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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
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!
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 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
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
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.
4 Takeaways on the Value of Collaborate From Nickelodeon’s Jeff Hartlieb
We talked with Nickelodeon’s Jeff Hartlieb to gather his top four insights on the value of Collaborate, Wrike’s industry-leading work management conference. Read these bite-sized takeaways to get an insider’s perspective on Wrike’s unmissable virtual event.
New Chapter for Wrike Under Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital
Today marks a new chapter for Wrike as we complete our separation from Citrix Systems. We are also excited to announce that we have the financial backing of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, following the close of their acquisition of Citrix and its combination with TIBCO Software. Vista and Evergreen are investors with deep experience working with successful SaaS companies like ours. They understand Wrike's mission and values, including the keener edge we bring to the highly competitive work management space. We will leverage our newfound position as a private, autonomous company to continue pursuing innovation focused on solving dynamic workplace challenges and meeting the needs of the modern workforce. The market opportunity Over the last three years, digital transformation has dramatically accelerated, and our workplace has changed significantly. This created new opportunities to improve productivity. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, productivity in the non-farm business sector decreased 4.1% in the second quarter of 2022, with output decreasing 1.4%, while hours worked increased 2.7%. This is the largest decline in quarterly productivity since the third quarter of 1948. Many of us feel it in employee burnout, which drove the “Great Resignation” trend last year and the “Quiet Quitting” trend this year. In order to get actionable insights into these trends, we surveyed approximately 3,000 business leaders and workers and published the “Dark Matter of Work” report that shows 55% of the work that takes place within an organization is not visible to key stakeholders, costing organizations of 3,200 employees up to $60 million a year in wasted time, delayed or canceled projects, and employee churn. Companies have a unique opportunity to reverse this trend by taking the productivity and visibility benefits that workflow automation and work management offer, and unlocking the same benefits in the hundreds of workflows that live in the dark matter of spreadsheets and unstructured messages today. The bottom line: demand has never been greater for a work management platform that can meet the needs and job styles of individuals, while also giving an entire organization the collaboration, measurement, and visibility it needs to drive the business forward. Ushering in a new era of work management Over the last decade, we have created a collaborative work management category and brought several cornerstone innovations to it. In the process, we have rapidly evolved as a product and as an organization. We continue this evolution with more than 200 new releases and updates in the past year alone. Among these advancements is Custom Item Types, a unique core platform capability that enables users to create their own work item types tailored to their team’s specific culture and style. This has expanded our promise around versatility, opening our platform up to an infinite amount of use cases across departments and organizations. Other recent platform releases include: AI Subtask Creation, a feature that utilizes artificial intelligence to extract key action items from user-selected text and turn them into subtasks that can be assigned and distributed into a team’s workflow. Resource Planning, a feature that helps department and team leaders, along with program and project managers, simplify and accelerate resource planning, especially for cross-team and cross-department projects. Cloud Connector, a universal API that enables Wrike to integrate with any Digital Asset Management system of a customer’s choice. With all of the progress we’ve made, we still see these as the early days for our company, with tremendous potential ahead of us. Our team keeps growing with the needs of our customers and our business. As we become an independent business again, we have hired two world-class executives: Thomas Scott as Chief Financial Officer and Brian Clark as Chief Revenue Officer. As Wrike moves forward, our focus remains the same. We have the most intuitive, versatile, and scalable work management platform on the market and a collaborative, driven team dedicated to freeing our customers to focus on their most purposeful work. There’s never been greater demand for a solution like ours and a better time to deliver it. Join us at Wrike Collaborate on October 25-27, 2022, for major upcoming announcements.
Up-Level Your Work Management: Wrike Training at Collaborate 2022
Collaborate 2022 is the best place to understand how companies experience greater productivity and find the freedom to focus on their most meaningful work. Through the lens of product experts and team managers from around the world, Collaborate attendees will enjoy an incredible mix of hands-on product sessions and customer-led stories. Join us to learn how teams are rising above work complexities to do their most purposeful work together. At Collaborate 2022, our industry-leading work management conference, we’re dedicating two expert-led, live training sessions to customers and prospects. If you’d like to incorporate work management best practices into your workplace and become a Wrike expert yourself, these sessions are for you. Training at Collaborate 2022 Wrike’s live training sessions will support users in optimizing their work management tools and encouraging company-wide adoption of Wrike. Each live training session will be led by a Wrike team member who’s an expert in work management best practices and the Wrike platform. The sessions include a mixture of lectures, guided activities in your own Wrike workspace, and opportunities to ask questions and learn from your dedicated session host. By joining Collaborate, you’ll have the opportunity to bundle one of Wrike’s standard bronze or silver self-paced certifications with one of the live paid training sessions at an exclusive Collaborate discounted price. Check out our exciting schedule for Collaborate 2022 Live Training below: Thursday, October 27 Project Management Theories and Best Practices in Wrike 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. PDT In this training, junior or associate project managers will have the opportunity to learn the basics of work management, followed by hands-on training to manage projects the Wrike way. Wrike for Space Admins: Replicating Your Team's Business Process in Wrike 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PDT In this training, participants will receive guidance and hands-on best practices for building and managing a Wrike Space. Gain the necessary tools and knowledge to take control of your team's Space, regardless of your role, and encourage team collaboration in Wrike. Seats for our paid live training sessions are limited, so don’t miss out on your chance to become a Wrike expert and champion within your organization. Once registered for Collaborate, Wrike users can purchase their preferred training bundle from the link in their registration confirmation email for a limited time. Register for Collaborate 2022 Atomic Habits to Dark Matter: Collaborate 2022 At Collaborate 2022, you’ll gain insights into Wrike’s product roadmap and hear candid stories about how companies have flipped their collaborative work management strategies to recapture lost productivity. Check out our exciting agenda, featuring an incredible mix of product and thought leadership sessions and customer-led work management stories. Register now for a front-row and virtual seat. Unforgettable keynote sessions from best-selling author James Clear; collaboration expert Erica Dhawan; and Wrike Founder & CEO Andrew Filev; VP of Product Alexey Korotich; and CMO Esther Flammer Exciting breakout sessions covering topics ranging from A.I. and team management to harnessing citizen developers Insightful customer sessions from leading brands, including OSF Healthcare, Pluralsight, and Leaf Home Hands-on Wrike training sessions, from project management basics to becoming a Wrike expert or replicating your team's business process in Wrike’s work management solution Register for Collaborate 2022
