-changing tactics in Wrike for your own team, make sure to watch Sherrie’s session on demand! How Knute Nelson drives marketing efficiency with a DAM Healthcare organization Knute Nelson also joined us for day two and gave an illuminating overview of how they drive more efficiency by integrating Wrike with their DAM solution, Media Valet. Check out this session on demand led by VP of Marketing at Knute Nelson, Samatha Beckman, and Senior Partner Manager at MediaValet, Jonathan Yim.  You’ll learn how Knute Nelson combines the best of project management and digital asset management to scale marketing efforts, build strong workflows, and get the right content into teams’ hands. Welcoming you all to Collaborate  Our favorite part of Collaborate 2022 was seeing all our attendees engaging with the platform, the sessions, and our virtual booths. You were the true highlight of the event!  We can’t wait to bring you to our next work management conference, but in the meantime, you’re welcome to watch Collaborate 2022 back with our on-demand sessions. Whether you were there in real time and want to re-watch something or you couldn’t make the live event, head here for access to Collaborate On-Demand.  See you next year!

The Best Moments From Collaborate 2022 Day One
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The Best Moments From Collaborate 2022 Day One

We have finally opened the virtual Collaborate doors to thousands of work management enthusiasts for an exciting first day.  We welcomed attendees to our digital conference platform today, where they could join our mainstage sessions, visit virtual booths, hop into breakout sessions, and attend tailored roundtable discussions. While we prepare for day two, we’re taking a quick breather and reflecting on our favorite parts of day one of Collaborate.  The Future of Work, Now In his opening keynote, Andrew Filev, Founder and CEO of Wrike, explained how every team and every business can overcome the work complexities of today and tomorrow, accelerate performance, and achieve meaningful work, together. Product Keynote: Introducing the Next Generation of Work Management Alexey Korotich, Vice President of Product at Wrike, previewed the next generational release in the world’s most powerful work management platform. Look forward to more announcements, unique product innovations, live demonstrations, and customer testimonials. Featured Customer Story: How Leaf Home is Driving Business Success Through Great Work Management Krystal Burwell, Director of Project Management at Lead Home, discussed how she successfully harnesses collaborative work management to accelerate digital transformation, facilitate new process development, and elevate visibility of business operations and project impact. Get Big Things Done: Unleash Your Connectional Intelligence Erica Dhawan, Collaboration and Connectional Intelligence Expert, explored how Connectional Intelligence is turning people into super connectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos and foster breakthrough top- and bottom-line impact in the 21st-century digital workplace. The Cost of Work Complexity: Build a Business Case to Improve Work Across Your Org As uncovered in Wrike’s 2022 “The Dark Matter of Work” report, numerous tools have given rise to work complexity that costs time and money. Esther Flammer, Chief Marketing Officer at Wrike, took a deeper dive into the cost and impact of work complexity across teams and departments that can help you prove the value of your work productivity. Don’t forget to meet with a Wrike expert View all of the Collaborate Solution Stations, select the topic that interests you the most, and book a time to meet with us! This one-on-one meeting is the perfect time to discuss features and functionalities of the platform and have your support questions answered. Book a meeting Showcasing something for everyone  While we loved the mainstage presentations, it was great to see attendees jump into our breakout sessions and roundtable discussions, each tailored to different industries from marketing and creatives to IT, professional services, and healthcare.  We can’t wait to bring you even more exciting content on day two. You don’t want to miss James Clear, Habit Expert and Author, as he walks us through how to get 1% better every day.