Wrike Featured as 'Cool Startup to Watch' at IBM Connect 2014
Last week myself and a few of my team members were able to attend the annual "IBM Connect" user conference in Orlando. This is our second time attending the event on behalf of Wrike, and it was great to be back in the IBM community. Wrike was selected by IBM as one of the "Cool Startups to Watch," giving us the privilege of showcasing our company and product at a special session featuring other social, dynamic companies. Our fearless founder and CEO, Andrew Filev, presented Wrike's social project management software to an audience of IBM customers, alongside four other startups: Hype, TemboSocial, Hootsuite, and Temasys. This year's theme "Energizing Life's Work" brought together companies committed to reinventing businesses of all sizes with better collaboration, just like IBM and Wrike. On the expo floor, we had a great time connecting with IBM customers, partners, and other tech companies that, like Wrike, integrate with IBM's tools for enhancing day-to-day work. It was also an invaluable opportunity to meet face-to-face with fellow Wrikers like Mizuno and Hootsuite! Being in a room with so many innovative leaders who value collaboration is always refreshing. We're excited about the relationships we've built, and look forward to working with some of our new friends throughout the year! Of course, for a company known for it's geeky innovation, IBM sure knows how to throw a party. Special thanks for their accommodations at Hollywood Studios in Disney World. We all had a blast!
Goodbye, Successful 2013! </br> Hello, Ambitious 2014!
As 2013 approaches its end and the holiday season begins in earnest, it’s a great time to look back and evaluate all the important events that this year brought us. Buckle up for an exciting ride in Wrike’s time machine! As 2013 approaches its end and the holiday season begins in earnest, it’s a great time to look back and evaluate all the important events that this year brought us. Buckle up for an exciting ride in Wrike’s time machine! Growing with Customers, Growing the Team In 2013, we worked hard and moved fast. The number of customers like you that enjoyed the premium version grew by more than 60%, and today we’re happy to serve over 4,500 organizations of different sizes, including brands like PayPal, Ecco, and Google. In fact, thousands of new companies try Wrike every month, and we hope that our family will keep growing. Just a couple of weeks ago, you helped us reach another remarkable milestone – the number of tasks managed in Wrike exceeded 20 million! Alongside growing the number of customers, we've been growing our capability to better serve you by adding team members in charge of customer success, sales, marketing, operations, and product engineering. Releasing Features that Rock This year alone, there were 30+ big and small feature releases, as well as hundreds of important improvements that aren’t immediately visible on the front end. In August, we launched Wrike Graphite, and it's not just hype to say that this release contributed to shaking up the online collaboration space with features such as project infographics, timers with live status broadcast, task dependencies, and lots of other powerful, but easy-to-use tools. Driven by your needs and the suggestions of other customers with large deployments, we introduced the Wrike Enterprise plan just last week as our year-end finale. With the help of big data technologies, we've made it easier to manage large distributed teams and complex projects. Get a high-level overview in this short video. Wrike and Bain Capital Ventures: More Than Just Funding On the strategic business side, one of our key milestones this year was receiving $10 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, which gives us the resources to grow even faster in 2014 than we did this year. Spreading the Word Our feature-filled releases didn’t go unnoticed by the press. Over the past several months, Wrike was featured in business and tech media giants such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, and Venturebeat, to name just a few. Overall, Wrike received almost twice as much coverage this year, compared to last year ... and we're still counting. So to all of you customers and friends, a big thank you for supporting and believing in Wrike. Your patronage and feedback are extremely helpful and always very much appreciated. Happy holidays to you and your families. And see you in 2014 with a couple of big releases just around the corner.
Language Settings in Wrike: Switch from English to Spanish and Vice Versa Easily!
Many of you know that Wrike project management software recently became available in Spanish. Now, we have added the ability to change the language of your Wrike workspace easily. First, the language option is now available on every page of Wrike’s website (see the top right corner of the webpage). Additionally, you can customize the language of your Wrike workspace and the language of email notifications you receive from Wrike by using the “My profile” tab in the "Account" section. Once you switch the language under your personal profile, do not forget to save the changes so that they come into effect! Each user can individually set the desired language because the settings are personal and do not affect the entire account.
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Wrike’s Interface in Spanish Is Released. Other Languages Are Coming Soon!
If you were waiting for the release of Wrike’s interface in Spanish, you will be pleased with the latest updates. Today, it becomes more convenient for you, as well as your Spanish-speaking team members, clients, and partners, to collaborate on projects with the help of Wrike. To make your experience as pleasant as possible, we did our best to carefully translate Wrike’s workspace, notifications, alerts, and help pages. We believe that the possibility of working in the Spanish interface will make your work with Wrike even more enjoyable. Also, it will let you invite more Spanish-speaking peers to collaborate with you on Wrike. “It is very exciting to launch the first localized version of Wrike,” said Nic Bryson, VP of Customer Relations. “With plans for more languages in the future, such as German, French, Portuguese, and Italian, we started with Spanish, the one most called-for by our users. We value our Spanish-speaking customers who have been using Wrike in English to date. We believe that they, as well as new Spanish-speaking users, will be pleased with the convenience of using Wrike in their native language.” How can I see Wrike in Spanish? Have Spanish as a high-priority language in your web browser. If you are as happy with the release as we are, a tweet or a short blog post about it would be a great “thank you” for our efforts to deliver the Spanish version to you:) Thank you for your continuous support and for using Wrike’s English version! Want to see Wrike in your language? Let us know in the comments of this post. Your vote counts!
Wrike is Ready to Learn New Languages
We know that many customers of Wrike from different corners of the world wanted to see their workspace in their native language. Today, we have some great news for you! First of all, you may have already noticed several new language options in your personal profile. Thanks to our users’ contributions, Wrike is now also available in Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese. New arrivals on the language list First of all, you may have already noticed several new language options in your personal profile. Thanks to our users’ contributions, Wrike project management software is now also available in Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese (besides the interfaces in English and Spanish that we’ve had for a long time)! If you want to see one of them in your workspace, choose it in one click right now. We appreciate the efforts our users made to help translate Wrike’s interface to these languages and hope that it will make Wrike a more convenient tool, not only for their teams but for thousands of other users, as well. Many thanks to Marcos Stenner, Jana Kroftová, Mikhail Prokhorov, and Eugene Smirnov for their invaluable help! Your contributions are welcome as well! But this is not all that we wanted to share with you. We also have launched an easy-to-use online translating tool that can help you make Wrike project management software an even better place for your team. Whether you want to translate one string or the whole interface, you are very welcome to do so! Translating Wrike is simple and quick. If you want to make just a couple of suggestions or correct a mistake, you can do it right away without registration. However, the registered users will see their translation in the interface faster than anonymous users. We’ve prepared a quick guide through the tool interface and some translation tips on our special page for you. Enjoying the fruits of your work won’t take long! We deploy the approved translations once per week or so. As soon as more than half of a new language is translated, it becomes available in the workspace. To speed up the deployment, you also may drop us a note once you’ve finished the translation. We hope that using Wrike in your native language will make your team’s collaboration smoother and easier! A number of other popular languages, such as French, German, Norwegian, and Croatian, are now in the process of translation, too, and thanks to your help, they may appear in the interface very soon. Come up with a string translation for one of them, or start translating into a new language if you’d like to!
Wrike's 2012: A Look in the Rearview Mirror
Over 30 new features, 4 new languages, doubling the customer base, talented new team members – this is just a brief snapshot of the great things that happened at Wrike in 2012. As we’re gaining momentum on the next big part of our roadmap, I’d like to glance back at the events and achievements we had in the past year and share some highlights with you. Our team of 50 worked hard to make the online work of thousands of organizations as easy, comfortable and efficient as possible with Wrike’s help. To make that happen, we enhanced Wrike with more than 30 big and small project collaboration features, including the shiny new mobile apps, the redesigned three-pane Activity Stream, the Live collaborative editor and much more. These releases not only received a warm welcome from our customers, but also gained positive reviews from top tech and business media, including TechCrunch, InformationWeek, Mashable and Business Insider. As the word about Wrike was spreading wider and quicker, we saw more than 40,000 companies trying our software in 2012. This is about double what we had in 2011. To make it even easier for international users to leverage Wrike’s power, one of our top priorities was localizing Wrike to new languages. Last year, we introduced our UI in German, French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, so that the native speakers of these languages literally feel at home in Wrike. There’s more to come in 2013: The work on several other languages is humming on our translation portal. We were happy to welcome many new ambitious start-ups on board, as well as teams from globally known corporations, such as Fujifilm, Ticketmaster, Cisco and many more. Our overall customer base expanded more than twofold, which was one of our most prominent results of that year! We’re happy that you rely on Wrike in managing your projects. When we hear from our customers that Wrike “operates how they think”, makes them more organized and efficient, and helps them “take their business to the next level,” we feel like our hard work is rewarded! Thank you all for your business and your support! 2012 was a fruitful year, but if you ask us about our pace and plans for 2013, we are going to go only faster than before. We have many ideas about how to make you, us and the whole world more productive, and we just can’t rest until we build those ideas into the product and see that happy smile of yours. Some of those innovations are nearly out of the door. You’ve already seen the recent update to our messaging interface with quotes built in. So stay tuned for more exciting releases, and as always, don’t hesitate to drop us a note if you want to influence our direction. Wishing you all a great and productive year! P.S. I’d like to kindly ask you about two things: As a good car craves being driven, Wrike was built to be used by you and your team on a daily basis. If you make it a habit, sure enough, it will pay back in productivity in many expected and unexpected ways. We’d appreciate it if you help us spread the word about Wrike. Tell your colleagues, blog about it, tweet about it, anything. Just like with email or Skype, it’s much easier to collaborate, when everyone’s on board.
2012 is Around the Corner: Time for the New Year’s Eve Report
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 project management software 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. Wrike has become even smarter… We’ve added 20+ new project management 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! …even faster… 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. …and you’ve wowed it! “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:
Wrike's New Triumph: Finalist in the 2011 American Business Awards
The Stevies are one of the most honorable business awards in the United States, recognizing outstanding achievements of organizations of all types and sizes, and the people behind them. In previous years, the list of laureates included such leading companies as Apple, CNN, Ford, Hilton Hotels and more. “It’s not only the look of the award standing behind the nickname the Business World’s Oscars. It’s also the high level of the applications coming from successful, dynamic, motivated companies,” said Andrew Filev, Wrike’s CEO, who joined the judges’ panel in several other categories for best new products and the most successful product development teams. Congrats to everyone on Wrike’s team and many thanks to our customers for sending valuable feedback that helped us blend our award-winning social project management mix! The Stevies committee also seeks to recognize the best products and companies, according to people’s opinions. Of course, it's you, our loyal customers, who we rely on the most in the competition! Please vote for Wrike project management software - just click on this logo and you will automatically be taken to the page where you can submit your vote. The voting is open until June 3.
Outlook 2010 64Bit Sync: Connect Your Tasks into One Big Picture
December 22, 2011 update:We have released a new Outlook Add-in! Information in this post may not be correct. Please read our post about the new, improved Wrike Outlook Add-in to get the most up-to-date details.Contact Support if you have any questions. Wrike’s frictionless integration with other ubiquitous tools you use in your work is one of the core things that make it so friendly and easy to use. According to the feedback that we receive from you, Outlook sync is a popular feature that many of you enjoy using. This week, we’ve enhanced it with a very important project management update – we’ve released a new version of the add-in for those of you who use the 64bit version of Outlook 2010. To download this add-in, simply click on the “Sync” link in your Wrike workspace and download the Outlook add-in from that page. After you’ve gone through the download and installation process, you’ll need to fill in your login information and adjust the sync settings between Outlook and Wrike: frequency, direction, etc. If you have any doubts, these help pages will guide you through the process step by step. Getting your tasks automatically synced between Outlook and Wrike will connect your work into one big picture. Thus, you’ll have a clear overview of your most important tasks in both apps at any time, which will make you more efficient in getting things done. Do you have any questions or suggestions about Wrike’s Outlook sync? Don’t hesitate to drop us a note in the comments or contact Support.
Vote for Wrike CEO's session at Silicon Valley Product Camp 2011!
Unlike traditional conference formats, Product Camp lets the participants decide themselves what issues they find important to discuss. The agenda is defined through online voting for the proposed topics. We invite you to support Andrew Filev’s proposal, named “Be innovative, Yet Familiar: How to Create Business Software That Sticks.” In his speech, Andrew is going to cover the question of how traditional tools like e-mail can be leveraged to create innovative, but still very user-friendly, software. To get Andrew’s proposal on the event’s agenda, please vote for it at the Product Camp website. Please note that voting is open until March 25, and you can give up to three votes for a proposal.
Wrike Rocks Dallas Vendor Showcase 2011
Last week, Wrike’s team took part in the Dallas Vendor Showcase 2011. The event, organized by the Project Management Institute, attracted several hundred representatives from the best project management software, training, consulting and staffing companies. As a leading vendor on the Web-based project management software market, Wrike gained such high interest among the visitors that our stand was quickly left without a single brochure! About 300 people who visited our booth during the day found out how easy it is to manage projects in Wrike. Nic Bryson, our VP of Customer Relations, answered the visitors’ numerous questions and told them about Wrike’s unique collaborative features. As a great finale for such a day, Nic raffled off a few discounted Wrike subscriptions. Wendy Overturf, PMP, IT project manager at Texas Instruments, became the lucky winner of the free 1-year subscription to Wrike. The spring of 2011 is rich with events that are interesting for project management professionals. On March 29, you can meet us at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, where Wrike’s CEO will share practical tips on creating innovative, yet familiar, software that “sticks.” On April 2, we invite you to join the world's largest free get-together of product managers and product marketers - Silicon Valley Product Camp in San Jose. This year, we’re one of the event sponsors and can’t wait to meet you there!
Wrike's 2010: an Overview of the Achievements
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 project management software 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 Apps & Integrations. 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 our Support team. 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!
Wrike & Outlook 2010: Get All Tasks Completed!
December 22, 2011 update:We have released a new Outlook Add-in! Information in this post may not be correct. Please read our post about the new, improved Wrike Outlook Add-in to get the most up-to-date details.Contact our Support team if you have any questions. .
Vote for My Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2010 Proposal!
” Recently, the conference organizers announced the opening of the Community Vote, which will play major part in the selection of the sessions that will be presented at the conference in Boston. I’m excited about the start of the voting, and I ask for your support. If you liked my “Email Is Dead… Long Live Email!” presentation, I encourage you to vote for my proposal entitled “Popular to Ubiquitous: How to Skyrocket Adoption.” Note: voting there requires a quick registration to avoid duplicate votes. Please bear with it; it’s simple.
Wrike Plans for 2010: What Will the New Year Bring?
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 [email protected], 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 EngineTM (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. 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.
“Email is Dead…” To Be Continued at Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2010
I recently submitted a presentation to be featured at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2010 in Boston. My session will be called “Popular to Ubiquitous: How to Skyrocket Adoption.” In this future session, I plan to develop the ideas that I previously mentioned in my “Email is Dead… Long Live Email!” slide deck. By the way, my “Email is Dead” presentation was marked as “Hot on Facebook” and placed on slideshare.net home page, since the slide deck was talked about on Facebook more than any other document on SlideShare at some point. I really hope that the talk about skyrocketing adoption will generate even more interest. You can find the description of my session proposal at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference site and leave a comment there. I would really appreciate your support and feedback!
