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Published by Valerie
| Thursday, 02 October, 2008
VOCO Creative is Overcoming Challenges of Organizing a 100% Virtual Office
Published by Daria
| Monday, 29 September, 2008
What are the advantages of a 100% virtual office? First, it’s inexpensive. You don’t have to pay for rent. Second, it gives people from different locations an opportunity to work together easily. Third, you can access your business data 24/7 from any computer.
Yet, to be truly productive, a virtual office has to be well-organized. This can be hard to achieve when you get heaps of e-mails every day, which ruin your productivity. This is the kind of problem many small and midsize companies that are trying to run 100% virtual offices face nowadays. One of these companies was an Internet marketing firm, VOCO Creative. Its employees were struggling through their inboxes without having a sense of priorities or action items. This influenced the team’s productivity a great deal. However, VOCO Creative managed to find a solution with Wrike.
Read the story about VOCO Creative’s virtual office and find out how they keep it efficient.
Yet, to be truly productive, a virtual office has to be well-organized. This can be hard to achieve when you get heaps of e-mails every day, which ruin your productivity. This is the kind of problem many small and midsize companies that are trying to run 100% virtual offices face nowadays. One of these companies was an Internet marketing firm, VOCO Creative. Its employees were struggling through their inboxes without having a sense of priorities or action items. This influenced the team’s productivity a great deal. However, VOCO Creative managed to find a solution with Wrike.Read the story about VOCO Creative’s virtual office and find out how they keep it efficient.
Wrike Turns a Marketing Firm into a Project Management Rock Star
Published by Daria
| Friday, 19 September, 2008
Today, for numerous companies, distributed teams have become a way of hiring the best people, regardless of their location. However, geographically distributed teams face additional challenges when establishing effective collaboration and overcoming some of the frictions of time and geography.
For the marketing and IT consulting firm 3rd Wave Research, the need for efficient, real-time collaboration was one of the main reasons for using Wrike. They needed a system that would allow their distributed team members to share ideas, collect project information and plan their work in one common workspace, as well as allow their clients to get insight into where the project stands. "Without such a system, project efficiency losses would compromise our ability to deliver complex marketing solutions to our clients," says Aaron Anderson, account strategy manager at 3rd Wave Research. Wrike turned out to be the solution that fit 3rd Wave Research’s distributed team in every way.
Read the whole story of how 3rd Wave Research turned into project management rock stars with Wrike.
For the marketing and IT consulting firm 3rd Wave Research, the need for efficient, real-time collaboration was one of the main reasons for using Wrike. They needed a system that would allow their distributed team members to share ideas, collect project information and plan their work in one common workspace, as well as allow their clients to get insight into where the project stands. "Without such a system, project efficiency losses would compromise our ability to deliver complex marketing solutions to our clients," says Aaron Anderson, account strategy manager at 3rd Wave Research. Wrike turned out to be the solution that fit 3rd Wave Research’s distributed team in every way. Read the whole story of how 3rd Wave Research turned into project management rock stars with Wrike.
Wrike helps Canadian student Formula team build a racing car
Published by Daria
| Friday, 20 June, 2008
Any project team, ranging from software developers to student groups working on a school project, has to face tough challenges of deadline pressure, tight budgets and collaboration organization. Organizing harmonious project work can be particularly hard if the project includes lots of sub-projects and small action items that need to be structured.The Canadian EPM student team is building an original racing car from scratch to participate in the next Formula SAE competition. A well-coordinated team effort is vital for them. The project implies a complex set of tasks, assigned to different team members. The whole workload could turn into chaos without a proper online project management system.
The student team made the right choice by making Wrike their project management software. Read the full story about EPM’s Formula SAE team using Wrike, and find out what its main benefits are.
Wrike Wins 2008 eWEEK Excellence Award in the Productivity Applications Category
Published by Valerie
| Thursday, 12 June, 2008
The eWEEK Excellence Awards program’s aim is to point IT buyers to the most promising new enterprise products and technologies. eWEEK Editors have made their picks for the best of the best in each of the Excellence Awards categories. On June 9, 2008 the winners were named. Wrike, the leader in on-demand project management, has won the award in the Productivity Applications category.
“It is exciting for us that Wrike has been recognized as a service that raises the technology bar,” said Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike. “We use the principles of Enterprise 2.0 to transform the notion of project management software and dramatically increase the productivity of our customers.”
Besides Wrike, the products of Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Netuitive, IBM, Salesforce.com, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard were among the eWEEK’s 8th annual Excellence Awards program finalists.
Download the official press release.
“It is exciting for us that Wrike has been recognized as a service that raises the technology bar,” said Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike. “We use the principles of Enterprise 2.0 to transform the notion of project management software and dramatically increase the productivity of our customers.”
Besides Wrike, the products of Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Netuitive, IBM, Salesforce.com, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard were among the eWEEK’s 8th annual Excellence Awards program finalists.
Download the official press release.
Capgemini reports 95% on-time delivery rate and customer satisfaction with Wrike’s integrated project management solution
Published by Daria
| Thursday, 08 May, 2008
Global companies like Capgemini often have decentralized systems of dealing with customer requests. Often, the whole customer support process is based on informal submission of requests. Support teams tend to use traditional communication channels, such as email, phone calls, in-person conversations, etc. Everyone on the team manages his or her own requests and project workload. Usually, team members are also required to report back on all of the projects they are working on.
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, realized that this process can be improved with Wrike’s help. We recently discussed how Capgemini was able to streamline its client support processes with Daniel Stevens, Director of Marketing Services, Capgemini North America. Daniel noted that the North American Marketing Services team needed an end-to-end system to manage their internal support requests. Wrike streamlined the process thanks to its powerful email integration capabilities. The marketing team became more productive, since now all emailed tasks are populated into properly structured project plans that get shared with every member of the team.
“In addition to the integration capabilities with our internal request process mentioned earlier, the biggest benefit with Wrike is the high level of visibility of the support requests that channel into our team. We are now able to visualize the workload requirements of the entire team and any team member in several ways: using Wrike’s dashboard, the graphical timeline and the option to sort our tasks and projects by person, by due date, by client, etc. Wrike’s unique ability to group tasks and projects differently lets us look at our current and prior efforts from different perspectives,” pointed out Daniel. “The application easily allows us to analyze our active and completed projects/tasks and run ad-hoc reports to use in our quarterly value reports that we share with our team and others within Capgemini. Wrike lets us spend less time on project management and more time on providing strategic marketing services to our internal clients.”
Read the full story: “Capgemini maximizes marketing team productivity with Wrike’s unique, integrated project management solution.”
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, realized that this process can be improved with Wrike’s help. We recently discussed how Capgemini was able to streamline its client support processes with Daniel Stevens, Director of Marketing Services, Capgemini North America. Daniel noted that the North American Marketing Services team needed an end-to-end system to manage their internal support requests. Wrike streamlined the process thanks to its powerful email integration capabilities. The marketing team became more productive, since now all emailed tasks are populated into properly structured project plans that get shared with every member of the team. “In addition to the integration capabilities with our internal request process mentioned earlier, the biggest benefit with Wrike is the high level of visibility of the support requests that channel into our team. We are now able to visualize the workload requirements of the entire team and any team member in several ways: using Wrike’s dashboard, the graphical timeline and the option to sort our tasks and projects by person, by due date, by client, etc. Wrike’s unique ability to group tasks and projects differently lets us look at our current and prior efforts from different perspectives,” pointed out Daniel. “The application easily allows us to analyze our active and completed projects/tasks and run ad-hoc reports to use in our quarterly value reports that we share with our team and others within Capgemini. Wrike lets us spend less time on project management and more time on providing strategic marketing services to our internal clients.”
Read the full story: “Capgemini maximizes marketing team productivity with Wrike’s unique, integrated project management solution.”
Make Wrike a part of your 7 habits for becoming highly effective
Published by Daria
| Thursday, 13 December, 2007
Have you ever thought about being more effective in business, in relationships, in life? If so, you probably have already read the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Dr. Steven Covey. Millions of people became more productive encouraged by the powerful lessons collected in this volume. If you have not yet gotten a chance to read this book, we recommend that you do so, as it can become a gold mine for ideas about how to improve your personal and professional management and how to form quality relationships with other people. Among other concepts of effectiveness, Steven draws our attention to organization. How can you organize your life? Steven’s idea is that you should get a good tool that will help you to organize. A good organizing tool, according to Steven Covey, should match 6 criteria. They are:
- Coherence
- Balance
- Motivation
- Ability to deal with people
- Flexibility
- Accessibility
If you have a tool that matches all these criteria, you will be able to organize your plans and activities. Steven notes that there 2 ways to organize: organizing yourself through a schedule and delegating to other people. The biggest challenge here is to be able to control your own schedule and follow the results of the others at the same time. How can you do it? Wrike has the answer.
Wrike is project management software that lets you organize your personal and business to-dos in one place. It perfectly combines two methods of organization: your personal time management and your delegated tasks.
Wrike has all of the characteristics of a good organizing tool, giving you a big picture prospective. If you work in a team, every team member will have the opportunity to organize his or her life with Wrike, and your business plans will still be interconnected.
First of all, Wrike gives coherence to your vision and mission, your goals and roles, your plans and your commitment. Steven draws our attention to one observation: we play many roles in life. For example, you can be a manager, a designer, a sales person, or even a combination of all three. To perform successfully in all those roles we need to define our goals and then write them down into an organizing tool like Wrike. In Wrike you can create tasks for every plan and every goal. The best thing is that you can review them anytime you need. We suggest you create special folders for your different roles, for your long-term commitments and your short-term plans. Wrike lets you organize your tasks in various ways, so that it is easier for you to organize all the information and figure out your priorities.
This is how you get balance with Wrike, which is the second characteristic. You keep everything in one place you can wisely spread your time and energy between your family, professional preparation, and your colleagues. Wrike gives you the whole picture of all your roles and goals, both business and personal, as you get all of them neatly organized in folders. You won’t neglect any important part of your life and you won’t forget anything. Wrike will “press against you,” sending you smart notifications and reminding you of every event you have scheduled for yourself or for your colleagues.
Steven states that a good tool should encourage you to spend time on your long-term commitments and spare at least half a day for the things that are most important in your life. You should not spend all of day trying to solve routine problems. You should reserve time for bringing your mission and vision to life; otherwise, you won’t be able to fulfill them. The key to success here, according to Steven Covey, is weekly planning. Wrike will help you plan your activities through a week or even through a month and set your priorities. You set due dates for every task as you create it and then see what things you and your team members need to get done this week and this month on a timeline.
Then, according to Steven, it is absolutely necessary that a good organizing tool should deal with people and help you to collaborate and delegate. No other tool will help you collaborate better than Wrike. Wrike gives you a unique opportunity to store all the communications on each task and every project and everybody involved in the project can easily access them. Your main benefit is that you can always go back and review your communication and the results you’ve agreed upon. Nothing is lost!
The beauty of Wrike is that it lets you to delegate seamlessly. Wrike lets your associates control their own tasks, make plans, set and change due dates, and make updates. You and everybody involved in the project are informed of all the progress in your team’s work with Wrike’s smart email notifications. Wrike lets each person on your team get a progress report on how well he or she is doing. This way people become less dependent upon you and you get the complete delegation. People get an opportunity to organize themselves around their priorities. Here you benefit from the 5th criterion of a good tool that is found in Wrike - flexibility. You start using Wrike by creating several tasks that later can be organized in folders according to projects, departments or clients. You environment may change every day. Wrike lets you reorganize your plans, your goals and roles in seconds. You can tag your tasks, including them in folders according to your daily, weekly or monthly priorities.
You can make changes to your plans, to your tasks and projects from any computer with an internet connection, since Wrike is Web-based. Being easily accessible, Wrike gives you and your colleagues the freedom of working anywhere and anytime.
Even at home, even at the airport waiting for your plane, Wrike will keep you organized and let you track the results of others. Wrike lets you schedule your life and delegate tasks to other people, so that you can spare time for the most important things like: leadership, recognizing new opportunities, defining the goals and having a rich private life.
Wrike can be the best supplement for your 7 habits as it lets you be highly effective in your organization.
User rights in Wrike
Published by Valerie
| Wednesday, 05 December, 2007
Wrike supports an open and collaborative environment.
From its beginning, Wrike has embraced an open and collaborative environment. Collaboration makes your team more agile, helps you to adjust to ever-changing market conditions and brings you better results. That is why Wrike is a very powerful platform for managing small and medium businesses that encourage team members’ initiative, aiming to obtain more for less time and money.
You can collaborate with people from different accounts.
You can easily collaborate with your business partner who already subscribed himself and his team to Wrike. You also can easily collaborate with team members to whom you granted a professional subscription to Wrike. Likewise, You can easily collaborate with your spouse, who has a free Wrike account. You also can invite your friends to collaborate on your shared tasks. Apparently, you will be able to collaborate with your friends, whether they decide to keep their free accounts or upgrade to the professional version. No other project management software offers such an opportunity to you.
Our software, Wrike, is more like email where people’s accounts may be registered with different companies, but they still can email each other.
Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want.
Wrike allows you to manage the access rights of your associates within every part of your plans. Depending on your needs, these rights can be managed on the level of a concrete task, a folder with tasks or an entire project. You have one workspace, no matter how many tasks or projects you are involved in. You can share one task with your partner, another task with one of your clients and your support team, and a third task with your HR manager and project leader. This gives you unique visibility of all of your projects in one account.
Permissions in Wrike are based on the Wiki model.
Taking into account all the above comments, it becomes evident why Wrike’s permission system is not complicated by granular rights, such as view, edit, delete, etc. Granular rights would create formal boundaries on contributing to projects and add a level of complexity for people who share tasks. Therefore, in Wrike, there is one type of sharing. Either an item is shared or not. If you share the item, the user gets all the permissions (view/edit/delete). If you do not share the item, the user has no permissions (no view, no edit, no delete). This model is also used in wikis. If you give a person access to the task, a person can easily update it. Wrike's permission system is very easy to use and convenient, especially when backed up by a revision history and e-mail notifications.
You can get the best of project collaboration with Wrike. Thanks to Wrike, your business will become more flexible, mobile and transparent. Transparent business means openness to customers, openness to new markets, openness to new techniques and openness to learning. Your organization becomes empowered and more competitive with Wrike.
Also read: Ultimate Benefit that You Obtain with Wrike.
Ultimate Benefit that You Obtain with Wrike
Published by Valerie
| Tuesday, 20 November, 2007
You can manage multiple projects in one place. “One place” means only one account. You create an account and organize ALL of your plans there.
Unlike other tools, Wrike provides you uniquely convenient way to achieve total information awareness on all projects. In other words, you can share any part of your project plans with the appropriate associates, then manage them in one workspace simultaneously. At the same time, you can safely keep one client's information secure from another client, one project information secure from other project participants.
This approach to organization of plans perfectly serves the needs of those who have multiple products, projects, teams, departments or offices. Wrike will make you happy if you are tired of keeping track of your plans in disconnected files. Wrike will make you happy if you are tired of holding conversations about your projects, tasks, issues, ideas in your email inbox.
You can log in to your Wrike account and check the sales pipeline shared with your sales team, reschedule marketing plans shared with your marketing managers, examine clients’ projects. Each of them is shared with the appropriate list of people.
This saves you a tremendous amount of time on planning, organizing and monitoring your projects. Unlike other software tools, Wrike doesn’t have boundaries that prevent people with different accounts from collaborating with each other. Thus, you can easily manage different projects and share project parts with your associates when necessary.
Other benefits: boundless collaboration, email-friendliness, timeline (Gantt chart), unique flexibility, data security; time tracking and tasks dependancies in our roadmap.
Security of your data in Wrike
Published by Valerie
| Thursday, 15 November, 2007
You care about the security of your data. So do we. Security is an intrinsic part of our system. Our main concern for the initial design of Wrike was the security and privacy of users’ data.
Our uptime is over 99%. If at some time we cannot keep our promise of 99% uptime, we will give you a week of service for free.
Safe. Your data is backed up nearly every second. Wrike is hosted on our safe and reliable servers. We are running a real-time database replication. Translated into lay language, it means that your data will be backed up nearly every second. We also have recycle bin and revision history to help you recover from accidental losses and give you full, 360-degree protection.
Secure. Your personal Wrike account is protected with the password. Secure access over https (SSL) is provided with the all paid accounts. Rights to your data belong to you, so if you delete your account, we delete it. We have no rights to resell your data or misuse it. We are bound by the terms of the privacy policy and covered by the laws of California.
Our users are our main value. That's why we care so much about our users' value - their data security.
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